Cue Jo Dee Messina's Bye Bye...

Likely not surprising my reader in context to my recent posts, I laid the accelerator to the FLOOR and COMPLETELY lost Google and Microsoft in the rear-view mirror of my Linux Mint Cinnamon rig! I mean, there's nothin' but miles of dotted lines falling off the horizon behind me.

I feel WONDERFUL to leave all of that spycraft behind as I open my throttle wide in these open-source waters! And believe me, it feels GOOD to not be subjugated to the political rhetoric of Big Tech! Crank out some Steppenwolf!

The funny thing is that I really didn't tell anyone of my new email address—oh, sure, I pointed service logins and updated my password manager in kind, but socially, I didn't do anything. And yes, I did make a reference to the address in a prior post, but not in a direct manner. Hey, I don't know how good AI is these days; while it's generally meat-like, Spam has sugar, so along with its absence from my Inbox, it's off my carnivore list! (Sadly, because of the carbs that slither into the dehydrator, this is also why I cry over beef jerky.)

I've made the realization that for me to turn this year into a series of wins, I basically got to treat it like it's 2020 all over again. It is a wild world out there where emotions have trumped logic; it's just not a healthy place for the NT rational! To my knowledge, I haven't reacted with 2020 nightly teeth grinding as I slept, but that can't be far off!

How do I envision closing out this year in applying 2020's lessons?

• Continue this strong push with book consumption in my Blade Runner, Fitness Guru and Entrepreneur paradigm;
• Ignore pop news and the politicization thereof;
• Eat and train;
• Breathe purposely.

Perhaps as I close out this year, it'll mimic the prior year and I'll make another run at Facebook...HOWEVER, the world's gotta SETTLE down for me to be willing to hand a wedge of my freedom over to Zuckerberg's website and all his cookies that are akin to Stranger Things Season 2's underground labyrinth! Honestly, I think I'd just run his place in a closed-off virtual machine if I did!

The other day, a great idea struck me immediately after I was mass-emailed by a race organization expressing how they were no longer interested in my participation: why not just create my own series of races? ANYBODY can throw together a route! And it is LITERALLY a sport where you intrinsically do it by yourself! At the entry price of these things, I can even get a t-shirt printed up for each one! I was wondering how I was going to get those seven 5K's in this year to resolve that New Year's resolution...this just might work! It's definitely something I want to steep in some creative juice.