When I was a teenager, actually even before I was a teenager because I was probably closer to twelves years old, I was a massive smart ass. I was the snarky asshole who was taking down other people, even before I had a website. I was this person on mailing lists.

So it’s weird for me to be so upset that this has basically become the internet now. Like every single person is on edge at all times, just waiting for the right moment to savage their perceived foes. It used to be people reacted in confusion if you were mean on the internet. Now they grin, as if to say “game on,” and come at you head on.

In a given day, I have so many different and conflicting thoughts and feelings, it seems a Sisyphean task to even begin to consider cataloging them in any meaningful way.

I’m glad I built the app I use to update this website but I’m basically at the point where I think the creation and proliferation of the internet was a huge mistake.

I reported to jury duty today. I’ve actually been to jury duty many times before, but have never left the waiting area. This time, almost immediately, I was called in with a large group, and I was in the random pool of 18 people to be selected initially to be questioned.

For some reason I don’t want to really get into it, but by the grace of my troubled past, I was excused from the jury. My wife chalks it up to my impossibly good luck. But really, it’s just proving the idiom: the truth will set you free.