So I guess I should explain where I've been and what happened this summer. Short story, I just didn't feel like blogging. There's a bit more to it than that which I'll get into it, but short version is I just wasn't feeling it. I didn't have a lot to share, and I never force myself to blog.
As many of you know, I took a little Twitter break. Shortly after that I decided to just completely delete my account. I was never a big fan of social media outside of Hive, and was happy to be rid of Twitter. Frankly, personally, I felt better without Twitter in my life.
Twitter had outgrown its usefulness to me. I no longer got the latest crypto news. Scammers and bots filled my follower count. It was even hard to gauge market sentiment with so much spam and shilling going on. On top of that, suddenly everyone became a political pundit, no matter what I did I couldn't get rid of the political propaganda in my feed. I'd log on each day only to get disgusted with myself for logging in and the state of the world I'm living in. Twitter lost its usefulness to me and just didn't work for me anymore.
After about a month without Twitter. I noticed I felt A LOT better. I wasn't as grumpy, didn't get triggered watching the news. I realized we live in a great world, however, traditional social media has this way of showing us the world in a terrible light. I get it's not all rainbows and unicorn farts out there, but things aren't as bad as the internet often makes things out to be.
Realizing I felt better without Twitter, I decided to take a complete internet break! I've been a daily user of the internet since 1995. It was my second home. Things have changed considerably since then. For the most part, except a couple of phone searches on Google and a little shitcoin trading here or there, I took the summer off. Honestly, it felt good! I don't regret doing that AT ALL, I think it was much needed. Call it a mental health break, self-care, or whatever you crazy kids are calling it these days. I'm happy I did it.
Besides the much-needed break from all the political propaganda, my summer plans were a complete disaster. Besides just not working out, the sky was filled with smog from the Canadian forest fires. I had the worst allergy season of my life. Half my summer was spent fighting a sinus infection that peaked in October with a trip to the doctors office. Apparently, everyone and anyone with sinus issues had paid a visit to the Good Doctor and I wasn't the only one in woe.
I planned on taking a fall trip to the Adirondacks in October but spent the entire month lying on my couch trying to drain my sinuses. I know, gross right? It really was disgusting and a little concerning. It had never been that bad before.
With all that said, there was nothing to write about. The only thing I accomplished was getting my eBay resell business off the ground. I spent my summer at garage sales and flea markets. I suppose I could have wrote about that, and actually plan to in the future. Still, it wasn't the direction I wanted to take the blog in at the time.
To add to all this negativity, I woke up this morning and spilled a cup of coffee over my laptop. The Chuwi I bought last September looks to be DOA as of this morning. What a bummer man!
I really liked that laptop too! It really tied the room together!
I opened it up and dried it out with a blow dryer but it's not looking promising. If it doesn't boot up tomorrow, I'll have to order another. At least it happened right before black Friday, so I should be able to get a good deal on a replacement. Terrible timing though, considering the holidays are right around the corner. Money is always tight this time of year and taxes are right around the corner :( These things never happen at a good time though, do they?
So, that's where I've been and that's where I'm at right now. I'm back and we can probably expect a new laptop review shortly. LOL.