So.

I bricked my phone recently to install Graphene (because I'm nuts short version) which meant detangling myself from the Google ecosystem after two plus decades of Pixel/Messages/GMail use. Long story short (too late) this screenshot is the first text I sent...how do I describe.

OK let me back up.

first-text

In February 2022 I escaped a hell of my own creation and ended up in an extended stay hotel with two suitcases of clothing and what I had on my back. I didn't even have pants or a shirt as I had been wearing the same filthy pair of sweatpants for months. I stayed in that hotel, alone, without an address until I was able to get myself employed in May and into a rental house in August. That house was the first time I could put an address next to my name since October of the previous year. I don't remember everything from that first five months but I do remember checking the box for “homeless” more than once.

So.

I suppose this is where I'll keep shit like this for the duration. Which works because I've gotten super good at Markdown.

Do I sign off? Sure.

~ JR