I don’t often blog about personal issues, I try to keep things on interesting topics. My life is vaguely boring. I eat, sleep, work, compute; these are things everyone does. These are uninteresthing things.

As such, I spent many hours watching YouTube on Saturday. I have no TV, I figured 50 bucks a month was too much for something I never really watch. However I kind of miss the break; the sitting in front of a box for an hour or so and just….enjoying something. I have attempted to replace this with reading. Hey, I own 1984 and I never finished it! So I’ve been reading that now. I now bike to work 3 times a week (6 miles each way, for those wondering). The biking…means I get to leave work around 7:30pm those days. This is good as it means I’m never at work late anymore ;)

So…YouTube…I used to be that person, watching stuff, doing stuff online, frequenting forums, DC++ chat rooms, etc…Many of you still spot me on irc (but you and I both know I’m on less). It was fun to be on YouTube, I think. I made an account for the sole purpose of sending this one person a message because I thought her videos were that cool (but not cool enough to post a URL here). Part of me wanted to do a video and part of me knew I utterly sucked at videos and could probably do better; this was a major catalyst behind this exact post.

So I gave myself a month to work on Gentoo and found I spend a total of 2 days ‘working’ on stuff. I really got nothing done, thusly I re-opened my retirement bug for good this time. I could make a long drawn out post about it all, but I’ll spare you. The nitty gritty of it is I don’t want to be involved and I don’t want to make time for it anymore. It taught me a lot about Linux and much about how people organize themselves and how one should act and for that I’m grateful.

Sorry Ilya, I didn’t make it on Sunday :/

-Alec