Some late notes from last week

Long weekends are almost as bad a short vacations - they just aren't quite long enough, but they are plenty long enough to make one not want to get back into the swing of things.

Not to mention that getting everything caught back up can be exhausting to the point that you either need a vacation or another long weekend to rest up from your Monday back.

This last weekend we were able to attend the youth play that our twins have been working with over the past month or so - Lost Girl. It was really great getting to see them both in a performance that was not of the school. The cast and crew did really, really well, and it was a great time.

Not only did we (parents) get to see, but the twins' older brother was able to attend as well! This was the first time that he has been able to watch something of theirs and it was very cool to have him there as well. Plus, my wife and I had a couple of out of town friends that were able to attend too - which is always a good time.

My foray back into the world of Guix System is continuing along nicely. A base system is installed with the i3 window manager and I'll be shortly working towards getting that migrated over to a Niri setup with (eventually) Noctalia. Then once I'm comfortable with that I'll tackle guix home. In between all of this, and honestly for that past however many years, I've been doing lots (and lots, and lots) of reading and perusing of other user's guix configs to see what they do. The ideas are good, but I want to build up from a solid core. It's been a good road for learning, starting with the desire to want to pick up more "lisp-like" programming experience via the Emacs and elisp route. I feel like I know just enough to, perhaps, be dangerous at this point. All thanks to Practical Common Lisp (and many, many, many other resources) book.

Here are some links of interest that I have stumbled upon from my RSS feeds over the last week. Well, I guess more like 8 days since I'm late. One of these days I may even re-categorize (or do away with completely…) my feed sources.