This is an odd post, but it’s a curious opportunity to communicate.

For I’m in a weird situation where I have internet, a dead phone, and a desire to be connected to the rest of the world. And while I’m glad Google can reduce hacking, I am royally screwed.

Linking accounts and two-steps verification is pretty cool. As long as your p hone is working… and that you’re at the same IP, and you never fully log out of all your accounts. But I am not that person.

I have effectively locked myself out of my own online house, which is driving me crazy. So this is also an attempt to signal life from the other side of the web. Especially since I know that this blog is connected to Facebook without the hassle.

So hello dear family! I’m still alive, with no access to my precious email accounts. Otherwise, I’d be sending an Ashokan Farewell styled email to make up for the silence.

This is also to say, to my dear friend with a kitten. All is well! And I apologize that I’ve accidentally trained the kitten to attack a pen, for now she is willing to bat it out of my hand. Very cute, but she is getting very courageous. I suspect she is planning to attack laptops next. She is staring at me right now. Watching… waiting…

It is also a rare instance of cozy solitude. For awhile it was unnerving, but now I’m kinda accepting it. How nice is it to know I don’t have to be digitally reactive – I am forced to take my time. Does this also suck and intensify any social weaknesses? Very much yes. I can tell who I’ve been wanting to talk to, or whose posts I miss the most. Good to know when I’m cleaning my FB feed up.

Resignation to the quiet is inevitable, and it gets easier when you have the wherewithal to just think around the problem.

So, here is me updating my FB via writing account. Then, my slow-to-action brain is going to make, finally, another random Google account. Surely it did not take me more than two days to think of that. Cause the quiet is not getting to me. As long as I can find a cozy podcast on Youtube, I will be fine.