Howard Hughes Looks Back
I think there was some sun today. Yeah. I haven't left the apartment since November 15th, and often I do not even look out the window. Our high was 66F. So, yesterday with sunlight.
I might have slept three and a half hours. I fell asleep about 130 p..m, then woke at 2 a.m., then got up at 3 a.m. I tried to work on MP 2.0. I cleaned my office some. I tried to fix my broke-ass office chair, sorting through hex wrenches. I drank coffee. I finished "James S.A. Corey's" Leviathan Falls, the last of the nine, and it was one of the better in that sprawling, gallumphing parade of mediocrity. But "his" books have made "him" rich, and mine have done anything but. There's a lesson there. I lay back down around 6 a.m. and woke a little after 7 a.m., feeling worse than before I lay down.
That was my norning.
Oh, somewhere in there I posted the following to Facebook: In college (1983-1991), I had good friends who were liberals (in the Classical sense), conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, socialists, atheists, theists of several stripes, scientists and a priest, Jews and Gentiles, black and white, people from many nations, and we all talked, and we learned from one another, no matter how much we disagreed. That's the world I want back, where disagreement and a fundamentally different view of the world does not make one enemies. (And social media was not there to rub salt in wounds and deepen divides.) Later I added, It is very tempting to erase this post, as this is not at all what I was trying the achieve.
By then it had led to such a bizarre shitstorm that this afternoon I finally took it down. Sure, 121 people had indicated they liked it without taking part in the firefight, but a few had been no end of offended - people on the right and the left. Yes, offended by that. When I took it down I said, "(Thanks all. But I am not commenting here more than I have. It is exhausting, and disheartening to see some missing the point.)" And then, in a seperate post I said, "The most innocuous things I say here now lead to attacks from both the left and the right, in roughly equal measure, and I honestly do not have time or energy for this crap. People who live to take offense. So, no more. I'm done with it." This keeps happening to me, and it has to stop. Which means I have to stop making these posts.
I only posted it here to have a public record of what I actually said.
Craig Spector said, "Good lord, I saw that train wreck in real time. I wish I could say I'm surprised, but sadly, I'm not -- and I think you are correct that there are people on social media who live to pick fights."
I only posted it here to have a public record of what I actually said.
Except pelase visit the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Because I am not "James S.A. Corey" and I never will be.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
9:56 a.m.
I might have slept three and a half hours. I fell asleep about 130 p..m, then woke at 2 a.m., then got up at 3 a.m. I tried to work on MP 2.0. I cleaned my office some. I tried to fix my broke-ass office chair, sorting through hex wrenches. I drank coffee. I finished "James S.A. Corey's" Leviathan Falls, the last of the nine, and it was one of the better in that sprawling, gallumphing parade of mediocrity. But "his" books have made "him" rich, and mine have done anything but. There's a lesson there. I lay back down around 6 a.m. and woke a little after 7 a.m., feeling worse than before I lay down.
That was my norning.
Oh, somewhere in there I posted the following to Facebook: In college (1983-1991), I had good friends who were liberals (in the Classical sense), conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, socialists, atheists, theists of several stripes, scientists and a priest, Jews and Gentiles, black and white, people from many nations, and we all talked, and we learned from one another, no matter how much we disagreed. That's the world I want back, where disagreement and a fundamentally different view of the world does not make one enemies. (And social media was not there to rub salt in wounds and deepen divides.) Later I added, It is very tempting to erase this post, as this is not at all what I was trying the achieve.
By then it had led to such a bizarre shitstorm that this afternoon I finally took it down. Sure, 121 people had indicated they liked it without taking part in the firefight, but a few had been no end of offended - people on the right and the left. Yes, offended by that. When I took it down I said, "(Thanks all. But I am not commenting here more than I have. It is exhausting, and disheartening to see some missing the point.)" And then, in a seperate post I said, "The most innocuous things I say here now lead to attacks from both the left and the right, in roughly equal measure, and I honestly do not have time or energy for this crap. People who live to take offense. So, no more. I'm done with it." This keeps happening to me, and it has to stop. Which means I have to stop making these posts.
I only posted it here to have a public record of what I actually said.
Craig Spector said, "Good lord, I saw that train wreck in real time. I wish I could say I'm surprised, but sadly, I'm not -- and I think you are correct that there are people on social media who live to pick fights."
I only posted it here to have a public record of what I actually said.
Except pelase visit the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop. Because I am not "James S.A. Corey" and I never will be.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
9:56 a.m.