Here I sit, Harris Manor (RCF) in old/downtown Farmington. MO. I am 17 days sober(!), updating every so often on Mastodon ( @x2600 ) and keeping up with the regs (blogs, masto accounts) via RSS. Lurking, as always, on #sdf and #ctrl-c IRC (irc.sdf.org and irc.tilde.chat are those servers, respectively) – having a swell time :)

Why an RCF?

Well, a temporary fix in order to avoid homelessness, as the continual apartment search in STL is turning up a bust (so far). At this point, my best bet is renting a tiny house/office space in South St Louis City, which is MUCH more affordable than a dedicated apartment. Avoiding market rate pricing is the Name of the Rose

Not much else for right now. But soon soon soon

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(this took place on IRC/#Ctrl-c – via Irssi)

20:14 < x2600> was able to re-construct the old desk (w/o legs) into another "branch" of my current desk. I took an old end table and removed the legs from it, propped it under the desktop/tabletop, then put two wire shelving units on the other side. Now I have an L-shaped desk again
20:15 < x2600> I secured everything with some 550 cord, now everything is sturdy and solid :)
20:16 < x2600> I enjoyed the rest of the rainy evening downloading things from VHS Vault/Internet Archive. An early Simpsons bootleg of episodes from the first three seasons, rearranging the budget (as I save from not needing to buy a new desk) and other tasks
20:16 < x2600> this would have worked better as a blog post, noted

“Commandline Confessionals”, would be a great podcast name (credit me if you use it, ha!). These days, I am in and out of Irssi/IRC, the SDF and Ctrl-c rooms are slower, it seems. Could be world events or people doing...whatever, but I seek solace in the warm and familiar home office, downloading various media (television shows today), and having daily chats with my best friend via phone call.

Allergies are nil for me these days, thank goodness. Vitamin C revitalized my mind, body, attitude. More energy, and also more energy for cynicism >:D And so it is..

I made a list of movies I need to obtain, by any method I can. VHS Vault/Internet Archive seems to be best, for now. Many titles, but only a few in “the Vault”, so I saved the URLs for the videos, will grab them via wget here soon. Fast this way. Those movies/shows are:

• Rad
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Toxic Avenger
• Nosferatu
• Bill Gates, Jay Leno introduce Windows 95
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Blood Feast
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

Many, many more to get still. These are “VHS burns” of these shows, movies. So digitized VHS. If you want to see this, and also a boatload of retro commercials here you go/

In the chat above, I mention constructing the L-shaped desk. A great thing to have, as it's more of everything. Less of a “desk island” more of a small desk continent. Shelves and racks of various tech gear occupy the space beneath. I sit calmly in front of the dimmed screen of the monitor, red LED lights set to a low flicker beneath this side of the desk.

To lurking and the night

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