In no particular order:

  • I am feeling overwhelmed with things at points lately
    • I am the most busy right now that I have been since October 2019
    • If I have to pull the ripcord and let some things go I will
    • The uncontrolled twitch in an eye is usually a good indicator that something is not okay
  • Emigration continues to be a thought
    • The near-criminalization of IVF in Alabama is pushing me down this path
      • Our state legislators in Columbus have never met a bad idea they wouldn’t otherwise try to copy
      • This could be coming soon throughout the country
    • Trump is gaining steam in trying to take back the “Weather Headquarters”
      • Dude is doubling down on the dictatorship plans
      • The whole “Project 2025” planning out there shows that there is a vast army of sycophants ready to back him in taking things in quite a new direction
    • Canada is increasingly not an option
      • They have a medical care crisis up there
      • People lack access to primary care physicians
      • As someone dealing with The Condition, I need to have fairly easy access to not just primary care but also to specialists
        • Dermatology would be very important
        • Endocrinology would be very important
        • Gastroenterology would be very important
        • Neurology would be very important
        • The only know integrated team for such things on Earth is at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
  • The social front is very stunted right now
    • It does help not being seen by some members of the local area as “the enemy”
    • It is one thing to talk of polarization in the abstract and it is another to feel it up close and personal
  • Teaching
    • I enjoy teaching
    • I do not enjoy the commute
  • Migration in the Fediverse
    • I have to migrate off my current Mastodon host
    • I’ve made some initial configuration efforts with Wordpress.com and am fidding it too fiddly at the moment with all that I have going on
    • There is no real way for me to bolt ActivityPub support onto a Jekyll static site blog hosted on GitHub Pages
    • Mastodon isn’t the only thing that speaks ActivityPub
      • I do have a presence on Lemmy but totally forgot the password so that recovery should be interesting
      • I do have a presence on Bookwyrm but haven’t logged in for a while
      • Identica itself is still up and running though it does not support ActivityPub yet
    • Nothing is decided yet and I have some time to consider things