o, everything is not perfect yet but I am feeling a lot better. All this traveling and rough sleeping takes a toll on the creative capacity, but once adaptation has taken place, suddenly one again has access to the subconscious. Necessity overrides frivolity, really life is just about being alive, what you do is dictated by your God given proclivities and dreams.

My laptop is only barely up to the task of doing some python coding, but now I have a very clear and simple specification and roadmap for how to proceed, which makes it a lot easier. I have to refresh my python a little, and think about how to make an interface (is there an easy way to make python scripts run from a web browser? I think I looked at this a long time ago with PHP sockets.)

I don't know how much work I can personally do at this point, so I am keen to just put the ideas out there and maybe someone else will jump on it. I would love to do the work myself.

The Hobo Life

I have to declare that life is not so bad on the street in the Netherlands, but what kills you is the almost complete lack of possibilities for a regular warm dry bed. In some respects it was better in Sofia, mainly in that many times you can find really good clothes, loads of food and alcohol, very easy. You also don't get shooed from sleeping on the street or idiotic fines.

If you have little prospects you can wait it out here, within 5 years you can have the elusive dry warm bed. But I don't want to lose my edge, getting comfortable with something is death to me. I want to always be seeing some prospect for a way to leap out of the gutter.

I am here in Amsterdam as first priority, for the SteemFEST, which might open doors. Second to that is I can get assistance, save that money in my bitcoin wallet and in a few months set up somewhere with lower rents and living costs.

I am not wandering entirely by choice.

A lot of people get the impression I am a traveller. I am not a traveller. I like to see things but mostly I am about interacting with the network and letting it feed me new info that lets me create new ideas. The physical movement is driven by something else.

I am looking for somewhere and some way to settle. My dreams need money, and how to get that, or more precisely the things I need to enable me to work on these projects, is also partly why I favour low cost of living places. If I can get the income from other markets but spend them in such places, it will take less to get there.

In fact, the biggest obstacle is finding receptive minds...

Nothing, or nearly nothing, can be achieved without collaborators. Good ideas are the only exception and even there, the environment can help a lot directing the mind.

But once you have an idea that has got you by the short and curlies, then you have a frustrating problem of finding those who also want it realised.

Well, just a hobojournal post... I am good and safe and fed, sleeping ok... In fact, if you see me go quiet, the main reason is sleep, or the lack thereof. Ideas come from literal dreams somehow. Sleep deprivation makes me cranky and dispassionate.

I almost forgot! I have a spot in Stoelenproject. It opens soon. I better get over there, it is only 10 min walk.

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We can't stop here! This is Whale country!

_{Loki was born in Australia, now is wandering Amsterdam again after 9 months in Sofia, Bulgaria. IT generalist, physics theorist, futurist and cyber-agorist. Loki's life mission is to establish a secure, distributed layer atop the internet, and enable space migration, preferably while living in a beautiful mountain house somewhere with a good woman, and lots of farm animals and gardens, where he can also go hunting and camping.}

_{I'm a thoughtocaster, a conundrummer in a band called Life Puzzler. I've flipped more lids than a monkey in a soup kitchen, of the mind. - Xavier, Renegade Angel}

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