I would really like to stop waking up exhausted this week. It's very rude.
(Okay, sidenote that for all that I am good at concentrating and avoiding distraction and procrastination -- not naturally, perhaps, but because I have many, many systems and much practice in making that happen when it otherwise wouldn't -- I give myself a specific carve-out for watching birds do interesting things. This post might be extra-truncated, is what I'm saying, because: there were some crows.)
Fortunately, I mostly just wanted to share this quote I really liked from Dan Hon:
There is no single player game, just in the same way that there is no single player and no single person ... there is no such thing as a single player game because so long as there are other people, there is always the chance that you will someday be able to talk to someone else about the game you played and maybe they will get to play it, too.
—Dan Hon, Things That Caught My Attention s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person
Breaking the pattern for these posts slightly by bundling several unrelated things in one post, but: I've mostly stayed off Twitter this week, and plan to keep it that way. I've always gone through patches like this, because Twitter is a misery machine, but fairly obviously, the field of play is somewhat different this time. I did dip back on there briefly this morning, and as awful as it all is, seeing the way that the Blockhead-in-Chief is just absolutely piledriving this situation into the ground (I guess he knows a thing or two about digging holes) is very, very funny.
Whoop crows are back, gotta go.