cobysev

Retired former IT guy here. I’m enjoying watching the tech world burn while wrapped in a blanket on my couch, sipping hot chocolate. ☕

I feel bad for my fellow IT guys who have to deal with it, but it’s so nice being removed from it all now.

Nice, thanks for the recommendations! I have both fan edits for The Hobbit and they’re my exclusive watch of that story, but I hadn’t heard of the others you suggested. I’ll definitely track them down.

I paid to see the Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters. I’ve sailed the digital seas for The Hobbit trilogy and the Ring of Power series; the later of which I still haven’t watched. Not sure if I even want to, considering it ignores J.R.R Tolkien’s lore and continuity.

I’m on the fence about this “Hunt for Gollum” film. I know nothing about it and feel like it’s just gonna be adding supplementary story between the Lord of the Rings films that we don’t need.

I don’t know your situation specifically, but as someone with PTSD who occasionally gets insomnia because of it, my lack of sleep comes from my brain getting too active in the night and not shutting up.

If I really need to sleep, I’ll distract myself by pulling up my tablet and either idly browsing my news feed or reading some digital comics. Anything to get me focused on anything besides whatever topic my brain has decided to hyperfocus on that night.

After a bit, I’ll put the tablet down and attempt to sleep right away. Usually it works, but if my mind switches back to it’s worrying topics, I’ll go back to the tablet and distract again.

Usually it doesn’t take more than an hour to fall asleep like this. Not ideal if you need to sleep ASAP, but better than getting no sleep all night.

I retired at 38 years old (20 years of military service, plus 100% disability got me there) and I pretty much just sit around my house all day now.

I spent 2 decades traveling the world and experiencing an extremely busy, productive life. Now I just wanna sit in my quiet, countryside home and enjoy some peace.

It’s not that I can’t get up and out of the house; I’m not that kind of disabled. I just enjoy focusing on myself for once. Investing in my own hobbies, not being at the beck and call of someone else. No deadlines, no alarms every morning, not worrying about making rent this month or feeding myself. It’s wonderful.

Mary Shelley’s actual husband, Percy Shelley, was a poet. Imagine having a career as a professional writer and your wife, who’s never published a work of fiction ever, writes a novel for a competition and becomes so famous for it, your name becomes a footnote in history under hers.

I’m all for supporting the endeavors and success of your spouse, but that still has to sting a little bit.