July through September 2023

I’m enjoying my new house, thought it’s definitely a good deal of work. In November, I had a bit of an issue with being slowly poisoned by my furnace, but thankfully that’s resolved and I’m breathing clean air again! I’m looking forward to a real winter out here in the Pennsylvania Wilds, and am continuing…

Got my car back on the road after a short (long) stint as the world’s largest saab shaped paperweight. I had to cut a chunk out of the body under the rear seat to expose the fuel pump access, then pull and rebuild the fuel pump assembly. Been running just fine since then thankfully. I…

Oh good holy lord it just doesn’t end. I agreed to terms that are killing me. While going back on those terms and requiring a new structure going forward would be as simple as a discord call and an email to get that ball rolling, I’ve chosen to remove that from the possibility pile and…

Right now I’m focused on: Building and maintaining good habits, and then stacking those habits together Streaming more often and with more variety – the museum, some gaming, some programming, etc Improving and expanding self-hosted services like Plex and Nextcloud Learning NodeJS by making bots in Puppeteer Getting more serious with Virtual Reality

The site wasn’t live yet so I’ll summarize the first couple months of the year. January and February I was getting pretty heavy into NFTs. I made a nice heap of mistakes, learned a good chunk, and took a step back from all of it so I could build out a better understanding of what…

Well the grind came to a sort of conclusion, in that my portion of the project was fully fired up and put into production mode. Dozens of moving parts, cumbersome manual mapping, a mountain of documentation – and it’s all just doing its thing now. It’ll come back up many times, and hopefully it will…