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Finnegan Keller's avatar

Looking forward to your thoughts on grocery stores. I've heard great things about The Secret Life of Groceries, but I haven't read it yet.

Vincent Ton's avatar

A lot of shit happens at Ralph's!

alok thakrar's avatar

hoping for *ton*s of new ton thoughts™ in the new year 😌

Vincent Ton's avatar

Wow - great to hear (or, I guess, read) from you, Alok! We'll see... Happy New Year!

Jordan Zach's avatar

No joke, I just checked tonthoughts yesterday. Glad you're "back".

Vincent Ton's avatar

So, one of the reasons for a return was me looking into my checkings account, and seeing that I was still paying for Substack. I would rather just write again, then check what the cancellation process looks like for this site.

Happy New Year, Jordan! Thank you for your years of reading - and not!

James Roberts's avatar

Yay! Glad to see this in my inbox. I was wondering if you would post again.

I have taken a hiatus from reading the news for the past few months. I honestly don't know if it's better or worse for me. I don't necessarily feel any angst at not knowing the latest thing that's happening. But sometimes I do feel out of the loop (for example, with Venezuela recently).

I do not feel much pressure to go back to consistently trying to keep up with all that is going on in this world. But I would love to hear thoughts on contemporary issues from someone I know. And just whatever is going on in your life !

Vincent Ton's avatar

James, I am so grateful to know you! I hope all has been well up at that school in Palo Alto. What happened in Venezuela?

Anyways, keeping up with everything going on is exhausting - and that's from someone who makes keeping up with everything a part of my daily routine. Maybe one day, I can write about all the podcasts playing in the background as I get ready for the day.

Hearing from folks like you keep me wanting to write, so we shall see what is next in the mill!

James Roberts's avatar

Vincent! Glad to hear from you too. Things have been alright. There's not much to complain about, but I still feel lost for what I want to do (in general, not just career).

I'm not entirely sure what's going on in Venezuela and I'm not sure anyone else does either. But I heard that their president was captured and extradited to the US.

Would be great to hear whatever you're thinking! But I know life gets busy. I meant to respond to this message at least a few times over the past week and only ended up getting to it now :(