Beardy Star Stuff, Late Summer 2024

Current Notes, my "Now" Page

Rather than a separate page, just gonna put this here.

Sticky Note: As I'm self-rolling this site in html I don't have comments or fancy web mentions. If you happen to mention or link please let me know: I love email!

2024-09-20

Time flies! I've spent much of my free time the past week moving posts over to the new site. Really enjoying it. Also refining my process with improved shortcuts now using RegEx which I'd never used before. It's far from easy. Just finding the expression I needed for two steps in a shortcut took hours. Lol. But the final result is very cool as the Shortcut finds the title of the post and inserts it into the metadata. Woot! And the Shortcuts finishes by copying the date and title of the post into a new line of html then opens up my posts.html so I can just paste it in. Those two additions will shave a minute off of the time it takes to add in a post from the archive.

I also cleaned up the Google Font mess I had in the head. Embarrassing but fixed.

Health

Still dealing the fluid in my ears, especially in the left ear. That was a lingering issue from the labyrinthitis that started 2 years ago but it's increased dramatically as a result of Covid 3 weeks ago. I feel it and notice the impact on my hearing.

2024-09-09

Work: I've been busy doing design and layout for of several annual reports and newsletters.

Tiny house and Land: I've just finished mowing lespedeza, an invasive plant in our area. It's an ongoing effort to remove it and allow for growth of our native plants.

Health: It took five years but Covid finally caught up with me. 14 days after infection I've still got a cough and sinus congestion but feel fairly well recovered. Yuck. I'm thankful I was able to avoid the first 3 years of the more virulent strains.

Free time: I've moved the site from its previous home at micro.blog and I'm excited to be rebuilding it from scratch. Going forward these pages are my own, all hand coded html and css with files uploaded the old fashioned way. This means I have complete freedom to organize the site and pages as I see fit. I've been enjoying spending time looking at how others have organized their sites and am considering options. Rather than continue thinking of the site as a blog I'll consider it more as a digital garden that includes a blog. There are a few longer blog posts that I'd like to feature. I've also been expanding the Blogroll and adding a links/bookmarks blog.

I've not quite got it all sorted yet. Likely a permanent work in progress as these things usually are.