So long, and thanks for all the code!

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

So long, and thanks for all the code!
So sad that it should come to this.
I thought that most of you were witty, 
especially Julius and Kurt H. Maier!

For several years I've used 9front to organize my life and everything in it. I had a subrio or an acme with its own plumber for class of activities: an acme for appointments and necessities of life; an acme for chat logs and a quotes file; a subrio for games with acmes for different games; a subrio for programming with an acme and sometimes another window for each project; etc. 

On the other hand, I'm finding that maintaining my computers is really too much for me because of my fatigue and concentration issues. Tasks which other people a few hours can take me several days, and my fatigue problems are so bad that my daily life continues to be affected for some days after I stop. Perhaps because I work so hard at it, my nerves and stomach can also be affected, as has happened in the last week. 

As if that weren't enough reason to stop, Plan 9 papers and manual pages are written for educated professionals who won't be confused by terminology introduced and used before explanations. I only today understood parts of the networking paper, and that only by working hard to study it. I considered studying and annotating plan 9 documentation, but I have no room for that in my life.

In short, if I were sane, I would have given up long ago. :) I'm retiring my 9front server and won't be replacing it. I'll use inferno to organize my life instead; likely an emu instance for each acme or subrio i have now. I hope it doesnt' crash too much! I expect you'll still see me in #cat-v most of the time. :)

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