While I do find it lovely to stumble around twisting alleyways in old cities, I remember being lost in a section of Florence asking “Who in the hell thought this was a good idea?”

We should be using the Army Corp of Engineers as a full time federal team of infrastructure builders and dramatically increase it in size, but alas.

I currently live in Denver which has been ranked one of the worst cities for public transit design in the USA. Moving soon to Barcelona and looking forward to not owning a car.

There were many ‘opinion’ and general trash journalism articles about Obama using the military to have a coup and stay in power or “hand the US over to the UN” (never even figured out wtf that even meant) and Fox has removed all of them from their site. The only evidence of them is responses from other news articles, like the thread that remains after a user deletes their comment.

Overall it’s been pretty good. I mainly needed it to stop the problem of having an Android phone and MacBook, where sometimes texts from iPhone users “slip” to Messenger on my laptop and I don’t see them until I’m at my computer. I cant get it to take over my native Android messages, and it glitches when I get a call on WhatsApp where I have to open WhatsApp manually to answer, but still worth it.

Spending time with friends and watched a thunderstorm roll through a mountain valley last night. I try to really memorize moments like that because when life inevitably slides the other way, those are the things that help me carry on, hoping to be lucky enough for one more of those good days.

Not even Office anymore, theyve got multiple levels of ERP systems linked in a with Azure resources for doing lots of core business functionality and automation which is becoming more and more a requirement, i.e. if your business can’t send/receive EDI you can’t sell to most major stores like Walmart/Kroger/etc.

Same, I’m mostly part of specific communities based around Europe/language/hydroponics which simply don’t exist here and am here mainly out of spite and solidarity.

I’m saying this in earnest and very much not trying to be rude or edgy, but the fact is a lot of people don’t think about me/you/us at all, they’re reciting things they think are normal to people they aren’t close with like talking about the weather. Realizing some of my relatives I care about don’t actually want to get invested in my life to the point of knowing I’m gay was a very freeing moment. Like understanding my grandma is 95 and doesn’t want to try sushi now. And she was fine learning I married a man, but she wouldn’t have brought it up. Decentralizing yourself from other people and realizing you have much more of a free slate than you think can be very helpful.