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How are you similar or different from the person you were 5 years ago? 10 years ago? 20 years ago?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five years ago? Well, it’s still up<\/a>. I was obviously getting very concerned about some of what I saw going on with things like Facebook at the time. I wish I could have known more about <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m trying to remember exactly what the impetus was for me trying to get away from the Ginger Drop-out’s stuff back then, but I’d need to read more to figure it out. Obviously, things would go into overdrive in 2020. I did appreciate that whatever efforts I’d taken back then would pay dividends pretty soon thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, I think I showed that, yes, you can say, “see ya.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technologies behind the Internet aren’t locked in to one company’s wares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that can be done is passing laws to try to “fix” that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, your solution is to throw people in prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s just no nice to reframe that into something polite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you ever say “there should be a law,” you’re saying “I feel so strongly about this that I’m willing to have you killed to get you to behave the way I want.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten Years ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s here.<\/a> I think, probably, this would have been just as I was in the early throws of the thing I’d taken because we were running out of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as I know, that place is probably still operating. But I was very much not in my element. That was reconfirmed yesterday when I was doing similar work. Windows was, and still is, a nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But i’d gotten hired as the junior admin there, and I was doing it really to just pay the bills. The company I was with didn’t offer any benefits accepted by providers in Tidewater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d bought a private plan from one of the providers down there that was one of the large providers. It was expensive, but we didn’t have a ton of expenses with my wife in college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wonderful exchange plan we would have for the next year was the thing that really sent me into a spiral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, I got promoted on-the-spot into the role of the senior admin because they couldn’t do an in-place capture of the previous admin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i tried, but I was being directed to do things from 1999. In 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, we shouldn’t be doing this. You should never say that to someone who views himself as a subject matter expert on things he clearly doesn’t understand at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty years ago? I went back and looked at stuff around then. There was an entry about someone in whom I was interested. I really have no idea who that was, actually. Not even a suspicion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next one was me congratulating myself from what I did on the Thanksgiving turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I did it on a grill. It may have been my first attempt at using an injector of some sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think my dad was in Iraq that year, so I was cooking for my mom, my brother, and his wife at the time. It worked, I guess, but I didn’t write down what I did. I am an idea — I think it probably involved a glaze and injection that resembled a whisky sour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, that’s some quick recaps <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the future, who knows? Obviously, I had some major setbacks in the middle of that period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The samples from the prompt are largely related to the problems I’ve had related to my health in the past fifteen years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should I have done anything differently? Yep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I did find someone I love, something you couldn’t have told me I’d do twenty years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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