# Christmas and catchup

*Entered: in emacs on GPD Pocket X7* |
*Date: 20221225* |
*Soundtrack: the sounds of family after a long day*

## Christmastime

My company essentially closes down from 22 December to 2
January so I am home and feeling good. I spent the day
with my wife, 2/3s of my kids, my oldest daughter's
boyfriend, my sister in law, her son, and her boyfriend.
We played games, ate ham, homemade bread, greenbean
cassarole. It was a good time.

I got a preserved rat embryo in a small bottle, and what
looks like a crystal ball with 4 preserved mice floating
inside. Pretty rad.

## GPD Pocket Tinkering

I have had Manjaro I3 Community Edition installed on this
device since I acquired it. I am a huge fan of tiling WMs,
but not really a fan of I3. I prefer BSPWM or DWM. On a whim
last night, I installed LARBS under a new user, diabled my
graphical login manager, modified some keybindings in Luke's
DWM build, tweaked some colors, and copied what I liked
over to my user account. I running DWM a lot better than I3,
it feels more familiar. I also like that the computer is
a lot less "normie-friendly" on power up. It is entirely
possible that I could lose this device while traveling.
Obfuscation is one way to keep things secure...