Like Douglas MacArthur, I have returned

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Like an ill wind, I have returned to myLot though I don't know how much time and energy to give it. Obviously I am not dead but understand why people may have thought so considering the timing of my exit. I never intended a 6 year plus absence. In May 2020, covid had exploded and this site was overwhelmed with posts concerning covid and other issues irritating me. The site ceased to be a fun diversion sorely needed at the time so I decided to take a hiatus. A breather figuring all would blow over by fall. It didn't and covid raged for years with the aftermath creating a world worse than before. In the meantime, out of sight out of mind. My time went to other pursuits. I worked online at the more lucrative Mechanical Turk which was tedious but easy to earn $ and requiring less time than myLot. It's good to reduce screen time and my reading real books greatly increased. Occasionally I thought of myLot but didn't have the mindset to properly deal with. I always figured to return someday provided the site still existed. myLot is habit forming and even addictive and I replaced it with other habits. I started pondering myLot this year and now is the time to see how it goes. I am amazed how many familiar names are still here. fourwalls has not run out of musical lists. April is still April. The first thing I did was delete all my ancient posts creating a clean state. Boy, did I post a lot of box office bombs. One desires a more casual approach not falling into compulsive habit but a six year backlog musical lists presents the temptation of hours long songfest.