It's my birthday today. I don't know what to do. I guess i'll eat some tasty food and chill out.

Facebook taught us all not to remember our friends' birthdays. I've forgotten them all. And as such, i don't have much contact with my old friends anymore. The thought occurred to me how well those friendships could have lasted had i only been able to remember their birthdays. It would be a bit strange if i suddenly wished them a happy birthday now, years after having last talked, but maybe i should.

If they wonder why, i can explain how there is a grand conspiracy by facebook/meta to make us all forget to wish each other a happy birthday, unless we rely on their app to get a notification. The end goal is to make virtual communication the only acceptable form of communication, and ideally exclusively through their service. Luckly they have not gotten their will entirely. People still talk to each other in person.

The alternative is to use a calendar. I want to purge google calendar from my life. Why would i want the all knowing, all seeing google to see my every plan that i put in my calendar to sell it to the highest bidder? And in turn let it falls into the hands of the all-tormenting data-brokers? I can't rely on that trash. I need to find an alternative. Some kind of solution that allows me to keep track of plans without being tracked by the powers that be.

I'm having trouble sleeping. I rely on sleeping pills in order to sleep. I've been up all night and today is my birthday.

In regards to wishing people happy birthday and in turn receive birthday wishes, i think email is a decent solution. I just hate gmail. I'm going to create my own mail server on this domain and be able to purge gmail from my life as well, hopefully. No wonder google knows everything about my personal life! They read all my mail!