19 january 2026
Happy Birthday to Dolly Parton and Edgar Poe.
The year/month so far has been uneventful and dull, but I've done a couple of things that some might consider accomplisments. There are now two (admittedly old & slow) tablet PCs with working Linux systems on them and my webserver and dedicated irc client are back on the Web thing. Work is sparse atm, so I have time to do many of the things I always say I'm going to do over the winter: tidy the house from top to bottom, finish some paintings, sell some crap. But of course, when the opportunity arises to do any of this, my anxiety tells me to think of as many unpleasant things all at once as I possibly can to distract my brain from doing anything useful. Even writing this has raised my stress level.
But anyway, the days are slowly getting longer, hopefully soon to be warmer as well, which gives me a little bit of hope that some things might be accomplished in tyhe coming days. I have a new derailleur that needs to go on my bike, but that's yet another one of those "gonna get around to it" things that may still be undone in April. I dunno.
I guess that's all for today...a brief rant about procrastinating, which is itself really just another form of procrastination.