Bladed Balata Blog

Working to earn tradable currency might be one of the strangest things we do. We toil all day for small pieces of paper that we immediately turn around and trade in for goods and services. We want and need things. So we work at a completely unrelated task for someone else. So that they’ll give us money. Paper. Coins. That have practically magical values, worth beyond their corporeal reality. Which we then solve our own problems with by giving them to someone else who, in turn, gives us the thing we wanted in the first place. If you stop and think about any system we’ve created as a species, it’s all a little bizarre. But, if you stop and think about anything for long enough, it will absolutely start to seem absurd. As a general tip, try not to do it. Especially in terms of your own golf swing. Or golf swing mechanics et al. But, if we must, and per the case of this blog we absolutely do, let us consider the way in which we obtain the things that we want. In the cate...

We all need games. Something fun to break up the day to day. Or to break up work from the next work. And making up a game might be the best thing of all. To create something with a friend that makes it all a little easier. Because then you have this light and airy thing to look forward to, that you made, with someone who isn’t work. It’s kind of amazing. So take this blog and maybe make up your own thing. Or please use ours. But no matter what… Don’t forget. Fun is important. It might be the most important. I have a best friend. His name is Brian. We’ve been friends since 1994. So I got that going for me. (In order to take fun seriously in your life you do not need a best friend that you’ve kept since 1994. But it helps.) Our parents knew each other and our families all hung out for the first time, way back then, at a local park. That park had a pond. And that pond had ducks. We bonded over our mutual appreciation for the classic Nintendo game Duck Hunt and how well g...