After last week's very emotional post, you would think that there is nothing about my life that would be off-topic. Well, you would be wrong! There are a lot of things that I wouldn't post on here. Today, I will be discussing some of them. (If you think that it is weird that I will be talking about things I don't talk about, just enjoy the paradox and have fun on the ride.) While I do discuss my mental health quite a few times, other personal things are too private to go into in such a public forum. For instance, there is a topic that I frequently have wanted to bring up, but this blog is not the right place to do so. I even came up with a possible title the day before I decided upon the topic for my last post, "Automatic Versus Manual." I would have started out about how most guys have an automatic incidence first, but I may have a manual experience first for reasons I won't go into. This would then segue way into an automatic incident that occurred about fifteen years ago, one I still can't adequately explain even after researching it. It was mildly frightening to say the least. In fact, one could almost call it a nightmare if I hadn't been wide awake in the middle of the day. Why, of course, I'm talking about automotive transmissions. What else would there be? {Really? [Uh, yeah (I don't think so.)]}. Another thing I don't talk about on my blog would be a deep-dive into my hobbies. It's not because they are too personal, but because they would be too technical and boring for non-fans to understand. While I do bring up many of my hobbies, I usually just give broad strokes about them. I only go into detail for when I think the general public has a good enough grasp on them. However, many of my hobbies are very niche. I want to talk about them, but this wouldn't be the best place for it. For instance, I am a fan of a very niche tabletop roleplaying game series (TTRPG) That's the current for them, as RPG is mostly used for computer games instead. On a forum for my game, I made a comment about how popular a possible supplement would be. I wrote about how I would set up such a work. Now, the formatting for that forum is a little unfamiliar to me, so it took me almost fifteen minutes to write a brief 'elevator-pitch' type paragraph the way I wanted to. Here, it would have taken me half as long, and I could write much more as well. While readers on the forum would like what I would've written, most of my readers here wouldn't even understand most of it. I'm not really familiar with how to set up links to outside sites, or what the rules are on such things, so I couldn't write here or elsewhere and then set something up there. Someone even private messaged me for more information and I am unsure of what to respond. A final topic that I won't write about here is political issues, which is appropriate since yesterday was the primary election here in Kentucky. I will not mention anything about the results or how I voted. No way. I wouldn't want to possibly offend half of my potential audience by talking about my views. I could bring up an issue and clearly point out every single detail about how that issue affects me, and I would still end up being hated by those outside of my political leanings. Even those in my own party could end up hating me for veering too much outside of the party's norms. Yes, I would want to talk about such things, and I have hinted about my views at times, but I will never overtly mention something that could end up being controversial. I don't even want to think about what could go wrong. I said too much; I've said enough. (REM, "Losing My Religion")
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