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I’m thinking of fast growing harder vegetation. Oohhh. BlackBerry canes could be awesome.
Full disclosure, this would be for growing, harvesting and “finishing” furniture. But yeah.
Blackberries. Grow, mould, harvest, smooth (where you sit), lacquer the ____ out of it.
Blackberries.

Look into other sugar sources for brewing. Extraction rate counts.

System is mostly working. I now have Steam up which means all productivity stopped. It was by far an annoying prices though because i guess Steam thinks bundling libraries with software is a good idea.
Next steps include checking which driver I’m using for video, finding it why I have audio, and trying more window managers.
On the production side I’ll start trying to get phant working. I’m starting to become more sure that I made the right choice in abandoning Mint (and other more user friendly distributions).
To clarify though, Mint is great, just not for what I do.

…because my battery is dying. Obviously I should plug my phone in.
More importantly:
Should I live dangerously and when I get to doing LFS, use the book as a guide bit go sideways and build from current stable source? Probably yes.
After I do the book through the first time.

Oddly enough, this is the first time I installed vanilla Debian. Over all I’m pleased so far in the absence of over arching bloat that I’ve seen in most distributions that aren’t Slackware. Right now I have all my usual productivity software installing: Arduino, Fritzing (which I’ve never used), Steam… you know, productivity.
At a later point I’ll get going on Linux From Scratch. I think it’s all the bloat that kills me. Any time I have Gnome, KDE, and something else all installed at once by default, it hurts me on the inside. Having a service installed and running that periodically searches the network for new services, I have to wonder why. One of the inherent advantage of Linux is it’s relative lean-ness, deny everything make exceptions security policy, and customizability ability. When two of the most popular distributions fly in the face of that, it makes me sad. It’s great that I no longer have to look at Windows 10 upgrade reminders, it would be nice to not have to look at people wanting to recreate a free version of that hell.
Maybe this weekend I should recompile my kernel. It’s been a while since I’ve done that.

Mint seems to be getting more and more unstable asi remove services that shouldn’t be in a default install to begin with, let alone continuously running. When I get home I’ll be (probably) switching to vanilla Debian. In the process of that I’ll kill all my other partitions other than where I have spate data living. Once I have my spate data saved, I’ll kill that position and might start going LFS.
Everyday I get older, I get more annoyed at the way people do shit. I am the old man on my lawn yelling at kids and the government.

We went to Archie McPhee’s today, and I totes found some solenoid valves. It looks like one of my next projects is going to be automagic plant watering. Mainly because the Wif and I are terrible at plant care. I’m figuring a reservoir system, so I know exactly how much water I’m liable to dump on the floor. Galvanized nail moisture sensors. Maybe add some LEDs for better lighting.
Now I just need to decide what to grow for foray one.

I dog ear my books to keep my place. It’s one of the reasons I buy my books. I’ve now started doing permanent tagging where good quotes are. The eventual goal being a quote of the day situation.

Clean
Do stuff with the Den
Finish the essay that’s currently in draft form
Cut hair
Trim beard
…adult stuff

Genius. If put him in a list, I’d put him with Gibson or Gaiman. I might be drunk, bit on five romantic notion I identify with Crreedmoor. Hell, I had a (my only) male character in the Secret World named after him.
If only I could get the Wif to read some of these stories.