Last night I decided that I didn’t want to have a set schedule for posting – the purpose of the site reboot was not to create another obligation in life or replace social media with something else that demands time and attention, but to provide myself a creative outlet I once had and to encourage myself to write again. I realized last night while scrolling through news sites that I had merely replaced social media with another sort of doomscroll, looking for things to post or write about. Well no more – I’m going to be severely restricting the apps I install on my new phone.
I was actually really lucky I got it yesterday – we had to run to the city and had to leave before it was delivered. I had concerns that I’d come home to a “delivery attempted” note on the door, but fortunately we caught the FedEx driver on our way down the hill and yes, I had to sign for it. But that’s neither here nor there, I got lucky and have my new phone to get set up. I didn’t actually get it set up and everything migrated last night, but hope to do so later today.
Whatever happens with this site, it already has served its purpose – I’m writing more daily (including offline), and a very dear old friend of mine reached out to me through it.
This morning I received an email from someone I hadn’t talked to since the first iteration of the site.. I knew her from “ye olden days” before the internet had become common use, and I was using AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy – she was from the AOL circle of friends. Back then, AOL had pretty active chat rooms, and local rooms formed for regional meetups and activities. I had met her, and many others, through our local “Under-30” chatroom, and it was an active group, scheduling picnics and other activities for everyone to get together. She loved stroking my weasel at these meetups – nothing salacious, I had a ferret back then that I’d often bring along with me. We became fast friends, and I was her “man of honor” at her wedding.
We kinda lost touch after that – her new husband wasn’t particularly fond of his pretty young wife hanging out with a degenerate like me, and admittedly, I wasn’t too fond of “some meathead” taking away my friend. We still talked on the phone every now and then but only saw each other in person maybe once or twice since the wedding. Life happens and we both just drifted apart in our own respective lives… until now, that is.
Hopefully we’ll be able to pick things right back up where we left off – we both have a lot to fill the other in about to cover the long absence, and she needs to meet my wife. After all I did sorta give her the authority to approve my spouse.
Interesting Tidbits
Song of the Day: Beyond This Life by Dream Theater
T-Mobile customers should switch off this new privacy toggle immediately – “Thanks to recent tips and reporting, we now know that T-Mobile has quietly rolled out two new privacy toggles in its Privacy Center. One of them might offer legitimate benefits (maybe) but the other? Yeah, you’re going to want to switch that one off immediately.” Or you could also just ditch all the bloatware and install GrapheneOS.
Republicans Vote Against Amendment Calling for Release of Epstein Files – “An amendment demanding that President Donald Trump’s administration release all files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was shot down by Republicans on the House Rules Committee on Monday.”
Seth Green Explains Why ‘Robot Chicken’ Is Switching to Quarterly Specials 20 Years In – “The special came about because Discovery Media bought Warner Bros. and all its subsidiaries, which trickled all the way down to Adult Swim. So there was a shift — not just in the volume of global workforce that were employed, but also the priorities of any of these smaller subsidiaries at the behest of these much larger companies”
Bizarre 12-sided object dating to Roman Empire baffles scientists: ‘A cosmic symbol’ – “Scientists remain baffled over a mysterious 12-sided bronze object dating back to the Roman Empire — theorizing it could be anything from a candle holder to a ‘cosmic symbol.'”