March 2026

📆 01 Apr 2026 21:40 UTC +01:00 📕 707 words ⏳ 5 min.
🏷️#MonthReview#Rambling

March is officially over and we’re into April. Here at OrbitalMartian, we don’t do April Fools pranks, we just go about with life normally. So let’s take a look back at what I got up to in March. I have a feeling that this is going to be a shorter one, but it’ll be worth it anyway.

Linux Stuff

Over the course of March, I was using Arch Linux, as I have been since November 2025, and as my desktop environment, I started off the month with KDE Plasma and later in the month, I switched over to using Budgie. I have thoroughly enjoyed using both of these but I always fall back into my yearning to mess around with my configurations and use tiling window managers, so April may see my return to tiling.

Reading

This month was a real bummer for my reading. I just didn’t have the motivation for it.

As you can see from this table, my reading was right in the toilet this month and was spread across two books, because I was trying everything possible to get the motivation to read again.

I have got to admit that my in progress reading pile is currently sat at 4 books at various stages of progress.

Writing

During the course of March, I wrote 4 blosts.

1. Week Notes 08 - the last time I wrote my week notes :D
2. KoulDE I Use Plasma - when I started using Plasma.
3. Apollo v1.0 Release - The Launch - the release announcement for my text editor’s v1.0 release.
4. Chirp Chirp Chirping My Desktop - when I started using Budgie as my desktop.

Watching

I’ve done a bit of watching things this month, I have been watching Young Sheldon on Netflix which has been fun and I’m really enjoying the series.

Podcasts & Music

I have listened to a small part of one The WAN Show episode (I can’t remember which one), but I really need to get back into finishing whole episodes.

I have also been enjoying some music that I used to listen to a lot, but haven’t for a few years, which is great fun to rediscover things from the past.

Gaming

In March, I played a significant amount of FlightGear, to the point I actually spent a lot of time working on my own aircraft (the Hawk T.1), which once I’ve got a bit more done on it will be getting its own blog post about.

I also bought two things on Steam this month:

1. Flashing Lights DOT DLC - fresh from the developmental press, it was newly released at the time and is a load of fun.
2. Brick Rigs - basically Lego Stormworks mixed with BeamNG - a lot of fun playing around with some cool workshop vehicles and destroying them.

Coding

March brought to the table an odd urge to work on an old project. My notepad app which got a 1.0 release and is on track with a couple of things left, to get a 1.0.1 release in the next few weeks. This has been great fun to get back into and I’ve really enjoyed learning a lot from it.

Closing Remarks

Going into writing this blost, I felt that I wasn’t going to have too much to say, but clearly I got carried away with myself and actually did achieve a lot during March.

So, that’s it for this one, I hope you enjoyed and I’ll see you in the next one. BYEEE!!!

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