Wisdom Nuggets

I feel like we’re just born, we connect and disconnect our devices from different speakers and then we die.

My airpods are doing this thing where sometimes the right one just doesn’t work at all. When it does that, I have to do this five minute dance where I put them both back in the case, then I put the right one in my ear and wait for the “you’re connected” sound (which incidentally is the most satisfying sound to ever exist, followed closely by the Netflix sting) and then I know that shortly after the L one will then connect. I do that process over and over until the time it, eventually, works, usually somewhere between 12 and 15 times.

There’s probably a super easy way to fix it it, only a few keystrokes away. But sometimes I find myself just sort of accepting everything, even when I don’t have to. A couple of days ago I finally added my most used expletives as shortcuts in my phone keyboard, because for YEARS I have been trying to type them and getting corrected automatically. Years. I’ve just been a very tiny bit of annoyed for YEARS, which honestly adds up to a large amount of annoyed. I could have done this at any time. I knew it was possible. But I wasn’t sure EXACTLY how, and I didn’t want to have to do something hard like google it. I will bend over backwards to avoid doing a little work to make my own life work a little bit better. I will, however google things like “Industry season two finale.” I did that immediately after I watched the Industry season two finale to find out from the internet if I liked it.

I love little nuggets of wisdom. I prefer to get all of my wisdom in a nugget. I need a takeaway, a task, a next step. I often shower at night, and when I do, I have to move all of my nighttime supplies from the vanity mirror cabinet to the side of the bathtub. My face wash, floss, toothpaste, toothbrush. Just moving these items back and forth, back and forth. And then, out of nowhere, it hit me that I could buy a second set of items. I mean I make six figures, I can buy a second tube of toothpaste.