I’ll try to outline what’s happening since things are a bit of a mess…

• Laptop spiral to failure
• The Thinkpad x240 is slowly dying
• It is not cost-effective to repair it
• Replacement is being reviewed
• I’m not looking for another Windows laptop
• The last visit to MicroCenter had many models out of stock
• The models in-stock didn’t support Windows 11
• I’m looking towards getting a Mac
• I want to have an ARM-based laptop
• I’m starting to miss MacOS as of late
• With an eleven inch iPad plus a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard I have an almost-laptop now
• TexPad is a great IDE for writing LaTeX on the iPad in those instances
• Termius lets me log into a Raspberry Pi that happens to sit on the network for when I need to do terminal session things
• Unfortunately these are not really in stock at MicroCenter and there is no estimate on replenishment
• The iPad plus wireless keyboard plus wireless mouse can be used as an interim solution but it not sufficient long-term
• If there were a suitable solution to convert a Raspberry Pi 4 into a laptop, I would
• COVID Recovery
• Test results are back
• Test results are normal
• It looks like I’m facing “Long COVID”
• Redistricting
• Both the state legislature and congressional maps were overturned here in Ohio
• I testified as to the drafting of both of the now-overturned maps
• The redistricting commission reconvenes on Tuesday at 1500 UTC and I will observe that meeting via Ohio Channel
• Very short turnaround on adopting new maps exists
• Social development
• My life remains pretty isolated right now
• Dating seems impossible in my immediate area
• I keep feeling pulled towards relocation but no clear ideas for a destination have emerged
• Projects

• ELP Television is not fully operational since I am not producing local content
• The site is up at https://coyote.works
• Currently the video podcast feed points to video content that already exists on the Internet Archive
• The Fourth Story
• It is started but is a bit harder writing effort
• I’ve had to do some mapping work to make writing easier using tools at https://mapchart.net/usa.html
• I keep stopping writing as there are times that I write something fictional then I see it happen in the news
• Weight loss

• Currently stalled with weight swinging in the 185-189 range
• The goal is still to get to a “healthy BMI” which means a BMI in the range of 18.5 to 24.9 which translate to a weight between 122 pounds and 163 pounds.
• This goal might not be doable
• The backup goal is to get to a BMI of 26.5 (174 pounds) which would still be decent even if not quite the whole way there