Another month of many issues and suppressed items happened. There's all kinds of things happening all over the world and I don't really know what to think about all of it other than it is all kind of hopeless.
Anyway.
Haha, forget that. All my programming work is done at work this month. I couldn't reserve any programming chops to my own projects.
Nevertheless, I have my thoughts on what to do. I am thinking about an emergency page registration system now that bocproc8 seems to have fallen off into the indefinite future. Text-based database solutions for other things that I would like to do are also there, though whether or not I can actually execute them is another question.
Additionally, I have created a translingual script that converts files on my filesystem to an Atom feed, so that's pretty neat.
Oh, and of course, I have a new capsule now.
I have managed to write a few pages this month. It's fewer than what I would have liked but it's the best I could have done given the circumstances. I am coming to the last third of the latest book and it's fairly certain that I can get a new book on before the end of October.
I have also pencilled in some more details on the new setting I have under incubation for a long time now. It's starting to take shape though the exact form it's going to take remains hazy. Plus, the star of the show hasn't even been developed yet.
A sketch of the rules of Ùzje Mahjong has been started, but I have not been able to finish it according to my self-imposed deadline. I'll consider it done by the end of September.
I think it's high time that I make this section a category of its own, so I can tell it apart from other things that don't require as much energy.
At this time I wish to write two things:
These would be published when they are complete.
The world has gotten a lot more complicated for me over the last few months, and like last time this is through all layers of my life in many timescales.
First, there is the case of my weight, which has been billowing up for a while now just because I eat so much. The problem really is that ever since that big thing that I needed to go to the hospital for it was found that my digestion and therefore my metabolism is very slow, so any food I come in do actually take some time to come out the other end, and also the weight keeps easily. I've been trying the conservation of mass principle of weight loss – you can't possibly gain weight if you eat and drink less than what you breathe and excrete out – but that is actually quite restrictive (and I don't actually bother tracking all that well anyway).
There's also the slight issue that the eczema has decided to come back again and I don't like that. If I want to exercise I have to work around that as well, and that means no sweating. But what is the point of exercising if you can't sweat?
In the family side of things, the amah is about to leave in a few months, and it has only dawned on me that it's going to happen. I don't really know what is going to happen in the months afterwards, and my mum is dropping hints that I have to handle a bunch of housework myself also, and that's kind of Bad because I also have to balance a job? That won't be nice.
And speaking of work, it's been a bit topsy-turvy there. It's not a big problem right now but there's a whiff of a thought that I might be a bit over my head with the duties there. I know that programming has always been a bit of a trouble with me despite making it my career, but now I have a feeling that I'm showing my "I don't know what I am doing" face a little bit too much and the boss might be catching on. Don't like that. Plus, sometimes I /do/ know what I'm doing and I just can't show it! Not nice.
And finally when we move our focus out to society at large, well I don't think I need to say anything more than what you probably already know if you follow the news. But in case you don't, it's fairly obvious to anyone who looks with an honest eye that civil society around these parts have been hit in a blitzkrieg of measures that I don't really want to describe in any meaningful detail. There is still some level of resistance, but it all feels a bit hopeless. Nevertheless, at least in my heart, we must persist, because that is really the only hope that we have in these days.
It's not just Hong Kong that is having this issue, really, as there are similar attacks on various civil societies in Thailand and Myanmar among many others in Asia. It's all really down to certain chicken-shaped countries, as far as I can tell. One that insists that everyone but it is a troublemaker, which, well, I think that's all that needs to be said on the matter.
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In unrelated news, I have also decided that I should drive to more exotic places to explore some more.