2023

I was wondering whether I should make this post, but seeing one of the smol.pub users I like do it, I decided, why not?

There are many highlights to this year, but I won't bother you with all of that. One interesting thing that happened, I ate a snake. It coiled desperately as I tried to cut it open, even though the head had been severed for a while already. It reminded me so much to that book I read earlier this year[1] that argues that the whole organism is alive and conscious, not just some part of it such as the brain.

I also started opening myself up with people, as well as trying to "stay effay"; I remembered my youth, and how different I was not 10 years ago, and how I liked to dress up nicely. This year I've starting to build a nice wardrobe, and try to reach out to younger people, if only just a small bit. I like young people, and I don't know why I've been so afraid of talking to them recently.

I found new music I liked. My favorite have been Viktor Tsoi, and FUFU, I guess they can be said to be the soundtrack for this year.

Oh, and I started learning Russian, for real this time. I've also engaged more with Chinese poetry, which is one of the things I've enjoyed most of anything, especially on rainy days when there is not much more to do.

2024

Enough about last year, it's (almost!) gone, now let's look at the future.

We have a saying: Tell God your plans, so he can have a good laugh. Nevertheless, it's always a good exercise, if only in futility, to look forward and make some semblance of a plan, or, as people would have it, a resolution.

First of all, I want to work. I haven't worked in about 4 years. I've mainly tended my garden and made projects at home. And studied quite a bit. Now I want things, and I want to go out and meet people and have something to do. I am considering starting to work as a courier, either freelance or under salary, since I like so much driving around in my motorcycle. Well, let's see how that goes.

My little laptop (my "hackbook") has been gathering dust for a few years now. I just started to work on it to start using it again. I set up partitions to install crux and smgl, and I plan to also try guix again, and maybe some time even LFS. And I also want to try 9front again. I want to have a multi-OS setup and a "scratch" partition to experiment. I want to work with lisp, too. I think I'm going stick to Scheme, probably guile. I would like to make a work environment where I feel at home and in "flow", I tried emacs many many times now, and I never feel comfortable using it.

Well, I can't think of anything else right now. I will keep posting about books, notebooks, and language learning here on gemini. I'll keep on learning Russian, reading Chinese poetry, using less internet, especially *chans and reading Russian literature and listening to Russian music. I'll keep planting trees and building the space for my poultry, as well as improving our home with the guidance of my beautiful and visionary wife.

Well, I sure hope so.

Whether or not there is anyone reading this, I wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2024. Last few years have been quite a ride, and they will continue to do so. We are experiencing a major shift in just about everything in the world, from political systems, to economic models, to the very shape of our environment, so things will certainly not be easy, surely there will be no "back to business as usual", and I hope for you all to navigate these times gracefully and reach your desired goals, and to have a good life suited to your own reality. I'll be forward to keep reading from all of you, I've enjoyed it so far. And I'm very grateful to the owner of smol.pub for making a very nice little space where I can share a little bit about me and read other people's experiences.

Up next: _My favorite books_, _Why I don't like liberalism anymore_, and _The cosmopolite ecology_.

References

[1] The biology of wonder - Andreas Weber