Fifty One
The life odometer slowly turned as I awoke to a cherry chip cupcake on my fifty-first birthday. It was a warm, sunny, but smoky day as forest fires from central Canada filled the hazy sky. I joined my handful of high school friends for lunch. I had a burger that was quite delicious and sizeable enough that I couldn’t finish it. The server brought out a dense but disappointing chocolate c...
Average
“The truth is, I’m… I’m not an exceptional person, you know? Nothing interesting really ever happens to me. I’m… I’m massively flawed, and I think I’m quite forgettable, if I’m being 100% honest.” Randy Feltface ends his comedic storytelling in Randy Writes a Novel with this poignant bit at the end of his act. “But must we leave a legacy? Must...
Wake Up
I don’t really identify with music. I mean in the sense that I don’t use music to attach to specific meanings or feelings. Lyrics are like instruments in that I couldn’t tell you what the words are or what they meant any better than I could tell you what the guitar or drums are saying. Everything comes together in rhythm and melody in a way that I enjoy. Every now and then, though, a son...
Check in, check out
I enjoy those who do weekly or monthly life updates. I don’t plan (right now) on doing a similar cadence. Partly because I usually don’t consider my life that exciting—which, honestly, I’m enjoying things being boring right now. Family In my year-end recap, I mentioned my youngest was doing longer stretches splitting his time between homes. Little did I expect that less than two wee...
Open Tabs
I enjoyed Anh’s open tabs post and thought I’d do the same. Tabs open: none. Well, on the computer I’m writing this post, none. I try to keep things minimal. I have a couple other devices with maybe a dozen tabs open. Looking into Pages CMS for my Eleventy sites A couple posts from Brett Harned that might get integrated into a post of my own. Looking at automating the opening ...
The Dependables
The biggest problem I run into with my side projects is keeping dependencies up to date. I’ll not maintain a site for months and then when I come back to do a small update, I’ll discover something along the way that has been deprecated. It results in more time being spent on updating the dependency than it does to do the actual update I want to perform. This latest one, much like it ha...
Comments Were a Mistake
George Carlin said “People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people.” I enjoy what people have to say. I hate hearing what bots have to say. And the problem on many platforms is that it’s near impossible to tell the difference. I used to have comments enabled on this site but since the rise of Twitter, useful comments from actual people declined quickly and useles...
Subversive
“The most subversive thing you can do right now is blog.” That was a thought I had and considered just posting that line. As I tend to do, I analyze it. “Most? Really? There are most certainly other things that are more subversive. We’re just talking about blogging here.” I over-analyzed it. It’s true, though. I quickly talked myself out of the blog post idea. Then I saw...