I’m a planner, and whether I want to be or not, my mind just starts to push out and extrapolate on the present to derive the future. Lately I’ve been finding that its quite difficult to plan in multiple areas of my life at the same time. Each tendril of a plan tends to have its own agenda, calling on my attention to meet its own conclusions, but attention is an increasingly limited resource. ...
For years I had it in my head that urxvt was the best terminal emulator one could find. I ignored all those little areas of Unix management where I’d have to set my TERM variable to something like xterm-256color before some remote shell would recognize my terminal correctly, or where F keys had to be configured before they would be passed to the running application. Those little moments when I’d load a new color scheme for mutt, or vim, and I could tell that I wasn’t quite getting the same experience that everyone else who installed the plug-in had. Its been a good number of years this way, and I’d just gotten used to it. ...