5.8.20

It's been a bit of time since I posted, so I think I should put a little
update. Lately it feels like everyone  is going crazy, with stay at home
orders  and  social distancing,  but  strngely  enough  it seems  to  be
affecting me  less than  most, or at  least in a  different way.  I keep
coming back to the thought that if I were still living as more or less a
shut-in and working from home like I used to, I would be doing amazingly
right now, but my life has moved  in a much different direction. Most of
the time  I think  it's an  improvement, being  less isolated,  but when
you're so close to people who are going crazier by the day, it's hard to
not have  that feeling  rubbed off  onto you. I  just hope  there's some
stasis soon. But enough navel gazing.

I've taken to studying for the CompTIA A+ in my spare time, I'm thinking
that sometime when I'm able, I would  like to work in a datacenter or in
some other  IT related field. I  watched a video following  a nightshift
NOC engineer  and that really got  me thinking "maybe I  could do this".
The material covered in the A+ cert is a wonderful combination of things
I already  knew and things  that I'm  interested in knowing.  My vaguely
defined plan is  to go for the  A+ and then start  passively looking for
jobs while studying for the Network+, and maybe the Security+ to get the
trifecta; I'm not 100% sure that's what I will end up doing, but it's at
least some kind of direction to start moving.

I've been using  Emacs a lot lately, specifically Doom  Emacs, which has
just opened  up a whole  new world of  exploration for me.  I'm actually
posting this  phlog entry from vshell  in Emacs. Hand in  hand with that
has been  my further exploration  into Gopher and Gemini  spaces through
the  Emacs extension  Elpher, which  I  have been  really enjoying.  You
really can just do anything in Emacs.  Maybe at some point I will set up
the old  Raspberry Pi 3b+ that's  collecting dust in my  media center to
host some  Gopher/Gemini/Finger content; I'd  like to get  involved with
the community in these spaces, and  be more active in putting content up
or  working  on  fun  little  projects.  I  really  like  the  ethos  of
gopherspace and its relatives.

Anyway, thank you  for reading this little update, and  have a wonderful
day.

-Vx