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This post is my contribution to the September 2026 IndieWeb Carnival topic "Parenting", hosted by winther:
https://winther.sysctl.dk/indieweb-carnival-september-2026-parenting/
My parents are good people, and I think about this often. About how lucky I am to have had a childhood free from abuse, trauma, or neglect. To have had an adolescence where I was encouraged, supported, and redirected towards interests and passions that have stayed with me into adulthood. In this life I have been blessed i…
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Cat pics from the summer house
First post since Blaugust was over, pretty easy to fall out of established routine. Even though it also was my birthday this week, so I have an excuse. Probably last crazy week out of this visit home, summer is over, birthday season almost finished, just a couple of things left to sort out before travelling.
Monday was still Blaugust with my final posts. I did play more MMOs with Stars Reach and SpiritVale. Did play more Breathedge 2 right before it released in Ear…
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Working throught some organizational stuff in JIRA at work. The level of nested items with Inititatives containing Epics and them containing Stories can be a little difficult to know the state of things. I have some ideas on how to flatten the reporting.
Practiced guitar a couple times.
Should have read through these classes earlier if for no other reason than getting the books ordered. Had to wait to get the reading done and then Thursday happened.
Thursday storms took out a third of…
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When I was a child, I quickly learned never to say within earshot of my parents that I was bored. It was quickly met with a response along the lines of “an intelligent mind is never bored” or more worryingly “if you’ve got nothing to do, I’ll find you something” which meant a chore or Herculean task. Being a child of the seventies and due to my parents fundamentalist approach to declarations of boredom, I quickly discovered numerous ways to occupy myself. The default solution was a book or comic…
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Just a quick post today to say that we're celebrating our girl's second birthday!
She started her morning by going to the dog park, where she saw her friends and played fetch to her heart's content. Danny stopped by a coffee shop on the way home, where she got a pup cup with a treat. After arriving home, she's had plenty of cuddles and more playtime.
I bought her a peanut butter-filled cow hoof (which you can see off to the right in the picture above), but she hasn't done much with it yet. She l…
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Don’t worry, I can connect to Wi-Fi networks, I just lost mobile data access and phone calls with my current SIM chip.
You see, the silly government of my beautiful country decided that the best way to stop scam, blackmail and other crimes via phone calls would be to force everyone into registering their phone numbers with their ID card and a face scan with the phone’s camera.
A huge percentage of the population never did this on the original deadline and the plan utterly failed. No phone compan…
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My new weekly routine for September.
So it looks like I'll be working on Monday and Tuesday evenings from 15:00-22:00.
☺ The work week is over by Tuesday.
☹ Back-to-back work days are gonna be tough.
First week of work
I'm not going to get into specifics because frankly, I don't want to think about it. On Monday, my boss was there. She's a sharp and strict woman who you don't want to mess with. She said she's mostly in service now and rarely works in the kitchen, but since it was my first day an…
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For my entire life, I have been aware that I must die, and that my time alive is finite. This has always been a helpful motivator in doing important things, such as writing hundreds of words each day. When you recognize the timescale of epochs and eras, you also recognize how short your own existence is, and how pressing and urgent your actions must be.
And for the most part, this has oriented me towards good—I want to try to leave the world better than I found it, and make use of my capabilitie…
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My parents are great, but they are also of a different generation, and despite the amount of people around their age that I’ve met online that somehow align with many of my hobbies, everyone is different, and well, that’s the case for them.
Something I admire about my mom is how she still learns, she studies a lot and gets into online courses of all kinds. Unfortunately, she also is prone to being scammed by Facebook ads or misinformation spread through videos and posts there. I have managed to…
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Terrific long-form reporting by Lauren Feiner for The Verge on the impact of data centers on municipalities, both positive and negative. It’s the first of an apparent three-part series The Verge is calling “The Center Will Not Hold,” with Utah and Arizona “coming soon.” This one is headlined “Is This the Future of America?” and is about Loudoun County, Virginia (home to MAE-East, for old internet denizens). (Gift link in case you’re hit with a paywall.)
A couple of excerpts:
Within the past few…
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You have probably heard of this one, it is an award winning title that came out around 2019 and has been making the rounds as one of the best videogames of all time. I had heard of it when it came out, often confused with Outer Worlds which came out in the same year, but other than it being about exploring space, I didn’t know much about it. Last year, when I beat 1000xRESIST—another incredible game you should definitely play—my friend Jeremy kept pushing me to try this one next. I completed lik…
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August was a very interesting month, given the arrival of Blaugust, the summer vacation and a lot of my gaming progression done during all of it. I have recently realized how little I have to say about the month itself here when I keep saying a bunch of stuff for my weeknotes. For a while I’ve seen some people saying I should stick to either monthly or weekly stuff, and perhaps they have a point.
At the same time, I like this format quite a bit, so let’s get to the media I enjoyed during the las…
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My mother celebrated her 91st birthday last week, and I was thrilled to be able to spend time with her. I spent a week visiting with her and my father, also 91, and their friends. We went out to dinner with a long time family friend, and I sat in on my mother’s Bible study … Continue reading Hanging With the Old People →
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I won't do a rehash of the previous article that I wrote back in February of 2026. It was a very lengthy process and since its birth, I've updated some things. If you want to go read that, please do that now before continuing further in this post or you will be lost as hell.
With a lot of projects, testing, updating, re-testing, and improvements are bound to happen. This project is no different and 6 months later, it's time for an update post.
What did I add:
A new way to keep the token regenera…
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Recently I caught up on an older 32-Bit Cafe thread[1] that discussed the death of the power user in computing. The post linked by OP had some really strange ideas of what a power user looked like back in the day - really, power users used to understand DNS and IP routing? I think not - and was almost certainly written by AI, but it got me thinking about what I would consider characteristics of a power user in 2026.
Here are some ideas I have about different categories of users, ranging from the…
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It's 8:11 AM EDT, 76°F, Humidity 74%, W 11 mph SW, overcast
It's an unusual morning, as the humidity seems very high along with a fairly high morning temperature. And all this without sunshine. Today is the beginning of meteorological fall, and the weather already has a different flavor to it.
Yesterday I got an early start because I had to get to an audiology appointment two hours away in Son2's city. I kind of regret having made these appointments so far away, but so it goes. I did…
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The wife and I left our 10- and 12-year-old kids at home last night and set off walking to a nearby restaurant.
Our dinner instructions: “Can you guys just figure it out?”
Their response: “Yep.”
And they did and were fine.
We’ve come a long way. 😅
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Well, here we are at the end of August, with a whole month of blogging under my belt, not one day missed. Which is, in and of itself, a miracle. It’s been a busy month, one full of special anniversaries, a few emergencies, and a lot of walks out and about to take photos for Stray Pixels, my photo blog.
It’s also been a month of highs and los (due to those anniversaries and emergencies) which when all is said and done, is life in a nutshell. I’m here, I’m writing and I’ve had anot…
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Day 31. I made it.
I want to sit with that for a second, because I've signed up for Blaugust before and I have never once finished it. Not close. I'd get eight or nine days in, life would do what life does, and the whole thing would quietly stop. Thirty-one straight days of posting has been on my list of things I'd get to eventually for years.
This was the year. And this was the year for one reason, which I said on Day 1 and will say again on the last day. Bel built this thing, Bel isn't here, a…
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Now, August 2026: Wrapping up Blaugust and other titbits
These days, I’m unsure of how to reply to simple questions like How are you?. My default response is now something along the lines of, health issues aside, I’m okay. Recently, an acquaintance replied to my feeble attempt at an answer with the unexpected Well, at least you’re still alive, right?. Fair point, I guess.
Brief Blaugust reflections
This month, I’ve written thirteen posts for Blaugust, including this one. I wasn’t aiming for any…
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Blaugust isn't over technically, I know. But I have my monthlog scheduled for tomorrow so I'm good to go. In the grand tradition of such things, here's what I learned.
I didn't keep an actual count but I have added at least six new people to my blogroll, RSS reader, what have you, from the official participant list. I really enjoyed reading everyone's blogs for 132 Blaugust posts and I'm going to do another one after the month is properly over.
While I posted every day there's no way I would hav…
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This is the post I've rewritten the most times this month, and I still don't love it, which is usually a sign the subject is real.
Here's the situation, stated plainly. I've been married a long time. I have three kids, now 30, 21 and 18. I spent thirty-five years in a career that took a great deal of me. And through all of it I have played this game, most weeks, for nineteen years. Those facts have never sat comfortably next to each other.
The time is the easy part, and it's not actually easy. T…
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Yesterday I mentioned I'd played through the latest story episode in Neverness To Everness but I didn't say much about it, other than that I enjoyed it. Let's fix that.
The episode goes by the name "Fogden Game" and when I saw that I did wonder for a moment whether it was going to be a second game-within-a-game, like 999 Nights. That was a worrying moment. I think they got away with it once but...
Luckily, it's nothing of the kind. The story carries on from exactly where it left off, at the end…
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I still don't understand the unspoken social rules of the indieweb yet, like:
Why do people think it's okay to, without consent, quote a private email with identifying information in a public post?
Just because bloggers write in public doesn't mean their private emails are included in that. Is the line between public and private so blurry?
If someone did that to me, it'd break my trust:
Emails to me are just like IRL one-on-one conversations, words shared in confidence. If I wanted my words to b…
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It is time for winter; in midst of August no less. Coldsnap has a special place in my heart, not only because I started playing Magic the Gathering back in the day right after it released but also because I … Continue reading →