WiFi in the forest

It's taken me longer than I planned to make

my own post for ROOPHLOC 2019[1], but here we

are at last. Perhaps a little predictably, I

rode my bike the 10km to the forest where I

did my S24O[2]. I've brought with me my

little eeePC[3], still running OpenBSD 6.4.

I have to admit, I've fallen a little bit

into the trap of thinking of this place as

"my" forest. This probably happened because

when I came here quite a few times during the

past winter[4], I was really surprised by the

fact that I never, ever saw another person

here the whole time.

But today, and when I was last here a few

weeks back, I've encountered people

collecting mushrooms. Which is not

surprising given the time of year, but it has

shattered the illusion a little bit that this

is "my place". But that's okay, is big

enough for more than one person.

It seems that I'll be moving to Sweden in

December or January (or, perhaps, during a

slow process spread across both months). I

realise it sounds silly to start that

sentence with "it seems", like it's some kind

of weird natural phenomena which is happening

to me under external influence, something

that I have no control over. Of course it's

something that I've played an active role in

causing to be true, but it kind of feels

like the former scenario. The job offer was

sudden and unexpected. I knew almost

immediately that it was something it made

sense, in the long term, to accept. But

deciding to actually do it was a slow,

difficult process that feels in some sense

like it "just happened", without any kind of

decisive moment of resolution.

I sound very gloomy about the whole thing

above, but I am actually excited about the

change. But I've enjoyed living in Finland

more than anywhere else I've called home

before, and I don't feel ready to move on

yet. It's hard to say what I'll miss the

most, but this very forest that I'm in right

now is surely a top contender. I feel very

strongly that I'd like to come back to visit

it from time to time. It's not exactly far.

I had planned to do something a little more

technologically interesting, when it came to

actually uploading this post, but I've not

had the time so far this month to practice

it. Maybe I can still pull it off next

weekend, but for now I'm about to turn on my

smartphone's wireless hotspot and scp this up

to the Zaibatsu. Microwaves amongst the

mushrooms.

[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloch-2019.txt

[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/my-first-s24o.txt

[3] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/openbsd-on-an-eeepc-1005ha.txt

[4] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/visiting-my-s24o-site-in-the-snow.txt