My wedding in 11 days. Even though I'm somewhat stressed because I'll have to travel for it and there are some moving parts, I'm excited. Wife is taking it pretty well and she is excited as well!
The fediverse is something I'm excited for and it's still in it's infancy so it'll be intersting to see how it plays out as it starts getting more polished and user friendly.
Despite the doom and gloom of AI I think it's been really cool, and one area I've seen it help is for my relatives where instead of me having to solve basic tech issues AI has helped. When it develops into a full on companion that will do things it asks them to I'll be bothered less and less.
I’ll be trying out Linux outside of a virtual machine for the first time. I’ve got a SATA SSD external enclosure that I’ll be using to boot without messing with my current pc
John Green posted a video about a week ago calling out Johnson & Johnson for extending their patent for Bedaquiline, a medication that treats multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. The extension would prevent inexpensive generic versions from entering countries that are being ravaged by TB. After the video received critical reception and with John’s call to action, the public pounced on J&J. This led to J&J announcing they would allow the generic versions of Bedaquiline to be produced and shipped to the majority of low- and middle-income countries hit hard by TB, including countries where the patent is still in effect. We still don’t know which specific countries those are, but it’s still great news!
Plus, Hank Green is done with his chemo and seems to be mostly cancer-free for the time being.
Specifically, good things on the World Wide Web: research. The amount of good information available is incredible, compared with pre-Internet times. Weather forecasts, what the space telescope is looking at, what's happening in other parts of the world places in their own voice.
Sure, there is misinformation as well, and some people will cast doubt on anything they don't like or try to drown it out, but get past that, and this is a golden age of knowledge.
possibly getting a new laptop that is slightly better than my desktop, i hope to get into something like peertube/content creation but im still thinking it thru.
I joined the great resignation to pursue a freelance art career. I'm excited but also terrified I'll just be another starving artist. At least I don't have to wake up at 6am anymore.
Getting my year long undiagnosed chronic pain issues to be diagnosed. My neurologist has been proactive this past month since I saw him so I’m hoping we can get somewhere. Got proof, just no diagnoses
This is probably going to sound mundane, but I finally got my career back on track after the plague and have enough money to take my cats to the vet for proper medical care. Feel like I've been living at vets lately, but everyone's ears are clean, teeth have been checked, bloodwork done, and has the meds they need to thrive. I felt so bad that for two years the vet was life threating visits only.
What I'm looking forward to is many more years with my wonderful pets!
I went hiking on Saturday and I took a fuck ton of pictures, I'm really looking forward to editing the best shots from the trip. The hike was so beautiful it's probably going to be pretty hard to pick, and honestly that's the best kind of problem to have.
Also I have a bunch of miniatures that are at the point of needing a final pass of paint before being done, that I'm really excited to finish up.
My excitement is maybe small, but I’m excited about the 5-ish hours of sleep I’ve just had, which is such a gift after weeks of pain waking me up all the time
I dont know why im struggling with this question. Work is going well, but I don't really have much I'm looking forward to, atm. I feel like everything I have planned is more stressful than fun.
I'll keep it short term and simple. Wednesday nights I do cocktails and listen to live jazz group from the local school music students from 6pm-7pm, then I walk to my local sushi joint for great fish!
I'm beginning to plan hosting a monthly dinner for friends, maybe starting in the fall. I'm excited thinking about having people I love gather over food regularly
I'm excited to see my two teenage daughters perform together in their theater camp production in a couple of weeks. Seeing my girls growing up so fast can be bittersweet, and I relish these moments when they are so clearly full of joy for what they are doing. They will even have a duet together!
I'm hosting Thanksgiving this year. I'm so psyched to show all the old crones in the families how to do a proper holiday. I have so many fucking garlands in my Amazon shopping cart. Need another paycheck or two before I can pull the trigger.
I'm cooking a pork roast to eat this week and I'm going to a concert next week. I also just bought a 15 pack of beer. Amazing things happening over here.
I’m excited for the rapid development of apps for Lemmy. I’m on iOS and have been checking out Voyager (Wefwef), Avelon, Memmy, Mlem and Thunder, and they are all smashing it!
About to move for just a few months for my wife's job. I think the kids will be cool with it they are still young but I know they'll miss their family here. Otherwise, super stoked
I’m going to try to keep the SpaceBaby’s name out of this, but I am genuinely excited for the step change the next generation of lift vehicles will bring to space exploration.
I’ve become thoroughly depressed with how we are mishandling our own planet, and I know there are huge risks in believing that finding new places to fuck up will solve anything (also, it’s a pipe dream - terraforming isn’t something we could really hope to achieve and anything outside our solar system is just too far away) … but, dammit, my 12-year old self dreamed of spaceships refuelling in orbit, resupplying permanent missions on other planets/moons, and now it might actually happen.
My mum is coming to visit soon. I live in the USA and she's back in Australia. It'll be the first time she's travelled overseas since the late '80s. She's very excited about it :)
I'm super hyped for Pikmin 4 coming out on Friday. Nintendo basically can't miss with Pikmin games so I have no doubt it'll be excellent, and I just replayed the first three.
Sinopec built the world's first commercial scale solar power to hydrogen plant last month. I thought we were decades away from this with a bunch of oil companies exploiting
policies with "blue" hydrogen, but the legit green hydrogen economy is going to be a thing in my lifetime and that's amazing.