Screen Blind

I remember thinking, when I first joined Twitter (X) some years back, about how much personal information people post about their personal lives. Not just themselves, but their families – including their children – to the degree I got to know some of these people, that I’d never met and still haven’t, more than my own. family. That was very strange to me t the time and after all of these years, it still seems that way to me today. Why would anyone want to post their most intimate details of their lives to thousands (millions?) of complete strangers?

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Finding Some Meaning in Lockdown

 

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How much more television are any of us able to watch during this lockdown? To be honest, I think I’m pretty much done with it for a while. No, I’m not unplugging the big screen and shoving it in a corner, but after a while, it’s no longer entertainment and I’ve noticed that I may be watching a program and have no idea what it is I’m watching. So yea, there are games, and in my house, I’ve pulled out some old classics: Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk, as well as Cribbage, Yahtzee and Dominoes.

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