In Which Technology Used to be Exciting

Good morning, dear friend, reader of the present post! I wish you a happy weekend, and a happy Easter season! The days in which easter egg hunts happen, with the sweet rabbits of the fields, quite charming is it not? While in the north it is the height of Spring, where I am at, southern area, there is winter that announces itself, and so much the better, I adore winter, I live for the rainy days, with cold winds, and that allow me to have more freedom with my attires. God knows, I have been on a season of weighr gain, after so many months of weight loss thanks to the bariatric procedure. Those were, health wise, happy ones, but the golden moments do not last. The bad ones don't, either. I don't think, or I refuse to think on those terms, as I cannot afford to be this defeatist, that I will regain all my weight, neither will I be under one position or another for all the rest of my days. In any case, the issue is that with more weight, It is harder to find what can fit me as well. It is sad but it is what it is. One day at a time. Today is part of the Easter season of 2026, and I should rejoice! There, a nice excuse to have all the bunnies and chocolates. I am on the christian spectrum, I would not have any other way, and I speak with the language that aknowledges the mighty one, but my celebration and reason to rejoice tend to be more secular. I don't see a problem with that, either. The Calvinist puritan approach never appealed to me, and I tend to consider it a dead end in any case.

I do have some observance of religion, that said, even if church attendance is not what I like, just because I don't like crowds, I feel awkward in such environments, and I do have some bad experience of being forced to attend it when a kid. You know I love grandma and grandpa of the father side to bits, but they were not exactly helpful wirh my faith upbringing, too much of a heavy hand, so to speak. The observance is mention because how blessed I feel that, right now, I can write on my publication! I have been trying to put a post together for quite a bit, and failed. At times, I feel bad, I wonder if I will ever write, or draw, ever again. It is frightening that some moments feel like I will never do anything other than scroll through social media. I suppose this is to never take moments of desire to engage in hobbies for granted. It is also good to breathe relieved that this is not my line of work, not an obligation. If it was, I would be in such a bad position. One day, I do hope I can engage in a line of work that appeal to me. If it is too much to ask, I don't know how I would proceed, having to work on something I don't see a silver lining on, that would be my demise. 

It is not that ideas fail me when it comes to writing, but how to bridge the gap between my mind and the page, that is a huge problem. I thought of some stuff: I did listen to the music production by the musician Bjork, that of isolated Iceland, done in 1997, a time of blooming of the Aero style, amongst others related to the digital era boom. My thoughts on such work are not a consensus. I don't like the way she thinks, I suspect she is gnostic and I suspect she is on the Plato-Kantian inspired left, a philosophical group I tend to abhor, and I am not really fond of experimentation on that regard. But, that said, it is not exactly bad musically, it has a melody in it, tells a story, has some technological works that were quite interesting at the time. It was an exciting era, the dawn of consumer-friendly internet, the advance on personal computing and the interface of the desktop being made friendlier by the works of Microsoft and Apple. No wonder Windows captured the aesthetic choices and imagination of such generation of people. Technology used to be so exciting, and specially at the end of the 20th century. No wonder there were works such as the spiritual-meets-Aero-Philip-Glass Ray of Light, by Madonna, an album that did immortalize her in that new millenium time. And no wonder we had the experimental Homogenic by Bjork. No wonder there is great nostalgia for that decade, that now spills into the early 2000s. Ah, that all to say that I cannot easily classify that album or give a grade out of 10. I don't want to like neither of those works, and God knows what is Madonna today, what she made of herself, what a disaster. 

My drawings coming to life in different ways thanks to ChatGPT, I will never get tired of that. In one way, technology is still somewhat exciting.

Anyway, Ideas fly over me, I understand that I can write as I have the material, but I most times feel exhausted. When I am at my desk, I try and make the most of it, because I feel pains aftet a while. On that, I have good news by the way! As I switch posture on my chair, and decided to stop using the gel cushion I was using before, though I still take long breaks, I do not feel nearly as sore and painful moments as before. I am now propelling myself towards the screen, even if I hve the fear of becoming hunchback. I decided to try this, and it worked! Simple steps, but with huge impact! Say what you will about Artificial Intelligence-Advance Computing and LLMs, they have good synthesis of research more often than not. There is value in that, even if the enthusiasm went a bit out, and the inflated scenario on the field is menacing to burst. At least now I have a bit less pain when using my chair. 

Ah, thank you Jesus, I finished another post! Now, if I can draw, that would make me thrilled! But for now, I should rest a bit, maybe eat something, maybe a sandwich. Time to wrap up the entry, as it is getting quite long. Thank you for being here. I wish you the best! Hope your week may be joyful and productive! And don't worry, I hope to be here once again real soon, hopefully before the next weekend. We'll see. For now, farewell, have some ice cream, bully for you.