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I am home from a work trip and have a few days off now that I am planning to spend resting and working on my hobbies.
I finished reading “Why we forget” by Sergio Della Sala and now I am reading “Dracula” through Dracula Daily, and the Daily Stoic.
I journaled even more in September, and wrote other stuff too. Like a web page about obscure Basic dialects. It required some research, which in turn inspired a new batch of updates to Batch Basic. That's in addition to other experiments, not yet published. Only my story is still stuck at the 5K-word mark. Can't have them all.
Managed to see a second doctor, too! My eyes are less damaged than I feared, but in need of treatment all the same. It's already helping, too, after only a few days. Still ought to rest a lot more instead of resuming my bad habits. Maybe after this journal entry.
On top of that, I went downtown no less than three times in a month. Haven't been so active in a while. The city looks worse the closer you get to the parts that everyone thinks of as fancy. Hate to be proven right like this, but nowadays everything good happens closer to the periphery.
It sure feels like everything is falling apart. Paying bills and sorting out mix-ups is getting harder every month. Hot water continues to be scarce at best. Prices are rising.
Last but not least, weather went from cricket concerts to almost winter within one month. Had to break out thicker clothes pretty fast!
Oh, I got to meet some visiting relatives: always a good thing. Been more active in various online communities, too. A lot of them seem to be dying this year, all at once. Just my luck. But everyone wants forums back, so there's hope yet.
P.S. Got my hands on another monitor, by the way: a cheap second-hand Dell very similar to my ancient spare. Works just fine, without fuss. Exactly how I like hardware.
A searing hot shower, fresh unwilted vegetables, new old shoes and a spray of fragrant golden leaves all conspire, during the fretful hours of the night when a few sleepless neurons can't seem to riddle out why the wind is not pivoting us around the anchor, to reassure me that we have indeed returned and are once again docked in Victoria.
Let's go, it's Drawtober!
I am in Italy, and back to work. As I write this, I am enjoying the cooler air coming from the window. I always liked Autumn, and I am happy that this season is back.
I am reading: "Thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
we facilitated a workshop at Alpaca 2025: Introduction to the qiudanz technique: computational transformation of minimalist movement sequences
It had been a very long time since I last gathered enough songs to release an album, I wish I could say that life got in the way, or something excusable like that, but in truth, when I released that last album, I felt like I had just about written all that I meant to write, so I let Aliceffekt fall asleep and focused onto other things.
Every once in a while, I did have ideas for new songs, but nothing that made it past the drawing board I could tie with the rest of the Neauismetica. Lately, I started to imagine new places to populate Dinaisth with, and the songs and pictures started to come back, so I decided to gather some of those, wake Aliceffekt up again, and put it out!
