I never really had migraine before, but this afternoon it hit, just as we got back from a birthday party. Excruciating pain in my head and the feeling of being sick. Luckily enough I was able to rest a bit, drink a lot of water and get some painkillers. It's now a bit better but I think the rest of the day will be extremely slow. Most likely not a real migraine but it still was/is bad.
One thought that hit me today. Lately when reading online, and especially noticeable on Mastodon or if you follow the posts here on write.as, there is a movement towards going simpler. One example is tmo's last couple of blog posts here where he (?) speaks of buying a simple, or a dumb phone, instead of a smartphone. But I also see it a lot on mastodon. It might not be a general trend yet but definitely a move there.
My personal thoughts are that a new smartphone from Apple or any of the other big competitors is extremely expensive. A value that it doesn't give me back. I also feel that I do not have control over what is going on in these phones when it comes to my privacy and my personal data. I will probably try to keep my current phone for as long as possible and when it breaks I will buy a new smart phone but a few years old model. An Android phone that I instantaneous will root with a more privacy friendly alternative.
By the way the experiment I mentioned in yesterdays post turned out well and the new blog post has been created. Now I will spend the rest of the evening resting. Maybe see if there is a movie that I can half sleep to.
Yet another stressful day. At least it is Friday and I will have a somewhat calmer weekend. I have two things I want to achieve. First is to spend a lot of time with the family. This evening we watched a pretty strange, surreal, cartoon. Not that cartoons are known to be that realistic but the story line was just wack. But the kids liked the time we spent together and I want the weekend to continue in that way.
The other goal is that I want to do some technical changes to my blog. That is my other blog. And when that is done I want to write a blog post about it. I have a pretty good idea how to structure it and what the story line should be. Lets just hope that the technical changes falls out as well as I want. But I can't see that it should be a problem.
I was lucky today – I was able to compress a 3 hour meeting down to 2. The extra hour I got was really great and it helped me work on some other stuff in my backlog. Even though the bucket of stuff didn't grow as quick as earlier day it still grew. I need to find a way to offload stuff on other people.
I still can't publish posts to reader.write.as — I need to upgrade my account. And to do that I need to get hold of some crypto currency and to do that I will need an email. And right now there is some issues with my email account. Hopefully that will be solved by tomorrow and then I can hopefully have a premium write.as account in the beginning end of next week.
Some days are just so crazy busy that you don't really know where to start. When you finally get around to fix one thing, three new have piled up. Today has been such a day. I have for some time wanted to start writing a daily journal here and not really gotten around to do it. But why not start after a day crazy as others.
This is not the first attempt to start writing something small on a daily basis. I have been pretty good at it in the past using an application called DayOne on the ipad. This time I choose to go public but anonymous. This to be able to paint a true picture of my life with out sharing.
Right of on the start, I will not use any names or locations here. If I will need to put people or places in context I will make up aliases for them. All that matters here is the story not the person behind the keyboard.
With these few words I welcome you to this new blog and I hope you will enjoy the ride.