ANOTHER MONTH OFF

Well,  apparently I needed another month "off" to get my ducks in
a row post-move.  The terrible truth is that we're still  unpack-
ing  and  sorting and figuring out furniture - but at some point,
you gotta start living again.

I've been extremely productive for the last three months and some
of  it  even involved computing.  The single most interesting and
exciting (to me) thing is that I've *finally* started  contribut-
ing  to  an open-source project I use every day: VimWiki.  Mostly
this involves me learning VimScript (or "VimL" if you prefer) and
trying to complete a small feature (the hard part: creating a set
of reliable tests for the feature using  the  Vader  plugin  test
framework).   This  is truly unglamourous grunt work, but nothing
compared to the 8 hours a day I do at my job.

As usual, my TODO list grows far faster than I could ever hope to
achieve.  Some top items:

1. A huge backlog of gopher phlog post topics

2. Geeky content for my website

3.  Get  caught  up  on  the Gemini project (at least I've gotten
caught up on the mailing list content!)

4. Build a small JavaScript game with  my  daughter  (we  started
with  pixi.js  and  have switched to playground.js because it has
more support for game primitives such as images, sound, input).

5. Finish various books

6. Continue on my "portable computer" - I did get the  7"  screen
working

7.  Convert  my  gopher content to VimWiki...and possibly even my
entire website - surely I'll have more to say  about  this  later
(basically,  the  idea  is  to be able to edit all content in the
VimWiki environment and have external scripts to publish)

8. Art - oh man, Inktober has begun again...TODAY!  I want to  do
it,  but  I  fear  my sanity if I add anything else to my current
personal project load

      Note:

      I didn't finish writing this phlog entry before fami-
      ly  bedtime started and then I was exhausted and gave
      myself permission to just sleep after that - which is
      why this is dated yesterday.

      But I _did_ do a really sloppy Inktober drawing while
      brushing my teeth. So I guess that's happening.

      Note to self:

      It's hard to be creative and do quality work when I'm
      tired  at  night.   Should  probably start getting up
      earlier instead and getting things done  then.   That
      was working really well for a while...

It's October now and I'm looking forward to the cool Fall weather
- getting outside more often to take regular walks with the fami-
ly.   I actually enjoy the kitschy elements of the Halloween sea-
son.

Looking forward to reading all of the Gopher content I've  missed
out  on while I was "under".  Don't worry, I wasn't "cheating" on
Gopher with the Web.  I was just out of it completely.