My wife made me realize that I'm really bad with money when it comes to gizmos and doodads. The Commodore phone is coming out, but on some level, I don't actually need to get it. Instead, I should just keep using my pixel 9, but uninstall things that I don't need, and I really don't even have an account associated with it since I'm using GrapheneOS. Buying a new phone right now seems like a bad financial decision.

To celebrate 250 years of the USA I've been reading and listening to books about the founding and histories of legislation. The Hamilton biography by Chernow was the first one I listened to about a specific person. I'm only into the late 1780s but I keep thinking "man I hope they get this country figured out".

I am a few minor inconveniences away from moving to the woods with a point-to-point remote connection to another location so that I can post to mastodon with a teletype.

My kid did an art today at summer art camp. I'm super proud. He does not want to go for the rest of the week. I gotta put the pressure on him to go tomorrow.

I don't have a ton of packages installed with the AUR, but in light of recent events, I am making it a habit to review PKGBUILD files for post hooks.