Cafe notes

It's been a busy week at work, yesterday I was working across three different buildings and will be doing the same again next week.

But it's the weekend and a long weekend too. Monday is a public holiday, so again I'm sitting in my usual cafe with my coffee and laptop with mousepad open writing this gemlog. I thought about writing on the current conflict between Israel and Palestine but I see there are plenty of people out there on the web expressing their opinions and some of them quite frightening. 

I did though comment on a question posted on Twitter, the post went something like; "Will humans ever be capable and loving enough to eradicate hatred and evil in this lifetime?"

The replies were sadly "No" and my reply to this was "This makes me sad because I feel it is true. I don't think humans have evolved enough to truly control emotion and I feel we would destroy ourselves before we got anywhere near it."

I often dream of a Utopian reality where we as the Human race could live like this.

But I can't see it happening. 

I have always tried to be a good person, acknowledge my faults and improve on them. 

I love Science, Physics, Genetics etc, but noway am I an authority on any of it. 

Through science I have learnt to see us as a race as equal. Skin colour, ethnicity, culture, religion etc are only skin deep, underneath we are all the same. 

Physics teaches us that all matter is just energy moving really fast through time and space. E=mc2. This is beautiful and something I constantly remind myself.

R.

Cafe notes

Its a cloudy Saturday and I'm sitting in my usual cafe drinking my morning coffee, writing this short post on my newly upgraded Ubuntu desktop! Ubuntu 23.10 codename 'Mantic Minotaur'.

I upgraded first thing this morning with out a hitch. I would have upgraded on release day, but sadly the Ubuntu installer was compromised by a community contributor with Ukrainian translations submitted to a public third party online service, that the Ubuntu installer uses. So the Ubuntu team removed the release from their site and disabled downloads for the new release. 

As of writing this the downloadable images are still disabled, but from this morning it seems you can upgrade from a previous version.

It's sad to see this happening to Ubuntu or any Open Source project for that matter, I'm glad it was picked up quickly, but I wonder as Open Source has exploded into the mainstream over the years this will become more frequent.

=> Read the Mantic Minotaur release notes here [HTML]

=>  Read more about the malicious translation incident here [HTML]

R.

Adults can be dicks!

 Adults can be dicks!

It's Sunday and I am sitting yet in another cafe watching people go about their daily tasks. There are families that have come out on this spring morning, watching their children play on the jungle gym while the parents sit and drink coffee. 

I don't have children, and really never wanted to. Not sure why but maybe there was a feeling that I would never be able to look after them, also close to home is divorce and/or separation. It is the children that suffer most, especially when parents use their children as weapons against the other half, something I am very familiar with.

It leaves a lasting scar unfortunately and a difficulty in trust.

To any parents about to go through a divorce/separation leave your kids out of it, they don't need the bullshit you are about to inflict on each other.

R.

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Cafe notes

Another Saturday another post written from a cafe.

it's overcast here today but the temperature is mild. I had another meeting with the Lawyer yesterday going over the estate of my fathers house, all pretty straight forward but still something I just want wrapped up and finished. really the only thing to do now is sell the house, hopefully sooner than later. There is a bit of work to do, nothing structural but lots of little things. 

Physically it is file but mentally it's quiet daunting. Lot's of lots of items that contain lots of memories and hard to part with, but material items are just that, material items, they have no memory they are just things. it doesn't make it any easier though. 

It's hard to let go sometimes but I try tho think of the future, new beginnings and new adventures, this helps with cleaning out the old and parting with the past.

R.

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A day off

I don't often take days off from work but recently there has been a few changes in my life and not for the better unfortunately. I have come to realise that you need to take a little time for yourself just to relax and move your mind away from work related issues. 

I am one for always being on call 7 days a week, this was very true during Covid. maybe at the time it was needed. but I, like allot of people forgot to switch off after the pandemic. Of course it doesn't help when every news media outfit finds a so called expert telling everyone that we are continuously on the verge a new Pandemic! More panic more boosters more masks and of course more money and power to a certain group of people.

Anyway I'm getting a bit of track here.

I have always known this but rarely practice it, 'You need to take time for yourself'. What ever that time may look like it should be yours to do what you want with and not dictated by anyone else. 

Today for me it's sitting in a cafe drinking coffee listening to music and writing this on my Ubuntu based laptop in a text editor called Mousepad. My day is unstructured and unplanned, this is my day for a little peace and enjoyment. 

R.

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Back at work

Today was my first day back at work after my health issues and needed rest. I was slightly anxious about returning to work as I knew there would be a sea of emails to wade through, questions to be answered requests to be completed etc.

I would say that my level of health is around 90 percent, feeling okay but still taking things easy and not letting things run away on me.

Lunchtime I went out for a walk around town which felt good even though it is overcast today, it is warming up as we move into Spring down here in NZ.

I guess the motto of the week? is "Take it easy”.

Which I will.

R.

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Cafes and downtime

In my effort to regularly add content to my Gemspace, today I am sitting at a cafe with my laptop writing this post. As in previous posts I like cafes, for me they are places of relaxation but with enough social noise and movement as not to be trapped in solace.

I'm still off work and have a few more days to myself, I was going to title this cafes and recovery but, recovery from what? I don't know, so I think downtime is more suitable. Having this time off from work has been great, I am one who reluctantly takes time off work though my advice to others is you must take time off for yourself and your health. I should listen to myself more.

It's a nice sunny spring day here which adds to the feeling of calm a perfect day for hanging out at a local cafe writing text and creating content on my Gemspace :)

R.

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Health and Gemini

So I haven't really been around for a little while, or at leased posting on my here on my capsule. My health has not been the best unfortunately. Mostly my mental health. I lost my Father a few months ago which affected me more than I thought. I didn't really notice the slow degrading of my health until I basically came to a grinding halt! Work and personal life. 

On the mend now though, I did the right thing and reached out for help, took some time off work for myself and did absolutely nothing apart from rest and play around with Linux and of course started posting on my Gemini capsule again. I forgot how pleasant it is to hang out in the Gemini space and looking forward to adding allot more content to my capsule.