A MONTH OFF
I think taking a month off from "serious computing" (at home) was
one of the smartest things I've done.
We performed our second and (hopefully final, for the foreseeable
future) move from an apartment to a house. This completes our
cross-country journey which began nearly a year ago.
After all of the packing, apartment living, and house-hunting, I
thought living in the new house was going to be the easy part.
But unpacking *so much stuff* is hard. Especially since we don't
really want to have so much stuff anymore. But here it is, much
of it in boxes, and it is just DRAINING.
As soon as this final move began I told myself, "don't try to get
anything else done this month." And I didn't. No problem. I
didn't get anything done (except new house-related stuff and
work) for a month.
That was a really, really good decision.
But now I'm ready to get back to it.
I have a number of learning goals (all programming-related). I
have some project ideas. I am looking forward to resuming read-
ing and writing regularly on Gopher. I'd like to start creating
art again. I don't know how, but I'd love to fit in some cre-
ative writing.
And I've finally started the first steps of a little project I've
been wanting to do for years: building a portable computer.
"Uh, that's called a laptop, ratfactor."
Yeah, I know, it's gonna require some explanation. But I'm pret-
ty sure if anyone will "get it," it'll be you gophers. I guess I
know what I'll be writing about in the next post here.
Oh, and in impeccable timing, I was also able to nab a spot on
zaibatsu.circumlunar.space. So now that's a new shiny thing that
I look forward to fully exploring now that I'm back "online."
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/1/~ratfactor
