diary

No Smartphone

I currently have a smartphone. It is an awful Kyocera that I bought for $35 from Wal-Mart and it has surprisingly been the most reliable phone I have used in the better part of a decade. I have had it for two years and though I was using a BlackBerry Classic as well during that time (and an iPhone 6 for a short while after that), for the most part I have stuck to the Kyocera.

As of next month that changes. I am buying the Nokia 3310 3G (2017) and that is going to be the only phone I use. The reason I am buying this particular feature-phone (also known as a “dumb phone”) is because it A) has a SIM card so I do not have to change my phone number, and B) it has 3G capabilities so I can tether it to my Raspberry Pi (I read an instructable on how you can do it).

Another reason I am switching to a feature-phone is: I simply do not need a smartphone. For anything. Everything I do on a day to day basis can and will be done on a desktop, and many of the “smart” features that people use on a smartphone I do not take advantage of. I do not take pictures (almost ever), I do not use Twitter or write blog posts when I am out in public or around friends/family, I do not use most of social media, and I don't even have e-mail or a Google account, or Apple account, or Windows account, or BlackBerry I.D. So...why be locked-down to an over-priced “smart” device when everything that actually needs to be done can be done in a proper way on a proper desktop?

Exactly.

There will be more on this subject after I get the phone. Stay tuned.

damn. sleep much?

I just had a hell of a nap. With nothing else happening on my Friday night, i figured: “why the fuck not”? Tomorrow will be more eventful as i am heading out to the 'rents for a little bit for laundry & to probably help out around the house a little bit, etc etc. Will try to keep myself occupied.

I am going to make some semi-stale coffee & Tweet. This is what i am going to do.

look! a blog on the blog from where i blog!

i guess i'm sticking to write.as because i am sick of Telegraph and the cross-posting to Twitter being....horrible (i have to do it manually! Bleh!) Besides i have a shitload of domains registered and i wanna put at least ONE of them to good use (here, w/ oleary.xyz)

Anyhoo, (fuck, that's an annoying thing to say, isn't it? I'll stop that now). I am stuck inside for the day because it is pouring walls of rain outside and i can't go anywhere otherwise i would walk over to the grocery store & buy a pop (still gonna happen as soon as the rain stops).

I need some cigarettes, too :/

I am thinking about Life

And how long i will live, when i will die. I have no intention of dying anytime soon (in fact i fucking love life), but, i am wondering how OLD i am going to get. I always pictures I would live into my 80's. 90's, your health really declines and even more so after that so none of that shit sounds fun. But 80's are bae.

I don't know, i am just killing time right now because i am sick of thinking about what tattoo i am getting next and where, etc. I already went through all of that in a Tweetstorm on Twitter about what tattoo I am getting next month blah, blah.

Anyway, i need to take a fucking shower and shave so i can feel frreshhhh to death and sick as c-c-cancer

be back in a bit!

oh fuck yes. tonight there is going to be an excellent thunderstorm in STL

i am v much so looking forward to it. It is drizzling outside w/ thunder galore and i can feel the cool air coming through. Good times, folks. Good times indeed.

i guess i'll make coffee ;P

i always change back to my original last name (my only last name)

...as far as internet accts are concerned. not sure WHY i suck at maintaining a dumbfuck fake identity, but apparently i do. tis a shame bc i don't wanna use my legal name on the WWW, but, here we are :/

anyway, hmu: @olearyXYZ on Twitter (the Website i am currently (and permanently) psychologically addicted to. I will be on there. If i am not, give it about a half hour and i will be on there again. Day or night. I never sleep.

So, yeah. Be back in a bit!

So, fuck Instagram. I'll say that.

idk why i even rejoined that network. I spent so much time on there in the past two days and the whole thing is a god damn distraction machine (like most of the Internet tends to be). So, i left. Deleted the acct. This has been the umpteenth time i have deleted an entire Insta acct but this time, for good reason(s).

1) it is a distraction

2) it is owned by Facebook

3) only self-obsessed thirst mongers like it

I hate distraction, Facebook, and self-obsessed thirst mongers. So, away it goes.

But i am still on Twitter which is probably siphoning off more of my data than every other social media giant put together (that is probably an exaggeration), but i admit, i am 110% psychologically addicted to Twitter in a v negative way and, yes, it sucks. I would like to see the Internet disappear. The thing is nothing more than a medium for self-involved time wasting. It is basically the exact same as TV. Like, barely any difference except you interact w/ it sometimes. Dumb.

I haven't had television in my household (or watched any of it, to a large extent) since 2010 when i finally became a cord-cutter, so, why not be “unplugged”, as well??? I mean, yes, I have gone offline for weeks at a time before and, yes, it gets quite boring. But isn't LIFE, itself, quite boring??? I think i have the “illusion” of being “entertained” or “productive” when I use the Internet, but neither of these things are true at all.

Also, I have no online classes to take. I have no NEED for the Internet right now. And i am a member of a gym, so, why not just focus on ME and working out and bettering myself instead of just using the damn Web?

Something to think about.

so much caffeine this AM

i just said (abt an hour ago) on Twitter that i wasn't going to have anymore caffeine this AM as i already had two Monster, but here i am making a cup of coffee, anyway. Basically because i am not a super big fan of soda these days as i am better off/more healthy just sticking to coffee & water, so, that's what i'm having.

i did some accounting for next month and i am 100% positive i can get the stick n' poke tattoo cover-up at Steel And Ink in S St Louis County next month. Gonna be a cool “scissors on the dotted line” tattoo that will wrap around part of my left wrist. Gonna look cool.

As for today, there are no plans to go out to the 'rents. Same for tomorrow. I am going out there Monday so i can attend therapy in the afternoon, and also to visit. So, this weekend is going to be a slow one (but a nice one weather-wise).

anyway, be back in a bit!