I’ve been spending sometime on Mastodon recently. I’ve also created a account in a Mastodon instance for Brazilians. And I’ve started participating in some of the hashtag organized posts the Brazilian community is doing on Mastodon. And it’s been awesome. My favourite is #musiquinta where the organizer together with the community comes up with a theme for the week’s posts. So musiquinta is about music and happens every quinta-feira which mens Thursday in Portuguese.

This weekend I’ve learned about the IndieWeb Movie Club that Mark Sutherland is hosting this month. I thought this is a very cool idea and I will be joining. If you want to join too, all that you have to do is to watch the movie of the month, for this month is The Matrix (1999), and write about it. Also send Mark a note, via webmentions or email, let him know you wrote about and he will be putting together a list of all participants.

A while ago I was listening to one of the Hemispheric Views podcast episodes where they talked about a project Robb Knight has put together called Slash Pages. The project is gathering the common used pages in indie websites, some are well known pages such as the /about and the /contact page. But adds new ones like the /now a page to list things you are doing at this moment related to work and also leisure, the /blogroll to list blogs you visit, the /defaults to list your apps you use like I’ve done in this post and many other slash pages.

Listening to music has always been a favourite thing to do since my early teenager years. I like to think that it is a big part of my life today. These days when we have all the songs at our fingertips or ears buds, there is no excuse not to listen to music. There is a specific set of albums that a really enjoyed to listen to back in the day that until today I always find myself going back to over and over again.

It’s August already. Time is flying by. I thought I would be writing more on my blog this year. I’ve started the year every excited about my blog. But in the end life gets busy as always and blogging is not a priority. It ended up hat I only have six posts this year so far. Yet this is fun and something I think I should be doing more. So I will stop complaining about being busy and I am challenging myself to make August the month of blogging.

Last Saturday, the 15th I completed 47 years. I had a great time celebrating at my uncle’s place, whose birthday is on the same day as mine. My cousins were there and it was fun to see everyone. A few things happened in the last 12 months but the most exciting one is that Gabi and I purchased land and we will be building our home. The construction should start in a few months.