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@@ -212,6 +212,16 @@ People have forgotten how important the sun is. You can die from lack of sun.
 
 Every little withdrawl you can make, not only resists the system, but empowers you. Yes even tiny acts like paying cash to a person rather than swiping your implant at the self checkout screen.
 
+## Second Spring
+
+## A Cup of Coffee
+
+One morning twenty-four years ago I went to work and found the coffee shop I worked at padlocked shut with an eviction notice on the door. Unsure what to do, I ended up going back home where I found another eviction notice on my own door. It wasn't the best day. I decided it was best to ignore it all. I went to the beach for the rest of the day.
+
+A few short weeks later my roommates and I moved from Los Angeles, California to Athens, Georgia. A few years before I'd done the sort of long road trip you do when you drop out of college and don't know what else to do, and Athens had been the highlight of the trip. This, I thought, was a place I could live. It was cheap, everyone was nice, and no one cared about appearances. It was about as far from LA as you could get in every way.
+
+And I was right. I lived there for most of the next fifteen years. It's the first year I think about the most though. 
+
 ## Fire, cooking with fire
 
 
@@ -3046,7 +3056,7 @@ Note: I have never designed a building, butchered a hog, comforted the dying or
 
 
 ## Travel Cheaper
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+:travel:finance:
 Ways to reduce travel spending:
     * better planning means more boondocking and less money on camping 
     * change of diet from mexico means less on food
@@ -3074,18 +3084,18 @@ Ways to reduce travel spending:
         - maybe $5000- $8000 savings for repairs
 
 ## Systems
-
+:design:philosophy:
 Complex systems are inherently fragile. The optimization that makes the system "easy" to use, also generally eliminates the redundancies and graceful degadation that makes a system resilient.
 ## Midlife
-
+:philosophy:
 I think there are two major tasks to be undertaken in the middle of your life, one is coming to terms with the reduced possibilities of the future, letting go of the ones you are sure aren't happening to focus on the one's that could still happen. I will never make the U.S Olympic rowing team and rather than have that missed goal rattling around somewhere in the back of my mind going, I have to address it. Rather than sitting around mumbling about how I could have been a contender I have to accept that no I could not, I tried and literally could not, and let that go so that other goals become more feasible.
 
-The other major task in midlife is to recognize the ciclical nature of, well, nature.
+The other major task in midlife is to recognize the cyclical nature of, well, nature.
 
 
 
 ## No Reason At All
-
+:freedom:
 "It's fun to do something for no reason at all because freedom is the foundation of all human delight... freedom of the will, the capacity to choose and act and attend for no other reason than that we happen to want to." 
 
 ## Margins
@@ -3696,18 +3706,6 @@ As the Aussies would say, "have a crack at it." There are two parts here though.
 # SRC
 ## Scratch
 
-### Install Debian Minimal
-
-Get the image with nonfree firmware, make life easier
-
-https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
-
-Then after first book with minimal install, connect to wifi using:
-
-https://gist.github.com/debxp/8cc47eb53c31485e66eb22e8934e2d26
-
-Then install network-manager and reboot since that kills the wpa_supplicant connection because debian immediately turns on any system service, unlike arch. i kinda miss turning it on myself.  
-
 I know several people who take tech holidays. I understand this urge, probably it's the only solution to what I think is the central problem of modern times—distraction and the inability to do deep work. That said, I am going to try other things to tame the beast.
 
 I don't think this is an entirely new problem, I'm not even sure it's any worse than it ever was, it's just that anyone in any age facing this problem is daunted and it somehow makes one feel better I think to fall back on the belief that it's worse than ever, even if perhaps it is not.
@@ -3913,32 +3911,74 @@ That said, I did take all of Sway's good ideas and try as best I could to replic
 
 pnyway, there you have it. X11 for the win. At least for me. For now.
 
-## How to Get Work Done on a $100 Tablet
+## How to Get Work Done on a $75 Tablet
 
-Fresh out of the box Amazon's Fire tablets are crap devices. All they can do is hook you up to the fire hose of Amazon content, which is then shoved down your throat. That's why Amazon sells them for as little as $75 for the 10-inch model. Technically it's $150, but it frequently goes on sale for around $75. The time to buy is major holidays. To do any work you'll want the Finite keyboard. The tablet-keyboard bundle typically runs about $100-$120 depending on the sale. It's $200 not on sale. Don't do that, it's not worth $200.
+Fresh out of the box Amazon's Fire tablets are crap devices. All they can do is hook you up to the fire hose of Amazon content, which is then shoved down your throat. That's why Amazon sells them for as little as $75 for the 10-inch model. Technically it's $150, but it frequently goes on sale for around $75. The time to buy is major holidays. To do any work you'll want the Finite keyboard. The tablet-keyboard bundle typically runs about $75-$120 depending on the sale. It's $200 not on sale. Don't do that, it's not worth $200.
 
-For $100 though, I think it's well worth it. After a bit of tinkering to get rid of everything Amazon and install a few apps I need to work I have a workable device. The price is key for me. This is what I take when I head out to the beach or into the woods or up some dusty canyon for the day. It don't want to take my $600 laptop to those places. $100 tablet? Sure. Why not get it a little sandy here and there. So far (going on a year now), it's actually survived.
+For $100 though, I think it's well worth it. After a bit of tinkering to get rid of everything Amazon and install a few apps I need to work I have a workable device. The price is key for me. This is what I take when I head out to the beach or into the woods or up some dusty canyon for the day. It don't want to take my $600 laptop to those places. $75 tablet? Sure. Why not get it a little sandy here and there. So far (going on a year now), it's actually survived.
 
 And it lets me work in places like this, which happens to be where I am typing right now (picnic tables in the middle of nowhere are rare, but I'll take it)
 
+A Fire HD 10 is not the most pleasant thing to work on. The keyboard is cramped and there's no way to map caps lock to control, which trips me up multiple times a day, still, after a year. But hey, it enables me to get outside and play and still get a little work done when I need to. 
 
+If you're interested, here's what I do.
 
-A Fire HD 10 is not the most pleasant thing to work on. The keyboard is cramped and there's no way to map caps lock to control, which trips me up multiple times a day. still. after a year. But hey, it enables me to get outside and play and still get a little work done while I'm there. I also use it trade stocks and options.
+First you need to disable all of Amazon's crap. But before that you need to make sure you have a launcher and a browser installed, because if you turn off Amazon's defaults before you have new ones you will have nothing. There are millions of browsers and launchers for Android. I happen to like Vivalid as a web browser, which you can download from UptoDown.com (that's officially supported by Vivaldi by the way). For a launcher I like [Nova Launcher](https://nova-launcher.en.uptodown.com/android).
 
+Once you have those it's time to start shutting off all the amazon crap. To do that I use [these instructions](https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-no-root-remove-amazon-apps-on-fire-10-hd-2019.4009547/) from the XDA forums. They're a touch of of date so to get things shut off on newer tablets you may have to search for the new app names.
 
+I wrote a tutorial on [how to install the Google Play Store](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-install-google-play-store-on-amazon-fire-tablet/) for Wired that you can use if you need any apps that only Google Play offers. I don't so I don't bother. The apps I need to work on the Fire are Vivaldi, Slack, Zoom, and Airtable. All those seem to work fine being downloaded through UptoDown.com, so that's what I do. 
 
-The first thing to do is install the Google Play Store. If you need it. I don't so I don't bother. Everything I need works find being downloaded through UptoDown.com. In order to "work" on my Fire, I need Airtable, Slack, Vivaldi, and Zoom. With the exception of Vivaldi, which I love, I hate all these apps, but there you go, that's how I stay in touch with editors and turn in stories. 
+For my actual writing and accessing my documents and other files I use the command line app Termux, which is available via F-Droid. Normal people would probably be best served by some kind of word processing application that syncs to the cloud, something like Google Docs perhaps. I rely on Vim and Git. I prefer to write in a Vim running in a terminal, I track changes using Git and push them to a remote repo I host on a server. When I get back to my laptop, I can pull the work from the tablet and pickup where I left off. To make everything work you also need the Termux:API, which for some reason is a separate app. 
 
-Writing is another matter. Most people would probably be best serviced with some kind of word processing application that syncs to the cloud, something like Google Docs perhaps. I rely on Vim and Git. I prefer to write in a Vim running in a terminal, I track changes using Git and push them to the remote repo. When I get back to my laptop, I pull the work from the Fire and pickup where I left off. 
+To set things up the way I like them I install termux and then configure ssh access to my server. Once that's setup I can grab my dotfiles repo and setup Termux to mirror the way my laptop is setup. I can also [install git annex]() and clone my documents and notes folders. I don't often access these in Termux, but Termux can share them with other apps so I can use a visual file browser to get those documents and make notes. The last thing I do is clone my writing repository. That gets me a basic setup, but there are some things I do to make life on Android smoother.
 
-I do all that using Termux, which is available via F-Droid. 
+command line tools: pkg install termux-api, which allows you to do termux-clipboard-set and -get so you can add tk to your vimrc and use control copy in visual mode to send that text to the system clipboard
 
+Then I push, pull on the Fire and pick up again. Do I ever forget to push on the laptop, get to the middle of the woods and realize I don't have the latest version of the repo? Yes, yes I do. But that's what Git branches are for. 
 
-You must also install Termux:API, which is a seperate app. 
+## Git Annex Piece
 
-And then install command line tools: pkg install termux-api, which allows you to do termux-clipboard-set and -get so you can add tk to your vimrc and use control copy in visual mode to send that text to the system clipboard
+I rarely have access to fast internet. What little speed we get my wife uses to tutor her clients over Zoom. This works because I don't need fast internet, but the fact that I don't need fast internet is not by chance or circumstance, it's the result of technological choices made with the end goal of not needing bandwidth. And more to the point, having irregular access to internet.
 
+Despite this I manage to work remotely, record and store (and backup!) gigabytes of audio, video, and photos, and have lived this way for six years. 
 
+The secret to all this is a little program written by someone who also understands what it's like to live on limited bandwidth. That would be Joey Hess and his program git annex.
 
+If you are not a nerd and don't know what git is, nothing beyond here will make any sense to you, nor will my solution work for you. Sorry. If you do know what Git is, git annex is a wrapper around git that makes it possible to store large files in Git. 
 
-Then I push, pull on the Fire and pick up again. Do I ever forget to push on the laptop, get to the middle of the woods and realize I don't have the latest version of the repo? Yes, yes I do. But that's what Git branches are for. 
+That's nice, but that's not the power of git annex. The power of git annex is in the concept of remotes. 
+
+
+
+# Notes
+
+32-35 ft school bus 
+    6.6 duramax (chevy)
+    buy from a desert area. direct from school district. tucson.
+    re-register to RV
+$8000 for build, $5000 for bus
+have diesel heater
+get bus with storage lockers already on it
+Use mini split for air???
+Roof storage with sitting area, nice for mornings
+   have storage on left to avoid trees which will mainly be on right
+repurpose applicances from scrapped RVs
+Kids beds in back, all platform beds with storage under
+Shower seperate from toilet/sink maybe
+couch into bed for c and i
+large but not huge propane fridge.
+3 propane canisters
+wood burning stove maybe
+1000 watts solar/ 400 Ah batteries
+3000 W inverter to power strip.
+Shore power 30amp cord to aircon and battery charger
+Diesel battery charging.
+100 gal water tank
+black and grey tanks
+hide 12V wiring in copper piping that doubles as curtain rods
+slat beds to keep mattresses dry
+
+baskets for wall storage: https://www.amazon.com/mDesign-Portable-Farmhouse-Organizer-Entryway/dp/B08234PYXC
+
+piping video: https://inv.vern.cc/watch?v=g0Y8bZjRhQQ