➸ ᴊᴀᴇɢᴇʀ ʙᴏᴍʙs: journal posts.

I was out in the city the other day, and a kid, she couldn't have been more than 6, sitting on a corner begging for food, and she looked so damned small I couldn't help myself. Got to thinking when I was getting her and her brother something to eat (aside from how it could've looked like I was some creep trying to take kids), that these kids have no damn idea what life was like before the kaiju. We've all got moments like that in our lives, when something happens and it alters everything you knew about the world, your place... and anyone born after, they have no damn idea what it's like to go through something. The change for us is their normal. Hell, even my daughter barely remembers.

I hope to God more kids know what it's like without them one day.

I heard a man issuing several threats near that Kaiju temple today, including one that went along the lines of him picking his teeth with the bones of the next Kaiju to fall. Now, I don't know what sort of creatures he's seeing, but those mechanics are not solid. Unless he meant filing them down into toothpicks which perpetuates a significantly less striking visual.

And here I thought Louisiana was hot. Louisiana ain't got a damn thing on Hong Kong.

I've only been here near a month now, but it feels like I was leaving the States just yesterday. It's hard to believe I'm here. Been to a lot of big cities, but nothing like this. It's enough to make a man feel like a kid again. The first time Ma took me to Baton Rouge, I thought that was the biggest city in the world. Now I write to them from halfway across the world, and none of us can hardly believe it.

One of the best things about being in Hong Kong, recently problematic plumbing aside, is that it's in the same time zone as my home town. It's actually easier to skype home from here than it was in Sydney, which is a little insane.

Father's Day catch ups become a bit more poignant when they're done at long distance. Apparently absence easily makes you the favourite child? I'm taking the advantage while I can.

Hope all of the dads in the dome (Aussie or honourary) had a good one.