maybe I should just stay here for a while. no middle east garbage happening here, I assume. or if it is, I don't know what the words for these places are in chinese because they're phonetic and I don't do sounds. 
I've been offered bluesky invites several times at this point, which has been kind and thoughtful, but also the definition of insanity. if things get really bad, I will simply return to having a blog.
