In my never-ending blog post experiment, I thought it would be fun to update a single post every day for about six months, assuming my daily musings wouldn’t be that lengthy—or so I thought. By the end of the first month, the post had already swelled to 5,000 words. A bit much for most people to read. So I think I'll start breaking them up into daily chunks.
I think I’ve finally made up my mind to focus mainly on the blog for this site. Everything else I add just feels like filler, and I lose interest quickly. But blogging? That’s different. I love writing and throwing my opinions out there. On the other hand, I’m not a big fan of people in general, so doing it on the internet feels like a nice compromise.
For now, I plan to keep the quotes and AI images on the site. I enjoy creating AI art, so there’s no need to eliminate it. Plus, I regularly repost the AI images to Reddit and Pinterest, and they drive a good amount of traffic to the site, so they’re not entirely pointless.
Let’s Church It Up
If you know me in real life, you know that nearly every other word out of my mouth is a curse word—it’s just part of my vocabulary. So, in case you’re wondering, I run most of what I write through ChatGPT before posting. I do this for a couple of reasons. First, grammar: my spelling is "perty gewd," but I miss plenty of commas. Second, to clean up my language. I don’t just curse in conversation; I type exactly what I’m thinking, exactly how I’d say it in real life. ChatGPT helps me polish things up, haha. I wish I were joking.
So, because I care deeply about what you think (sarcasm), I use AI to clean up my posts, making them easier to read and keeping me ahead in the game as the local grammar police. For example, right there—I wouldn’t normally say “police”; I’d say “Nazi.” But, I won't do that here.
I like to game on my PC probably more than I should. But hey, I use it as a way to save money. For $30, you could buy one meal out—or, if you're thrifty, maybe squeeze in dinner and a movie by yourself. But for that same $30, I get thousands of hours of entertainment, keeping me busy enough that I don’t feel the urge to go out.
While scrolling Reddit yesterday, I saw someone talking about how much time they’d been putting into Farming Simulator. So, out of curiosity, I checked my own stats...and I may have a problem, lol.
Just on those three games, I’ve clocked over 5,700 hours. Up until recently, I had Satisfactory on Epic, but since it was the only game I played there, I went ahead and bought it again on Steam. I had racked up over 2,000 hours on Satisfactory alone. That’s 320 full days of gameplay, just on these four games. And if I add in all the other games I’ve played on Steam, that number nearly doubles.
That means nearly two full years out of the last ten have been spent gaming. That's Insane!!
Then there’s the time I spend building and working on my websites. It's clear: I have no life. Lol. Now I'm kind of sad—I think I'll go harvest that cornfield to cheer myself up.
I've spent the last several weeks trying to work out my search engine troubles. But I’ve moved things around—and will probably keep doing so enough to confuse search engines—so I think they’ve pretty much shadow-banned this domain. Instead of continuing the madness, I've decided to embrace it, taking advantage of the newfound freedom to do whatever the hell I want. No more adding ridiculously long and dumb-looking titles to posts, or any of the other SEO nonsense.
On all my sites, I spend nearly as much time on alt tags, schema, sitemaps, proper image sizes, and all the other things search engines supposedly look for. But I don’t feel like doing that here anymore.
I'll keep up the SEO stuff on Stellar History and Echo Chamber Effect, but for Wisedocks (and FartDump, for that matter), I’m done worrying about it. I could give two shits if anyone reads my blog, honestly. That’s why I had it practically buried on the site until now. For a change, I'm going to have some fun with this site instead of constantly trying to appease corporations in the faint hope they’ll throw a little traffic my way.
What brought this on was that, just now, I wanted to change the site tagline to better reflect the blog, and my first thought was, "How do I cram enough keywords into this tagline while making it sound natural?" Worrying about SEO can really make you a slave to a broken system. Since that system is rigged against you, you’re bound to stay frustrated. I read about people having trouble like mine every day, and some of them even move their entire website to a new domain just to get out from under a search engine shadow ban.
Yeah, I'm not going anywhere. But I am going to have some fun now.
It's currently 9:30 Central time, and Trump is up by about 4 million votes in the popular vote. I'm guessing that by midnight, that number will shift quite a bit. I've been entertaining myself by going to Facebook and watching everyone breathe a sigh of relief because the Republican is ahead. By midnight, they'll be like, "What the hell, we were winning. Democrats must be cheating."
This happens every election cycle, and it’s pretty amusing. It's fairly simple: smaller populated areas tend to lean Republican and finish counting votes first because, well, there are fewer people. Larger population centers, which lean heavily Democrat, take longer to count their votes. So, regardless of the final result, Republicans often take an early lead, only for Democrats to catch up as the more populated areas start reporting.
Trump knew this in 2020 and used it to his advantage. There's a leaked audio of Steve Bannon telling a colleague about Trump's plan. He was laughing as he explained that Trump intended to declare victory early while still leading, so that when the blue wave came in, he could cry foul. It worked! Will he do it again?
You can read the whole transcript here. Or listen to the audio below.
Well, shit, I guess that blue wave isn't rolling in. Idiocracy prevails again. GG, America. I'm not going to lie—part of me wanted Trump to win just so I'd have something to complain about all the time. When Democrats run the show, they’re boring. But these MAGA types? They're entertaining, as long as they leave me alone. I’m not sure that will be the case, though, since Trump has bragged multiple times about wanting to run the country like a dictatorship. You didn’t believe him, did you?
| 2016 | Donald Trump | Hilary Clinton | Totals |
| Votes | 62,984,828 | 65,853,514 | 128,838,342 |
| 2020 | Donald Trump | Joe Biden | |
| Votes | 74,223,975 | 81,283,501 | 155,507,476 |
| 2024 | Donald Trump | Kamala Harris | |
| Votes (Not Final) | 71,760,570 | 66,882,953 | 138,643,523 |
Where did y'all go? You can't complain if you don't vote. But I did vote, so I'm going to complain. Probably not too much, though, since I've become increasingly numb to politics. I believe politics affect our daily lives, but it's just exhausting. Normally, I watch election results closely, but this year, while I did pay attention, my enthusiasm was low. I was excited about Kamala at first, but that excitement quickly faded. She didn’t do anything wrong; she just lacked that “it” factor.
I think Elon Musk has gone off the rails over the past few years, but his involvement might keep the government from cutting NASA’s funding. SpaceX relies on that funding through NASA, and they’re doing good work, so that's a plus. I bet Bezos is pissed, though. Musk “Trumped” Bezos—haha!
Oh yeah, today is my birthday—I was reminded by the bombardment of Facebook Messenger notifications. I don’t really use Facebook anymore, but when I did, I would always experiment with people. Two years ago, I played my usual game, “Add Them All!” It’s where I go to my friend suggestions and start clicking “Add Friend” for everyone on the list. As people accept, the friend suggestions grow even longer, so I keep adding until I hit the 5,000-friend limit.
Then, I start shit-posting to watch people unfriend or block me. It’s always cracked me up. A couple of years back, I really went for it, sending requests to thousands of people. Even when people blocked or unfriended me, new people kept accepting because my friend limit was constantly fluctuating. This has been going on for two years now. I’ve even been unfriending people as they pop up in my feed on the rare occasion I open the app, but I still have over 4,000 friends on there I don’t know.
This messes up my feed so badly that I just don’t go on there. Even when I was posting quotes to the Wisedocks page, I used Meta Business Suite to schedule them and hardly ever opened the app. Plus, Facebook came down hard on the FartDump page and my profile. All of my pages are under restriction for the next year because back in July, their AI flagged an old image I’d shared for a policy violation. Their idea of “violating” content is so random with humor that I just took down every single post from that page and stopped using the app.
Now, I’m getting slammed with birthday wishes from hundreds of people I don’t even know. I really need to hide my birthday on my profile, lol.
I've nearly started several new projects in the last 24 hours. Every time I get an idea, I quickly decide not to pursue it. I should be focusing on improving my existing code—and to some extent, I have this week—but I keep craving something new and fun to work on. Yet, I haven’t found that one thing that truly motivates me to get started. As a result, I’ve been mostly unproductive, almost in a daze, just gazing off into the distance, waiting for the next big idea to hit me. I’m a dreamer, and I know that someday, I'll stumble upon something that's both popular and a project I love to work on.
If a project isn't fun for me, I don’t care if it becomes popular. That would defeat the purpose.
This morning, I decided to keep myself busy by writing a couple of articles for Echo Chamber Effect. I crack myself up! Hopefully, that site doesn’t get me thrown in jail over the next four years.
I think I want to build a clicker game. I’ve almost started a few times, but today feels like the day—or maybe next week... Yeah, let’s do it next week. I’m mainly doing it for the experience. I could use some libraries to make the process easier, but I promised myself to avoid any. The whole point of building my websites is to develop a better understanding of code itself, not just frameworks. If I’m going to start using frameworks, I might as well just use Joomla or WordPress. But where’s the fun in that? I get so much more satisfaction doing it all on my own, even if it takes ages longer.
True to my nature, I’m starting to rethink my weekly blog posts—or “weekly musings,” as I’ve affectionately named them. The whole idea of grouping these shorter posts into weekly rambles was because they’re often too brief to stand alone. From an SEO perspective, they’re just too short to perform well individually. But since I’m not really focused on SEO for this site anymore, shorter blog posts would be just fine.
I actually rephrase and intentionally shorten a good deal of my weekly ramblings to keep them on point and easier to read. I tend to ramble when I start typing, so if I left them untouched, they’d be plenty long enough—although maybe not so easy to follow.
But hey, who’s actually reading these posts anyway? Probably just me and a few search engine bots that find and then dismiss them, so who cares, right? I’ve even thought about reworking the homepage to look like an old-school directory, similar to how Sublime Directory was set up back in the day. I really just want Wisedocks to feel like a personal site, not a collection of flashy colors and images.
I think simplicity might be the next big trend for personal websites—unless you’re trying to impress clients with a flashy showcase, which I’m definitely not. I’ve been checking out other personal sites, and I’m just not impressed. I’m actually a bit annoyed by all the cookie-cutter transitions and animations. I’m much more excited to see text laid out in an organized, straightforward way; it makes navigation easier. I’ve got enough content on this site now that it would work well.
So I think I’ll work on that today instead of the clicker game. Plus, a simple homepage without images would probably deter mouth-breathers who don’t like to read. They wouldn’t enjoy my blog anyway.
With that, I’ll end this post and start doing daily, individual posts instead. That makes me happy.
