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And so she moved on. Sometimes for no better reason than because she didn't like the view from the coffee shop. This time it was just a feeling that the beach side town was too quiet in the winter, and she was looking for some work to stretch her arms. So she cashed her mincome, bought a train ticket up north and fell in with a brand new makerspace setting up in an old sawmill. It was freezing, but the first thing they built were small rooms inside the giant building that they could easily heat.

Also, the post-copyright stuff doesn't have any medical issues behind it, just in case anyone was worried ;) It's been a good year... Almost two.

This week I'm reading Raymond Chandler and feeling oddly like I missed my chance to be a hard-boiled detective because I just stopped drinking, instead of because ALL THE OTHER THINGS.

Reading ebooks always reminds me of the hospital. I've spent a lot of nights sitting by bedsides reading on this thing... Nearly every full price book on here has a medical story behind it.

She loves her kids.

A birdsite thread on writing Indigenous characters, bookmarked here for myself as much as anything - https://twitter.com/apihtawikosisan/status/1012713526652067841?s=19

I once spent Canada day weekend in Grande Prairie, Alberta. I was drinking with my friend Dave, and a bunch of fellow carpet bagging easterners, Jimmy the truck driver and his dad, Jimmy the truck driver.

We just sat on the porch and played guitar and sang Stan Rogers songs until it got a bit dark out. Then it started to get light again. Long live the Summer Solstice :)

I was actually pretty happy tonight with Guelph electing the first Green Party MPP until I remembered I also live in Ontario and things..... Didn't go as well outside Guelph.

I started this just because I really liked that line about issues and neutrinos ;)

I actually had a serious bout of depression in late high school/ early university. But I got through it in part by recognizing that it must be a brain chemistry problem because I didn't have any real problems. It still hit me pretty hard physically. I can't imagine going through that and fighting battles on different fronts too.

It's still down there, but it doesn't have the same presence that it used to.

Growing up, I had an unhealthy amount of stress. Specifically, almost none.

Issues like homework and money and social status passed through me like neutrinos, rarely interacting.

"Do you understand this assignment is worth 20% of your mark?"

"Do you understand that WE'RE ON A ROCK, IN SPACE?"

And yet, somehow I ended up here, with the most standard life possible(wife, house, 2 kids). I think that says a lot about the inertia of privilege....

Personal digital assistants (local/self hosted), 'dynamic' homes, exoskeletons, mobility scooters, self driving cars, video (VR?) telepresence, airships, AI farming, cradle to grave products, garbage dump mining, self driving motor homes, coop wireless networks...

Went out walking last night and hit this, about 200m up the road. Yesterday was a windy day ;)

I've decided my default reaction to bullying will be "That's a very small minded way to look at the world."
Trying to figure out how to intervene in different kids disagreements...
But it also applies in general ;)

I once owned a car with power steering OR power brakes. You had to pick. If you tries to brake and turn at the same time it would stall.

Sometimes I miss having unecessary challenges in my life ;)

Took the train yesterday morning. That bumping looking ice sheet is the accessibility platform ;) https://writing.exchange/media/kc0f-ugaLOz6riJ8jJU

I like the federated timeline and I see why they did it that way... I've also found lots of people in the federated feed. But I also want a custom timeline of the full feeds of instances that just I pick. Hm. Not sure if that's a solveable UI problem or a larger structural problem.