Midnight Pub

So, what's everyone up to?

~alex

Huh, sweet honey lemon? Did you miss me that much, ~bartender?! I'm just kidding, thank you!

The past nights kept me too busy for Midnight, yet... it seems this place is quieter than usual.

So, to "break the ice" among those who currently are around, what have you guys been up to recently?


ew

Howdy ~alex, good to see you around!

~bartender? Hmmm, how about some of that spiced hot chocolate? Yeah, well, the time of the year has come with temperatures close to 0°C, autumn leaves, everything wet, thin veils of fog in the morning ... thanks, ~bartender!

While probably everyone, their cat and their dog included, is busy somehow, I'm somewhat stopped in my tracks. No, not entirely "dead", but well. I have been on sick leave since the end of July ... and I have growing "angst" that the sky will fall on my head any time really soon now. Maybe even before I hit the "Reply" button. In which case even slow Midnight won't notice :) Oh well. So, maybe, just maybe in two weeks I'm able to see well enough to move around outside the house on my own again.

Out of pure desperation I took out my mostly abandoned micro controller project and gave it some attention. I even made another iteration on printed circuit boards. So maybe, if the goddesses of bitly and bytely work are merciful, I'd bring that stuff to a new iteration of their life cycle. On the other hand --- who cares? No one exactly.

So, I sincerely hope that this health issue will improve now, after three iterations. May the goddesses of transformation be merciful. Those are responsible for birth and death, too, you know. Apart from day and night and the seasons and everything that changes, so pretty much everything. Pretty darn busy, those ladies, me thinks! :-)

Cheers!

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alex

I hope whatever health issue is plaguing you will be gone soon – or at least improve significantly to no longer give you existential fears!

And I wouldn't say that no one cares about your printed circuit boards, in fact I'm quite interested, despite my lack of knowledge. I have always admired people working on hardware in their free time. Keep it going!

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ew

The new shiny circuit boards came today :-)))

However, not all needed parts are in my box in sufficient numbers. Not unexpected. But finding the right parts is always a bit annoying for me, so I have to order some stuff. For testing one new function, I have the parts. So maybe on the weekend, with a fresh mind, I'll heat up the solder iron.

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alex

I hope you'll keep us up to date on your experiments (and don't accidentally burn yourself in the process)!

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samo

A patron rushes from another table, not to miss the slow social-feed moment… stumbles on the way, being under the spell of the alcohol.

Another beer for me ~bartender

I enjoy this hanging around and slowness, comunication. And in all this simplicity i discover new posibilities. Get inspiration. And

share some ideas:

There is this blog i write about smoll web. Its in slovene language, kind of introductory content for starting with web… I managed to set up a server and am hosting www and gemini content there. I would like to setup also server for nex protocol, the server software i know needs an openBSD OS… thats why i need to set up another computer…it are all new things for me, so its fun and exciting process.

blog in unknown language
experimental server content http
experimental server content gemini
Na zdravje!
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alex

I... think you've had enough for today, don't you agree, ~bartender?

On the other hand, Slovene is a nice language, so I don't agree with you stating that your blog is written in an "unknown language" – I've heard it quite often, so far! It's just a little unfortunate that I'm not able to understand it but at least you're contributing to the spread of the smol web among Slovenes. It really needs some language diversity.

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samo
Even if i like to not to agree, now on all points i can only agree with you.

Working skillfully with the words, demands some clarity and my sight is blurred now.

Thanks for the company, ~bartender what do i owe you?

I finish of the beer, get up from the table and head towards the counter. A lady is standing at the counter and i catch that she ordered mint tea… I step closer and… she smells like flowers… I take the wallet and pay with cash.

The patron leaves the pub lifting his hand in greeting.

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xandra

just jameson on the rocks, ~bartender; needing a stiff one over here.

i've been very busy and haven't had much time to upload writing i've been doing in my (little) spare time, but as things are settling down, i'm feeling better about spreading myself out mentally again.

i moved north, so i'm in seattle these days. uprooting your entire life takes up more time than i'd like to admit; i was insistent upon not taking any time off from my hobbies' deadlines other than when we physically had our computers locked away in a uhaul. somehow managed to launch a project in this timeframe too. i thought maybe i'd be able to overcome having a transitional period at all, but this proved to be unequivocally false. i have to settle for the fact that i, too, am human and susceptible to the very same things i try to be resilient against.

thanks for asking, ~alex! what's been keeping you busy?

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alex

This sounds rough. I'm not here to give you any advice on how to deal with being uprooted – each human tends to deal with it in their own ways, some got it easier than others. But have you considered to keep something around that reminds you of your old life and gives you a sense of comfort? Sometimes it may be healthier to just release this feeling in a healthy and controlled manner to get over it afterwards.

To be fair, though, this sense of not truly belonging somewhere will always linger in the back of the head, no matter how much you've grown accustomed to your new environment. You'll learn to get used to it eventually but take all the time you need – it's human, after all.

And me... Well, nothing much, the usual. Some autodidactic endeavors here, some quietly listening to the conversations in Midnight, but most importantly... keeping my front door free of masses of fallen leaves. Due to the sheer amount of trees in front of my home and the unfortunate direction of the wind through this street, almost all of it lands in front of my door and my garage. As much as I like autumn but I'm too young to experience this amount of back pain after cleaning a gutter.

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