ADHD

Been playing around with a book idea. It's in the style of the Ouipo inspired book, A Void. The book, written in French, is done so without using the letter "e". Perec is a mad man and an amazing writer. And I don't think anything I will write will be anywhere near that quality.

I want to write something similar that is a world without 'ai' (written by AI*). It's been fun structuring chapters, characters, themes, settings, etc. I'm not a writer by training, but I do like word play and so this has been fun.

I have no hope or dreams of publishing, but I might show a few friends who get it. And hope that it tickles them the way it tickles me.

* I really don't like the output so far. And I have my doubts about it becoming good. But I got something that wasn't outright bad the other night. So who knows?

Toying with the idea of running my own email server. Lots of people say this is a bad idea.

Been doing lots of research. I have a VPS for it already and want to set it up with postfix, dovecot, roundcube, and mariadb.

I don't want to host locally because I don't want it to depend on my internet connection and because my ip address will likely change at some point and most residential IPs are blacklisted.

But also don't want to host it on someone else's machine unless I can totally encrypt the drive. I have been looking at how to do full drive encryption on a vps hard drive by adding dropbear ssh to the initsys so I can ssh in and enter the decryption password when rebooting.

This also doesn't seem ideal, because it would require me to be available to do this for every reboot.

So still researching to see what other options there are.

KCD2

i bought an orange juicer. been making orange juice every other day. it's awesome

and i'm not even over my dishwasher high

People talking and analyzing the movies and tv series I watched as a kid with each video ranging from 30 minutes to 2 hours, 14 minutes and 28 seconds

Lately, it's been the man pages for bash. Linux is a rabbit hole all on its own. The man pages lead you from one hole to another and each has its own usefulness. Who would have thought that reading the manual could actually be useful?

Been rebinging Warehouse 13 (dumb but I love it). It stayed as an attempt to trick myself into doing some long overdue paperwork - even doing it slowly while half watching show is better than continuing to avoid it completely. That worked for a day or so, but now I've descended to just cycling through savoury and sweet snacks and watching a season a day...

Househunting

Learning Japanese on Duolingo and other sources (learnjapanese.moe) because why not

cookie clicker again... Same save this time tho

Oh and I started a modded Minecraft server again... Well that one was just yesterday

the biathlon world championships!