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Holy smokes man! It has been such a long time since I have posted an update! Life has been quite busy with all sorts of adventures. There has not been much time to sit down and write. Also, I have been having difficulties getting Doom Emacs to function properly on Ubuntu through WSL. Since I manage all of my Git repos, including the website through Emacs accomplishing these tasks has proven to be more hassle than it’s worth. My main operating system for the last year has been Windows (puke) and it simply is not a sufficient replacement for a bare metal Linux system. However, I have been enjoying some extended Windows gaming sessions. Last year I purchased a Steam Deck as well. With intentions of converting it to my primary machine for gaming and productivity but things have proven to be more simple to just use my ThinkPad for any Linux related productivity tasks.

Unfortunately my aspirations of becoming king of all IT neckbears has been put on the backburner for now. With that being said, 2023 has proved to be the most productive that I have ever been in the pursuit of my music career. I’m now in two, count em, two bands both with modest success in the local scene and it couldn’t be more enjoyable. I am thankful every day to have meet such a great group of kind and welcoming musicians to share the stage with and I hope to continue this journey as long as I can. While that may mean I have to slow down on my IT pursuits I must say that the trade off is well worth it.

Keep an eye out on the Decades page for updates on future shows.

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I have began my day, each morning this week by brewing a pot of strong coffee, and reading Homer’s Illiad. I pick away at it, a few pages at a time when I can. The sometimes overwhelmingly large dose of caffeine assists me to stay alert, and focused on my task; while my pets demand my attention, threatening to spill my coffee from the stand next to my chair. In previous attempts at forward progress through this millenia old epic, I had read a fair amount of pages deep into the story. Unfortunately for me, extensive breaks inbetween reading sessions blurred my comprehension of the material. So, I have once more restarted from page one. I’m quite glad that I have, too. After listening to a podcast on the concept of “The Bicameral Mind” as well as some conversation with a friend on the subject. My imagination has been on firing on all cylinders wonderingabout how the people of Bronze Age civilisation may have perceived their inner voice. The way the Illiad was composed seems to suggest that the characters of the story do not possess an inner voice like myself, and many of my friends do. Rather, these people seem to perceive their emotions, and conciousness as the voice, and will of the gods; influencing actions, and their fate. I have yet to encounter any instances of Homer mentioning any of the characters in his poem to have “thought” or “imagined” as most modern writers would describe. Instead they become motivated, and persuaded by the nature of the gods and their personalities to enact their will. The history and philosophy attatched to the Epics of Homer is grand, and intoxicating. I will create a standalone blog post for this book once I fully complete it. Mar 1 03:19:00 2023.

My good buddy and I made our way down to the nearest hobby shop yesterday got ourselves a big pile of booster packs, and some of the newest structure decks. Upon opening our loot, I managed to pull a spell card from the latest set that is currently selling for around $40 on ebay! Woweeee Zoweee! I’m not sure if I have ever ended up with a single card worth that much before in my life. Super exciting stuff! I plan to sell the card online in attempts to cushion my wallet from our ventures. Wish me luck! Sat Feb 18 16:00:00 2023.

Holy moly, what a big ol’ nostalgia trip. A friend and I have recently starting collecting, and playing Yu-Gi-Oh! cards again after a long hiatus. We could definitley get ourselves into some trouble now that we’re adults, instead of begging mom and dad to purchase cards for us. Gambling is awesome! With our rekindled love of the game, the subject of streaming pack openings, and duels has been in discussion. Whether we stream, or just upload VODs will be determined by my own laziness. However, keep an eye out on my peertube instance for future Duel Monsters content. Fri Feb 17 16:00:00 2023.

Lately I have began learning how to use Docker as a way to quickly deploy portable applications between systems. I feel as though this will be highly useful in organizing and maintaing my home server. Tue Oct 25 02:18:18 2022.

After some thought about older versions of the site. I have decided to revise this blog page back into a rolling format. It seems to be the logical layout for as little as I write here. Links to previous blog articles are pinned to the top of the page. Every new article from here on out will be rolled out onto this page and sorted by date, newest to oldest. I spent more time on back end shenanigans than I did actually writing the content. My hope is that this will be much more efficient and encourage me to update the blog more often. Sun Oct 23 16:26:45 2022

A small collection of my old single page style blog posts.

• Github
• Decades
• Blog-To-Org
• Old-Blog