New Apartment / Baby / General Updates
2019/05/29 - 1:07pm

It occured to me that I have not posted a phlog update since the move.
We got moved into the new apartment, though not without some drama.
The place is alright. I am bummed to have needed to move in the first
place, as I really liked our old apartment. The timing of their const-
ruction and our babies arrival is unfortunate. That said, the new apt
is starting to feel more like home. I got the server (colorfield.space)
back up really easily. That surprised me a lot... it just... worked.
The room we are using as a combination office/baby room is coming along
as well. Really the baby will not be in there very much for the first
many months, but we will definitely need the office as we try to work
from home as much as possible. Eventually we both want to transition
to other jobs that will allow us to work remotely full time.

If we can manage the remote work, the hope is to either move to south-
western Oregon or maybe get a cabin in the mountains in Southern Cali-
fornia (~2 hours from where we live now). I just know that I need to 
get out of the city/suburbs. I can't take the crowds anymore, the noise
all the time. I want my baby to grow up in a palce where they can play
outside and where we will have enough land to let them roam a little
bit. The mountains seem like a good palce for that. Not to mention that
we can afford a home in either of the areas we are looking even if we 
have to take salary cuts from what we are making now (good money, but
not phenomenal).

Speaking of the baby, she is due June 25th. We are into the home stretch
now. It feels that way at least. My wife is starting to get more and
more uncomfortable. We are both trying to prepare ourselves as much as
is possible for the coming sleeplessness. Both of us have our fingers
crossed that we have a mellow baby... but if she is anything like the
two of us, the mellowness will not settle in for awhile. 

As far as other things go in life, I am getting tired of my job. The 
work culture has declined a lot in the past 4 months. I have gotten to
that point where the work is not as challenging and I am pretty comfo-
table with most of the tasks I am assigned. I still don't like working
in PHP, lol, but it isnt the end of the world. Once things settle down
a little after the initial adjustments from the baby joining the family
I think I will start putting out resumes.

I finally joined cosmic.voyage recently. I procured my ship last night.
I named the ship with a phrase from the conlang I have been working on
every now and again: "tsizoma fo". The translation of which is litter-
ally "I will see". In context it means something more like "My unders-
tanding will grow" or "I will come to understand". The vocabulary of
the conlang is limited at the moment, but a lot of the gramatical items
have been worked out (as well as sound set, etc). The name felt fitting
for a ship mostly alone in open space. It felt right to have something
about learning/gathering information/growing.

I have also been getting more active at cmccabe's rawtext.club. It is
the one place I am doing any web based stuff. I have used the web 
hosting there to start building up some basic documentation for a few
of my applications. Right now I have docs for Bombadillo (gopher client),
Stubb (gopher client), and Chalk (text editor). They can all be seen
at the following address:

https://rawtext.club/~sloum/

Speaking of Bombadillo, I have had a bit of community involvement of
late. jboverf has helped me convert to the go module system, get errors
handled better, launch bombadillo with a url from the command line,
and get formatting sorted out. asdf has, mostly from the user side,
contributed issues that they have run into and helped sort out what
the best solution would be from a user perspective. We have worked
through some bugs and added new features to make the Bombadillo
experience better; they also helped clean up the README.md. It feels
really cool to have people itnerested and want to help! I use
Bombadillo exclusively at this point for navigating gopher and, I
may be a little biased here, really really love it. As a vim/less
user it feels familiar and easy to use (though it should feel easy
to use since I designed it).

I hope you, dear readers, are doing well! I will try to get a
few more phlogs in before the baby arrives as I imagine there
may be some silence from me for a bit afterward.