When I originally set up this blog, I imagined having having several blogs going with different topics. This one would be my personal space & also cover personal technical projects. In the end I sat on this for months before I launched it. I kept wanting to tweak the theme, adjust settings on the backend to make it lighter & load faster. Then I wound up moving to another country and decided I needed to launch it and quit nitpicking on little details or it’d never happen.

In the end I scrapped the plans for most of the other blogs in order to really focus on this main one. I can’t really travel now, so why launch a travel blog? That’s oversimplifying the thought process involved a bit, but this is kind of what played out in my mind for every topic. I recognized there’s enough to justify posts about my Immigration here, but I’m no expert and not enough content to justify a blog dedicated to it. Finance, well I’m sure I can share what not to do, cause I’ve probably made the mistake at some point. Amateur Radio, Linux, Networking and similar can go here, personal projects for a personal blog.

One thing I’ve tried (and in one post already, failed) to do is avoid politics of all kinds, domestic (Canadian or US) foreign, office, tech community and (I imagine) more. I’ve already been too vocal on social media (and I do feel like I’m mild when compared to my friends) and at the same time I’m debating internally exactly how much I should keep to myself or when I should speak up.

I think all sides can agree that there’s too much crisis (even if there’s disagreements on whether certain events are a crisis and on knowing people on different sides of it too.) and for me that’s part of the problem I have trying to be silent, it’s become painful. That said I’m definitely going to be careful, as I don’t want to cause more hurt either.

We’re finally getting some snow to stay for a week here. We had freezing rain yesterday and it’s still below freezing. Hopefully I can get some ice skates and take advantage of this soon.

Surprisingly it looks like Texas is having more winter weather than we are, even Mexico is having some cold days. I can’t say I was expecting that.
I’m hoping my friends in the affected areas are staying warm and safe.

I’ve got a few Amateur Radio parts I’m still waiting on, so I’ve not been able to start writing those posts yet. I at least am able to study for upcoming exams to upgrade my license class.

I’m a little over halfway through my current work permit in Canada, admittedly this is making me very nervous for what’s next. It’s truly too soon to say, so I’m trying to remind myself to have patience.

This past weekend My girlfriend and I volunteered to help with a Pop-Up Covid-19 Rapid Testing centre, I didn’t expect to be putting on all that PPE and actually running the tests myself. I also took a swab to the nose, it’s discomforting but not really painful.

I was hoping to have a little more to share for this week’s post. This week I got a little distracted with some major happenings in the news cycle and I’m also waiting for a few packages to arrive in order to write a few how-to articles.

I originally said that I would write once a week, I’m beginning to think that might have been either too ambitious or putting quantity over quality. I’m waiting for some parts to come in before I start working on some how-to articles. I’ve decided once a month is a better minimum, I can always go beyond that but my track record is barely twice a year right now.

I’m working on upgrading my ham license in order to get some privileges on HF. I’m not sure when I will be able to get on the air though, between the small apartment space and the cost of HF gear. It is slowly getting easier however with radios like the icom ic-7100 and the KX2 on the market. I hope that I can by Field Day, we’ll see. There’s too many goals already, I don’t need to add more for my hobbies too.

Look forward to a new style on the site in the coming months too!