I've been meaning to respond to this once I'm able to make sense of anything, but that is clearly not coming.

I remember when I was young making the deliberate decision to not pay much attention to actors and their names and instead trying to enjoy the content of television and movies. I guess that has been an all-around win, though it has left me unable to participate in even more conversations than I already can't, because I don't pay attention to sports and spend so much time with computers.

Work has betrayed me into ignoring most dates and numbers. Deadlines change so much that it is best not to anchor them to real calendars until it's "this week" or "tomorrow," and even then it's fuzzy and can slip. Numbers are fine, except when he saved 8ms per frame, she saved 12%, and that other person got us up to 60fps 98% of the time, all that really matters is that the bad numbers go down enough once all the changes are submitted.