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04 May 2021
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Its a long time since my last entry in this phlog... and much has happened
in the last months!

To start: My dad went to the hospital with an broken spine (god knows how he
managed to get this) and massive inflamation in the whole body. To boost
things: Because of his bad overall state and the heavy medication he was got
delirious while he was in there... and with 80 years of age the docs thought
this was the onset of some form of dementia. Lets just say: It was not nice
for him or the whole family.

The stress of my dad in this bad state has lead to some turmoil in the rest
of the family too: My wife and my mom clashed and we even considered
abandoning our barn restoration project and moving somewhere else...
but now, everything is at least on the way to better times.

My dad is back from the hospital and not delirious anymore (thank GOD!) but
has still some problems with his memory and is suffering a bit of a
depression. But i think things are improving. And we are staying with our
project.

On the professional side of things: I want a job change.

I have worked as an sysop now for nearly... wow... 15 years and i am totally
fed up with this gloryfied janitor job. Yes, user interaction, fixing
problems and so on are fun, but over the time i really got the urge to do
some more developement and programming. In my current job i DO code software,
but i do this between showing users how write an email (for the umpteenth
time) or changing mice or keyboards... its just not that fun.

So, i am now (re-) learning lisp and hope to land anywhere in the industry
sometimes this year. Perhaps at first only as a side-gig, but lets see...

And i have FINALLY gotten to set up an CLI only workstation using an
raspberry pi. Its amazing how fast things get if you strip away all the bling.