What Am I Doing Now?

Last Updated: December 3, 2024 - (What is a now page?)

After the overwhelming stress rollercoaster of the US Election, I’ve realized that I need to severely cut back on the amount of news I consume. Most of it is a waste of time anyway. I’ve deleted apps from my phone, but the challenge for me will be the desktop browser, as it’s way too easy to surf to a news or social media site. This will require basic personal discipline.

Speaking of social media, I’m abandoning my long-time Twitter account. I don’t plan on deleting it, but the site’s become way too toxic for me. I’m much happier on Mastodon.

I tend to plan travel a little too late, so for 2025, I’m planning various trips now. Ideally, I’d like to get out of town every couple of months. We’ll see how well I do.

I’m spending a lot of time working with various AI tools these days, including web-based services and locally run tools and models. I hope to write up a blog post on the details, but so far I’ve concluded that a) this stuff is real, and can be extremely useful, and b) AI can be frustratingly limited, and you need to stay aware of when you might be forcing AI to do something it just can’t do.

I set up an old guitar that I bought years ago and never really played. What was I waiting for? This thing is great! Ideally, whenever I get the urge to waste time on news or social media, I’ll grab the six-string and play it instead.