Marcos D. Alves

I have never defined a "theme" for a following year, I usually just let it go, with no high level planning or written goals; the result is that at each year-end I feel that I did nothing relevant to improve my life. But I have recently discovered this concept of “year themes” and found it interesting and easy to implement so, after further reflection, I have defined my 2 themes for 2023:

I have just remembered that I bought a Ulysses license back in 2016 (paid US$44.99) when I received my first MacBook from the company I was working for; as I have never been a frequent and constant writer, I completely forgot about it, and have not upgraded since then. Downloaded this old version from Apple Store today and it’s working fine, BUT it doesn’t have the option to post to micro.

I wasn’t looking for any new web service in particular or for another mastodon instance, but when I discovered omg.lol on the micro.blog timeline, it was impossible not to sign it up immediately and start playing with all the services offered. omg.lol is combo of services that includes a cool domain (like mdalves.omg.lol ), a landing (or profile) page, a mastodon instance (social.lol), e-mail forwarding, full e-mail (partnering with fastmail), DNS configuration, Pastebin, URL shortener, blog hosting and more yet to come.

Há 6 meses, pouco antes de completar 57 anos de idade, eu finalmente comecei a me exercitar regularmente, frequentando a academia do clube em que sou associado. Em média, vou à academia 3 vezes por semana, apenas com uma pausa de 2 semanas em novembro devido a ter adoecido com Covid19, já estando na 4a ficha de exercícios. A motivação para esta mudança em minha vida foi acompanhar a minha filha mais nova, que deseja aumentar sua massa muscular, está motivada com este objetivo e para isso conta com a assistência de um personal-trainer.