People think it’s weird when I tell them I don’t watch or read the news 24/7. As someone who has spent their career writing that news — either for an internal corporate audience, for external public newsletters and websites, and now for a regional newspaper — maybe it’s not so weird. I know chefs who don’t cook at home. Engineers who hire out. And don’t even get me started on builders and contractors whose own home projects sit unfinished for ag…