Let's see... 30 days has September, April, June... yup, it's time yet again for a retrospective post! It's also Hive Power Up Day, and I staked my HIVE already. Have you?
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Before I get sidetracked with another rant, let's see what I accomplished in June, starting with:
- May Retrospective and June Plans, last month's edition of this post.
- Easing the Impact of Inflation on Your Finances, in which I discussed ways to tale control of money before money gets us in a stranglehold of inflation and debt.
- He's Not Wrong, a clickbait title for a car post and some musings about technological progress and regress.
- Stretch Your Money! More financial musings.
- Have a Can-Do Attitude Toward Cooking Food! A quick-and-dirty look at how a relatively nutritious and healthy meal can be prepared using inexpensive ingredients and canned goods bought at a discount.
- Another "Most Important Election Of Our Lives?" Political theater sucks, OK? Stop feeding the beast.
- Cool Creator Spotlight: The Art of Manliness, an overview of a website anyone should find useful, whether man, woman, or perplexed about gender altogether.
- Analog Skills in the Digital Age, or, old man complains about kids these days.
- I Pulled the Wool Over My Eyes, because that's how you put on a shirt. I spent money on Merino wool garments and offered some opinions.
- Tier Levels in Commander, an attempt to write more hobby content.
- Happy 50th Birthday to the Barcode! A momentous anniversary for something now ubiquitous.
I have no big July plans. In all honesty, this past month has been rough. I know it's vagueposting, but it's not the kind of things I really want to broadcast to the world, even in a pseudo-anonymous form.
June was also apparently Men's Health Month, as if anyone gives a rip about that. The talking heads like to babble about "the patriarchy," but face the facts: men are considered expendable by society at large unless you're filthy rich and politically connected. I am not looking forward to Independence Day because current events are making a mockery of the very thing that holiday is supposed to celebrate.
One of the things I dislike about legacy social media is the lack of any filter self-imposed by most users. Parents way over-share every aspect of their childrens' lives with complete disregard for how their kids might feel about it in the future. People detail their emotional rollercoasters and dating mishaps. Some folks make a digital mountain out of every real-world molehill they encounter. I don't want to be like that, but I also don't want to pretend everything's hunky-dory when it's not. It's a difficult balancing act, complicated by the way different people can perceive the same text in almost opposite ways.
I do look forward to hopefully getting summer at some point this year now that the solstice is past. Cold temperatures and storm fronts are making my old injuries ache. As I mentioned in my Commander post, I have been taking time off from writing to indulge in my collectible card game hobby, and I have started making some new or updated online deck lists I might be able to share. Any maybe time off from life will coincide with not-cold-or-rainy-weather to finally do some outdoorsy stuff. We'll see. Thunder is rumbling outside again as I type this post.
Meanwhile, I'll be a bad stoic, doggedly plugging along while occasionally grumbling.
