Hi! You can call me Benny. (he/him) Welcome to my little corner of the internet! I’ll write here to help me think, remember life and share stuff that I li...
On the 29th of April, at 11:31, I was sitting at my home desk, as usual. My PC turned off, and my first thought was: "These motherfuckers killed the power in my building with their stupid renovations." However, the drills stopped seconds after. I went outside and asked the next door butcher if they had any power. It went out at the same time as mine, so I guessed it was an outage in our…
Well, it finally happened: after pushing these to Mondays, I forgot about it, and I'm writing it on a Tuesday. How will planet Earth recover from this? Anyway, last week was pretty normal. I started working on my new work project, went to the library and went back to Santarém. The highlight of the week was installing an automatic feeder for my parents' cats, since one of them loves to thrash the…
Like Dabi, who wrote about this topic here , I got my first phone when I as in 6th grade. It was a Christmas gift. My dad asked me to choose which phone I thought my cousin would like to get, and I was really angry that they were going to give a phone to them before I had one (barely did I know). It was a Motorola KRZR K1m — here's a WIRED review from 2007, and I probably got it in 2009. At the…
My father is having a great recovery! We were afraid the post-op would be difficult and that he would be in pain, but that has not been the case. Even the incision has healed beautifully! It's been a month since he slipped and tore his muscle, and things are looking way more promising than we expected at the time. Also, and as much as I dislike self-diagnosis, I figured out I may be on the autism…
Highlight of the week: my dad's surgery went great, and he only spent one night at the hospital. He's still in a great mood and my mom is doing an amazing job at helping him out. I've also been back home every week, which has been wonderful. I naturally default to a tranquil mood when I'm there, so it's been helping me slow down as well. One of the side effects of this has been a certain…
Another week has gone by without me really noticing it. I feel like I've been on autopilot for the last few weeks, and I wouldn't remember anything I've done if it weren't for these schmoozes. My dad will undergo surgery today (Monday) to fix a quadriceps tendon tear (and some more torn tendons and muscles). I'm still going back to Santarém at least once a week, which has been surprisingly…
Up to last week, my phone was a Huawei P30 Lite, which I inherited after my girlfriend moved to the dark side of iPhone. It functioned perfectly for my uses, since I'm not a smartphone power-user: I don't take many pictures, I don't play mobile games and I don't use AI models, which I guess must now be a criterion when choosing a smartphone? Anyway, my dad had previously inherited my 2016 Huawei…
I'm coming to you once again on a Monday. I may actually move these to Mondays, since I'm trying to avoid sitting at my desk on weekends. Due to my father's current situation and overall attempts to stay away from the Internet lately, I haven't been reading any feeds or finding cool links to share. I'm hoping to take to some baby steps back into it this week, so stay tuned for the next schmooze!…
Back in December, I wrote about my intentions of doing a no-buy challenge in 2025 . To keep some public accountability, I'll do monthly reviews to see if I'm sticking to my goals and if they still make sense to me. When it comes to books , I still haven't bought any new books for me this year, and I haven't felt any urge to do so, which is surprising to me. Since it's very rare for me to buy…
I'm writing this on Monday, as the past few days have been a little crazy. On Friday, my father accidentally did his best impression of a Ru Paul's style death drop and tore his quadriceps femoris muscle (try saying that three times). Other than the pain, he's feeling fine, and today we'll know if he's going to need a surgery. After the initial scare, we even managed to crack some jokes about it,…