Version 6.2

The time has come for yet another incremental upgrade of my adaptive-organic supercomputer software.

My recent trip to Sydney brought about the need for an update. Hours of walking in solitude along the good old paths gave me ample time for thought. Not the usual everyday consideration of all that is, which is all too often disrupted by the need to get off the bus or something else...this was sustained thinking over several days, enough time for it to reach a howling crescendo. Just as I explored the city, so too was my mind surveyed - all stones were picked up and looked at from every possible perspective. It had the effect of making me look like a shambling madman, my beard completing this fanatical appearance.

To add fuel to this fire, vivid memories were being unlocked at every location I went to. More like technicolor than faded recollections, the past was being superposed over the present - I could see events playing out as they did several years ago. The amazing thing was that these memories had been unaffected by the passage of time - they were safely stowed away in some corner of my brain without my knowledge. Every time I stumbled through a place of personal historical significance, a flood of memories was triggered. Recollections seemed to pour out of every street, until all of those memories had been kicked back into my standard thought processes.

It wasn't the usual sort of nostalgia you get from visiting old stomping grounds. That usually manifests itself as fond familiarity and a tale told if anyone is around to hear it. This was a gripping, soul-shaking experience, and I wonder if it has anything to do with my attempt to destroy Time a couple of weeks ago.

The upgrade to v6.2 was necessary to avoid Freaking Out.

Until next time,

TRISTAN