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Day 4

Today I got to see more family I haven't seen for a while, including my cousin and her children. Also stumbled across a swarm of burnett moths amongst the lavendar.

Being away, I haven't done much computing yet. I've caught up on Mastodon notifications for my .social account via the scripts (I haven't got my TopSpicy.social account set up with them yet) though.

Tennis is on in the background - it's the time of year for Wimbledon! Jabeur and Sabalenka are fighting a really close match, on their 5th/final set...

Trying to connect to the #OldComputerChallenge IRC channel for the first time since my preparatory period and it just seems to be hanging for some reason? Not sure why. I quit and reconnected and it then mostly worked. Good to see so many people engaging with the challenge. At the moment I write this, there are 70 people on the channel!

Emails are still mostly working on mutt.

Wimbledon match is nearing the end seemingly - there have been 2 failed match points from Jabeur but Sabalenka is still hanging in there... Sorry, my tech blog has barely begun and it's degenerating into a Tennis blog!

(And Jabeur just won on the 5th match point, to get into the final! Very close.)

Family are gathering again, so I should probably wrap up this blog entry.

Updated to add:

I forgot to mention that last night, I discovered that Twitter had finally either deleted my account or finally blocked the 3rd-party client I use(d) (only 6 months or so since they said they would!) so, with them making it login-to-view now, means I guess I'm off that platform for good now and won't be able to communicate with any friends I still had there who hadn't made the jump; which is sad, but a new chapter, I guess. Also, I should probably write at some point about how much I love this keyboard! The older the laptop, the better the keyboard, or so I've found, and this one is a beauty! After the challenge, I'll see about uploading photos of this computer.