I'm a lazy journal poster... I admit it!
I always start journals with good intentions. Document what I am feeling, what is going on, give my thoughts a voice, etc. Maybe a week of back to back posts, then a couple days in between, then a month in between and then poof silence.
I am REALLY trying not to do that here, bu I also don't want to post journal entries for the sake of posting. In lief I am that guy that talks when I have something to say, not just to hear myself.
It's been four days since my last journal entry. Now granted I have a handful of twtxt tweets in between (those are simple and easy, so glad I have them available) and I have been doing things that I should probably journal, even if no one ever reads my envs.page. But here I am four days later and just slowly getting around to it.
So, I will just hit the Cliff Notes version of the weekend.
Proxmox was a bust. Is it cool? Absolutely. But I have more power and resources on my desktop than the i5, 16GB spare PC I was hosting it on. Really eaier for me to setup OS labs in VirtualBox or 86Box, maintain snapshots, and not worry about resources or being about to setup a OLD OS (like OS/2Warp) or something smi complicated like Gentoo. So, it's gone, that system repurposed with Debian 13 headless and a Minecraft server and a simple Apache/PHP server to serve the associated website. The idea is cooler too. A small adult Minecraft community for historical building, research, and storytelling. Recreate places, compare sources, and turn each build into something visitors can learn from. Still in the early config stages, byt he Minecraft server is up and running.
I also decided to expand my Historical fiction/Short Story site and weaved in a historiogrpahy portion from an old blog I ran years ago called "Historical Interpreter" that has historical essays, historiography, research library, KB, Bibliographies, Source Guides, etc. It is the "how to" of all things history, and really is fine addition to the historical fiction I write on my site. Again, this is still in the works, but my maon page of short stories and novels is still up and running as before at https://nburchett.com
Other projects have started and not made traction. Verja (is a community operating system for small, durable, member-owned groups) and is in beta user testing, but honestly, I am not feeling the vibe of this one... started with good intentions, but community driver sites are HARD to get off the ground in the modern world. This also goes for Independent Web Almanac, but it is less community and more information, support, resource oriented. It's jsut on pause because all my smaller "quick" projects take over.
Speaking of which, there have been small projects. My 15,000 song music library reorganization project, my novel writing system tweaks, posting articles on my history site, my author site, and dipping in now and then to my DOS/9 project (which is very alive, just waiting on some actual REAL retro Pentium II hardware to test) and then doing research into learning paths for BSD and Plan9.
So, it turns out I have more to say than I thought I did. Part of Saturday was spent relaxing with a friend, which my body and soul needed, and defintely slowed my hyperactive brain down for a good chunk of the day.
I'm going to try an be more diligent with these journal entries... instead of throwing it all out there, I'm going to keep them shorter and maybe that will make them easier to keep up with!
Tags: journal, projects, blogging, history, music, self-hosting, relaxing