Hello again, gopherspace! It's me, jebug29, back at ya again! (I realize I 
keep disappearing for a few months at a time, but please keep putting up 
with me lol).

I'm writing this using my IBM 5144 as a feaux terminal, and the Pico menu 
bar is making me realize that my screen geometry is annoyingly off. I had 
to open up this monitor at one point before to re-center the screen after 
moving it back and forth between college and home several times, so I 
guess it won't kill me to do it again. It's a... process... though. 
There's a reason this monitor's lasted three decades and counting.

Speaking of college, I am sort-of-officially-done (but not really). My 
depression's been pretty significantly worse since returning to the US and 
my home university - which is a good part of why I haven't been posting 
more too - and after several weeks of absences and then the whole move to 
online, I just completely broke down and realized I wasn't able to push 
myself any further. My stress tank was full and a match was thrown in on 
top. I ended up contacting several people at my school and my previous 
therapist, and after about a week of e-mails they decided to basically let 
me finish out all but one of my classes early and let me receive credit 
for them. The one I couldn't finish out I'm having to take as an 
incomplete and just finish whatever assignments are necessary in the Fall 
and then be eligible for graduation. My advisor was hoping I'd be able to 
just finish it out before the end of this semester so I could go ahead and 
get my degree, but I told him that I just wasn't able to. Blue Cross was 
just going to have to assess the damages my mind had and how much it would 
cost to fix them, and I'd have to go from there lol.

I've been under significant financial stress too, since I'm living alone 
and obviously the same inhibition to get my school work done extended to 
just about everything else (plus, y'know, the plague's going around). I've 
been trying to assess creative projects that I could possibly take on and 
have been streaming drawing on Picarto[0] and even uploaded one of my 
manga projects from Akita onto Tapas[1] to see if I could attract some 
subscribers. (Which, I didn't, and I wholly blame Tapas' abomination of a 
redesign for completely breaking the experience of actually interacting 
with content; I've uploaded shittier comics and gotten subscribers with 
every update before their redesign, so, woof). I didn't receive a 
stimulus check since I'm 21 and the tax guy filed me as a dependent, and 
my college also screwed all of the students over financially, giving us a 
partial refund but also reducing our merit-based scholarships by 16% 
(which for me was a $2800 reduction -- a number which here helps to 
display just how much I hate my university). So, yep, just riding on 
savings and hoping to win the lottery at some point lol. Or actually start 
and finish some project that'll somehow make me some dollars. We'll see.

Speaking of projects! If there's anyone out there that wants to see my 
Altair 8800 in more action, please let me know what sorts of things you 
want to see and in what format! I've got nothing but time now, unlike the 
last time I promised I'd make videos (sorry, lol), but I'd like to know 
what kinds of things people would like to see - if just a system overview 
of what all I have and how much stuff cost to build, or more in-depth 
videos about disk creation, or tech demos, or heck even a Zork playthrough 
lol. I'm open to suggestions and would love to deliver to those 
interested!

Anyway, that's all in my daily life update for now. Hopefully I'll get 
back to being more active on Mastodon and COM soon. (I also may make a 
phost sometime later today or tomorrow about the Gameboy Advance stuff 
I've been up to lately!)

See ya! ~jebug

[0] https://picarto.tv/jebug29
[1] https://tapas.io/series/Tadahito-no-Monogatari