I thought I'd better check in to say that I'm still
breathing.

I have been enjoying reading your phlogs and gemlogs.

In particular, I've found several posts on Shufei's Weiphlog
quite interesting[1]. Her claim that it's "more mirth than
matter" is quite untrue. There's some good stuff in there!

Congrats to Sloum on taking the plunge and leaping into a
new life[2]. If you do decide to start a restaurant, I hear
that the third or fourth occupant in a space can make it if
they get the equipment for pennies on the dollar. It's a
tough gig.

Slugmax has been trolling the depths of gopherspace[3]. I
recall a general back-and-forth conversation in gopherspace
about how interesting that can be ... maybe a year or more
ago.

Cameron of Floodgap fame announced that he's going to scale
down development of TenFourFox[4]. I've always admired that
project -- and his commitment to keeping gopher alive.

As for me, I watched the big stuck ship with the rest of
you. Imagine how satisfying it must have been to be on one
of those tugs and see it start to break free. I'm surprised
that I haven't found any footage yet. There must be some out
there.

The absolutely massive, I-should-never-have-attempted-it
bathroom construction project is nearing it's end. Thank
goodness. It started two years ago with the removal of all
that potentially asbestos-laden drywall and then got
derailed by the need to adjust to COVID-19 at work. I can't
wait for it to be done. Then I get to demolish the old
bathroom and turn it into a small office/bedroom. That will
be a much less demanding project. I'll post some pics of the
new bathroom when it opens for business. It's the nicest
room in our house!

Not so long ago, I re-read Solderpunk's piece on
pseudonymity[5]. I totally get it. I have a number of
projects that I have undertaken under a pseudonym on the
internet that I would be proud to be publicly associated
with. There are also aspects of my offline life that I wish
I felt more free to talk about here. Sometimes, it seems
like it would be easier to just phlog under my real name.
But in other ways, I'm glad that I don't. I'm not sure that
I'd deal well with the overlap.


[1]gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~shufei/phlog/Shufei-ThisAndThat-Weiphlog.gmi

[2]gopher://colorfield.space/0/~sloum/phlog/20210316.txt

[3]gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/0/~slugmax/phlog/2021-03-28-unknown-gophers

[4]http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html

[5]gopher://sdf.org/0/users/solderpunk/phlog/pseudonymity-woes.txt