Last Week in Review

Random Musings about What Happened in My Life and in the World at Large During the Week Ending Saturday, 8 January 2023

Greetings and salutations, fellow animals. The new year seems to be off to a good start so far, and hopefully that’s true for you and your families as well.

Last Week in Review (Photo by Jazmin Quaynor on Unsplash)

Jay Rollins (of The Wonderland Rules) has been motivating the hell out of me lately, for which I am extremely grateful. I’m going to take my blogging more seriously in 2023 and write and post things more consistently. One thing I’m going to try out will be weekly reviews — just writing about random stuff going on in the world and in my own life, as well as stuff I’ve read, stuff I’m watching, etc. We’ll see how it goes . . .

Week one of my Slow-Carb Diet is officially in the record books. I feel much better now, but I don’t know how much weight I lost so far, because it had been so long since I last used my ultramodern digital scale that the batteries had starting leaking acid everywhere, destroying the inner workings of the scale, meaning I will have to get a new one before I can weigh myself. This makes me wish I had bought one of those old-fashioned, mechanical, analogue scales instead.

I really do miss the old consumer products that used to be made in the USA back when we didn’t give a shit about the environment, and back before American corporations figured out they could save money by using Uyghur slaves in Chinese sweatshops, instead of American workers, to make their wares. Those products may not have looked as stylishly modern as their present-day Chinese-made counterparts. They were made with primitive technology and fashioned mostly with metal, rather than plastic, and they featured rotary dials and analogue gauges instead of everything being on computer screens. But in spite of how clunky and uncool they may look to us now, they did have some important qualities that the new products lack. For one thing, they actually worked, and a surprising number of them still work today, long after their sleek and sophisticated and environmentally-friendlier, energy-efficient high-tech equivalents have died and been replaced about a dozen times, with each short-lived generation of cheap Chinese crap quickly polluting the earth with their worthless plasticine carcasses. I wonder if that gets factored into ESG scores?