New job started yesterday

 

It's not exactly a "job", but I'm going to do some data sleuthing for a friend of mine who is building a web platform for whitewater paddlers.  I'm nothing if not a whitewater paddler and I have a zillion personal connections in that world...so here we go!  I started yesterday and it was a little chaotic and overwhelming largely because she has already started on the project but not gotten very far.  The goal is to get a personal contact for each and every paddling club on the planet earth.  Yeah, right.  The ones that are on the internet mostly are not eager to let anyone have a personal contact.

What else.  I posted to livejournal yesterday, and I'm here today.  It appears to me that my posts do not crosspost as they were supposed to do....so I really should pick one and not go back and forth.  But then the truth: I'm doing this writing entirely for selfish reasons, just go do that I call a "braindump" so that I can not have so many thoughts rattling around inside my skull.  Once I write them down it's easier to move on.  I'm journaling on paper, too, so that's 3 places for my brain to dump.

It's funny, as I interact with more friends post-trump-re-election I realize that the things that I intend to do are pretty much the same as most of my friends.  Spend less time online.  Get in shape.  Spend more time with real friends in the flesh.  Check check check.

When I was in TN in Sept-Oct I was blessed to have a mini cooper to drive (borrowed from my friend Randy) and in that car I listened to Breitbart radio pretty much the whole time.  They played a lot of clips of Harris sounding like a lawyer, being evasive, basically.  They promoted a worldview that is taken for reality in Tennessee: that the woke left is Satan and the gun-toting right is Right.  Tennessee has a Republican supermajority in the state house, and they are extremely nutty--there's no way for any opposing ideas to find voice.  There's no balance.  There are lots of perfectly reasonable republicans who'd like to see them act more responsibly and focus on the actual issues that the people face, instead of voting on stuff like days of prayer and state foods.  

Chrome just notified me that it wants to update itself.  Should I let it?  Many tell me I should get away from chrome, and from google, and forge a new path on the web.  What do you think?  One thing I've noticed is that whenever I update anything on my computer, it gets worse.  It's like they're just installing more ways to try to spy on me and sell me shit, and there's little to no actual effort to improve MY experience or ability to accomplish anything.  So I am loath to install updates.  I understand that there are "security fixes" in some of these updates, but it seems to be a very small part of the total change.

Well anyway, hello friends on dreamwidth.  How wide are your dreams?  I'm planning to post more often, and likely read more often, just because I need to journal more and this is an easy way to do it.  May your autumn be beautiful!