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Title: Back
Date: March 04, 2025
Written On: BBEdit on Mid-2009 MacBook Pro
Mood: Thinking
Listening To: DDRMAX OST - Nonstop Megamix

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  It's been a while. A lot happened since last year, and I
just didn't have it in me to maintain both web and gopher
at the time. There was also a lot of negativity going on in
the smolnet that I regularly saw, and so I focused myself
on the web to help manage my mental health, since I could
easily make it mostly read-only for my needs. Gopher is one
place that encourages participation in me, even when it's
something I need to put a hold to for a bit.

  That said... I now half-own my family home with my
beloved mates, thought at a cost of almost $30,000 USD of
debt in a HELOC. My last uncle got his money, but
literally 5 days after signing, and only 2 days after
getting his money, his wife passed from a lot of medical
complications. It's been a whirlwind from start to finish,
but we still have a place to call home.

  That all ended just last month. For roughly 5 months, we
were under threat of being homeless, but that's now in the
past.

  We're starting to get a little more comfortable. My mates
and I have started getting more into buying physical media
for our collections, and I've been spending a *lot* more
time offline than online. I've also started using physical
notebooks for taking notes, and moving back to more of my
pre-Linux habits from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Even
while on my MacBook, I turn off the WiFi and just try to
get things done. I don't need to subject myself to the
madhouse of emotions when I need time to recover.

  There's a lot more I wanna write about, but not in this
post. That all deserves its own topic.

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