Hey everybody.
So last February now, I, in a fit of optimism, thought I'd take on the Guile Potluck duties for 2021: asking people to submit the fun stuff they were up to, and then I'd blog about it. That didn't happen, for which I humbly apologize. But I should know by now that every time I actually commit to something publicly visible in free software, reality intervenes. So from now on, I promise that I will never again commit to anything.
But life is getting better, my vision problems are improving. My back is all healed and I can actually sit in an office chair all day without pain.
So yeah.
Anyway, while I shy away from term commitment, I do have intention to make good on old promises.
In the meantime (and one of the reasons I'm actually talking about feelings on this backup blog right now instead of my standard repository of feelings) I do have to do something about my always-neglected primary website Lonely Cactus which apparently has gone to blog heaven. A pity. There was some cool stuff on there.
My hope is to get Lonely Cactus up and running on a different set of technologies, as a learning exercise. Maybe a GNU/Hurd VM. Maybe Guix. Because if you're going to do something weird, might as well go all the way.
But in real life, if you're keeping score, I have returned to /dev/null. Single again, no kids in the house anymore, unfit, no church life to speak of. I still own this dilapidated, century-old house in Los Angeles, and have a day job, so I'm better off than billions of people. And I'm lucky in that comparatively few people I know have died during the plague year.
Time for life v4.0, or v5.0. I'm not sure of my current revision number.