2026-03-09
I am still here and still alive – hello!
Over the past couple of years, it was hard to find both the time and the motivation to update my gemlog. I dived right into my day job (which I love) and made a point of spending more time with friends (of which I suddenly made more in a short span of time) and family (who I try to see every fortnight now if not every week).
So yeah, it’s been a lot. Online stuff was laser focused on something that makes me happy, while offline stuff got progressively more balanced and healthy. Honestly, I kind of can’t believe how much things changed after I got off social media, and perhaps I need to write a follow-up post on where those “weaning off” tricks led over three and a half years.
I’ve embraced a “vegan by default” diet, but will spot-add meat, eggs and dairy whenever it makes sense to, ie. body needs nutrients (I do a strength/agility sport), easier when dining with others, or when tofu & gochujang sandwiches would just be unsatisfying without a bit of cheese and mayo.
Books that have really impacted me in the last year and a bit were:
My state seems slightly less afraid of an energy crisis now that more homes have solar panels. A chat with a solar engineer friend last winter revealed to me that a big emerging challenge now is to manage the potential for oversupply because of how must sunshine we get here, and so my paranoia about OMG AM I LIVING LIKE AN ELECTRICITY GLUTTON has become fears along the lines of OH NOES WHAT IF ALL THE BATTERIES EXPLODE?!
I do not identify as a doomer. Perhaps just an overthinker with insufficient access to actual data that would mitigate the panic.
That’s all for today. Just a wee catch-up braindump. Long live the slow internet.
Weaning off social media… (re: the aforementioned tricks)
Power and internet habits (re: energy crisis fears)
gopher://smol.pub/0/xiu/2022-08-30-weaning-off-social gopher://smol.pub/0/xiu/2022-12-14-power-internet-habit
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