I need to avoid sites where fat people complain about being fat, or sites that discuss or even lampoon any variant of that. It’s not healthy for me and it’s an enormous waste of time. They all have strayed far out of the realm of reason and science just as much as the crystal-caressers, flat-earthers and bible-beaters have.

There are so many more interesting and positive things to read, to learn, to do rather than listen to a bunch a whiny infants pule about something they could change if they wished and made the effort to do so. And even if they can’t, listening to them snivel on the internet is not helping them or me.

Life demands action. Most of them refuse to take any, but I can.

So I’m done with all that.

Three of my co-workers almost got run down in a legal crosswalk today as we did a circle around the block to get some exercise.

The woman didn’t even look, pause, or otherwise acknowledge their presence. She screamed by at 30MPH without braking, missing them by two feet or less. I was a few steps behind so I wasn’t in immediate danger.

As she drove by and we were yelling at her, I noticed she had a Florida plate. (I am 400 miles from Florida.)

I was so very unsurprised.

Someone was just quoting Yeats out loud in the office.

His most famous poem, but still — I’ve never heard anyone do that anywhere I’ve ever worked before, with any poet.

Definitely different than most IT shops in which I’ve worked.

(Yes, I know how “Yeats” is pronounced.)

Best Bang For the Buck in the United States?

No, not Ohio.

Tennessee. Particularly, Nashville.

Excellent music scene, extremely low cost of living (for example), proximity to really beautiful mountains, decent weather, loads of things to do, great economy (particularly for health care and IT) and pretty good and improving public transportation infrastructure.