Hi, welcome to my microg(em)log. This is where I record things that are not worthy of their own post. Sometimes things start out here and then move to a dedicated post when I ramble too much. It's entirely stream-of-conscious for the most part, and I complain a lot here. About first world problems and such. Just a fair warning.
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Got to say, this "mostly offline" experiment is having some interesting results, even just 2 days in. I'm reading more, playing videogames more, spending more time with my partner, doing better at work. So far, at least. We'll see how things continue to develop over time. I played Terraria for about 3 hours last night and built some pretty cool stuff - which is noteworthy because I am usualy too preoccupied staring at webpages to be motivated to play videogames. I like it so far.
I am very extremely lazy. I got tired of having to manually type out xbps-query -R -s [query], sudo xbps-install [package], sudo xbps-remove [package], so I wrote a really bad bash script that aliases all these things for my entirely lazy convenience. I've posted it below if you have any interest in using this abomination of poor design. Now that I think of it, I probably could have accomplished the exact same thing using literal bash aliases, but I went the extra unnecessary mile anyways. This allows me to do things like "pkg search [query], pkg install [package], pkg remove [package]"
It is the epitome of laziness.
/usr/bin/pkg
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#!/bin/bash
SUBCOMMAND=$1
if [ $SUBCOMMAND == "search" ];
then
QUERY=$(echo "$*" | sed 's/search //')
xbps-query -R -s "$QUERY"
elif [ $SUBCOMMAND == "install" ];
then
QUERY=$(echo "$*" | sed 's/install //')
sudo xbps-install $QUERY
elif [ $SUBCOMMAND == "remove" ];
then
QUERY=$(echo "$*" | sed 's/remove //')
sudo xbps-remove $QUERY
fi
So today I smoked a bit of the funny green plant for the first time in I think 3 years now. One thing that immediately stood out was how much less did the trick. Definitely a novel experience. I guess this is the point where I can microblog a bit about a condition I developed 3 years ago which made it hard or impossible to smoke. It's called Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome and it basically causes a hypersensitivity to cannabis akin to an allergy. I have tried a couple times in the past (about a year ago, and a year and a half ago respectively), and both times I had some pretty wild reactions to it in the form of nausea and such. This condition tends to last anywhere between a few months and a few years, and I think the fact that I was able to smoke a little today with no violent reactions means I am in fact recovering, if not already basically recovered. Makes me happy.
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I noticed that I was already aggregated on nytpu's comitium page! Almost feels like an honor, however weird that sounds, as they were one of the first people whose gemlogs I subscribed to. Despite being rather new around here, I really do like it so far. There's just a certain atmosphere to the whole gemini world that you can't find anywhere else out there.
You know those days where you want nothing more than a nap? Yeah, today's one of them. I saw ew0k's reading challenge, reading between 10 and 50 pages per day. I kinda want to take them up on that. Sounds like a lot of fun. Perhaps in a week's time I'll make a proper gemlog post about how I faired.
It boggles my mind how so many people in the medical field can't even fill out a basic form properly. This nurse thinks she attented a social worker oriented school for her MSN degree. Haha.
Got off my lunch break. Employer hounding the whole team for production. Feels good to be one of the only ones not getting yelped at. Back to the fun hellhole of data entry. I really should just suck it up and apply my programming abilities to my career, but I'm afraid of having to work with gargantuan shithole codebases.
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