I’m definitely not posting here while I’m on vacation. If I post anything, it’ll come after I’ve collected some awesome pictures. The main point being that the stuff I usually cover is also really irritating. I guess this post is really no exception to that sentiment.

The next two days are going to drag by so slowly. I can feel it already. Time is slipping by at a snail’s pace, almost maliciously, seemingly with the intention of driving me insane. Dammit.

I’m hoping that a week of digital detox will allow me more tolerance for my hobbies as well as my career. Staring at a screen all day is starting to make it difficult for me to engage in the type of learning I enjoy outside of work. I can’t complain too badly, as my line of work is pretty well right up my alley.

Two more days. Just two more days and I’ll be with my favorite person sipping weird fruity drinks ocean-side in a beautiful resort. Holy freaking crap. I need this week so badly to blow off steam and just regain some of that sanity I’ve lost over the last five years of doing this crazy job. I literally cannot wait.

Also, I’m thinking that I might, at some point, invest in getting myself a macbook pro. I don’t think I’m going to go nuts immediately obtaining one, but I think that it’s absolutely the first place contender for my next acquisition. The efficiency of the M1 processor is just amazing. Lower TDP and higher output, and it’s no longer reliant on the very stale x86 compatible instruction set. Super freaking awesome. I’m not even an Apple fan in the slightest, but I’m a fan of any device with even a modest amount of innovation built-in. That definitely applies here. Though I admit I have zero interest in that stupid secondary screen-bar on the keyboard. It strikes me as a waste of keyboard space. I suppose I’ll make some concsessions to try and vote with my wallet and push the market in the direction I believe it should go.

Holy shit. I literally cannot wait. In four days I’ll be heading to Cancun with my woman, and we’re going to have an amazing time. I’m so damned excited and I can’t freaking wait. Holy goddamn.

Also, I’m exhausted. Between work, co-parenting, and just living in general, I’m having a hard time keeping up appearances. I’m not superman. I don’t have invulnerability or even infinite patience. I’m an average person with limitations like every other person. Mine seem to be reached and breached with a number of people right now. I can’t control what other people, I can only control what I do, so I’ll continue to control how I react to things. But at the end of the day, I’m going to protect myself and the people I love.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Man, I really need to re-watch Blade Runner. What an awesome movie. I get that goddamn quote stuck in my head pretty frequently. It’s a reminder that the time we’re alotted is relatively short compared to the duration of existence of reality.

I’ve been working through creating my own installation of NextCloud to synchronize my data across a number of devices, and so far I think the installation has been a resounding success. It’s currently running, believe it or not, on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM. I would love to detail out how me, a rube, got this crap working. I’m not sure how much of an opportunity I’ll get to do that, though. Work is picking up with a serious ferocity and my spare time is incredibly limited.

I never thought I would be saying this, but it turns out that 2021 is already becoming a bigger beast than 2020 already was. We kicked the new year off with the President of the United States encouraging a seditious attempt to prevent a fair election from being counted. It involved a few right wing talking heads as well, with Charlie Kirk organizing transport for as many as 80 buses full of QAnon-obsessed lunatics.