Mike 🥑 @mike@chinwag.org

I promise I'll keep my eyes closed and put my fingers in my ears and yell "LALALALALALA" whenever you're around, because it's important to me that you feel comfortable at all times.

I guess a new #introduction post is in order!

I'm Mike, I run lots of little services on the big, bad internet and they're mostly centered around #communication, which I find is a pretty neat area.

Aside from that I'm into #cooking, #hiking, #camping and #comedy - I run some open mic rooms in #Melbourne and dabble a little in standup myself.

Attached is a picture of my first ever #TV appearance.

https://social.chinwag.org/media/DbqibJ7pObMCgp7zp1s

#introductions #bio #about #hashtags #sotrue #blessed

Wait, it's July now? How did that happen? I'm only up to about mid-February in my to-do list.

While going through old blog posts of mine from the early 21st century, I found one where I asked if anyone wanted to buy my C64 and 1541 disk drive and I want to go back in time and slap myself on the back of the head.

Still, this raises questions as I'm pretty sure I currently have a C64 deep in the back shed, but I don't think I have a 1541. Did I separate them for some reason? Why? Where did they go?

#retrocomputing #regret

Last week my mate Brett died. Brett was actually his middle name, but he hated "Geoffrey" so he pretended it wasn't there. Except it didn't matter because everyone called him Fish, or Fishy or Mr Fish.

Here's a fun story about a time he took me and my four-year-old kid sailing one evening in 2004.

https://bremensaki.com/2004/12/21/sailing/

He was a good guy. I will miss him.

I have and email address that I've been contactable on for over 21 years.

I just replaced a door lock with a fancy electronic swipe card/PIN thing and I'm now at the point where I have to lock myself out to test it properly.

At least it's a nice day out there.

I mounted a TV and soundbar on the wall today and I used a spirit level to mount it perfectly straight but the walls apparently aren't perfectly straight. It looks crooked to me from the couch and I am faced with a terrible dilemma.

In the #Google Play store there's an "app starter kit" section featuring "essential apps" and four out of the first five are #Facebook products.

I have no point to make here, just an observation.

Current mood

I found out a few days ago that a mate of mine that I've known for 20+ years just died. Very few details so far as he was overseas at the time. News tomorrow maybe.

It's a second hit in as many weeks that's just left me feeling emotionally defeated. I'm glad I'm in the middle of a break where I've got time to just be somewhere quiet and adjust without people around me.

The only words I spoke to anyone yesterday were to order a coffee and say thanks for the coffee. It was a great day.

I'm watching Star Trek Enterprise right now and my main observation so far is that at some time in the next few hundred years we, as a species, apparently go back to using 4:3 aspect ratio for our monitors.

I would pay good money for a "new shed starter kit" that was just a bucket of random screws, nails, bits of wire and chunks of wood. If you're trying to do some odd jobs around the house and you don't have access to a store of stuff like that it makes life pretty hard.

Still astounds me slightly that 15 to 20 years ago I was being paid to take multiple physical computers and build them into clusters of single logical systems and these days they've got me doing the exact opposite.