50 Great Pop Songs of the 2000s

That's what countless hours of machine learning decided was appropriate to recommend to me on Amazon Prime Music this morning. A bit odd but I guess they have me well-pegged as a millennial so touché my machine learning overlords. A few shuffled songs into blaring nostalgia and I was treated to Britney Spears - Toxic. I startled myself a tad when I started lip-syncing belting out 50% of the lyrics; and mumbling along like I knew the rest. It's unnerving to think about subconsciously sucking those up despite never being a Britney fan and being unable to recall a situation where the song stuck out to me in the least. The mind is quite the organ.

When I worked for my previous employer, my brain was always churning during nearly every waking moment. I felt so personably responsible for solving problems & producing solutions, for humans or machines, that I was never able to mentally get away. The sense of relief was incredible though during those final two weeks of my internment. Suddenly, I was no longer liable for the infrastructure dumpster fire and struggling projects. Suddenly, I had the mental bandwidth to contemplate things not required to extinguish a raging inferno of impending doom, but rather because I'm a nerdy yut that likes to build & make shit.

The opposite problem has come about now. I sit here solitarily cranking out neat things for my new employer and all I want to do is build some of my own. Home & side projects are now at the forefront of my mind and I want to do all of them right now! With those on the "honey do" list being at the top of the list, of course.