I start writing this blog on Mondays with high hopes that by Wednesday I have enough content to make it worthwhile for anyone to read. I know sometimes this just won't be the case. But maybe I succeeded this week.

My Wednesday morning number is 215. Still hanging steady I guess. I need more gym time but this week isn't going to allow it. I only managed Thursday and Saturday last week, and haven't had any time this week. I might try and get in some time tonight.

The Work Week Is What It Is

Someone across the office just said, "There's no such thing as stupid questions. Just stupid people." Although that's true, mostly, I'm not sure it's an attitude you should take in a business setting. Again, I look at the clock, and it's only 10:00AM, and I feel like I've been here for a full day already. Thrust back into the corporate world where you ask someone a question five times, and they fail to answer you five times, but then complain that things are delayed, and they don't understand why when they've messaged you five times....  but ignore that they have failed to answer the only question they needed to answer to get things going, and thus, try to pin the entire delay on you.

Yeeeaaaahhhh... people.

More instances of, D: "Hey, can you do this for us?"

Me: "No. You haven't given me the access I need."

D: "Oh, darn it."

Well, what should I do about that?

It's been four weeks, and I still don't have everything I need to do this job properly. From systems access, to a cord to connect my headset for my phone, to simply having someone that can explain things to me in a coherent way. I hate complaining, but I also hate not being able to do my job. So, I think I get to complain.

Tumblr No More

So Tumblr announced this week that as of December 14th they will no longer allow any adult content on their blogs. This was due to issues of users posting, and sharing child pornography. It makes sense. I mean, why not just ban everything instead of having more moderators manage the site, and make sure anything truly inappropriate or illegal isn't shared. I'm baffled as to how they will enforce this without adding moderators anyway. The sheer volume of adult content on the site is staggering. They suspend accounts for inappropriate content, and people come right back with a new account. They're going to need more moderators to manage this anyway, I would think, otherwise they need image scanning technology that can identify genitals, and nipples. Specifically, as Tumblr themselves has termed it, "Female Presenting Nipples."

Whatever that means.

I'm interested to see how Tumblr manages this, and still remain relevant. I know for a fact, adult content that comes across my dashboard on Tumblr generally has "notes" in the thousands, to hundreds of thousands, or even millions range. Meanwhile my posts are lucky to get more than one note, ever, and rarely does one of my original images get reblogged.

I try to keep it clean. It's mostly shares from my Instagram these days, but the entire platform seems like it mainly caters to people looking for nudes, and x-rated GIFs. It's like the Harry Potter world of Hustler magazine, complete with moving pictures.

Twitter So'More

Twitter on the other hand has become something I'm digging into deeper these days. I guess I go in cycles with that. Mainly, politics, and sports - specifically the Bills, and Sabres. And right now, all three sports: football, hockey, and political outrage are in full swing. Add in a dash of religious contempt, and that's my Twitter.

But it is a non-stop feed of information that keeps me going all day. And I need that.

It's only 10:40AM now.

Boy, do I need that.

Distracted - a woman in the office just complained to a co-worker about something he didn't accomplish for her, and said, loudly, "Jeffrey (last name censored), Your ass is all mine tonight. Boy, that didn't come out the way I intended..."

Not sure where that even sounded anything but sexual in her mind, but, here we are.

Anyway, given Twitter is Donald J. Trump's favorite means of communication, where he believes he shouldn't be held accountable for anything he says, it only makes sense that Twitter has moved further into the social media spotlight over the past couple of years. It's important to keep tabs on what the orange colored dementia patient who has control of the US military, and our nuclear arms, is doing, and saying. I just really want people to stop retweeting it without comment. Especially media outlets. They give him agency when they spread his lies without facts, or fact checking accompanying them.

The lovely part about him using Twitter so much though is that so much of the communication, and things he says are documented into the public record, which means he has already created volumes of his own dishonest contradictions that can be reviewed when it comes time for impeachment proceedings. People on Twitter keep going on about the Mueller Investigation is setting a perjury trap for him, either as if it is a good thing, or a dishonest thing to do, depending on your side, and how you feel about him being president. I contend that there is absolutely no perjury trap being set. Mueller knows how this all played out, and he knows Trump, and his associates are lying, about a lot of things. He doesn't want to have him convicted of perjury, he wants him convicted of crimes. Real crimes. Egregious crimes, which I truly believe he did commit. Perjury is just something that will be part of the process due to how much Trump lies, and has lied, and how much all of his associates have lied for him. There's no trap being set; it's just a condition of the circumstances.

Aside from that, sites like Twitter bring out the creative side of so many people. Such as a recent tweet by Rudy Giuliani where he accidentally missed putting a space after a period, and inadvertently created the link "G-20.In." Some astute individual noticing this reserved this domain, and created a website, so whenever someone clicks on Rudy's accidental link, they receive a nice anti-Trump message. Clever! And Rudy kind of went off the deep end over it.

Given Giuliani was named to advise the incoming administration on cyber security issues just prior to their inauguration in January 2017, this is a remarkable display of ignorance regarding internet basics as well. We can see how serious Trump was at keeping his Russian pals' cybercrimes at bay.

I think that is all I have for the time being. Have some new projects in the works. December is going to be a tough month.

Hold my beer.