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Distracted by the Noise

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It's been almost exactly three years since I gave the last 10 facts, so I forgive you if you've forgotten them.  This  is the first post I made in this series, and  this  is the second. Riveting stuff. Honestly, I'm posting this because I've decided that I want to put more thought into these posts. I want them to represent what I actually think instead of what I write in the moment because the first fact: 21. I don't usually edit my own writing. I proofread it, of course, because you have to. Credibility is a fragile thing and is shot to death by typos and incorrect spelling. And I want to write on more meaningful topics, which means I really need to consider what I say and research. Not that I've never done research on one of these before. But I'm going to try to take the time between posts to research and contemplate and edit and maybe change my mind. What I want to write is too important to discuss flippantly. So, here's the next nine facts abou...

An indulgence of my nostalgia.

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I think I want to apologize before you read any of this. You can't see it yet, but there are so many memes down below. To all who were born in the wrong dec--I mean, anyone who was not born in the 90's, I'm sorry. That you weren't born in the 90's--I mean, that you may not relate to all of this content, but also for the lack of representation of other decades. But I don't have a lot of experience growing up in other decades. So. Disclaimer over. Nostalgia has a strange power. It makes you remember with fondness that which you never really cared about. I thought about this when looking at our "nametag graveyard." There is a lot of turnover at my job and there are many people that those who are there now have never heard of. We still have the nametags, I guess because they cost money, and why throw away things like that? Every once in a while, someone will forget their own and borrow that of a past employee. And I think of that person, even though some...