I’ve been unimpressed with the Christmas holidays since leaving my first job as a grocery store worker as a highschool student. My family has finally stopped buying me presents except for my mom who insists on buying me some sort of useless novelty item that’s functionally impractical. Last year it was a bulky multi-tool pen that was too heavy to write with… Capitalism really sucks the humanity out of everything, especially the holidays.

Not too excited about the family dinner together. My parents and sister will spend the day talking constantly at and over each other while I’ll be mostly mute, answering yes/no questions occasionally. I just don’t have the energy anymore to correct all thier wildly incorrect assumptions and unnecessary views they have about me based on the useless labels they’ve applied to me.

The brain has been highly uncooperative over the past weeks but over the last week I’ve made a lot of progress on a local community project I’m working on. I have most of the groundwork prepared. I’ve also got a good starting point and mostly clear direction for it as well.

I’m in the process of learning how to self host a lemmy instance. I’m hating every moment of it but I’m making progress. It’ll be worth it in the end. After I set up a proper community page I’ll be ready to start promoting the idea locally.

I’m still considering creating a related community on another instance. I’m trying to craft this project in a way that is easily accessible and adaptable to the needs of any local community.

At the speed I’m going, and with all the holidays here, I’m hoping to be ready within the first couple weeks of January.