City life tends to wear quite heavily on me. All the cement, the lack of green, the signs of society’s decay lying under cardboard near the overpass, it all serves to remind me that there are too many people on this planet, and I live too near to most of them. Usually this builds inside of me until one morning, usually while standing in the shower, I can take no more. I get dressed, throw a trunk in my car, and drive north until I am well away from any major infrastructure. I find a parking lot, and then being to walk away from that as well. Usually for a good few hours I walk, and then I stay right there in that spot for several days camping.

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If local power were my goal, I would aim at the position of Chief of Police. If there is one institution with a visible presence, and visible effect on a community, it is the police. I have always thought that the world would be much more livable if only the police weren’t such an imposing force. I think they may have forgotten the serve part in the serve and protect slogan.  Upon assuming this position, I would shift the focus of the police entirely onto violent crime. I see little use in using police officers to hand out minor traffic tickets, or spend their days watching drug using losers with binoculars. SInce this is what most of the police force is used for, I would reallocate them to a new division which is responsible entirely for giving out directions to lost tourists, cleaning the roads, and smiling at passers by.

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Quarto is a board game that plays like a slightly more complicated tic-tac toe. The pieces come in box shaped and cylindrical pieces, and each of those two sets contain both tall and short pieces, and of the tall and short pieces, some have holes in the top and some don’t. Each player choses a shape, cylinder, or box. The objective is to line up four pieces that are either all, tall, short, cylindrical, square, with hole, or without hole.  When I was young I loved, chess because of the wooden pieces, and also because I thought it meant I was smart. Unfortunately I wasn’t that smart, so I was bad at chess. Quarto however, also contained wooden pieces, and still required that you be at least clever. My uncle also always let me win. I liked him, and I didn’t get to see him often.