This isn't the longest time I've been absent here at the ol' blog (the longest stretch has been 4€½ months back in late 2012), but things around Chez Boca have been interesting for the past three and a half months. The biggest thing is a medical issue that Bunny has been going through. It's not life threatening, but it is life changing for the both of us, and the doctors are still trying to figure out what happened in late April that caused the issue. I've also been forced to deal with the medical-industrial complex and the bureaucracy surrounding it (Bunny used to deal with the medical-industrial complex, having been a former Fed herself and can stomach the bureaucracy) and while I have plenty to say about it, I'll refrain least I work myself up.
Another issue has been that my primary development system (a Linux system) has been offline for the past few months. July 3^rd we had a small power outtage.
One of the things I do is that I’m also so centered on the map. I love it when light is indicated on the map (we're currently in The Halls of Arden Vul and that module doesn't indicate light ðŸââ).
The single biggest influence on how I describe a room is when I was little and me and grandma would go down into the cellar under her workplace where she kept a case of soda by the door and we never ventured very far in there but the light didn’t reach the other sides of the room is how big and dark it was.
So a lot of things happened not in the order I had thought: I got married about four years ago in the municipal office of Adachi, then I had a wedding with no attendees last year, my baby was born this spring and my family came for the second time to visit me and meet my in-laws. I was kind of busy due to work so I couldn’t do all the stuff I wanted while I had my parents here but, I think we all had a good time and I’m very grateful for that.
Breezy fall morning Plans ahead, but not time yet Just coffee for now
Pacing is a topic that I have paid particular attention to, through the eyes of my kids, and precisely because I agree: slow pacing can work extremely well as long as the payoff is there. It might be a payoff due to a slow build to something exciting—or simply a payoff from being slow paced and wonderful.
Modern life is so fast—so free of boredom by default—that kids these days don’t get a lot of exposure to slow pacing.
After writing the post for Part 2, I was pretty much out of ideas to do before putting it back together. The only things I could think of would be recapping the analog board (that I should do eventually but it currently seems in perfect condition) and cleaning the contacts on the RAM SIMMs—I had planned to do that when I first got it but forgot until then.
After scrubbing the contacts with isopropyl alcohol, I began sullenly reassembling the whole machine. I was very anxious, if I hadn't destroyed it outright with my shitty recapping job or my disassembly of the analog components, I was doubtful it would do anything other than show that checkerboard. Despite my lack of hope, plugging it in and flipping the switch was the most stressful things I've done in recent memory, far ahead of like, last semester's finals or anything.
As of the posting of this announcement, the new geminiprotocol.net domain is the official home of Project Gemini. If you're reading this, you are already here! Welcome! As per the plan outlined in previous announcements, the CAPCOM aggregator and the SFTP user hosting at gemini.circumlunar.space remain at their old addresses. They are no longer official parts of the project, but are part of what I hope will be a growing range of services provided to Geminispace by various folks in the Circumlunar Space community, not just me. The new geminiprotocol.net domain hosts the protocol specification, all the official documentation, the news feed and project history.
I believe the FAQ, project history and other documents have had all links to and mentions of the old domain name updated to reflect the move, but if you happen to find something I have missed, please let me know!
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
