Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every post that I’ve made here for the past 5 years begins with an acknowledgment that I haven’t done diddly with this site in nearly literal eons. During the pandemic (you know, 3+ years ago), I felt slightly less constrained by the normal demands of life and 1000x more mentally unhealthy so it made more sense to transition back over here and away, at top speed, from the decaying mess that social media became. Then another well paying but micromanaging job came my way, my wife had a second open heart surgery with accompanying small strokes, and the bottom fell out from all of that while I primarily used Slack to vent my angst at the world at the world instead of doing anything sane or safe.

After four years of doing a great job of fixing broken technology and a terrible job of preparing for 20+ hours of progress meetings a week, I lost that job which was great for my sanity but terrible for all other purposes. What that boils down to is that I now have some free hours every day to pointlessly fuck around on the the inter webs. Facebook, for numerous reasons, is dead to me and Instagram is largely a video platform now so those were off the table. You can still find me on Instagram for the occasional photo of something I find amusing with captions that may or may not be funny or mean. Twitter (never, ever X) evolved into the worst possible version of itself so I ended up creating a Bluesky account. At the present moment, Bluesky is a fun platform for connecting with people and not seeing every post besieged by literal Nazis insisting that their assbackward screeds were the kind of ‘engagement’ that everyone clearly needed. I really hope that it continues to be fun since it can become anything you want it to be without exposing yourself to algorithmic toxicity. However, I tend to run into issues with word count limitations because I am a verbose motherfucker. So, here I am, back here again to write needlessly verbose rants without the need to thread longer things out or, you know, edit properly.