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Hello I'm using gedit to compose this email. I would like to try to send this out to my blog to test it. I want to see how it works and how it looks to the wordpress API. Good luck.

Some of this week's upgrades are Gnome and Mozilla's Firefox. Gnome 3.32 packages are still making me dizzy. Today's upgrade includes Firefox browser which includes a more compact panel.

vnstat monitors network traffic in linux with a command line interface. It's very useful for keeping traffic database of your traffic as well as real time traffic numbers. It creates a database for the default interaface - enp2s0. You can check your exact interface names with ip addr. [donato@archdesktop ~]$ ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: enp2s0 : <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 78:24:af:36:61:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: wlp4s0 : <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 28:f3:66:20:7a:1e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.15.3/24 ...

Archlinux continue to make Gnome 3.32 available to users. With perhaps the biggest download today of the Gnome 3.32 upgrades, I have not encountered any problem. I just ran pacman 6 hours ago to get Gnome 3.32 packages along with a linux kernel upgrade.

Trying to control a high blood pressure with medication since 2015. October last year I began to tackle my health issues with nutrition and dieting. I'm still trying to lose at least 24 lbs to get to a healthy weight. I've just started another cycle of strict keto dieting. This means less than 20 grams of carbohydrates a day. I monitor my blood pressure with a home monitor and an app on my android phone. It seemed like too long but it finally hooked downward. This is an average line curve so this isn't just luck. My carbohydrate intake several days before and just 2 days ago I started to implement strict keto (less than 20 grams Carbs) and my average blood pressure goes blue. I stopped my medications last October. I am not medicating now. I drink garlic ginger tea everyday. But from my perspective it's the carbs restriction that has the biggest impact.

For end users Gnome 3.32 will be coming from their respective distros. Some components of Gnome 3.32 are already out for Archlinux. Complete roll out would take several days basing on previous practice - maybe even stretching out until the end of the month. I want to see the updates when it comes. I've reverted to the defaults for now - theme (adwaita), icons etc.

I could have sworn the linux-kernel-4.20 arrived only last week. It was made available last December 2018. Now we have linux-kernel-5.0.

The situation started mid-2017 when I went to a doctor for symptoms of hypertension. I was over weight. My blood pressure was in the 150 systolic level. I was prescribed statins and losartan. Later SGPT levels reached the 50-60 range. Eight months ago my weight was 200 lbs and I was obese. Today my blood pressure is 120 over 77.   I quit my meds 7 months ago. I am not taking any medication now. Except I believe that food is medicine and vice versa. My dieting has brought my weight down to 175 lbs. I am following a low carb high fat diet. It is easier to lose weight and keep them off on this diet. I got myself a complete laboratory exam last week, which I have been doing since 2017 at least 4-5 times a year. I am more convinced that the path to a healthier living is through nutritious food and dieting. My health markers are normal. Even my SGPT is 28.8 U/L which is the lowest it has been since the start of monitoring. My liver is healthy now. My cholesterol and LDL is 4.61 mmol...