The wilderness I choose to live in…

Many people where I work think it’s odd that I take public transit to work🚌, which it can be a pain on the late nights at work when I have wait for the next bus to come. I just hate driving in the city and with my big jacked up truck I’d never fit in the garage. I’d rather just play on the phone when the driver takes me to work.

I don’t have air conditioning at home, preferring to go down to the park with a book 📚 and sit out back until late in the evening. I guess not having air conditioning is different in the modern era.

But then again I also refuse to have internet at home because💻 its an unnecessary expense and I can either walk down to the park or the library and use my laptop to get on the internet for free. I guess that is a bit odd in the modern era.

I’ve also never owned a television, although for a short while I had a cheap HDTV tuner that worked until it broke. 📺But I never really used it much and only watched non commercial programming like the PBS Newshour – which I ended up watching less and less when their primary cause became pushing gun control. Most television is a stupid waste of time and advertising is so obnoxious.

I don’t really follow contemporary culture and politics. 🔌For my job I do read my clients newspapers but I rarely read the local news. I couldn’t tell you ninty percent of what is happening in the local news. I guess I don’t really care at this point as most things are beyond my control. Sometimes I listen to NPR but less and less when every story seems to be about attacking the president or pushing a left wing agenda. 📻 I guess I do check NPR.org a few times a week and listen to podcasts so I’m not totally disconnected.

Music wise I don’t really follow what is contemporary, probably the average date of music on my phone is 1968 or about a half century old. 🎤 The music my parents listened to college. I do listen to country music but rarely on the radio, and while my share of Jason Aldean records on my phone, I do also listen to a lot of Merle Haggard and Dave Dudley.

I’m just not really into contemporary culture or what is popular today. I think it’s too loud and commercial, it’s too offensive and explicit.📢 I’m perfectly happy to live in the wilderness⛺ that I choose to live in.