#soberoctober day 1: challenge accepted

Wut?

Joe Rogan Experience #1007 introduced the Sober October challenge. I realized I couldn’t remember the last time I went a week without a beer. I’m certainly dependent on nicotine, I wonder if I am dependent on alcohol? Let’s find out.

Goal:

Produce something useful each day this month instead of getting drunk and sucking at rocket league.

Rules:

Caffiene is allowed.

Every other psychoactive substance is disallowed including nicotine and alcohol.

Video games are disallowed.

Challenge begins 2017-10-01 00:00:00 and ends 2017-11-01 00:00:00, New Zealand time.

Today’s Achievements

I identified why I smell mold at night - the underside of my wood-slatted futon frame is covered in mold. It joins my moldy clothing, keyboard, oculus rift and passport in the ranks of “shit damaged by my moldy Auckland flat.”

I continued the Sisyphean task of configuring my Arch Linux machine. Previously I was using zeit/hyper but it irritatingly intercepts ^R and “refreshes” the terminal, ruining shell history search and vim’s redo.

I’m now using Swordfish90/cool-retro-term which brings back fantastically nostalgic memories of the first computer I ever used, a Kaypro II.