almost Christmas

Well it’s that close. I guess I stopped with holidays years ago. This time around seems different. We have a tree. I have presents for my wife. Already gave her roses. She got what she wanted in gold form.

Tomorrow we will do a different thing. We will go with my son in law to a nice pizza place for dinner to celebrate the holiday. We rarely do things with him so this is something different. Hopefully nice.

been writing

Lately I’ve wanted to do more and different writing. Being back on blot seems to give more avenues for expression. So soon I think will publish a few different pieces. I’ve had fun writing them and realizing by their nature they will never be done. I guess it makes them this garden of sorts for me. Really though more of an expression. A practice. A doing. I thought at one time I would only do those things but I enjoy writing it all. I just cannot do multiple places. Everything exists as one unfinished mess.

Just the way it ought to be.

I also tried a different app for writing. It costs either monthly or lifetime. It’s on Android and iOS and Mac and windows. It’s called upnote. I both liked it and could not make it work as good as free apps do. Even obsidian seemed better. So I considered my nominal needs.

1. Using local files only. I don’t like apps that hide the files so I cannot work on them with other apps as I want.
2. Makes use of android sharing and the intent system baked into it. I want to share files to Dropbox or whatever. It should not require magical incantations or special actions.
3. Bidirectional linking of files. This takes care of how I want to write some of the things. Obsidian does this well. So do zettel notes in Android and IA writer.
4. Markdown support must be superlative and not an afterthought. I won’t do half-assed writing in markdown. It’s my one plain text need.

There’s others. Things like easy clipping if web sites if I want. Quickly sharing links to my commonplace notes. Ability to just copy all the files elsewhere and have everything to start again if I want. Ability to use syncthing on the data. Syncthing is not perfect. Nothing ever is but it just works for me with no pesky cloud service between.

finishing and starting

So I am kinda done I guess. With words and watching this holiday come and go. I feel fortunate to have what I do where I do. Life on the money I make is quite comfortable.

My wife takes care of me. So I feel like this holiday has meant more. There’s us.

us

And life has never been both better and sometimes more frustrating. I look back at the years of me going. I loved the itinerant wandering. The home being where I wanted at the time. I miss it at times. But nothing then was like what I have now.

And it makes an almost Christmas even more special. Bring on the pizza.