Brain Jar

Well okay, the site is back. Hmm.

Just checking in. Nothing much to report. And so it goes.

Writing stuff finally

I started a new story on my child blog on here. I think I can sort of see where it's going. However, in light of something I read on Twitter about some dude who had an entire comic ripped off by these guys who made a short film of it and won an award, I don't think I'll be putting very much of it up here. 

Snow Daze

Well, here I am again. It snowed yesterday, all day... so there are several inches on the ground. It's cloudy today, so I don't see much melting. I went out yesterday and stumbled feebly about, but I'm not sure I want to go out today. Mostly I'm afraid of falling down, though the exercise would do me good, maybe. But I don't consider slipping on the ice and falling on my ass "exercise". I feel mostly like staying in. Also I need to have a decent meal, all I've had is coffee and a couple of waffles.

Anyway, I'm trying to use this Windows laptop more, which means getting things set up on here. I'm in Microsoft Edge, though I have Firefox and Chrome installed as well. Edge seems to be working better these days, at least it's no worse than any other browser. I think the slowness on some websites is just because Windows sucks.

I got kicked off my main Twitter account for 12 hours because their moronic algorithm can't recognize jokes, only keywords. Oddly enough they seem to have turned all this stuff on after the Inauguration and kicking Trump off the site. They had no problem with "misinformation" of any kind before, only people using swears. Lousy site. I'm using my alt, but I only follow a fraction of the people I did on the main account, and only a few follow me... it's sort of peaceful really.

Well, time to make lunch or something.

Should I go back to this site? It's sort of old-fashioned and therefore easier to use.

Went for a walk downtown. The snow is finally melting in earnest, though I don't think it will all be gone by nighttime. It's supposed to be a tiny bit warmer and sunny at least part of the time tomorrow, so maybe it will be all gone from my steps at least.

I'm definitely really out of shape. I'm going to try to walk a little every day -- at least the days I'm home, work is a challenge. But at least I'm at home more. With the new ownership I wonder if my hours will change back to a five-day week, who knows. I'm going to ask about transferring to another facility, hopefully one of the ones in Miami, as soon as I can. I can't take much more of this weather.

Cold and windy today... but it's supposed to be sunny and go up into the high forties. Will this get me outside and walking? It really should, since the rest of the week until Sunday will be dedicated to working all the daylight hours.

Twenty Twenty Hindsight

There will probably be ten million blog entries and articles with that title at the end of the year, so I'm getting in early.

First: well! we're in the middle of a pandemic! Just like great-grandma or in my case grandma experienced. Fortunately the great United States is leading the way to, uh... having the most covid cases and deaths! We're number one! USA! USA! USA!

And guess what -- I caught it! But I survived. So far I seem to be okay, no major after effects. Still, everything is at a standstill and no one can go anywhere because roving mad gangs of people who refuse to wear masks have basically taken over the country and cases are still on the rise. It's being played down as "oh, they're just ordinary silly people!" but I know deadly zombies when I see them. 

Other than that, everything's just peachy.

Hi, still here

My yearly update! New: my own apartment, in the same building where I was living with the friend. Cats are bigger, better. Health: blood pressure high (being medicated). On calcium and D3 because Virginia is a sunless hell. As for this site, I don't know. MT is $500 to license, which basically means no new blogs using it. My old self-installs are old enough to go to college, which means they are basically dead and buried. All I have is this account. Who knows what I'll do with it though.

I'd like to know why I've been having chest flutters and associated coughing for the past few days. I haven't been any more anxious than normal.