Author: Mark Alexander

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I Miss Mine

To be filed under, “Technology I Should Never Have Gotten Rid Of.” Mine was silver, not black, but seeing this brought back so many good memories. It was my first and only iPod. I got rid of it after I got my first iPhone and had the music app built in. But navigating tunes on the iPhone has never been as easy as it was on the iPod, and now it’s an absolute clusterfuck.

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Doomscrolling

After a self-imposed multi-year exile, last January I decided to dip my toe back into the toxic hellstew that is Twitter. I did it mainly for the pr0n, but soon enough the usual onslaught of political bullshit started filling my timeline—even though I’m not explicitly following any political Tweeters.

Last night—and if truth be told, most of yesterday—I was holed up on the sofa obsessively scrolling through the muck, becoming more and more sofaressed with each passing hour. I basically lost it last night and after sobbing uncontrollably literally (for a variety of different reasons) on Ben’s shoulder, I decided it was time to kill my account there once again.

Not even the endless stream of 15-second videos of guys jerking off is enough to keep me there—especially since only about one in twenty of them are deemed worthy enough to go through the hassle of downloading and reposting for you cock hounds.

For that reason I’m removing the app from my phone and desktop. I’m not killing the account outright, because I still may occasionally stumble across some boy on Instagram who advises to go to his Twitter account to “see more,” but it makes doom scrolling a bit harder having to go through the website itself.

And with all the bullshit regarding Elon Musk…why even bother?

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Well Shit…

Despite my continued social distancing and mask-wearing-in-public, I have somehow managed to come down with pneumonia. Again. Second time within the last twelve months…and it sucks. At least this time the symptoms were much less severe and there wasn’t any pain, unlike the bout last spring that landed me in the hospital for four days.

Still, it’s not fun. Thanks to a regimen of modern pharmaceuticals and a knowlegeable (and I must say, cute, gay) doctor at urgent care earlier this week, I do seem to be on the mend.  Now before you scold me for not getting the vaccine this year, I will accept full responsibility for that. With everything else that’s been going on, it completely slipped under my radar and I going forward I will not make that mistake again.

I’m cleared to return to work Monday if symptoms continue to improve. Not looking forward to that, but thankfully next week is my two-days-in-the-office with the other three working from home.