Things I learned in 2017:
1. If you get hit in the head hard enough, Nikki Minaj shows up and offers you advice and encouragement.
2. If you "reinvent yourself" into exactly what you already were, you save loads of effort.
3. "You look like SHIT" is a good go-to phrase when you don't know what to say.
4. When you take things far enough, all fanaticism is the same.
5. Echo chambers make psychopaths.
6. There is no bottom; when you think you have in fact hit bottom, it's just a chunky bit and beyond that are just more chunky bits. This is true in sanitation systems, the internet, and damn near anything else.
7. Orton Nenslo was an optimist, but that shouldn't get you down. You, too, can be a bitter optimist.
8. Even "Bob" never promised us THIS weird shit.
9. Gaslighting isn't what it used to be.
10. Music is way better now than it was when I was a teenager.
Hmmm. I will have to review what I learned in 2017