This is a very simple phlog entry.
I've been thinking about writing it
for a while, but haven't.
Until recently, I spent way too much
time on the internet. Then, one night
in early June, I was inspired to play
a few of my parents' LPs. As I lay
there, flaked out on the floor amidst
a sea of albums, listening to Carole
King's Tapestry and reading the album
liner notes like I did decades ago as
a kid, it occurred to me that life was
once better. Well at least simpler. I
lived in the here and now a lot more.
I let myself get bored. I pondered
things.
Anyways, I made a decision, right
there and then, to live my life as if
it was still 1979 (as much as
possible, though it requires a bit of
adaptation to make it happen). There
were newspapers then, so I have my
gopher server scrape a few newspapers
for me. I read them, run out of
material to consume, and turn off the
computer. There was TV, so I've spent
the summer watching TV again -- Scrubs
and the West Wing mostly. There's a
lot of TV I just barely watched back
in the day. I've also read a lot of
books, both e-books and
dead-tree-books.
Other than that, my banking, and the
odd bit of online shopping (I live in
a relatively rural area, so I view it
as the equivalent of the 1979 Sears
and Radio Shack catalogs), I've been
staying offline as much as possible.
Of course, when you add COVID-19 to
the mix, it's been a very quiet
summer.
This is not a "you should do it too"
kind of post. It's a "that's where I
went" post. I'm hanging out in 1979.
It was a great year the first time
around -- and it still is...
