This morning I am experiencing some racing thoughts all about the secure VPN network that I want to design so I know I need to put some things down just to stop them. I wish I had some more money handy so could just get this thing started and stop the thoughts altogether. If I got this thing started, it would give me a good activity to do to learn and keep me productive instead of sitting here and somewhat mindlessly on Reddit. Oh well. At least I feel strangely cheerful but I cannot explain it and I am going to ride it out for what it is absolutely worth.
This week I hope to hear something positive back from the place I interviewed at last Friday, The Bridge Clinic. I like the mission of The Bridge Clinic and think I would enjoy doing the weekend administrative assistant job. At least I feel okay about not getting the job too. I won’t beat myself up if it does not materialize. I don’t really have any plans for today but I would like to read some more of my novel. The trouble is I get sleepy when I read but that’s not necessarily a bad problem to have. 😆
Last night someone supporting the Israeli Defense Force tried to follow me on Mastodon and that gets a instant block. The IDF is in the middle of a genocide against the Palestinian people and I am a Jew who supports a two state system. Not only that but I reported the user to the admin of the Mastodon instance that he was on. The fediverse should have zero tolerance for this kind of thing as it is an open and safe space. There are no “both sides” of this issue.
I am thinking that once I graduate with a Masters of Social Work (MSW), I am going to dedicate some time every month to volunteer for causes that I am passionate about. I may even start a a non-profit that blends social work and technology because the internet is the modern day equivalent of the printing press and it needs to be more accessible to people of low income. I don’t consider internet on a phone to be acceptable internet access. Children and adults need actual computers to participate, and be competitive in, today’s world; real laptops or desktops and not simply netbooks and Chromebooks. I had a pipe dream to start a non-profit ISP in my home town of Delaware. Maybe I could make this a reality.
Some days I feel like Bill Moyers in that I have got a world of ideas. Ideas are lots of fun to come up with. Dreams are lots of fun to come up with. Some days I would like to be better at the follow through of them. But really first I have to work on myself and get myself to a place where I can make these dreams happen. That’s going to start on August 26th!