2026-09-28                             dispatches from helix
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   Hello, Internet.

   I am feeling like I have an "infinite TODO list" and it's a
   bit overwhelming. It's funny because it's effectively all
   self-imposed: I don't have a boss cracking some whip.

   Some is from attempting to grow Colocataires, some is the
   natural churn of owning a house, but a lot is that I want to
   basically play with things (computers, music, art stuff) but
   all but the most surface version of that kinda devolves into
   TODO items.

   That might be as simple as "ah, remember to read that post"
   (keep that tab open) or it might that, since trying out
   Alpine Linux for my main laptop, I now need to get Firefox
   sync working again, and I need to re-establish IPv6 tunnels
   and I need to ensure I can handle on-call duties for
   Colocataires and that I can run `ansible` etc. etc.

   More subtly there are things that are "TOWORRY" --
   OttawaSystems is trying to run another event and PD is
   arranging the space (good) but also we need to line up
   speakers. That's not an item "assigned" to me; there's three
   of us organizers, but also if no one does it then it won't
   get done, so it's got to be worried about until the event
   happens.

   (And minor things like advertising that it is happening, and
   setting up the event so it can be booked and mailing the
   mailing list and updating the site etc.)

   All somewhat self-inflicted, and I will enjoy the fruits of
   having done this, but I am not enjoying the time when they
   haven't been done yet, for sure.