03 May 25 Saturday

i woke up in the early morning, dreading the impending
alarm. i felt such a flood of relief as i edged into 
wakefulness and i realized i could go back to sleep.

later, after more sleep, and home-made oat lattes (found
the machine at a thrift shop for $11 about a year ago, 
quite fond of it), i worked on arranging and updating my 
files in the SDF server, smoothing things out between 
gopher and gemini. 

i tried to learn how to back up my SDF files with rsync,
and did a lot of trial and equal error. i will keep 
futzing. i guess it must be something about how i'm 
entering the file paths. it took me a couple weeks at
least to figure out how to get my gopher hole, and 
then gemini capsule running. i love these spaces, love
browsing through the many small worlds of thought, old
and new. i love the feeling of quiet and mystery and 
intimacy. it makes me feel like i felt when i was a 
teenager first holding my breath at the squeal of the 
dialup signal. and i feel safe, here. 

tonight, i reorganized my modular case and rewired everything, 
after having dismantled things to put together a travel
rack for our recent gig travels. my arms were jellywobbly
from having done up to two hours of weedwhacking. i wish 
we could let the violets and dandelions grow, but last year
we got two costly tickets from the city. untamed meadows are 
against regulations, i guess. 

i worked on figuring out this module that is a Downsampler/
Sample & Hold/Comparator. it's a handmedown/lent module, and 
it's been a challenge to decipher. i've tried to read the 
manual many times, but only just now finally was able to 
translate it into use with some understanding. 

is this entry more dry? 
we ate italian bread with butter for dinner.