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No pictures today. Just a memory from camping this summer in Wisconsin.There is a community living both in and at the edges of the campground that is not visible to most of us. They travel back and forth to the campgrounds that charge...
Some website changes, general happenings, etc Happenings Had my buddy round and baked pizza. It was good. Updated my Pocket Reform last week and started getting bugs with the keyboard and screen. I’ve just updated it again, hoping it’s...
The August 2026 instalment of my annual standing in a park watching noisy bands series. PropUptheBar was off to Victoria Park for the Outbreak day at All Points East.But before frazzling my brain and making my ears ring, a few pubs and...
Another doing-things-away-from-the-computer day in which I might have overdone it but I tried to be careful about pacing so we will see. Fingers crossed for no big crash tomorrow. Things involved getting the third water butt connected to...
Hello, Life has just been pretty normal. The heat is gone, thankfully, and yet I am still wearing shorts in 16C-22C degree weather while all my windows are open. The weather in Germany is either waterboarding wet or burning oven from...
There were several days this summer where the Feel Like temperature was over 100F (~38C), but none felt as hot as today has felt, even though the highest Feel Like temperature today was 88F (~31C). If this is bad, I can’t begin to...
23:16 - Journalled on the iPad and hated every second. It felt ugly and cumbersome. Bearblog has influenced me to buy a Hobonichi planner for next year.
Krissy and I didn’t attend Worldcon with the intention of purchasing art, but then we went into the art show and saw these bronze pieces from sculptor Vincent Villafranca: And then we thought, “You know what? Those would look great in...
We continued our holiday in Cornwall. The weather was mostly sunny all week, but on one cloudy, drizzly day we drove down to Falmouth on the south coast. The National Maritime Museum was fine, but didn’t grab the boys’ interest. We...
This weekend, I ran Super Adventure 6: D-Day 2 -- You Can (Not) Redo for the Gay Beholder OSR Discord. "Super Adventures" are a quasi-monthly server event where someone runs a flailsnails one-shot -- anyone can bring a character from any...
This has been one of those low level thoughts that bobs up from the neural surface (the Little Limited Machine in my skull). The bemoaning of web search devolving from the list of ranked blue links to something that zeroes on on what...
A busy week at work, publishing 10 advisories for Renovate, and working on a number of other bits As GitHub Stacked PRs now support Merge Queues, I've been using them a fair bit this week, mostly simplifying a number of things And it'll...
You don’t remember books, you remember sentences I heard this in the Psychology of Money podcast (episode) and it resonated with me. I always wondered and got frustrated that I don’t remember the books I read. But when I heard this...
I'm sitting here at The Gallery this morning, enjoying a treat and drinking coffee while listening to a trio of people discuss their plans for the novels they are writing. Their prospective stories sound interesting, as does all the...