Too Much Work and Mystical Beliefs – Thoughts from August 21 to 28, 2023

August 21, 2023

Yesterday, I got a call from work, and they said I didn’t have to come in if I didn’t want to. You don’t have to beg me to take a day off, so I did. The reason they offered it was because of the hurricane warnings we had in the area. It was rainy and windy in our area, but I don’t think we actually experienced a hurricane. I used the day off to continue to work on my websites. There is a way to have one website be the center of all the other websites. All the other sites would be sub-sites or sub-directories. By 2:00 in the morning, I got to where I could declare RealityAcceptance.com as the primary site. I haven’t pulled the trigger because I would rather have BrianCreates.com or BrianKirwan.com as the primary site. In the end, it may not work like I want it to.

I would prefer to pay someone to work on my websites, but money is still a consideration for me. I built the websites as they are. This is just one more step. Actually, it was ten steps that I repeated over and over until they finally worked. They talk about the easy steps to doing things, but they never work like they’re supposed to in the video tutorials. It’s like learning things from books and finding out the real world doesn’t work like books. The real world is messy and complicated. I don’t want to start a side business of creating websites for people so I’m trying to learn just enough to do what I want myself. Problem solving is one of my skills, but the problem may be way more work and money than I want to devote to it.

August 27, 2023

It’s been a while since I’ve written my thoughts. I’ve been trying to create a multi-site website for all my websites. They would all be in one place if my hopes came true. After spending days working to set it up, I realized it would never work the way I wanted it to. If I do it how I want, I’m going to have to do it myself. Throwing a little bit of money at the problem didn’t work. I could throw a lot of money at the problem and pay someone to do it for me, but I don’t have a lot of money. Giving up on it was much easier knowing that I could still get refunds for the stuff I was trying. It was like someone who gives up trying to be a rock star by a certain age. I’m too old for this crap.

August 28, 2023

I’ve been listening to an autobiography of Nancy Cartwright. She is the voice of Bart Simpson, among other voices. I remember seeing her in the Twilight Zone movie and knowing that she was the voice of Bart. She does different voices throughout the book. I was telling people at work about listening to it and most of them seemed interested. One person said, “You mean the coo-coo bird.” I asked what he meant, and he pointed out that she is way deep into Scientology. I looked it up, and it was true. The Simpsons have been lucrative enough to take on the religion of the Hollywood rich. This knowledge has put a damper on listening to the book. I just hope she doesn’t mention Scientology in the book or I will stop listening to it and return it.

Listening to a book and finding out part way through that the writer is religious has ruined many books for me. I don’t mind if authors are religious as long as they don’t talk about it or use religious language throughout their book. I’d much rather hear about someone’s bathroom routine than hear about any of their dealings with religion. Even negative dealings with religion don’t interest me because I’ve heard enough stories of how religion has ruined people’s lives. Religion is not entertaining, humorous, or interesting. If I can see a chapter is going to be nothing but religion, I skip to the next one.

I’m sure my words about religion will offend many people, but I don’t care. They don’t care about offending me with their religious talk. Why should I care about them being offended? I care about them as people, but I don’t care about their non-scientific beliefs. Hearing about people’s stories is enjoyable. I expect nothing from someone’s story except to hear about the events of their life. When a people’s stories get invaded by their mystical beliefs about the world, I lose interest in their words.