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This is a very simple phlog entry. 
I've been thinking about writing it 
for a while, but haven't.

Until recently, I spent way too much 
time on the internet. Then, one night 
in early June, I was inspired to play 
a few of my parents' LPs. As I lay 
there, flaked out on the floor amidst 
a sea of albums, listening to Carole 
King's Tapestry and reading the album 
liner notes like I did decades ago as 
a kid, it occurred to me that life was 
once better. Well at least simpler. I 
lived in the here and now a lot more. 
I let myself get bored. I pondered 
things.

Anyways, I made a decision, right 
there and then, to live my life as if 
it was still 1979 (as much as 
possible, though it requires a bit of 
adaptation to make it happen). There 
were newspapers then, so I have my 
gopher server scrape a few newspapers 
for me. I read them, run out of 
material to consume, and turn off the 
computer. There was TV, so I've spent 
the summer watching TV again -- Scrubs 
and the West Wing mostly. There's a 
lot of TV I just barely watched back 
in the day. I've also read a lot of 
books, both e-books and 
dead-tree-books.

Other than that, my banking, and the 
odd bit of online shopping (I live in 
a relatively rural area, so I view it 
as the equivalent of the 1979 Sears 
and Radio Shack catalogs), I've been 
staying offline as much as possible. 
Of course, when you add COVID-19 to 
the mix, it's been a very quiet 
summer. 

This is not a "you should do it too" 
kind of post. It's a "that's where I 
went" post. I'm hanging out in 1979. 
It was a great year the first time 
around -- and it still is...

Hope you're all doing well too.

-v