12 may 2021
My feels are sporadic because... my feels are sporadic. That's kinda just how it is.
A few updates. I've since gotten the butterstick, and put it on the old HP Elitebook, which has now benefitted from moving to an SSD. The performance gain is amazing. I also put our "utility" computer on an SSD and it's become much faster and more reliable because of it. The butterstick does hurt my brain a bit, and I wish I had more time to spend on it, but I don't right now.
I built a nifty household backup solution. We're using a Pi 4 that has a few big USB disks attached and running in a RAID 1 config that backs everything up to AWS weekly. This runs syncthing, and everything in the house is running syncthing as well, so I get the added benefit of having all of my files synchronized between all the places that I'm at.
Medical stuff. March was one year on feminizing HRT. I sometimes wish that things would hurry up, but time being the way it is, it hasn't. Two new issues as of late:
- Migraine headaches. I've had the worst headaches of my life in the past few weeks, and have been liberally taking Aleve to help take care of them.
- Stomach problems. My stomach has been in pain a lot lately, and I'm on a multi-month course of Omeprazole to try and calm things down a bit. Getting older kinda sucks.
Work is stretching me a bit. I'm studying algorithms and data structure, because it's something I've never had to learn before now, and I'm really enjoying it. Exercising my brain in a different way than I have in the past.
Otherwise, feels are... odd. I've had my first COVID-19 vaccination, and will be getting the second next week. It's heartbreaking to see what's going on in India right now. I'm also struggling with what things are going to be like trying to go back into the world. Reconciling all of that is going to take a bit of doing.