A regular day in my life

My morning coincidentally always starts with me waking up, just like everybody else's morning... coincidentally. When I wake up I usually do some stretching and exercise as my daily morning routine. I also love to see the sun rise outside my balcony, and this is what I see:

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This may not be the most astounding view, It was pretty foggy when I took this picture after all, but I digress.

After my morning routine I get served breakfast by myself (having butlers I think is pretty demeaning and degrading to yourself, it's pretentious but rather pointless, it doesn't matter how rich you are) which consists usually of toasts with ham or eggs and bacon, on rare occasions (when I feel like it) I cook something more extravagantly gourmet-styled with waffles, pancakes and various meats (I like plating my food in an artistically pleasing way too, it's fun and a tasty piece of art that you can take a photo of). After I've eaten my breakfast I prepare for work; I shower and put on my clothes. I work at the colony's parliament (and part-time as a teacher in quantum mechanics) so my attire is slightly formal, including my shoes:

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Since the parliament is close to my living quarters I usually take a walk or bicycle, it's healthy and it doesn't cost a tremendous amount of energy like teleportation does, or warping utilizing the Alcubierre drive.The walk takes approximately 7 minutes, and when I arrive this is the first thing I see:

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At work I usually sign agreements, pass bills, host debates, etc, nothing out of the ordinary really. It might be a bit repetitive but I don't complain, It's my responsibility, and it feels good to be in the position to make sure everything as it should be, and guide us to the opposite of corruption. Being a genius makes it a pretty prosaic task.
After I've done my deed I go back home, put on some more casual clothes and go out with my friends and talk about current events; simple and fun.

Now it's your turn to play a little game! Guess what this picture depicts:

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(Tip: it starts with an 'A')


1: https://flic.kr/p/aGnasM
2: https://flic.kr/p/pmAPKa
3: https://flic.kr/p/qPPc4h
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Trends!

The lates trend is "I don't give a flying fudge-knuckle" where the premise of it is to do whatever the flying fudge-knuckle commands you to do. The flying fudge-knuckle is a deity, a higher being, that has origins unknown to man, even with the amount of data we have gathered or the substantial technical advancements we have managed to make in the recent years. The flying fudge-knuckle is kind of a trendsetter that can create and discard trends, the latest trend set by him being the sudden craze of lightly fried fish filet. It surely baffles scientists and psychologists alike; it's intriguing but we have no idea what it is but it has an extreme influence on people's cravings and preferences, it kind of manipulates crowd control with psychological tools that no psychologist can even imagine (it knows people's mentality better than the people themselves). I usually don't follow the trends set by him/her, but what I know is the fact that lightly fried fish filet are not only popular in a culinary sense because this food is printed on clothing, we have furnitures molded like filet of fried fish and snacks with the taste of lightly fried fish filet have been distributed around all markets around the colony.

It's a universal craze that hits every aspect of the regular life. This happens annually, so the trends die fast and get replaced by new ones created by the holy fudge-knuckle, which kind of leads to a major, but temporary, dent in the economy because many products stay untouched or get discarded from the shelves, and have to be incinerated. I think that this is not the best thing for the people's economy (even though it means huge profit for the colony's economy due to the amount of tax being collected from these products), and that it's stupid over-commercialized phenomenon; a pot of gold for  unwanted corporations. Sadly I cannot control this, we're not a communism, but I guess it's not as devastating as I may put it, I mean the original Earth is thriving really well and their market is filled with evil corporations and naive consumers!

Now the emphasis is put on the music. Yes, lightly fried fish filet is a food, so the trend had to impact the food industry the most, which is partly true; candy bars have been made with the taste, food corporations on our planet have partnered up with Coca-Cola and Tyson Foods to create fish flavoured beverages and mass produce lightly fried fish filet in powder form, optimized for food printers (created by me, but I gave away the patent to Zan Inc which partnered up with Tyson Foods).  Though the fact that it heavily influenced the food industry greatly, It still had more impact on the music industry, increasing sales by 327% in three months, in which almost 97% of the songs are based on fish. Yes, on fish.

So the algorithm of trend setting is very different from that of Earth's, we both have trends set by celebrities or people of higher status than the average inhabitant (trends can also just get viral on the internet on Earth, which is a minor difference) but it's not a random trivial occurrence here, like on earth, it's more of an annual tradition, which to some can be pretty monotone but I digress.

Now that you know a little about what current trend we have on our planet, and a little about the nature of trends here, now I'm interested in your opinion! What trend are you guys following down on Earth? Let me know by answering the survey to the right!

My fabulous Friends

As mentioned in my latest post I brought a lot of friends, and other people that willingly came with me (for a small fee), and I'm also retired which that means that I have a lot of free time, for my friends and family!

On weekends, we all have time for social activities together (nobody works on weekends, the staff and maintenance and other vital workers are replaced with temporary robots, but we established a law that will change the workdays when the population count hits a large number, otherwise all malls, stores, zoos and other places that you come to on your free time will be imminently overcrowded, which will have to be regulated). Because of this abundance of free time we usually go on long trips around the planet and climb mountains, go scuba diving or explore caves and ancient tombs (that have been left a couple thousand years ago by the indigenous people of the planet, I have subsidized the cause of studying these precious relics, I also publish the studies and give out information about them on Earth because of the studies immense popularity within the community of historians, archeologists and fanatics of extra terrestrial life). My friend Mattias also really likes skiing, he broke the record in ski jumping year 2014 by more than 60 meters, so 310 meters. He was lucky that they had a special extended track, otherwise he would fall down on the plain ground and break his legs, but he made it just fine. So on Sundays we usually go skiing in the mountains on the other side of the continent (the planet has only one continent, almost like Pangea, and we live on the south-west side of the continent, and the mountains are far to the north). 

We also host and play in sport tournaments, mostly martial arts due to me finishing my blackbelt exam in WTF Taekwondo right before I left Earth, and I still attend classes to improve my skills, and also to specialize in breaking cement blocks and pieces of wood and fighting with a staff and nunchucks. My friend Mattias also has a black belt in kyokushin-Karate, so our fights are pretty exotic I could say, we use different techniques but are both equally skilled in the respective martial art, so it turns out to be pretty even, sometimes he knocks me out sometimes I knock him out. Blows to the head are not allowed, and if we get seriously injured we just amputate body parts and then regrow them... did I mention that I also did a study on stem cells? Well now you know. We can regrow body parts now. We also host and play tournaments in other sports too, like badminton, which I certainly love. We do this on Saturdays, so it usually is tournaments on Saturdays and skiing, and/or climbing, on Sundays (this applies if we don't digress from the schedule of course).

On ordinary weekdays, we go to school and work. I'm the head of the small parliament, sign papers and make sure that decisions of changes in our own constitution which have been made by the congress are carried out and applied by the authorities (but we mainly follow the laws in Sweden because we are one of Sweden's interstellar-commonwealths). My friends go to school, they will soon finish their studies in Harvard 2.0 (yes, here we go again with the name-making), they just have their last semester left. So yeah, when they graduate we will have a lot more time.

When we have time on weekdays we usually go to a bar or a diner to chat about recent events, amongst other things regular teens do... like for example creating wormholes to other dimensions in the living room, not really anything special but a fun thing to do once in a while.