Arnold:

My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week’s attack on the Capitol.

Take the time to watch this video. Worth every minute!

And as friend of the blog (😅😅), Casey Neistat said/Twitted

this is the kind of powerful, convicted, messaging I have been waiting to hear from leadership.

I can’t believe I’ve never came across this song. Yes, the song it’s so 2020 😂 I don’t know about the rest of you, but part of me feels stuck in 2020 still.

2020 by Ben Folds

New Year's Eve Don't it seem like decades ago? Back in 2019 Back when life was slow

Now, it's June We're just halfway done 2020, hey, are we having fun? How many years will we try to cram into one?

We thought we'd be living 1918 again But we messed that up so bad, God had to toss 1930 in

As the sun rose on 1968 this morning A tweet from the john Please, let's not add the Civil War How many years will we cram into one?

Oh boy, how much more will she take? Boys, hope you enjoy your beautiful tax break

We're not repeating history, just the parts that sucked 2020, what the actual fuck? Pray we get through, but hey Don't hold your breath 'Cause there's plenty left to wreck We got six months left

How many years? How many years will we try? How many years will we try to cram into one?

Like all of us, I have my struggles with social media. The Facebooks, Instagrams, Twitter, and everything in between and/or related. A few years ago, I had it with Facebook, closed my account, and haven’t looked back ever since. I do still have my Instagram account though. Under the pretext that it is the less Facebooky way to keep in touch with friends. Which is utterly bullshit if you think about it, is still Facebook just with a different coat of paint. For the past few months, I have gone back and forth as to whether close it or keep it. I went through and unfollowed a bunch of accounts, just to keep it minimal and more manageable, that instant gratification has vanished. It didn’t fix the anxiety of having an Instagram account even by unfollowing others.

Today I have deleted the Instagram app off my device as an experiment, although, I kind of already know how’s going to end up. Like on other occasions I will find myself missing something to scroll through and will re-download the app.

Twitter, well, that is a different animal. I say to myself that I am okay with it. Twitter can be okay sometimes. I have been following a lot of accounts of pixel art artists, Indie games developers, and such. And so, most of my timeline is full of pixels and awesome art. But as we all know, doom scrolling is a thing. At some point, the pixels go away and all the shit that gives me anxiety or causes me to tighten and lock my jaw starts to pop-up. In other words, even Twitter is giving me anxiety nowadays, especially since the election. I thought it’d be all done after the election but as we all know, that is not the case.

I want to do the best I can to stay away from these two, although, I don’t think I will allow myself to delete all my Twitter apps off my phone, the same way I deleted the Instagram app.

This is an eternal struggle, and I hate it. I grew up not having any of these outlets and I was fine and happy. Ironically, as much anxiety these give me, wonder if I could be happy without them again…

sigh!

A little before the end of 2020 I had changed my domain from gabz.me to gabytron.blog. Why? Well, because I could and the new domain was on sale for 3.00 USD 😅

Now in 2021, I saw myself looking for another one. Under the excuse of “new year, new me and thus new domain”. Witch, it’s ridiculous, that would mean I will be changing my domain every year, that’s nuts! Or is it?

Anyway, what I had realized that, is not that I needed a new domain for 2021, it was that I am not really feeling the new one (gabytron.blog). Gabytron it’s more for the twitters and other social corners and my blog should represent the “real me”, Gaby/Gabz.

So, we are back at the old domain, gabz.me, and I promise I would not be changing it any time soon, or at least for the remainder of the year since this one it’s about to be renewed.

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