William's Field Notes
William's Field Notes
William
My blog consists of notes from a working-class life. No polish, no secrets, just noticingings and other things from a guy named William.
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I was on my analytics page the other day, one of my quiet routines. Not for numbers, not really. More for the referrals. It's one of the last honest ways to discover corners of the internet that aren't trying to sell you something. Plus,...
I am back on my faking it until I make it mode in regards to dealing with the stresses in my life. Lying to yourself isn't good but we all do it all the fucking time. I've successfully faked myself into genuine happiness before, it...
3:55 my alarms start going off. I forgot to switch them off for Easter, as our store is actually closed today. Typically I'm walking in the door at just after 6 on Sundays. But instead of simply turning my alarm off and sleeping longer,...
Pattern recognition is a skill that you get better at with each passing moment. When we are young we think things like "Why me", and see the world as so biased and unfair. As we age however, we start to recognize the patterns of life....
Whenever I would post to my blog here back in the day I would run the text through ProWritingAid, because to be honest, it was necessary. My spelling and grammar has tanked since the introduction of smartphones in my life. It's so...
Claude Code has helped me create a quality-of-life improvement for Obsidian that I thought others might make use of, so I am here to share that with you today. It's true: There are 48 active plugins installed in my Obsidian vault....
Christina and I had the opportunity to go to our first game of the year. We sat as close as either of us have ever been to the field in our lives. I love being at the stadium so much. I bet it would be a fun place to work inside of....
Back in the day when I would blog I would scour sites like Unsplash, Pexels and the like for an image that would perfectly fit whatever it was I was talking about in a particular post. Eventually that would add this layer of stress to...
Today is March 30th, 2026. When I sat down just now to write, I invoked the internal web-browser inside of Obsidian. My "homepage" is the /posts dashboard for this very blog. I can quickly see the date of my last post this way. "...Four...
I think a big part of the reason the Matrix and particularly Neo was so popular with people (aside from obvious things like the ability to dodge bullets) was because he "rose up" with no effort. That is to say he was sought out. As...
I grew up in what was a small village at the time, Menomonee Falls. When I was coming up in the world, our small village decided to start a Little League Baseball program that was not related to the school system, which was how many kids...
While it does seem impossible to come up with a 'dark pastel' theme, I have modified the "Midnight Operator" palette a bit in the spirit of the upcoming holiday. This will be my subtle, subconscious was to slip into the spirit of the...
Things have been going extraordinarily well here at home with Grandma slowly stepping back into full time independence. Christina sparking the idea of getting a cat while we drove home from North Carolina last year has proved to be one...
My Grandmother had a doctor's appointment on Monday and was given a bill of clean health. Blood tests read like a nursery rhyme, her sodium levels are more stable than my failed marriage ever was, and overall she is in tremendous...
The dumbest things happen to me on a night when I have a bit of free time. Last night for no real reason, I got caught in the fog of FOMO. Mister iPhone 12, caught up in the fear of missing out. And missing out on what? Micro.blog x...