I can definitely relate to that. I thought I’d be happy at my old job because the pay was so good, but the hours were long and the work was exhausting. I convinced myself taking a lesser paying job would be a step down and make my life worse, but after a particularly bad month I took the plunge and left. I’m making less now, but the schedule is sane and the work hits the right balance between not too difficult but not too easy either.

I quit watching all sports, cold turkey, four years ago and haven’t looked back. I feel so much better now and have more free time.

What hell is “snow?”

I think he’d be more likely to say “what are taxes?”

Right now LibreOffice, Writer specifically. I’ve been getting back into writing big time over the last few months and having a dependable word processor that’s not crammed with AI tools I don’t want and that I know is FOSS has been great.