Went to get my periodic pile of increasingly worthless cash from a Canadian bank yesterday and noticed, for the first time, that the default withdrawal amounts now include “$1000”. How long before that’s the lowest unit?

Goodness everyone is so bulled up.

We’ve accidentally lived through a pretty hot couple of years for sci-fi TV haven’t we. Dark Matter, Altered Carbon, The Expanse, The Peripheral (sleeper fave for me), Man in the High Castle. I am definitely cold on the cliff-hanger mill at Apple (Silo, Severance) but enjoyed Foundation and For All Mankind.

Watching birds with youngest child. If I had to guess based upon behaviour, I’d say Nuthatches and Swallows look pretty switched on. Finches dumb as rocks.

Watching the deer and finches out of the kitchen window, it’s all a bit Disney out in the sticks this morning.

The tension between assertions that we are close to a golden age with the end of aging due to our technical prowess, and the fact that the globalist technocracy just tried to murder vast swathes of the global population and continues to pursue new and imaginative ways to cull the herd is hard to reconcile.

On a ferry, remembering the year when Transport Canada changed the regs so passengers could stay in a below-decks car hold, as drowning en masse in a steel coffin was preferable to catching a cold.

72hr fast completed (first one). No challenges with hunger. Tinnitus curiously worse, and a migraine on day two. Outside of my head, body felt good. It’s amazing how much of our (well, my) day is normally consumed by food. Planning it. Buying it. Cooking it. Eating it. Cleaning up. Family of four, it’s near constant. Lunch boxes. Endless snacks. Etc. Weird to not be on that merry-go-round (I was away from home, the only time this is remotely practical!).

So my Pi is taking months to sync now after a rebuild, not sure it’s ever going to finish as I can only ssh into the thing for an hour or so after a reboot before it locks up. Start9 boxes are out of stock (and I would need a Canadian distributor anyway as not dealing with the border for shipping). Best open source alternative? Paranoid about recent chipsets with their built-in back-doors, but any thoughts welcome.

Andor strong in conclusion, but over-rated for the first half of both seasons. Under-rated: Skeleton Crew. Kids loved it. Good quality production, writing, and casting.