Somewhere between old Macs, new AI experiments, jazz and the first cicadas of summer. Conceptual illustration.

It’s been a rather busy few weeks, although I’m not entirely sure where all the time has gone. Between computers, university, medical appointments and my ever-growing collection of unfinished side projects, there’s been plenty happening. I still haven’t worked out how to do one thing at a time!

This website has been getting a huge amount of attention lately. I’ve been restoring old articles, digging through YouTube recordings for context in old posts, fixing links, improving photographs, and implementing quality of life fixes! I’ve also been tinkering with “Dial-a-Homepage”, trying to recreate the delightful noises of a dial-up modem, and experimenting with VRAMpage MD. More recently I’ve been looking at clustering Macs together with oMLX to run larger local AI models. RAM, it’s all about the RAM.

On the personal side, I’ve now reached three years on estradiol! I recently had another set of pellets implanted in my hip. I’ve also got to arrange to donate some of my hair ahead of facial feminisation surgery, hopefully in February 2027, although that might need to be pushed back a bit. After spending so long growing it, cutting a substantial amount off is probably going to feel a bit strange. Then again, not getting it caught in everything would be nice! 😅

Medication has been a bit of a juggling act too. I’ve stopped progesterone after my latest blood test because it was making me feel like absolute crap. I also tried CBD isolate oil for the first time, which unfortunately didn’t seem to do much of anything. I’m hoping it will reduce my reliance on clonazepam/diazepam to remove it completely annnnd while finding a manageable balance with pregabalin, although that’s proving difficult.

University hasn’t exactly been easy either, but I did manage to see some live jazz care of a friend at UTS. It reminded me just how much I love brass instruments, something I hadn’t really thought about for quite a while. There’s something wonderful about hearing actual musicians performing instead of another collection of questionable noises coming out of my computers. Don’t get me wrong modems are cool, but jazz trump(et)s it!

And finally, summer is nearly here! The first of the large cicadas have started making themselves heard around 8 pm, including green grocers and black princes. It’s one of those familiar Australian sounds that tells me the warmer weather isn’t far away and some days, it’s here!

So that’s about where things are at the moment. Plenty happening, plenty still to figure out, and probably far too many projects on the go. At least the cicadas seem to have their annual schedule worked out! 🙃