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Been a while since I really made a post here. Things have been busy lately, but finally in a good way. Wifey has started her job at the daycare, doing her dream job. She hasn't missed a day of work for mental issues, she's present (mostly) at home with the kids. She's super tired, nature of the new job, but she's mentally there and having fun with the kids again. I'm finally getting over this sickness and starting to feel normal again. I can think somewhat finally, and I used the opportunity for this catch up. I've got a few things going on I have to force myself to focus and prioritize. 1. Still doing online schooling. I lost about 3 weeks due to this respiratory crap I've been going thru. Could barely think enough to keep the house from falling apart, let alone learning web development. But now I've gotta shove thru and catch up real quick. I'm not super behind, but I'm not ahead and have no leeway. If I don't get a move on, it's gonna be a tough semester. 2. We have to really work on a budget and getting caught up and ahead and planning our money out better. We've got several small tasks related to finances that I've been pushing off as well, but I've gotta get this started and get us to a point of stability so we can breathe and move on with other things. 3. While I'm working super hard to focus on career and work and school, I still am the person with a million ideas running thru my head at any given moment. What I've done lately to curb the distraction is picking one or two and devote some small fraction of time to think on them daily. This way I'm letting myself have ideas and be my creative self, but I'm staying in control of it. I'm deciding my focus better. At the moment I have 2 main projects I want to do. Children's Book Series - The Adventures of Kell and Eulah - I want to create a set of children's books with adventures and lessons learnt by 2 siblings, Kell and Eulah. I want to take inspiration from a lot of Celtic culture including storytelling. I also want to incorporate these older stories and lesson styles into the modern world that kids are now facing. I want to bridge a gap between what parent grew up learning and what kids are seeing out in the world. Things that I learned from my environment and upbringing but never really had explained or told. It was just something you learned without anyone willing to teach. And those things that we expect our kids to also just know, but they don't. The environment they are growing up in is so vastly different that expecting the same inherent lessons just leads to untold expectations and disappointments Along the same lines as far as subject, I want to create a youtube channel talking directly about problems parents face with kids in the new world we are in. within this I want to create a brand new guide for technology for kids. It will go over the basics of using a computer, but also will explain using it safely and what the dangers are. I want this set of videos to also be something the parent can watch with the kid. I want to explain things in a way kids can learn, but parents can repeat. I think like before a lot of our generation grew up with this untold knowledge of internet usage and safety, but kids now are being thrown into a world of scams and predators and we as parents don't really have the tools to explain how to be safe online. We just intuitively do it, because we have been for years. But we don't know how to teach that intuition to our kids, and they aren't learning. I want to bridge that knowledge gap by finding a way that's easy for the parents to understand and apply and easy for the kids to learn and use. 4. Last but not least I need a digital detox. I have thought about it and thought about it for a year or two but I really need to do it. I'm realizing how much my ADHD is affected by notification fatigue. The piles and piles of emails with one important thing from school? Well I guess I've missed that school email. The calendar notification on my phone reminding me to do the thing? drowned under 49 twitter notifications (Side note: Why does it stop at 49? Why not 50?) I need to simplify my life greatly so I have more room to focus on the above things. And I need to be less attached to my phone and more present in the moment. I need to clean my email, reduce subscriptions, set up folders, sort my pc files, finally organize and use my nas, clean out my phone, lose unwanted apps, reduce how many things are sending me notifications daily. All in all I need to decide what is important to me and cut out the extra. My life is more important that what twitter wants me to see or that app that has notifications on when I don't hardly ever use it. I need to be in control of my world online as much as I need to take control of the world around me.

Suddenly BF 2042 might have a better future if renamed to BF 2023 or could the next BF title be BF 2023? 🤣..... If I didn't laugh about this kind of craziness I'd be very depressed. How this ever got even proposed is beyong shocking. [embed]

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Should I go full yolo and convert from Keepass to Google's password manager? Google is so convenient, but Keepass so much more secure...

I love how my extra strength nails cause holes in my shoes