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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...
Sometimes the hardest person to forgive after childhood trauma isn’t the person who hurt you. It’s yourself. That sounds strange when you were a child and someone else was responsible for what happened to you. You might reasonably think...
For those who didn't guess the waterfowl mentioned in this post: https://loveisverbing.bearblog.dev/cricket-4/ it was that little black and white bird called a coot. COOT became an acronym and a poem to inspire folk to designate a...
What fun to harvest my first ever potatoes from my garden! I know it doesn’t look like a lot of potatoes, but they were fun to grow. And I learned a lot about growing potatoes: when to water how to hill what to do when the plants flower...
At the recent XO Ruby Vancouver event, Ryan Davis (zenspider) gave a talk called “Git Power Tools.”1 I would recommend it to any beginner or intermediate Git user whose team a) collaborates on a large codebase, b) collaborates using a...