life
let's try something new
Saturday, 17 January 2026 @ 8:33pm
Experimenting with microblogging and apparently butterfly sketchies are the only way I can break first post paralysis (in this particular case it’s for snaps, actual snaps body text is likely to be similar but different from here as there is an actual character limit there so I can’t waffle as much).
handwritten 2026-01-07
Wednesday, 7 January 2026 @ 9:26pm
It’s a new world
It’s a new start
It’s alive with the beating
of young hearts
handwritten 2025-08-18
Friday, 22 August 2025 @ 4:35pm
Filling in for some day classes as the normal coach couldn’t make it. There is a decent gap between two of them and I forgot to bring my book so I curled up in the storeroom (as my bag with the drawing supplies was in there anyway) and started drawing.
Mooooore than halfway there
Tuesday, 8 July 2025 @ 5:23pm
It’s been a good while since I wrote about the baby steps of my very slow transition to as much open source as I can manage.
quick recap early twenteens: apparently (I searched my own blog XD) I was using linux on a small rig (laptop, the desktop is the “big rig”), and apparently it was Ubuntu/Kubuntu or some other derivative and I had a lot of problems with it (mostly because I wanted updates faster than I was getting them and getting what I wanted broke things) and went to Ubuntu Studio which was less of a problem enough to make a difference but still a problem 2016: acquired the big rig (fondly referred to as “the frankenbox”) with its current case and original parts, installed Ubuntu Studio, problems persisted 2017: so many problems that I fully cracked it after yet another dist-upgrade explosion requiring a reinstall, an online friend recommended Manjaro (and stayed up really late for him to make sure I got through the install process fine) mid-late twenteens: started using ownCloud, and at some point after that switched to Nextcloud (purely on principle as I wasn’t sure I liked the direction ownCloud was going, it still functioned fine at the time) late twenteens: broke away from the open source trend briefly with the acquisition of my current iPhone (reasonably certain I was replacing an Android which was doing my head in, I apparently hate Android a lot more than iOS) and much later a Macbook Air (both phones and Manjaro or the photo apps I was trying refused to play nice and my media was infinitely more important than my stupid principles) 2020: acquired a NUC and started properly self-hosting my websites (of which I’m down to just this one now) and Nextcloud 2023: the frankenbox got a lot of new hardware (basically all components except the case, drives and the gpu got replaced), switched to Arch for what ended up being no other reason than I’d mentally prepared for and committed to it (originally we thought I’d have to reinstall because Manjaro wouldn’t recognise all the new hardware but it didn’t care and just worked) the watch In much more recent history I’d told JJ I was going to have to switch away from Fitbit really soon partly because my Charge 4 was starting to die anyway (screen wouldn’t always turn back on with wrist turn or taps and then was never bright enough even if I explicitly set the brightness higher and the battery life had gotten noticably shorter but it was still going a few days between charges so that wasn’t a massive issue) and also Google had gone from being naggy (some crap about how it would somehow be so much better if you just use the Google account) to coercive (if you want to keep using this thing you have to use a Google account). J said the strap on his watch (some random cheap thing he’d gotten off ebay or something) had broken and he needed a new one too and told me to send him the one I’d been looking at.
handwritten 2025-06-20
Friday, 20 June 2025 @ 11:23pm
Pulled earthy colours today so very boringly it was a plant, but at least not the one I had in mind when I pulled the pens out.
handwritten 2025-06-18
Wednesday, 18 June 2025 @ 10:52pm
holoz0r started up a community for handwritten posts on hive and it seemed as good an attempt as any to try to post more than just my irregular progblogs.
I do actually have a lot of stuff that I would like to blog about, I just don’t seem to have the time to do it in
I’m deliberately doing it in my sketchbook/journal as I’m very casual with it. I’m not sure when I started stressing about blog posts but I’ve just realised that I really do consider what’s “worth” blogging about and I’m not sure when that developed.
The Trend Continues
Friday, 27 September 2024 @ 8:12am
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart we finally made it back to Christmas Island after way too long and this was one of the things sitting under the tree for me from sibling dearest who loves buying Christmas presents.
The gift tag reads:
February ProgBlog #3: the week everything kept falling and then picked up
Wednesday, 21 February 2024 @ 9:51pm
Last week was “interesting”.
I found out (from deviantART via another friend of hers who found out from a mutual friend of theirs on Facebook, which is how I’d suspected for a long time I would find something like this out) that an online friend that I have been talking to almost daily for the last couple of decades had died apparently on Christmas Eve. We had been chatting the week or so before, and she had told me at some point not long before then that she suspected she was cancer-riddled and that her organs were starting to fail and she probably didn’t have long left (she suspected cancer quite a while before then but was so terrified of hospitals she chose to just die from it rather than seek treatment, and the myriad of health issues she’d had throughout her entire life probably played a part in that decision too). I don’t know what the actual cause of death was.
February ProgBlog #2: the day everything imploded
Monday, 12 February 2024 @ 12:04am
We apparently have to use lesson plan templates this year which has increased my admin time a little bit (I now have to translate it into the template to send to my boss instead of just exporting a pdf like I was before). This would have been fine if LibreOffice hadn’t decided that it wasn’t going to play nice with the template and I had to rebuild the damn thing so I could use it which took a bit of doing.