The most fun part that can be easily narrativized would be meeting other people on the campus who I strike up random conversations with, and things just spiral into a multiple hour discussion of programming or homelab shit. For instance I made a joke about cigarettes vs vaping to this guy in the smoking area, he started talking about Phillip Morris, we started talking about herbicides (that plus the treatment process modern tobacco goes thru to make it more addictive and tasty, being ammoniated, makes it really unhealthy even compared to blasting your lungs with tar alone), which led to discussing Monsanto, the Veiled Prophet Society in St. Louis, the Vietnam War, censorship in general, and after I made sure he wasn’t a libertarian (he is, he just doesn’t know that), he started telling me about Jellyfin/Jellyseer and we exchanged information. Oh also he hates Matrix. Get with the times people.

Then there’s this TA who I was working with on some shit and he said something about Russia so we started discussing that and before I knew it I was at his house drinking, he was trying to make me watch some Chinese adaptation of Journey to the West, and he got me to read a textbook on pure logic which was indecipherable, because I was somewhat drunk. Which actually I have in my bag but I haven’t been reading, for shame. In terms of actual skills I get the most out of scripting stuff that used to require me clicking around, unifying all texting platforms including SMS and email in console so I don’t have to go around looking for them. I have joined as many online groups related to stuff like Invidious as possible and a few close-knit projects for scraping news related to geopolitics and software. Was considering getting some hardware for server stuff but everything is expensive. What else is new.

There’s been way more fun shit than that I just wrote enough. I talked to a cool programmer from abroad in a parking garage for like 6 hours before he was like oh yeah I’m homeless. Which made sense because who else would listen to someone talk about computer shit for that long. Well there were breaks, and the weather was nice, but I am really kind of oblivious. I hope he didn’t think I was gay or something.