Where I go when I’m not on OD…

Well, I pretty much explained in the title, so I’ll dive in:

Yelp: I used to do reviews there every day for a good stretch. But reoccurring "b-plots" of my depression from being unemployed, not in Vegas, without a g/f anymore took over. I couldn’t promise her anything in the 14 months I’ve been unemployed. So I basically let her go after hearing about how my absence didn’t stop her from going out spending money instead of saving it any. People are starting to get I haven’t been in Vegas for awhile, so I’m doing what I can to not have reviews deleted by The Man from being too old or something. I stopped making reference to being away (except for my description so I technically am not lying) and make my reviews in present tense. People bitch about everything there.

WordPress: I started a "Vegas diary" but only have one entry so far. It’s gotten harder for me to type when I go back and forth on writing about Vegas. It’s one of the few things that made me happy. But when I type, is it about the places and friends I can work my way back to, or am I just rehashing glory days that are gone? When I think that way, it comes out negatively in what I write and makes me think bad things I don’t need. But I have the need to blog sometimes. I wanted it to be a "public diary" I could link when I want people to not read about the whining I do here.

facebook: I don’t go on there much, with the changes. I wrote a note thanking facebook for not keeping me interested for 10 years before changing enough to not want to deal with it anymore. So now everyone can block you in different groups and now I can read 3 people’s messages?

Twitter: I kinda migrated from facebook to twitter for a few reasons, even though they too went thru recent changes. 1) with recommended keywords and messages of "friends of," theoretically everyone on the network will eventually see what I wrote when I stick to trending topics. I feel like FB and even OD, I have a limited audience. 2) more people follow me every day, I can see it. I at least think more people are interested. 3) I can type all my random observations there, too brief I think for OD. I don’t have a smart phone, but I can text updates, so that’s cool. Practically the only thing I do text nowadays.

However, I wished the message box was twice as long, so I could type fb length messages. And highlight links the way fb does. But one of the reasons why fb turned me off was because it was ripping off twitter, hm.

I rent 10 DVDs at a time at the library and read a couple of books I check out every week. I use it to blitz thru movies and docus and random things I see on impulse. My library is so small, it drives me crazy to look things up. So I have a few sections I look at, things like blogging, writing and publishing, business. I know where my favorite Dewey decimal sections are.

Netflix: I still use netflix despite all their changes, because it’s still better than dealing with redbox to me. Netflix has more DVDs (for now) and I’m plowing thru as many TV series in order as I can right now. Get movies at home, come on. I can’t afford streaming. But I tried it when I had broadband in Vegas and it wouldn’t show me my favorite things, the extras like commentaries!

One of the things I’m watching now is Freaks and Geeks. It came out the year I moved to Vegas, so I didn’t see a 1 episode. Everyone is in that series! And it captures the creepiest feelings about high school that I had, even more than John Hughes did. Plus it reminds me of things like not obsess about what other people think of you, do your own thing, etc. I forget about the simple things more than I realized.

As an aside, I also like Everybody hates Chris that aren’t all out on DVD, but play in reruns locally for me. That captures the way adults treat teens differently and teens just… take it because they think they can’t do anything.

Then there’s the outside world. Maybe next time a week in the life of me.

I used to rag on people in Vegas so much for speaking of tv characters like they were people we knew. We lived in VEGAS, where tv is made, or based on and celebrities go! And there are 50,000 things to do that is not watching tv. Now I’m in a rut where I can catch up on the decade of tv and movies I missed?