# Heartbeat, or: Still Alive // 18-11-03

I've been rather inactive recently, on gopher, for several reasons.
At work, we've got a lot to do: from HR issues, to problems with the
ultrapure water supply (and all the other small things, from empty gas
bottles to careless users), and the desire of a lot of people to use
our new toy (a [direct laser writer][1] tool which allows to transfer
arbitrary patterns with micrometer size resolution into photoresist)
which forced me to somewhat prematurely give introductions to its use.
At home, everything's quite fine, but nevertheless busy, from our own
planning for remodeling some rooms to helping the older kid with all
things school (needs to get organized better -- self-management is the
buzzword).. well, I don't want to bore anyone to death!

And then there is quite some activity going on in circumlunar.space,
with ideas flying back and forth about programming in CBMBASIC, setting
up shared directories for development, etc. At least I've managed to
code a bit recently, which is really satisfying! Now I just should get
back into more activity for ham radio, Morse etc...

But first, let's fetch the little one from that birthday party!

.:.

PS: This post was not written with `ed` but `vi` -- sorry! ^-^

[1]: https://himt.de/index.php/dwl66.html