Good morning, dear friend, reader of the present post! How happy I am to see you, celebrated pen pal. How are you today? Hopefully March is starting in a most satisfying way. How is the weather? As for me, I would say I am okay, with caveats. I had plenty of anxiety due to having to worry about internship this year with college. I have been having some good moments revisiting my favorite Anno, which is Anno 1404, but at times I have the memento mori moments of "this joy cannot continue for much longer". You know I love videogames, but I find a way to suffer because of them, too. Whether it is an endless game, such as Sims, wether is one with a clear ending, like Pharaoh, always I do struggle. Quite depressing, when I think about it. I always worry the good moments will end. Because sadness is so strong when I feel I have nothing to look forward to, I can become terrified of any mood that is not related to entertained and with hope. Anyway.. I feel quite tired at times. I started writing this post earlier today, and ended up sleeping through it. I will try to go further now, but I don't know if I will be able to keep my eyes open.
I am working on a new drawing, it is a building, with some landscaping around, if I can frame it satisfactoraly. Those drawings are harder than the portraits I work on. So many small details, one invites the other, and it is not possible to escape them, neither would I like to do so! It can be tiresome, so much so. I feel exhausted after one sitting if I don't be careful, if I am not in the mood. Usually the results are to my liking, and I am quite proud of them, but it definitely takes longer than my portraits. Portraits have become what I like doing the most, specially for friends and people I appreciate in general. But I do them so much, I feel trapped in them, and so, I move towards buildings, landscapes, specially with cherry trees, and also patterns if I want to just indulge in the swirls. In any case, one step at a time, it is all I can do.
First draft of the new drawing! I pray I can finish it at some point!!!
I wonder if I'd be able to switch phones this year, I do think the time for a new phone is if not already here, really soon to present itself. I appreciate my iPhone 11 quite a bit, but a device is not to last forever. The question of costs is quite relevant, my phone of choice, by Apple, is expensive, and specially so in the taxation hellscape I live under, Brazil. Just the thought of living here depresses me, fills me with desperation. But anyway, hopefully at some point I will be able to switch to a newer model of iPhone, on a more fun and interesting color, and with more storage space, as to not rely so much on iCloud no more. It is a trade off with tecnology, you either have the physical storage with you, and then it gets damaged, you lose it or forget it at home when in need to do a presentation someplace else, which can be absurdly frustrating and even rage-tears inducing, I know as I have been there before. You as an alternative can have it on the cloud, and internet becomes an issue, there is the subscription thing that no one really loves, I myself just tolerate for some services. There is the question of ownership, and privacy. Those are important. You know I am strongly a capitalist loving free marketeer, so private property for me is quite important. Privacy is also something that quite grows on me as I get, in my life, a bit older and a bit more of a lover of silence by the day. I am also a pragmatist, though, when it comes to comfort, something I also value highly. Comfort and convenience. Those are definitely ideally the strong suits of a cloud service. So, the trade-off. Now, having balance and a bit more storage on my phone would be lovely, I would adore having 256gb, even one terabyte, instead of the 64 I currently have. Dear heavens, to think once I had a device with only 16gb, and then one with 32, those are not really usable on today's landscape, are they. Now, one company could do optimization and so on, it is ideal, and a good business model, but there is only so much one can go in the landscape of software, that has been under renovation thanks to Artificial Intelligence-Advance Computing... whatever you'd call it. Yea... Id love a more modern and more storage-rich iPhone... Costs are a huge obstacle, I hope I can overcome it. Until then, I manage with my good old iPhone 11... It can run iOs 26 not too bad, even! I do push the envelope by using it with the dev beta, of course, but that's on me, and my love of Aero and Glass on User Interface, also my distaste for flat minimalism, that dead-end, depleted zone concerning this topic.
So, I do hope I can get a new phone, I have been on this thought since around 2024, but that time the iPhone 11 was not that far behind. The computing did took another shot in the arm starting in 2025, though... In any case, perhaps this is a good position to finish this blog post? Perhaps so! And I wrote it mostly on pc for the first time in a while, as I usually do it on the phone. Anyway, just happy that after so much fogginess and sleepiness, I could do something productive! Maybe this is a great augur for the new week! We will see... Don't worry that this post is finishing! I shall be back real soon with more thoughts and ideas! Hopefully before next weekend! I wish you the best!! See you again real soon, farewell for now...
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