They were probably at work. Unfortunately for far too many of our young people, they're having to hold down multiple jobs and/or work weekends to just pay rent, much less anything else.

Jobs that often don't have paid time off in "right to work" states ... sigh ... we'll keep fighting for them!

a needlepoint or quilting project or me fixing my car or remodeling my house or sunrises and sunset photos ...

In other words ... I finally found the answer to all those questions after fading from Twitter: "Whatever I want to, when I want to, wherever my mood takes me."

Oh btw, I'm often wordy!

Anyways, consider this my (long winded) fair warning to you that if you follow me, know that I never know what I'm going to post about. Maybe it'll be my favorite bread recipe or news about EVE Online's next Fanfest, or pictures from my latest road trip or political debates, or progress posts about

will you do now (or next)" and my answer has always been I don't know, I haven't decided, and I'm not even sure I want to get sucked back into the blackhole of social media expectations ... that and frankly, Real Life has been pretty crazy these last couple years.

somehow there's this expectation that any social media account we create is going to focus on just one thing.

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

Ever since I faded away from Twitter when Musky boy took it over, I've been asked "when are you going to come back" or "where are you posting now" or "what

to the mentality of us complex disparate people and to our communities. And frankly, it's also boring. Who the heck wants to ONLY read one subject, eat one food, watch one type of video, listen to just one band, play just one game? None of us do! We all follow a variety of people and topics, yet

under such great expectations and pressure to be "one thing" online, to develop a singular "brand", to only post or chat or share singular or limited topics, to "define" ourselves within easily targeted advertising metrics ... it's just all so fabricated and bogus, not to mention severely damaging

own terms through travel, crafting, cooking (my annual holiday cookie BakeMas threads still among my most popular!), and more. I've long balked at this expectation that we humans, each of us unique, complex, creative and wonderful beings who are so much more than any one label can ever define are

I've been lurking on Bluesky for a while, but really just haven't figured out what I want my Bluesky account to "be about" - like my old Twitter account was primarily about EVE Online, but over time, I started finding that constraining so started posting about my day-to-day love of living life on my