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Windswept

CWs: food, work

It's been a dry, warm, non-snowy winter, and windy lately. I don't like it at all. I want my winter back. I want my cold weather and snow (despite needing to shovel) back. Highs in the 60s and 70s F is not okay. It's going to be a nerve-wracking late spring and summer, given our wildfire risks in the area. I like listening to the wind, though, and if it weren't so dry all the time here, it would be more welcome. We've had the windows open recently since it's been in the high 30s F the last couple of evenings, and as long as it's above freezing, windows open is nice at night. The trees and plants don't know whether to hibernate or bud. I don't like being part of the problem. I'm just doing the best I can to live with the decisions others have made. Things largely out of my control.

Maybe I'll break out the telescope soon if it's a clear night, take it in the backyard. I miss looking at the stars. I would love to go out to an open space late at night and take the telescope there.

It's back to normal pretty much around this site. I like the new system and really, as long as I can throw Markdown files at it, I'm totally OK. So that's been nice; it took a lot of setup and some tweaking but we're good.

I saw my physical therapist on Monday. He gave me two new resistance bands, one a little higher-resistance than the original one (green), and the other a replacement for the original (red). He also assigned me some new exercises, but I don't think he added them to my app, so I need to send him a message. I can't for the life remember any of them except for the one using the exercise ball against the wall. I'm sore, though. He also suggested I start using 5lb weights instead of the 3lb ones I had been using, and I can feel the burn. It's a good feeling but also I'm sore.

I got a new work computer on Tuesday after almost 4 years. The old one was very long in the tooth and glitching out a bunch, so it was a welcome change. It's bigger, but otherwise mostly the same. I'm just glad to have a working laptop. My spouse had a haircut appointment on Tuesday evening, so I took a bus down to downtown, grabbed the car, drove home, hung out with the kitties. Once they were done (their appointment was a cut & color, so it took like 3hrs), I met them at a park and ride, then we got dinner on the way home.

Lyra kept me up for a lot of the night on Tuesday after that, unfortunately. She was a little hellion. I ended up sleeping out on the couch from about 4am on, and slept very poorly. I did not feel up to working after that, so I called out on Wednesday. It was nice to rest and I worked on Latin and also played videogames, and perused the PBS streaming app, inter alia. Lyra was much better last night and I slept far better, even though she still got me up a bunch as usual.

Even though it's been a "short" week with taking Wednesday off, I'm still ready for the weekend. We have errands to do, per usual, but it's a short week as I am taking some time off at the end of next week and the start of the next. So that will be good.

I was thinking of a title for this post and it took me a while to come up with one. I am not great at titles any more. Either that or I'm just tired. I'll either come up with something cheeky or something Latin/Greek, or something alliterative. I suppose that's OK. Sometimes it's a little stressful coming up with something, especially if I'm just writing a quick thing. I guess I'm seeing how the fediverse and microblogging are sometimes more useful for that sort of thing. But I like sharing with y'all, whosoever you may be, and keeping a record for myself, especially since I have a cron job slowly chipping away at my older posts on the fediverse. I honestly don't 100% know if it's working, but I hope it is. I have no easy way to tell, though. Well, I just looked and I think maybe 100ish posts have been deleted in all? I don't know. I'll keep running it hourly as a cron job.

I like having this space to collect my thoughts and send them out into the aether. It's been a really interesting almost 6 years running this server and I hope to keep running it for a long time to come. I don't see any reason to stop. I use the services on here myself literally every day, and I am happy to share as much as I can with others. I'm always looking for more things I can make into "public" services on here and share with others who either aren't interested, don't have the expertise, or can't afford to self-host them. I'll have to look at the YunoHost apps store for more stuff.

Speaking of that, I've been very frustrated with all the nonsense Discord has been pulling with their "age verification" (read: data-collecting) push. I am part of a few communities on there and I really hope they move elsewhere. One of my dear friends is thinking of setting up a Discord alternative, and I offered to help with any self-hosting questions as much as I can. I'm honestly thinking of trying to spin up that particular service on my own server just to see how it works, so I can help my friend better when they spin theirs up. It has Docker Compose instructions, and I went through that with Koito on YunoHost, so I think I can probably figure it out. Hey, maybe I'll even set an instance up myself to help signal boost, if it seems worthwhile.

Anyways, thanks for reading as always. I'll write more soon. I don't have a lot to report right now since I'm a little scattered and out of it, and not much exciting has been happening in life beyond the normal stuff. <3