일요일 2026년2월01일	-	On Loan

Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi, Sect. 11:

	The wise man lives as one who is on loan to himself and
	intends to return everything without complaint when the
	debt is recalled
	
This is an amazing sentiment, and one I hope to model within myself. To
have no fear of loss because you make no claim to anything beyond your own
volition is a powerful position. Property and possessions, social
standing, and even the body and life itself, the wise man holds all these
things loosely in his palm, and with gratitude for the opportunity to
manage them for however long they remain with him, then to happily
surrender them when that time comes to close.

This is the parable of the Talents, to be a man who knows the debt will be
called and so exercises what is given to the best of his ability, so that
one day, when it is time to repay, not only will he be able to return what
was given, but in a better state than which it had been received.

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Niri is going well, at least it seems to, and I feel I have settled on a
configuration that works for me. However, I am still working out what to
do for system status monitoring. Yambar, my favorite status application,
is no longer being maintained, and I am increasingly dissatisfied with
waybar. I would like to create a system where I do away with the bar
altogether and instead use a system of notifications to inform me of the
information I generally use the bar for. This is going to require some
doing on my part, however, as I am not a deft hand at scripting and that
seems to be what implementing such a solution is going to require.