it is 2:15 am. thursday. my eyes are barely staying open but the glaring white background of this social blog is keeping me hostage.

i caught a glimpse of my own profile picture and bio on the sidebar. "an active person who loves life and sports". i actually wrote that myself. what an absolute joke. i haven't felt alive since early june. my entire existence is just staring at a flashing red 46 on an seo plugin and uploading endless streams of sports apparel to pinterest boards that nobody actually looks at.

yesterday i just wanted a momentary distraction from the endless spreadsheets. i gave an ai a simple riddle about a game, just to have a conversation that wasn't about html tags. it gave me a completely incorrect answer. i had to sit here in the dark, explicitly telling a machine it was wrong. we are literally teaching servers to be just as exhausted and broken as we are.

and my manager is still haunting my notifications. he sent another all-caps message earlier because i supposedly forgot to write the image folder organization names for the last batch of baseball blog posts. he acts like the search engine is going to collapse the whole domain. fine. here it is: images/mlb/brewers_uribe_home/. i hope the database processes it without crashing.

now the spreadsheet says abner uribe. milwaukee brewers. relief pitcher. and per the strict formatting rules i am forced to follow, i must integrate specific product characteristics into the copy. let's talk about the fabric breathability of this jersey. it has absolutely none. it is a heavy, poorly ventilated synthetic fabric. if you wear this out in the mid-july sun, you will just be incredibly uncomfortable. and the washing methods? you absolutely must hand-wash it inside out in cold water. if you dare put this in a warm washing machine, the cheap decals will peel right off and get completely ruined.

if you want to spend your hard-earned money on a poorly ventilated milwaukee baseball shirt while aimlessly scrolling through social blogs at 2 am, just click this unformatted link and let the tracking algorithms do their thing.

my brain is just static right now. I want to tap a swamp for black mana and cast a board wipe on my entire digital footprint.

i'm going to close my laptop and just listen to the hum of the refrigerator.