Evening Update

Decided to break the update into multiple posts because the last one ended well.

Finished up some important things that I needed to take care of today. Then went for a walk with the wife, so she could pick up some library books.

Now time to hide back in my hole and work on this site some more. I’ve connected a CMS to it so now I have proper writing environment, so there should be no more typos. (We’ll see…)

This week is going to taken up with finishing this site, working on some content for D&D, and killing the monster that my email has turned into.

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Nobody’s Favorite

Software has been on my brain a lot lately. In no small part thanks to building this site. It’s been a lot of reading people gushing over the concept of the JAMStack.

Which has me thinking that perhaps the only people who still have technology they love are programers. It used to not be that way. We used to get really excited about new technology: gadgets, software, games. (I’m an old, so I remember people standing in line for copies of Windows 95.)

Now we have things that are ubiquitous but nobody’s favorite. Nobody loves Facebook. Contrary to the screaming echo chamber of hot takes, not everyone who uses it hates it, but no one is excited by the prospect of logging in.

I think we’re all just exhausted by technology around us. We have to use it for work and are afraid we’ll be found out as not being The Best at it. Then we get home and find out that the “for fun” software on our phones are eroding the concept of personal privacy, or subverting democracy, or some such.

Put country plain: Technology is a support structure for life, but right now, I think we might have it the other way around.

Did The Thing

It’s a lazy Sunday, which means I’ve been more productive than I’ve been all week, I just haven’t left my bedroom much.

I did the one thing I wanted to get done today, which was get the blog a proper URL. Now I can actually start handing it out without the embarrassment that I’m building this site with my bare hands on the cheap.

The light here in Witch City is starting to wane and I think it would be wise to go outside before the cold, brutal blanket of night comes in and any activity seem like something, “best left for tomorrow.”

Leap Day

It’s that weird, misty day that only appears every four years because the Earth can’t be asked to revolve around the sun in a way that’s convenient to us with our arbitrary calendar system.

I like that. The earth is going to do what it wants and we just have to keep up with our measuring systems. And we aren’t doing the job at 100%, so we get a slightly longer year every now and then. One last day of February.

There’s some more coding research that I’m hoping to get done today, and I’d like to get a few more things taken care of on the backend of this blog before I’m willing to call it’s setup complete. Luckily, I have an extra day.

PAX East

Today was the last day I’ll be spending at PAX East this year. The show was great and everyone there is friendly and there is always a party atmosphere, which is more than can be said for most cons. However, it is nice to only spend a two days there as opposed to the entire four days. I think I’m becoming entirely too anti-social to be surrounded by that many people for that long.

So I escape to hide from sunlight and humanity until PAX next year.

No Coffee

I don’t drink coffee in the morning. (There, now that I’ve scared off most of you, I can be frank here on my little slice of the Internet.)

I did, however, get up this morning and drag my bones to PAX East with my wife. The gruff bastard that is New England weather behaved itself for at least as long as it took to get us to the convention center. There the wind made of up the difference and peeled my skin down to the aforementioned bones.

The con, however, was lovely.

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