[ Burnout

I've been meaning to make an entry for quite a while now, but for one reason or
another I never get around to completing one. I surf the gopherscape every
night before bed, and it's good to read people's entries.

This has been an unpleasant summer so far: hot and humid and sticky, from sun
up to sun down, everyday. It saps all my energy and it puts me in a bad mood. I
am already looking forward to autumn and cooler weather, however that probably
won't be until November, judging by last year.

Recently I was watching a television program where a camera crew rode on a
domestic ferry and interviewed people here and there. At one point they came
upon an older woman in a cabin at the front of the ship. The woman was quietly
reading by herself and she said she had been a nurse, had raised her children
and had been busy all her life. Now she is retired and all she wants is time.
Time to herself to do what she wants. This struck a particular chord with me,
because I feel the same way.

Earlier this year I said if I could retire tomorrow I would. That is because I
am burned out from work. The corporate landscape has changed a lot since I was
young, and I don't think I'm fit for it anymore. Let the younger generations
take over so I can retire.

Outside of work, I avoid the news except for things domestic. I'm tired of war,
and deceit and gaslighting. At times it seems like the whole world has gone
mad. Everything seems to be going so fast, and in a direction I personally am
not comfortable with.

So as a form of self-therapy, to get away from it all, I have been busying
myself with projects. With a Pi W I made a webcam which looks out over the city
and takes a photo every 15 minutes and puts it into a webpage. It's fun to go
back over the photos of the day to see the sun rising and darkness falling and
thunderstorms passing (we've had some nice thunderstorms recently.)

I have also been busy making websites for my internal network, in HTML only. No
css, no js, no tables even. All the pages look like the WWW did in the late 90s
and early 2000s (think Geocities.) Some with repeating starfield backgrounds
and animated GIFs here and there. All self-hosted on another Pi, only viewable
to me on my old school intranet. It's been a lot of fun, and quite educational.

Take it easy.