I found myself at the car dealership this morning for routine maintenance of my Mazda3 Time Machine—oil change and tire rotation, plus a billion major and minor checks to assuage my fears that the next time vault might disintegrate me into nothingness. More to the point: It meant forgoing my daily routine of writing and willful and not-so-willful distractions. Instead, I spent several hours surfing Apple News, Facebook, Instagram and Threads… sans music, I might add, as I don’t do earbuds and my headphones sport an open-back design that “leaks” sound.
On Threads, someone born in the early 1960s asked about Generation Jones, as she’d never heard the term before. That’s a topic I know a little bit about due to my pandemic-era essay about James at 15, a TV series that aired on NBC during the 1977-78 season. I commented, “Gen Jones is considered a micro or bridge generation, so you’re technically both a boomer and a Jones.” But I wanted to mention the timespan that demographers use, so performed an Internet search to confirm that it runs from 1954 through ’65.
I noticed the daily WordPress question a little while later and then spent my remaining minutes playing with MetaAI to fashion appropriate images….
The Old Grey Cat 