The Pale Blue Spot

Do you remember MySpace?  About once a year, something will come up that will remind me of all the good times I and my friends had with it.  We even had a page for our old band, "All Good Things".  When I would think about it and had some extra time to screw around at work, I'd go back and find my page.  Mind you, not everything had been preserved, but there were still some old posts, music files, and pictures. Well, I just read today that the IT department at MySpace accidentally deleted about 10 years of data in a server migration.  How did they do that?  Were there not backups, or some sort of contingency plan, or both?   Their IT department must be run by a team of monkeys. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/18/18271088/myspace-music-deleted-internet-archive-flickr-tumblr

Today is the last day of my Thirties. The end of a decade is probably as good of a time as any to reflect on the past.  It seems like many people I know who are in the same boat have been doing the same - usually in public on Facebook or Twitter - And after reading some of what they've been saying, I think I'm doing pretty well now... though it certainly wasn't always that way, and it's been a long journey. Most of the last decade was pretty tough, but that was mostly of my own doing.  I mean, it was pretty bad there for a few years.  I actually managed to rub quite a few people the wrong way, and I certainly wasn't in a good place emotionally or physically.  After struggling for most of my adult life with drugs and alcohol, I finally was able to move past it all (I had a lot of help and support from the woman who ultimately became my wife... I don't think I could have done it without her).  Since that time, life has gotten to be exponentially better.  A lot