I figured it out. The anecdotal evidence is in. It isn't menopause, it isn't the drugs, it isn't a brain tumor, it isn't alzheimers. It's the fucking internet.
The two second brain shut down so I can't remember what I did two seconds ago; the intermittant space out; the forgetting of everything; the new level of stupidity; the total lack of patience for everything that takes more than 3 seconds: it's the internet, stupid.
Remember back in the stone age of dialup? It was actually tolerated that a page would load in more than ten seconds? Now?? I go nuts if one of the twenty windows I have opened freezes up. I know that I am blacklisted by the tech department for the stupid ass lame requests I've made, like not knowing how to turn off my computer (you have to hold the button for a couple of seconds, not just poke it), but most of my issues center around a complete erosion of any semblance of patience I ever had. I have zero patience.
And so I am hereby making the Yenta determination that the internet and the IV that runs from the keyboard into my vein 8 hours a day at my desk at work is what has caused my adult onset attention deficit disorder. Which is really Patience Deficit Disorder or PDD. Or Stupidopolis. Moronica. Idiotpolis.
When my number is up in this shithole economy that will never get better with a Marxist administration and congress, I think I will try to reduce my time on the computer. My vast yenta audience will miss me, but I'm almost becoming a danger to myself!
