A long time ago, I was heavily involved in the Vape industry right out of the gate, made a lot of mistakes trusting a lot of the wrong people, and after it was all said-and-done, I was plopped right back into blue-collar slave-wagery with the only quarter given being the experience had.

For about four exciting years of my life, we were on an industry high that felt like a whirlwind of fortune and dreams. It was my young inexperience that expected the updrafting gust given by CEOs and investors to last forever, and our jobs whittled down more and more, until the Vape industry cuddled into gas stations and convenience stores, overseen by the same industry giants that we - at one time laughed at behind doors we thought would stand forever. I'm happy, all things considered. I pay my own way, as a mechanic, these days. It took a while to realize that my real treasure is experience. I don't make as much as most, but I can work anywhere and do nearly anything considering the shit I've been through over the years.

Aside from that, I've been at least some color blue since I was in High School. I've never leaned right, and the Iraq war was my introduction into the American art of creating your own wars for profit. Recently that shade went more solid blue than liberal, I consider both sides two halves of the same coin, even if 5 or 6 paid Democrats actually do say what everyone's thinking, the rest get their salaries earned through enabling the things we post memes about on places like this.

I've been on the internet since Independence Day came out, I had a floppy game lol, that came in a cereal box. I've been crawling and bouncing UBB boards for years, then Reddit, then Lemmy, then here.

Anyway, we get a lot of time to look at pretty photos, boost and boost and favorite ourselves to death, I figured if we're going to go out soon, you might as well get a little bit more out of me than just another photo of a tree before the curtain rolls in.

I'm hoping I'm wrong, and I'm wishing to anyone's deity - if listening, as a great opportunity for a chance at potential spiritual conversion if they take the job of reversing our course.

Until then, I'm gonna go take a photo of a mountain in three hours. Seeya there.

-W