Do we really think that’s a real number for a year? I feel like sci-fi writers would use 2023 because it SEEMS made up and far away and like it will never happen. Well, it happened, hypothetical sci-fi writers, it happened.

ABRUPT SUBJECT CHANGE

I was talking to my friend about how mad I was when I was on hiatus that I couldn’t write. I have a pretty decent idea. I had LOADS of time and I had zero motivation. None. I couldn’t even open a notebook. Something to unpack in therapy probably! (I am not currently in therapy, so I guess we’ll never know.) Anyway, she said I should try Chat GPT and I was very curious about it and she gave me a logline it fed her for an idea she was tooling around with and I was like wait a second are we going to be replaced by talented robot computers? And she was like, probably not, but MAYBE.

Which brings me to this (completely unrelated thought), I have noticed a serious uptick in Substack…s (?) (What are we calling them? Newsletters? Posts? Stacks? Substackies? Probably substackies. That seems right.) I have noticed an uptick in substack things and while I appreciate that my friends are writing (check out Wendy’s series on Instagram coaches!) I also wish people would just go back to blogging so my feed reader gets updated and I don’t get another email in my inbox. Or, wait, am I doing it wrong? Is there a substack way of things that I’m not understanding? Either way, it’s blogging and it’s coming to me in email form and my personal email is a hellscape and at some point I’ll probably just have to give up and start a new email. What was I saying? Oh yeah, go back to blogging please! My feedly is easy to navigate.

SUBSCRIPTIONS I SHOULD CANCEL

I have so many subscriptions. Big Media seems to be saying “oh no we’re poor” but honestly HOW? All I do is pay for more media! I have HBO, Netflix, Showtime, Directv Stream (DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THIS ONE), Peacock, Disney (I think this one is free with my cell phone?), Prime, Hulu (Oh maybe it’s this one that’s free with my cell phone), and that’s just television. I need an intervention. But pry my Peloton subscription from my cold dead hands.

I started Peloton a little over a year ago after being influenced by another friend. I do not have the hardware, I just use the app and it is perfect for me. Little virtual prizes for completing a certain number of classes, or doing a little challenge, miles, etc!

Has my health improved? I don’t know! But I will find out in a few weeks when Infrastructure Week begins again. I was sick with cold after cold starting the day after Christmas and continuing through February so I mostly went on walks, but I assume I am in better health than I was before.

IN CLOSING

Will I try Chat GPT? Will my health ACTUALLY be improved? Will I ever cancel some of those TV channels? Will I figure out Substack? Who can say?

I’m just happy to be here.

OK BYE