{"id":7460,"date":"2017-07-04T17:14:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=7460"},"modified":"2020-10-08T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:57:18","slug":"free-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2017\/07\/04\/free-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo I blocked the number of the abuse victim, cancelled the dating web site  accounts, and uninstalled the swipe-right apps. I am free. Any of you  analogue ladies who want to step into my world are now welcome. Hah.<\/p>\n<p>\nI felt a little bad cutting off the woman who said her ex-husband had beat  her. She sounded troubled, even diseased. But also full of lies and  distortions. That is acceptable up to a point in the murky world of  online dating but after about 10 days of attempts at initiating  conversation it felt like I was feeding a chatbot. <\/p>\n<p>\nmight switch themes for the payphone site today. I never liked the one I  use now, but it&#8217;s passable. I need a full-width theme to accommodate the  images from a previous layout that are too wide for the current look. Not  that anybody actually reads that shit. <\/p>\n<p>\nI got shorts that fit and they are driving me crazy. I have gotten used to  short and pants of excess size, to accommodate my&#8230; excess. But they look  slovenly and slobbish. So I am trying to represent myself as a more dapper  individual who wears pants that fit. It sucks. <\/p>\n<p>\nI slept on the couch last night. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever done that. It  just kinda happened. I watched a blah movie called &#8220;After Dark, My  Sweet&#8221; all the way to the end. Rachel Ward was amazingly unattractive and  the premises too hard to believe. Reviews kept making it sound like a film  that would gain traction over time but I don&#8217;t see how. The most amusing  thing to me was the iron. The film was released in 1990, which would be  about the time I attempted to buy a clothes iron at Macy&#8217;s. It was a  memorable attempt. I put the iron on the checkout counter. The cashier  picked it up and looked at it. She put it under her arm and walked off to  parts unknown. i think she went to the employee break room but I don&#8217;t  know. i waited about 10 minutes. That was the last I saw of that iron, or  the cashier. I wrote a letter to Macy&#8217;s describing the experience, and how  I walked across the street to some no-name electronics shop which happened  to sell irons. I got that exact iron for about $20 less, and I was able to  purchase it IMMEDIATELY. I did not have to wait for the cashier to  confiscate the iron and disappear. Macy&#8217;s replied with a letter saying  they took my concerns seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnyway, the point being, the movie I sat through was made around the time  I purchased that iron, which should still be somewhere around here in a  closet or wherever. That exact iron appeared in the movie, just as a  passing prop. Quite amusing to one as easily amused as I. <\/p>\n<p>\nI am at home, rummaging through a stash of old .WAV files I have no memory  of creating. It is me talking to myself 7 years ago. It is me being  ambitious about being a radio\/podcast person with something to say and a  voice with which to say it. And my piano music is playing in the distance.  it&#8217;s not bad, and should be passable once I edit out the UMs and UHs.<\/p>\n<p>\nOH MY it is a beautiful day.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I blocked the number of the abuse victim, cancelled the dating web site accounts, and uninstalled the swipe-right apps. I am free. 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