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2026 21 entries
- This weekend I reached for Claude AI to see how it does with an SVG heavy design. It struggled with keeping things in proportion and keeping perspective. I had to nudge it and do …
- My poor memory strikes again. I was talking with my sister that I would love, love, love to go see Les Misérables some day on stage when my husband speaks up and tells me he took …
- Two years later and my other kid needs cookies. At least this time my child checked in the morning well ahead of the lab 😆
- March 8th - April 4th Practice Log Tai Chi Tai Chi and Kung Fu Practice Log March 8th - April 4th Stats 28 days logged approx. 42 hours practiced (class + personal) approx. 4.1 hours standing …
- Now that I got my pkm tool to where I want it, my next project is going to be a CMS that lets me build a website like a sticker book.
- I feeling the digital mess of my files across devices pretty strongly today. The urge to toss everything in an archive folder and zip it… is strong. But I'll still know there is a …
- I’m required to use Claude at work so I’ve been testing it out. My favorite so far: A PWA quine PKM system. Took what I liked from Logseq (outline - simplified) and …
- I’ve had kid(s) for a decade and a half now, and I’m still surprised how early registration opens up for things… like summer camp. Guess I know what I’m …
- Read as text Using AI at Work
- Read as text I got up this morning around 3am because… my brain sucks sometimes. Anyway, it was cloudy then and its still cloudy now. Oh well…
- Read as text My kid fell in love with the local agricultural school during a summer camp session. This year our state switched all technical schools to be lottery based. We filled …
- Handwriting a blog Read as text One of the nice things about going to my kids swim meet is that I have time to let my mind wander.
- Our town reported 25in of snow for today’s blizzard. Though I feel like we got more. Not the best day for a shear pin to break on the snow blower. So we got to hand shovel …
- I purchased a variety of green teas to try for the new year. As a way to take quiet moments and enjoy some health benefits. Today’s selection: premium dragon well long jing. …
- I downloaded the hobonichi app to see if I liked it more than day one. It is cuter which may help me stick, but I like the encrypted option of day one and with day one I can use …
- App Defaults 2026 An update to my suite of tools and applications across various categories, including email, notes, calendar, photo management, and more.
- I had a good time attending a virtual Homebrew Website Club meeting this evening while I worked on my blog redesign. I was inspired by a codepen I came across for a journal with …
- I didn’t realize day one now had a web app and an android app. I’m going to have to check it out.
- Planting bamboo along a driveway is fun! Ignore that it’s impassable mess when covered in snow. Every winter storm we need to keep shaking the snow off to keep it from …
- I forgot how loud an indoor water park can get. The kids are having fun though 😄
- We’ve been sick with the flu the last two weeks so I’ve done zero prep for the new year. But waking up to a fresh dusting of snow was nice.
2025 149 entries
- I had a lovely holiday and I’m on vacation until the new year. I’m going to spend time catching up on my five year journal and planning out the next five years. There …
- Supabase, Deno and Server Side Rendering A project I’m currently working on is using Supabase for its database and authentication layer. And so far so good. That is until I wanted to move all the …
- Work has been so demoralizing the last couple of weeks (well, for years but it has really ramped up). Sigh. I think I might use some vacation time and try to reset my mindset.
- So my son dropped his phone (again*100) and the screen is totally busted. Good thing its a Fairphone. Replacement is ordered and I’ll teach him how to install it 😎
- My kung fu brother and I had our second tournament! I did four tai chi events, 24 movement, 42 movement, short yang fan and yang broadsword. Taking a very serious photo is a …
- We have a septic alarm going off at the house (professionals have been called and are coming) so I’m gonna escape the noise. Off to a coffee shop to work on my journal ☕
- I’m using an older book to teach my kid some web development this year and it has them create a webpage about various iPod models. They had no clue what they were 😂
- Quick test post
- Did arts and crafts this morning and then stood around outside with 280 people, showing it off. No 👑!
- I did a thing yesterday 😄 * we can only share 10 second clips Not bad for my first tournament at 40! I did two tai chi forms, an empty hand kung fu form and a double daggers form. …
- One issue with WeirdWebOctober is that the prompt reminds me of a little side project I never completed and then I get sidetracked working on that instead 😆 So far I’ve been …
- I’m flying out for my first tai chi and kung fu tournament in less than a week, thus realizing one of my long term goals since before motherhood 😄
- Here is my first entry, transparency, for #weirdweboctober. I’m not sure how many I’ll finish this month but I’m aiming for three or four :)
- The search for link colors that are equally readable both black and white website backgrounds A one-rule CSS dark theme using system colors offers a lightweight solution for personal projects while accommodating user preferences and accessibility …
- Since I just changed to a new blog design, here is a picture of my old one :)
- End of September Blog Updates Recent updates to the blog include a redesign with a dark mode and holiday decorations, a shift in content structure, the creation of a personal code editor, …
- Homeschooling today featured a meltdown around math being stupid learning about y = mx + b. At work there is a bug around an object not being deserialized into JSON correctly that …
- I finished another tai chi video youtube link. This was the prettiest spot I did tai chi during my vacation. Two more to go and then I’ll invest in a microphone and try doing …
- Yesterday I learned that I can still do cartwheels around the room. This morning I learned that my shoulder doesn’t like it 😆
- So far I’ve avoided buying a new Hobonichi planner/cover with the launch. I don’t need one. I might wander over to a local shop and pick up one of their grid notebooks …
- Micro.blog Discovery Ideas I wrote this draft on 7/28/2025 when I wanted to expand a reply into a full post but then shelved it. Now, almost one month later there is another post …
- I’ve been enjoying the Hobonichi reveal and these are my current favorites. I just love the mix of pink and red with the flowers. I have the a6 POTR cover from last year …
- I’m at a three day work conference and this is what happens when you ask me to un-package and prepare a bunch of binders for stuffing. A nice hollow hive design 😂
- Starting the morning with two things I love, tai chi and coffee.
- An ICRPG Hard Suit campaign - Session 0 Prep So for the last few years I’ve been doing a Dungeon Crawl Classics, DCC, game in my dining room while the kids play their own game upstairs. But schedules …
- I’m sitting at the local pond, working on my five year journal, while the kids are off swimming 🥰
- Blaugust 2025 I think I might try and post more this month and so are some others with Blaugust 2025. This is a collection post to gather up any posts I make this month. I …
- 🐲 Seventh Grade for 2024/2025 Writing, Spelling, Grammar, and Literature Science and Mathematics Interdisciplinary Studies Art, Physical Education, and Health So last year and this year so …
- I’m excited to teach my son web development this year 🤩
- My husband took the kids to the last swim meet of the summer session (to save me from another migraine this week). So… today will be filled with catching up in my 5 year …
- Movie night with my dad. Tonight is “Invaders from Mars” from 1953
- I finished editing the first section of a tai chi form I filmed on vacation. Even though I have no idea what I’m doing, editing-wise, I think it came out pretty good for a …
- One of my kids needs a new phone… so they are inheriting my Fairphone 4 and I’m buying myself a Fairphone 6. I’m really excited. This also means I was successful …
- Mini Coding Adventure: a personal web desktop So last night when I was sitting down and watching an episode of “The Mole” on Netflix, inspiration struck and dusted off one of my old web projects …
- Oof… Going back to work after a three week vacation is rough. I forgot how overwhelming the current project I’m working on is… and thanks to all the federal …
- A Small Web July A Small Web July is a challenge started by SmallCypress that inspires a break from big social media to work on personal projects. I really resonated with the …
- So far my little homemade tickler file has been holding up with just one repair along the tape seam needed. The biggest alteration I’ve made is adding a couple of sticky …
- Yesterday we started the journey home by waking up to a flat tire on the rental car 😂. Thankfully we had a late flight so we had time to get everything situated. Today we have one …
- My mother was born here and one of her wishes was to do tai chi with me while we visited. Maia, Santa Maria, Açores. My grandfather owned a small house on the cliffs right above …
- Micro.blog Photo Challenge June 2025 I did it! I completed all 30 prompts for the Micro.blog Photo Challenge June 2025 and I almost did it daily.
- Day 30: Solitude
- Catching up on #mbjune posts Day 29: winding
- Catching up on #mbjune posts Day 28: Ephemeral So much of my child’s art is dirt, mud, and flowers. They only last a day or two.
- Catching up on #mbjune posts Day 27: Collective
- Catching up on #mbjune posts Day 26: Bridge
- Catching up on #mbjune posts Day 25: Decay
- I wasn’t sure if I’d have good internet connection while on vacation so I tossed together a little micro.blog client that didn’t use JavaScript or load any images …
- The other day I was scrambling over some volcanic rocks when my shoe got caught. Luckily years of kung fu and tai chi kicked in and I managed to fall in such a way I didn’t …
- I’m finally taking a rest day. I think I’ve walked around this island too much. I’m a bit sunburnt from it all. Time to pull out my Hobonichi and drink a …
- Just a few more days of vacation left. I’m going to miss the sunsets here.
- On this little island in the middle of the Atlantic, there is a little red dessert. So of course I had to do some tai chi.
- Bloom #mbjune
- fracture #mbjune
- Hometown #mbjune
- So far we’ve lost luggage on this vacation (since recovered) and our rental house had busted AC unit. To make up for the fact that they can’t repair it until a part is …
- I just want to say that I love it here on Micro.blog. And yes this totally has to do with me wandering over to social.lol to see what the fuss was about this time.
- Silhouette #mbjune
- We gather to celebrate. My wedding in 2009. #mbjune
- I found a pretty spot to practice tai chi.
- While I’m vacationing in the beautiful Azores, I wanted to film some Tai Chi videos. Anyone have tips, tricks or software recommendations (linux or windows)? My camera does …
- The blue and green are about equal #mbjune
- texture #mbjune
- We made it! Though not all our luggage did 😂. Now we get two weeks to relax a de-stress. So far my son rates the vacation a 10/10
- Warmth #mbjune My favorite spot in the winter. Maui’s too.
- Blur #mbjune
- Tie #mbjune
- And I’m off with the family for a nice vacation. Santa Maria, Azores, here I come 😎✈️
- Twilight #mbjune
- Path #mbjune
- Finally got a proof of concept working. A progress indicator without JavaScript 😎 Thank you iframes and Meta refresh
- Hidden #mbjune
- Target. Just testing out my micropub implementation 😊
- I sat down to start work at around 7:30am and I’m just finishing up at 9:00pm. I am counting down the days until vacation 😴
- This was taken in 2014. Bricks. #mbjune
- Rail #mbjune
- Wood #mbjune
- Today’s code related annoyance: can’t open an HTML5 dialog on a button click without JavaScript, can’t prevent clicking outside and subsequently closing a HTML5 …
- It has been five years since we have gone on a long family vacation. It is time for some much needed travel and relaxation. #mbjune
- So I have some vacation time coming up and I wanted to spend a little time improving a few things on Lillihub, my little micro.blog client. Any suggestions for those who use it or …
- I couldn’t really think of anything much to go with the switch prompt for #mbjune. I’m still playing animal crossing a couple of times a week, even 5 years after its …
- The contrast of the blue and green, of nature and manufactured #mbjune
- Reflection #mbjune
- An old picture of my son with my old Gameboy Color. Nostalgia. #mbjune
- 🐯 Ninth Grade for 2024/2025 History, Writing, and Literature Science and Mathematics Interdisciplinary Studies World Languages So last year and this year so far have been intense. And not …
- Maui acting as Fuzzyboots shadow. #mbjune
- Today I need to write homeschooling progress reports for the school district. Sigh. I’m going to need a bunch of coffee. One would think that after five years I would …
- My son, following the curve of the track.
- My favorite tree in the yard, a larch tree.
- It’s been such a tough six months. I’m treating myself to an ice cream and playing Animal Crossing for a while.
- I’m replacing my Onyx Boox Note 2 from 2020 with a used Tab Mini C. It looks like Onyx is moving away from the 7.8in size and away from the Wacom screen in general based on …
- Ugh this newest family drama couldn’t have come at a worst time. I’m already struggling to keep all my plates spinning while everything around me attempts to mimic the …
- I just finished mowing the back field behind the house. Mugwort has taken over and my arms are shaking. I’ve never justified the expense of a riding lawnmower but man… …
- It was a lovely afternoon to practice some tai chi
- The poster generated for my last video upload was just a black image, since the first frame is black. Here is the alt text the AI generated for it… 😂
- Mini-coding concept: An in-page editor for my blog posts For a while I’ve had my own little personal edit button on my website that redirected me to the post in edit view on Lillihub. Last week I decided that …
- It’s early in the season, but that won’t stop my kids 😄
- To relax I’ve been reading up on Overloading the Random Encounter Table and Hex flower’s as a way to create a little solo RPG to play. I’m thinking three little …
- The tree outside my bedroom window has such pretty butter yellow blooms this time of year.
- Guess who had to socialize today 😆
- It’s finally time to relax. Now I need to pick between building Lego’s, my solo ttrpg adventure, a fun coding project or building a new MTG deck… Choices choices …
- We finally had a sunny Saturday. So we spent it doing yard work.
- testing testing… Next up, testing an in page edit off my blog 😀
- My Kagi usage for the last six months. Guess I do a lot of searches 😆
- I put the CSS back on my website today. I rather enjoyed the simplified look. It got me thinking about low CSS and no JS web apps. HTML5 can do a lot out of the box. So using the …
- New digital garden theme :)
- This is the fourth rainy weekend in a row. Mucking out a koi pond is unpleasant enough… I have no desire to do it in the cold rain… Sigh.
- CSS Naked Day, April 9th 2025
- My website is not broken… today is CSS Naked Day. I must say, it doesn’t look as bad as I expected 😅
- I’m not finished but I did some digital spring cleaning and updated my website theme a bit. I wanted to explore making it more of a digital garden and less chronological. …
- I haven’t seen any self-hosted solutions for sharing code samples along the same lines of embedding something from Codepen.io. Any suggestions? I want to start sharing more …
- Backlinks on a Micro.blog hosted website One of my goals when transforming my website into a digital garden was to include backlinks on my posts. A backlink is a link to a post that refers to the …
- 2024 Weird Web October https://weirdweboctober.website/ Themes Nature CSS Color - added 9/28/2025 Lists Food Notifications Science Hashtags Blessed Art API Ritual GIFs History Audio …
- I love it when daffodils start blooming in the yard.
- Eight Silk Brocades The eight silk brocades are a set of Qi Gong exercises meant to work and warm up muscles groups commonly used throughout the day. Especially the legs, hips, and …
- 108 Long Yang Form As my Sifu always says “This is your form” and it should feel like “coming home.” After many years of practice, it finally does. The …
- 🐯 Eighth Grade For 2023/2024 History, Writing, and Literature Science and Mathematics Interdisciplinary Studies Art and Music Health and Financial Literacy Physical Education Wow, eighth …
- 🐯 Seventh Grade for 2022/2023 #homeschooling I can’t believe we are done! Seventh grade was a whirlwind and high school seems like it is just around the corner. I definitely felt like …
- 🐲 Fifth Grade for 2022/2023 #homeschooling We did it! Fifth grade is done! This year was tough. My daughter is a reluctant homeschooler. She wasn’t thrilled when the pandemic shut …
- 🐯 Sixth Grade for 2021/2022 #homeschooling This page was created 03/20/2024 as a look back to our earlier years homeschooling. Mathematics Math Mammoth Topical Books ALEKS Middle School …
- 🐲 Fourth Grade for 2021/2022 #homeschooling This page was created 03/19/2024 as a look back to our earlier years homeschooling. Mathematics Math Mammoth Topic Books ALEKS Level 5 Primary …
- 🐯 Fifth Grade for 2020/2021 #homeschooling This page was created 03/19/2024 as a look back to our earlier years homeschooling. Mathematics Math Mammoth Grade 5 Upper Elementary Challenge …
- 🐲 Third Grade for 2020/2021 #homeschooling This page was created 03/14/2024 as a look back to our earlier years homeschooling. Mathematics Math Mammoth Grade 5 Primary Grade Challenge …
- So I made a new category for my blog and noticed this new error message coming up under the Micro.blog -> Account Logs area Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: open …
- How to generate a number between 1...n in Hugo In Hugo you can use {{index (seq 18 | shuffle) 0}}. What this is doing is basically making a sequence, list, of numbers from 1-18 with seq 18 Mixing up the list …
- I just got so frustrated at a piece of code for work I took 20 minutes and rage cleaned my windows. Then I made a cup of tea, sat back down, and immediately saw the issue. So now I …
- I made some progress on my little solo rpg quine idea this weekend. I’m using the hex generation rules from the welshpiper.com. I also picked up the icons from the HPS …
- This weekend I’m thinking about building a html quine (like Tiddlywiki) for a hexcrawl inspired from the dungeons and dragons expert rulebook. I envision something to play …
- I did set the alarm for 2am, hoping to see the lunar eclipse… but clouds had other plans. The kids were disappointed.
- Today is a sneak off to the office day. I love my kids and homeschooling them but man… their pre-teen attitude(s) is making everything 10x harder than it needs to be.
- Using Deno and Micropub to launch heyloura.com into Geminispace! After last mini-coding adventure where I was exploring a simple command-line browser idea I had there was a comment by @sod that mentioned I might enjoy looking …
- Explorations with a command line browser So last weekend I was a bit tired of the internet. Which will probably be another post at some point. But suffice it to say that the invasive tracking browsers …
- So while I’m at this swim meet my mind is wandering to webgardens, the Spring'83 Protocol and small social networks. I feel like I have an idea brewing but I’m not sure …
- Last big swim meet of the season for my daughter! 🏊♀️
- Small work rant. The non-profit I work for has six people working for them (including me) Why on earth do we have 92* projects in Asana? 🤯 Why… just why!?! No wonder I can …
- Made some progress yesterday on my blog/game hybrid. I’m thinking that the blog post will be represented by the broken tablet and you’ll need to find the key to unlock …
- 🐸 Lillihub (an unofficial web/PWA client for Micro.blog) Here’s what’s new: Rename/delete notebooks Move notes to different notebooks Copy notes and export to …
- Micro.blog Private Notes + 7.css Fun Back in October I posted a bit about using YAML front-matter with Micro.blog private notes to extend it’s functionally. I ended up releasing that to Lillihub …
- This morning I’m practicing some tai chi forms, teaching my son to use an encyclopedia for his research paper, and waiting for fresh homemade donuts to finish rising.
- Today’s exercise is a three ton pick up. Three tons of pellets for the pellet stove need to be moved into storage.
- Yesterday I was out clothes shopping and two hours in I noticed my wedding ring was gone… vanished… poof… So my “cheer myself up” outing from a …
- 🎊🥳🐸 Lillihub Update 🐸🥳🎊 Besides bug fixes, here’s what’s new: Private notes can have titles and tags (Lillihub only) Access private note versioning The timeline now …
- Android Studio and gradle. Please, I beg you. Give me something useful in the console when you fail to build. -heyloura, day three of trying to get an old Cordova app for work …
- Phew, finally finished backing up all my photos. One backup on my Linux machine, and one on my Immich server I’m self hosting with Pika Pods. Next step, delete everything off …
- I’m having way too much fun with 7.css
- My 2025 Productivity System I bounce around tools a lot trying to keep my life organized. Everywhere I look, the tasks I need to get done just keep multiplying. I’ve probably tried …
- Yesterday’s rabbit trails (things that caught my interest that I went off to explore) Non-cryptographic hash functions and more specifically implementing Fowler–Noll–Vo hash …
- First time in a while that I have friends coming over to play Dungeon Crawl Classics. I hope they enjoy and survive “Perils of the Sunken City” ⚔️🐉
- So… 1:00 am one of the kids burst into our bedroom with stomach bug symptoms… and that’s how my new year is going 🤣
- Happy New Year!
2024 136 entries
- Homeschooling costs for the 24/25 school year It’s that time of the year when I close my books on the costs for the current school year. Take a big breath, and then in late February I’ll start …
- Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. For those that don’t, I hope you have a wonderful day. For those who celebrate, and it’s complicated… I’m right there …
- Everyone is out of the house… It’s time to wrap presents 🎄
- Musings about my blog in the new year I want to post a bit more on my blog this coming year. Probably about various coding projects I’m playing around with and maybe a little bit about …
- Two days in the office this week, I’m not used to that anymore 😆. Plus I feel like the cold my husband and the kids have passed around this last month is finally catching up …
- Awwww, he tolerated his festive scarf for a whole minute 🐈
- Finally feeling like decorating for the Holidays 🎄
- Just testing things out. Will delete 🐸😄
- Hello CORS my old friend I've come to find errors again Because browsers and servers trusting Left its colors red while logging And the answer to set valid headers with request …
- I love watching my kids at swim meets… but the heat, humidity, and noise of the pool room tends to trigger a migraine. Also, my phone’s camera struggled with the …
- Micro.blog hosted blog - List only titled posts on homepage Here are the steps I used to make my Micro.blog hosted blog list only the titled posts on my homepage and still paginate correctly. Note: This does require …
- Check out my Veggie ID! You can create yours at sophie006liu.github.io/vegetal/ It’s true… I’m good at driving. But very not true that I’m good at texting. …
- I’m eating m&m’s, watching an animal crossing playthrough on youtube, and messing around with code. Next up is dinner, a Just Dance battle with my daughter, and …
- Summer vacation booked! I’ll be joining my parents and some of my extended family in the Azores. I’ll get to go see the little house my mother was born in. I …
- Small actions steps I’ve taken this week: I got a family Kagi plan and set the kids up, I found my town’s board meeting schedule so I can start attending (and voting 😏) …
- Yard work Today I woke up feeling dread. Bad news, in my experience, comes in waves and this whole year has been one wave after another. So I did what I tend to do when …
- I woke up, voted for Kamala Harris, got a pumpkin spice latte, and uploaded a cute picture of my cats.
- One drawback with homeschooling and working full time. If you don’t get done teaching and helping the kids until 1pm and you have to drive them to sports in the afternoon, …
- I finally have a moment to myself and Im going to enjoy the Halloween festivities on my island.
- I finished my Halloween costume just in time for tap class last night. 🎃 👻
- I picked up these cute metal statutes to go by our koi pond. They’ll be inside during the winter, making me chuckle every time I walk by.
- Enjoying the getaway
- We dropped the kids off with my parents this weekend and my husband and I are off to New Hampshire 😄🍁🍂
- Fairphone 4, three month review So I’ve been using a Fairphone 4 with e/OS instead of Android for the last three months. I have not signed in at all with my Google account and I’m …
- Got a little more coding time in today and played around with Micro.blog’s private notes. I implemented some basic tag functionality using YAML frontmatter in the notes. …
- I had some time to play with code today (which I find relaxing). I’m thinking that I like conversations indented a bit on Lillihub. I have quite a few changes/updates that …
- Went to see the Jack-O-Lantern spectacular in Providence RI. It was stunning! 🎃
- I had a wisdom tooth removed today. So it’s a play animal crossing new horizons and eat applesauce kind of day.
- I have a scale judging the severity of information from my father. If he… offers to meet at my house: probably a tech support question or to say hello. wants me to go to his …
- Halloween costume making time!
- I challenged my son to a “Just Dance 2022” battle. I can still win, but man, he’s getting better 💃
- I’ve been having fun with some Lillihub updates. No promises if/when these will go out, there is a lot of testing and tweaking to be done 👩💻
- Here’s my submission for “Day Two: CSS” for Weird Website October This a twist of the prompt. A website styled without CSS using obsolete methods. …
- Here’s my submission for “Day One: Nature” for Weird Website October Looks best on a tablet/desktop, tested on chrome and edge #weirdweboctober
- Weird Web October Weird Web October is a challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day, inspired by Inktober. It’s open to you and …
- I’ve seen a few other give their blogs a Halloween/October vibe and I’m joining in too. Nothing like floating1 emojis to make a website look good2 😎 Disabled if browser …
- Ninth grade homeschool schedule: 8 credits Honors Geometry Honors Biology Writing, with tutor, and Literature World History: Africa and Asia European Portuguese Falcons: Integrated …
- Caturday 😺 and Maui is helping me with Halloween decorations 🎃
- Seventh grade homeschool schedule: Prealgebra Spelling, Melancholy Grammar, Creative Writing, and selected literature Co-op: Geography and Poetry Microbiology and Genetics Online …
- My newest trick to help with the bulky photos in my five year journal; peel off the backing of the photo paper and use double sided tape.
- A journey into the world of pediatric chronic pain - a new normal To start, I just want to say the my daughter is doing so much better after her six week stay up at Boston Children’s. The program and doctors and her team …
- You’re never too old for a Just Dance 2022 battle 💃
- My Hobonichi haul from launch day. I got an A6 notebook to use as a bullet journal and the potr cover/purse to hold it. The purse fits my Fairphone 4, my essentials, notebook and …
- It was a pretty good day today. I taught tai chi in the morning, got to have some fun playing with code, went apple picking with old friends and the kids, managed to fit in yard …
- Testing
- End of summer fun with the kids
- I have a pumpkin spice latte and I’m listening to animal crossing new horizons music. Time to be extra productive at work ☕🎃🏝️👩🏻💻
- My parents are off vacationing in the Azores and I’m at home trying to offer tech support from 2500 miles away 😆
- I redecorated my homeschooling room An updated homeschool room is unlocked 😆 I’m homeschooling my two kids this year. Ninth grade for my son and seventh for my daughter. I decided that it …
- I Created Some DCC Character Sheets Looks like my little gaming group can get together this weekend to play some Dungeon Crawl Classics, DCC. Yay! During our last game I noticed that we spent just …
- Micro.blog Bookmarks & Highlights Life has been way too much lately and most of my hobbies were put on pause while I dealt with keeping up with the unexpected. One of those that was dropped was …
- Today is a build lots of Ikea furniture day 🛠️
- It was another tough week. My uncle passed away while we were on a family vacation. I loved teaching him Tai Chi over the last six years. I’ll miss those weekly moments out …
- For the first time this year we managed to sneak away for a family vacation.
- I enjoy the stat emails Audible occasionally sends me. I should probably start to cycle in some harder non-fiction reads now that life is calming down. I tend to escape into easy …
- I’m a few days in using my new Fairphone4 running the deGoogled e/os. I had no problem getting it to run on USMobile’s 5G. There are three pre-installed apps I’m …
- I got my new phone today. Now I need to resist filling it up with apps. I want to keep it under 24 (one screen) 😂
- How I spend my time in waiting rooms ☺️
- Website change-log Sidebar now collapses on mobile Categories now show last updated Font tweak Category pages: pulls in images and bookshelf, bookmarks (by tag), and single page if …
- Finished Reading 2024: Kitty Cat Kill Sat by Argus 📚 This book was an enjoyable read. It was pretty slow in the middle which suited my frame of mind just fine.
- Homeschool prep for this coming school year has begun! 😄 I love getting new books and curriculum in the mail.
- I’m really not a fan of going to the dentist 😔
- I pulled out my old e-ink tablet and I’ve been having a lot of fun using it. I’ve even used it somewhat successfully as a monitor while coding on visual studio. Also, …
- Currently reading: Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson 📚
- Looks like this year I’ll be back to homeschooling two kids. 9th and 7th grade here I come ☺️
- Currently reading: Do I Know You? by Sadie Dingfelder 📚 This stuff fascinates me. I’m about a third of the way through the book nodding along in agreement. Some of what she …
- Four weeks at Boston Children’s are done. Two more weeks to go.
- It’s just me and my son tonight. So pizza, ice cream, and some MTG battles it is. He already beat my bird and cat deck. Let’s see if this commander battle goes any …
- Things I spotted in my yard today: Pink foxglove with wild strawberries white peonies A cute garden snake
- Sometimes I can’t help myself. I overhauled an old desktop blog theme I had. I’m not quite finished and it is possible I went overboard this time around 😆
- I restarted my animal crossing new horizons island a few days ago. This time I’m not going to unlock the terraforming tools. I feel like I have the best intentions with them, …
- A journey into the world of pediatric chronic pain - a continuation I shared back at the end of March how my world went topsy-turvy on me when my daughter’s knee injury, now healed, triggered a case of pediatric Complex …
- I needed some Tai Chi pictures so my sister helped me out with a little photo shoot. This is one of my favorites.
- I treated my daughter to a showing of her favorite podcast. It was a really nice to spend a little time relaxing and laughing 😊
- It’s been just over two weeks since I updated 🐸 Lillihub. The analytics so far: Which is good, since a few more people are using it. I’m keeping an eye on the free tier …
- Finally, tomorrow is the magical day that all schedules align and we can actually continue playing our dungeon crawl classics game. I know what I’m prepping for the rest of …
- Caturday 🐈 Fuzzyboots steals my chair any chance he gets.
- Finally a nice weekend to get some yard work done.
- Just testing something out :) - heyloura, https://heyloura.com/2024/05/03/just-testing-something.html Yep!
- Big update to 🐸 Lillihub! 🥳 You will need to re-login before using it. I’ll do a longer post with the changes. Speak up if you see any issues. If you like the split of convos …
- My father came over for a visit. Our new tradition is watching an old black and white science fiction film together. Tonight was “Them!” from 1954. He gets such joy …
- A big pile of books arrived today that I was going to tuck away for next year’s homeschooling and my son has already snuck one away for reading 😂
- It’s just over a month since I shared that my daughter has pediatric CRPS. Hopefully we’ll get her into Boston Children’s Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center …
- I’ve been slowly working on a major 🐸 Lillihub, a micro.blog client, update and wanted to check-in and see if there were any suggestions/ideas out there while I get the …
- So for my hobonichi journal this year I picked up some dip pens and inks that matched the color of months. Turns out this was a bad idea. I’m far more less likely to sit down …
- I’m curious if the micro.blog timeline respects the details element exampleHello World
- Looks like it is round two of strep throat in the house. Hopefully I can avoid it this time…
- Tonight’s entertainment:
- Two things I enjoy: ☕ and ☯️
- When I started this whole homeschooling journey I really only anticipated it lasting until High School and then off to school my kids would go. But my son really wants to …
- I’ve been using some shoelace web components in my Lillihub project. However, I am not using npm, or using a build step, and I don’t want external links. I just want a …
- Such a rainy commute this morning to the office. It took almost twice as long as usual. ⛈️
- My son cracks me up 😆. Of course he sends this 20 minutes before his science class when I'm stuck in a long meeting.
- Ah, nothing like a strep throat test first thing in the morning. And yep… it’s positive.
- These chickens are so happy when they get treats 🐣
- The longest four months - a journey into the world of pediatric chronic pain It was November 2023 when I was at my computer just sending off an email to my daughters dance studio about her participating in the local Christmas Parade. …
- Finally finished back-filling some pages for our previous years of homeschooling. I also added links to them on the homeschooling category page of my blog.
- More signs of spring in the yard: hellebore and crocuses🌷
- Gender Bias in Tech: 73% of Women Report Experiencing Discrimination | HackerNoon hackernoon.com Yep, started with my first computer science class at college and all through my …
- My son has worked so hard this swim season and here we are at the New England Championships 🏊
- Testing, testing 🤓
- My husband, daughter and I went up to Boston this weekend to attend a workshop on pediatric chronic pain. It’s called Comfort Ability and it was fantastic. I learned so much …
- I took some time to update my homeschooling page “Eighth Grade for 2023-2024” with what we’ve done so far this year. So far he’s 50/50 on continuing …
- My husband brought me some lovely flowers today 😍💐
- Now it is time to relax and play some games 😄
- I have reached the point in my day where all I want to do is drink a cup of tea and play animal crossing. Unfortunately I still have a whole lot of adulting hours left to go 😅
- Signs of spring in our yard
- Just in time for caturday. Maui, on the left, gave us a health scare this week, resulting in two emergency vet visits. He’s back to his normal self after eating a piece my …
- Dev Diary 0013 - End of January through February Life has been hectic. Like I mentioned back in December, I’m juggling two close family members with health issues. My mother-in-law survived the surgery, …
- I’m thinking about making some design changes for Lillihub 🐸. I was playing around with this option (on the left) this weekend. It still has some color, but the UI is …
- I have some free time this weekend for the first time in a while. Getting in some much needed Lillihub development time.
- Some lessons, like keeping footware dry, I fear my kids will never learn…
- I’m having some fun with the new Micro.blog premium feature, private notes. I’m trying to figure out what parts of my workflow I can move over 😄
- Currently reading: When Your Child Hurts by Rachael Coakley 📚
- Back to Boston Children’s with my daughter. Since the winter storm is upon us and the other patients canceled, I’m hoping the appointment will go a bit quicker than the …
- Private key (AES-CBC) encryption and decryption in Deno I found myself needing to encrypt a small string on Deno (and subsequently decrypt it later) for a small side project. I checked out a few websites with code …
- This morning I accidentally used mint extract instead of vanilla extract in my berry crisp 🤦
- I want to thank seventeen year old me for trying out Tai Chi. I want to thank all the versions of me that kept with it. There are few things that make me feel so at peace. I let …
- It’s been a hard and long week. My daughter’s knee injury had an unexpected prognosis and its been tough to wrap my head around it. She’ll be all right, …
- Family game night ❤️
- My son and I have had friction homeschooling this year. So yesterday morning we spent two hours brainstorming what to do and when he was last really happy with school. Turns out he …
- Fingers crossed that the CT scan shows enough signs of healing so my daughter can start physical therapy. This girl just wants to get up, run around, climb trees and dance.
- Dev Diary 0012: January 1st - 16th 2024 I’ve spent the last few weeks of the New Year, like a lot of others, reflecting on where I’ve been and where I want to go. So this update is a …
- An fun 🐸 Lillihub update I put in yesterday. The editor now previews an image while you write. I find it helpful to see the image while writing alt descriptions 😊
- I decided to turn my Hobonichi Avec into a four year journal. I also figured out that nail polish makes a good sticker substitute if you need to cover up dates 😊
- My favorite thing about my side project, Lillihub , is you don’t need JavaScript. Besides the reply box not auto-clearing, the fancy markdown editor for posts (both which …
- I finally have a chance to sit down and work on something. Choices, choices… Tai Chi, journaling, or coding. Or maybe, all three 😄
- 🐸 Lillihub update: You will need to reset your settings. Improvements: Editor previews images inline Editor supports browser spell check Login on homepage Added logout Bugs: Editor …
- At work I had to port our code base to .NET 8 and deal with all the issues that introduced. Took me the better part of three days. Getting this last error resolved in our Azure …
- Some minor blog tweaks today. I updated my little pixel avatar and I changed how I was grouping posts (thanks to @jsonbecker for the inspiration 😊).
- First snowfall of the season ❄️
- Currently reading: Practical Tai Chi Training by Jesse Tsao 📚
- I just spent an hour teaching my mother, 70, how to play Animal Crossing New Horizons 💕. She says it’s much better thank Mario Kart 😂
- Last year and this year. Time to get journaling ✍️
- Rewatched Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey. I already do a few things ✅ Write problems down ✅ Think deeply (I do often wake up with solutions) ✅ Draw pictures 🎨 but l want …
- I’m reviewing my solo development methodology and figuring out if anything needs any tweaks. Last year I tried adapting Shape Up and I think I need to shorten the cycles. Six …
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- Dev Diary 0011 - December 11th - 30th This month has been rough. It started with an unusual diagnosis for my daughters injured knee, the stress of the holidays, and my mother-in-law going from a …
- I am both too tired to code and all I want to do is code. Conundrums…
- And this lovely test post should not crosspost from Lillihub
- Time for some digital clean up. Moving from Lastpass to 1Password, switching to ProtonVPN, moving files off of Dropbox and Onedrive and exploring Fastmail for the family.
- It’s been an overwhelming holiday season this year. But I did manage to get the tree up 🎄😊
- I’m working on some Lillihub tweaks 👩💻. I wanted to add a marker at the end of all the new posts since that last time Lillihub was viewed, but I’m having trouble with …
- A 🐸 Lillihub update to celebrate 1 month 🥳. Check it out, it’s a fun way to view your Micro.blog timeline. Conversations don’t repeat as you page Comments from people …
- My mother embroidered this stocking for me when I was young. It’s one of my favorite things to hang up this time of year ❤️
- Currently reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚
- Finished reading: System Collapse by Martha Wells 📚
- This year my company got everyone Lego sets for the annual holiday party. We ate yummy food, listened to music, chatted and built Legos 💖
- Dev Diary 0010 - Week of December 4th This was a major work week. I’m trying to wrap up a couple more features and get in a few more bug fixes before I wrap up for the holidays. At work, I am …
- 🚗 Off to Boston Children’s this morning to get a knee brace fitted for my daughter. Fingers crossed that the injury can heal on its own. We’ll reassess in four weeks.
- Oh hey.. double update day for 🐸 Lillihub. Is that a checkmark I see on PWA? I believe it is 🤩 Super minimal right now, but you should be able to “install” Lillihub if …
- Quick 🐸 Lillihub, a Micro.blog web client, update: Dark Theme can be enabled. Turn it on under “Settings” Bug fix: videos not showing. Limit the # of comments streamed …
- My App Defaults Guess I’ll join in the Duel of the Defaults 😄 I’ve held off since it seemed that most people were iOS users and I’m a Windows/Linux gal. But …
- My home office has lovely windows that are south facing. Which means I usually need to keep my blinds down so I can see my screen. But today it’s lightly snowing and overcast …
- Dev Diary 0009 - Week of November 27th This week I spent most of my time playing around with my blog theme. I realized I’ve been using Micro.blog for over a year now and I wanted to make some …
- Did you know you can filter content out of the Micro.blog timeline and comments using the 🐸 Lillihub client? Go to “Settings” and save a list of terms. Note: the list …
- It’s that time of year when all my homeschooling plans start to unravel and I need to pivot our materials 🙄. One day I will learn to only plan out a semester at a time.
- My son is doing wonderful this swim season. He’s always pushing himself and getting new personal bests 🥰
- My daughter made such a cute gift wish list this year 🥰
- Off to Boston Children’s Hospital this morning to get an MRI for my daughters knee and hopefully start getting some answers.
- I love websites that do little advent calendars. I found these two, HTMHell and omg.lol, and it’s such a treat checking them every morning.
- It’s been just over a year since my first custom Micro.blog theme (and joining M.B 🥳). To celebrate I revamped the design a bit and added in a cool tracker based off the …
- Dev Diary 008 - Week of November 20th Whew... These last couple of months have been rough. This update is pretty short. I hosted Thanksgiving at my house this year so I wrapped up most dev related …
- New journal day! My Hobonichi cousin got too big to be carrying around everywhere so this little journal is the small one to take places and be functional. The Cousin will remain …
- Tai Chi is getting chilly in the mornings (we practice outside). It was 19°F and frost everywhere.
- I’ve been feeling the itch to learn something new and it’s a long weekend… time to dive into Rust and start with a “Hello World” 😆
- His favorite spot 🐈
- Maui is not so sure about our dinner choice 🦞🐈
- Lillihub Update 🐸: Photos now swipe on both large and small screens. Post titles now show, when they exist, on the “My Blog” -> “Posts” area. Better date …
- Dev Diary 007 - Week of November 13th Remember how I said, everything back to normal? That lasted all of Monday morning. Then I got the call from school that my daughter hurt her knee... getting a …
- I’m thinking of adding the users blog/website url (if any) above the post timestamp on Lillihub. On one hand, I think highlighting a users domain is nice, on the other I …
- My daughters desk is a giant mess of crafts, so at some point I asked her to neaten it up and wipe down the surface. A quick glance later and everything looked good. Yesterday I …
- Want to try out a new Micro.blog web client? You’re in luck! I’d like to introduce Lillihub 🐸. It’s a delightful web app to view your timeline, make posts and …
- Dev Diary 006 - Week of November 6th This week was back to pretty much normal now that everyone is over their colds and now that my wisdom tooth is gone 😄 General Development So far this year I've …
- Schedules aligned and we managed to fit in a DCC game last night. The players finished Sailors of the Starless Sea and each had at least one surviving character. impressive! Now …
- I managed to borrow an old MacBook Pro. Now I’ll be able to test my website themes and Lillihub properly 🤩
- Dev Diary 0005 - Week of October 30th Job Related This week ended up being a short week as well so I didn't quite get through my to-do list as I planned. But I still managed to straighten out the …
- I’ve been enjoying playing a level of Rogule once a day. Today I died ⚔️ but tomorrow is a new dungeon 🐉
- I actually updated my website theme two weeks ago but forget to make a change log post about it 😊 This one was inspired by Super Mario Kart and rainbow road.
- Dev Diary 0004 - Week of October 23rd Job Related Vacation week 🥳 General I had high hopes for a productive vacation. I wanted to repaint my home office and decorate it. I wanted to get journaling …
- Trying out Zoho Notebook since Obsidian, Logseq, and Notion still don’t feel like the right fit.
- What did I spend my weekend doing? Why, making a jellyfish hat of course! It took about 12 hours to put together.
- Dev Diary 0003 - Week of October 16th Job Related This week was all about adjusting the application to handle a special user role. In general the application is your standard multi-tenant …
- I’ve got the best helper today. Time to get my Halloween costume ready 🐈 🎃
- My sister spotted this cute guy as she was heading up my driveway. Snack time!
- Dev Diary 0002 - Week of October 9th Job Related Now the MVP is done at work, it is time to show it off. We had a wonderful team lunch and I was able to walk the staff and the director through …
- I taught Tai Chi, did yard work for two hours and decorated for Halloween! Now it’s time to make apple crisp and prep some meals for the week 🍂🎃
- Must resist the siren call of Nanowrimo. I really don’t have time for one more project 😁
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- Just make yourself comfortable Maui…
- Testing out cross-posting 🤪
- Here was take two on my blog design. I had midjourney make the logo with the prompt of “pixel art Tai Chi girl who codes”.
- I figured it would be fun to keep a record of my past blog designs. This was my first custom design. Complete with falling emojis across the screen. I also really like how M.B. …
- Dev Diary 0001 - Week of October 2nd I came across this blog post as I was working this week. Claire Codes - Dev Diary and it inspired me to try my hand at one. I’ve seen some other people …
- I dragged myself to Kung Fu tonight even though the last class gave me a three day migraine 😂 We did nine ring long handle and spear. Photo is of me a couple years ago.
- Fuzzyboots decided to help me decorate for Halloween 🎃🐱
- Test post 😄 Hello World
- I’m ready for some beta testers. If you’re interested in trying out and giving feedback on my micro.blog client send me an email at loura@hey.com ☺️. The video was …
- Finished reading: Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar 📚 I listened to the audio book which was narrated by Jill. Listening to her voice choke up at parts really drove home the …
- Look at these neat creatures I found on the sidewalk, next to the road
- Finally made it to a Kung Fu class. Pretty sure I’ll have a migraine from it in a few hours but it was a great class. Started learning Army Sword and got to practice my …
- Turns out you can use Hey’s workflow feature as a lightweight Kanban board for a hobby project.
- Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler has 📚 My daughter picked this book out for me based on the cover art and it turned out to be pretty fantastic. It was …
- My sister made a fabulous cake for my son 😍
- Made some progress enhancing the posting UI today. The web client is also responsive to device size and has and dark/light mode.
- Just testing something out. Making sure I didn’t break anything.
- My hey.com email subscription is set to renew this month and I’m going to keep with it. I find the UI relaxing and the workflow feature is a nice touch. I do find certain …
- Phase one of my not so super secret project, a Micro.blog web client, is complete! No frameworks; just hand-rolled HTML5/CSS on the front and deno in the back. Now it’s time …
- At 2:30am my brain decided to ruminate about all my perceived problems for four hours. I now require coffee to be a functional adult. It’s gonna be a looooong day.
- Day 5 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is forest.
- And the busy season begins: homeschool, work, kid chauffeur, keeping active, keeping the house in order, and finding time for my hobbies.
- Probably not its intended use case, but the Micro.blog bookshelf feature made it a cinch to put together my son’s free reading list this year.
- Day 4 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is orange.
- It’s full on homeschool prep today. My poor printer has its work cut out for it. Tomorrow starts 8th grade for my son and my daughter starts 6th grade at the local public …
- Day 3 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is precious.
- Day 2 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is buildup. One of my favorite knick knacks on my shelf.
- Day 1 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is abstract, suggested by Greg, aka @greghiggins.
- I took the kids to the beach yesterday for one last summer vacation outing before school starts up next week.
- Huh, I guess you can’t have a user confirm a form submission without JavaScript. At least not that I could find. Darn. 🤔
- Currently reading: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould 📚 Time to start my next non-fiction book 😊
- Tuesday night is game night🐉🗡️🎲
- Three little frogs enjoying the koi pond with me at lunch.
- This is a test post. Hello World View changes
- A photo from August 2020, when Fuzzyboots was just a little kitten, and we had yet to decide where all our furniture was going.
- Finished reading: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 📚. This book had me contemplating the difference between what I was taught about Native …
- I missed posting this photo on Caturday but this cute guy doesn’t care 🐈
- Work today will be interesting…
- It’s amazing how time flies. Fourteen years of marriage with my best friend. Two wonderful children, a home, two cats, some fish, and a few chickens. I couldn’t ask for …
- My garden is working! I’m actually growing things 😁
- I saw five rainbows when I was out and about today 😊🌈
- August 11th 2023 - Website Change Log Added in changelog link to navigation Added in video page link to navigation Adjusted home page to include micro-posts content, not just …
- Currently reading: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 📚. I’m really enjoying this so far but I did need to grab an audio book of it to …
- Finished reading: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 📚
- 6 month journal flip through 2023 📝 “Dear Moon” by EnjoyMusic from enjoymusic.ai
- It took forever but I finally finished painting the windows this weekend! I started back in February
- Thanks to @manton for updating the bookmarks JSON api this afternoon to include tags so now you can use @sod’s wonderful bookmark plugin to display them (assuming you have …
- Trying out some different feed readers. I’ve never really used one before and I see how this could be a useful tool to have.
- Made a couple tweaks to my website, fixed some microformats, added in a now “page”, and replies now have conversation links thanks to this post by jarrod.
- I dislike working with dates in JavaScript. That is all 😒
- Testing out IndiePass
- I’ve made good progress on my little, local only, app that uses a disappearing iframe trick. I still have bugs to squash and a longer post to write, but here’s the …
- New personal best 😊 42 minutes to complete the Tai Chi Form - 108 Long Yang . Moving slow + low stances = calm mind and good workout.
- I wandered over to my company’s shared office space today. They are really making the outdoor space nice. If I didn’t have homeschooling/kid responsibilities I could …
- Okay, I know I’m strange. But every once in a while I get a strong urge to code my own web browser. Just for the fun of it. Just to see how it works 😂
- This is my first year journaling and on a whim I grabbed a Hobonichi Cousin from Amazon. I love it, but now I’m wondering what to do next year.. Same? 5-year? Multiple …
- Enjoying walks and sunshine
- Nothing like a lake side vacation. My daughter has been enjoying sneaking up on ducks. 🦆
- Coding a framed productivity app - building out the calendar Coding a framed productivity app - building out the calendar This is a continuation of my experiments using iframes as a modular way to build an app. You can …
- Things are growing! I can’t wait until some veggies are ready to pick
- That was a sweaty Tai Chi class. I feel like a swamp monster.
- A basic framed* website... more experiments with disappearing iframes A basic framed* website… more experiments with disappearing iframes Want to follow along? You are going to need some basic familiarity with JavaScript, …
- Fuzzyboots watches from above 🐱
- An experimental take on the retro website frames... disappearing iframes with vanilla-js, html, and css An experimental take on the retro website frames… disappearing iframes with vanilla-js, html, and css Want to follow along? You are going to need some …
- Let's code something experimental... an introduction If you can’t tell from my blog design, I’ve been on a bit of a retro website kick. I find them nostalgic and fun and I kind of miss the days where …
- The chicks are getting bigger and I love the cheek feathers 🥰
- Whew! Homeschooling this year is officially done! Since I had to go through all the trouble of writing up progress reports I decided to toss them up on my blog. Except not bullet …
- At the end of the homeschooling year I’m often panicking because I worry that I haven’t done enough, covered enough, to give my kids a well-rounded and rigorous secular …
- Another dance recital done 💃 I’m so glad I decided to give it a shot. It’s even more fun with your sister! We danced to “Stray Cat Strut” and “Eye of …
- A happy little frog in our koi pond this morning 🐸
- Currently reading: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 📚
- Ever since we bought the house I’ve wanted some bookcases with glass doors. We finally got around to making that happen. I love them 😍
- Finished reading: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson 📚 I like this one so much more than his last book. We listened to it as a …
- Finished reading: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 📚 A very thought provoking read. I enjoyed it and I definitely going to try to get my kids …
- My daughter drew a fantastic little comic and gave me permission to share 😍 But I wasn’t able to snag a picture before the inevitable water spill 😂
- The chicks are getting bigger! Pretty sure the two with black feathers are roosters.
- First raised bed filled and planted. Let’s see if I do any better this year 😂
- Boston outing with the family today 🩰
- I’m watching Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets on Prime. As a homeschooling mother, I recommend it. I have to be extremely careful selecting materials, because these …
- TheRealChadwick and I took the kids to a local carnival this weekend. The weather was lovely, the music fabulous, and the rides wicked expensive 😂. A fantastic end to the weekend!
- The project supervisor is checking in 🐱
- I’ve been puzzling over Logseq’s “Scheduled and Deadline” section on today’s journal page and what it displays or doesn’t. Turns out it will …
- I might have procrastinated making some phone calls by redesigning my website 🤣. I needed something new, fun, and bright. Okay, I promise I’ll go get the calls done right now …
- Interesting article: Rejecting the Mommy Wars. It hits close to home. I’ve definitely felt the strain on some of my friendships because our parenting methods have diverged …
- Newest members of the flock 🐣
- Idea: Mini-adventure cards I’m rather excited to run a Dungeon Crawl Classics game in a couple weeks. I’ve been making some mini-adventure cards to have on hand for …
- Logseq or Obsidian, I can't decide About a month ago I decided that I wanted to try Logseq. I had downloaded Obsidian earlier in the year and never really used it and mostly forgot about it. …
- Spring time under our maple tree 🍁
- It’s not too often I have time to stretch my artistic side. A watercolor of my mother-in-law’s favorite bird, with a bird for each family member, inspired by artwork I …
- Even though it was raining, my small Tai Chi group still showed up and practiced for an hour with me ❤️
- Whew. For the last month I’ve been prepping for next year’s homeschooling. I can’t believe it’s time for eighth grade already. Tentative plans are set, …
- Someone made himself comfortable in my spot 🐱
- More daffodils, these bloom later than the others but are worth the wait 💐
- I made the mistake of running a college cost estimator for our two kids 🤯 that’s… a big number.
- Morning sunrise out my window ☀️
- Kids had a blast trying to find golden eggs in the tall grass. 🐣🐇
- As part of being more cognizant of the online subscriptions I have, I’m doing a digital life cleanup. Where I can I want build out my own apps to replace what I use. First …
- Currently reading: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 📚
- More signs of spring in the yard 🌷
- I went to see Hade’s town with my sister last night. It was fantastic!
- I started homeschooling my kids with the pandemic and now my daughter wants to go back to public school next year. So I was psyching myself up for this change and how to support …
- Arg. I love trying new software and apps and sometimes I’m convinced that I’ll keep using it and pay for a yearly subscription. Then I lose interest after a few months …
- It’s that time of year! I think we might try and get some Salmon Faverolles this time around. My daughter is beyond excited 🐣
- Much needed signs of spring in the yard.
- My favorite use of ChatGPT so far: meal planning. It made me a balanced whole food meal plan with a shopping list. Now it didn’t do any calculations (like get 2 bananas) but …
- These two text messages and two phone calls I need to make are all that’s between me and a hot chocolate.
- I absolutely love my new journal cover. Animal Crossing is my jam and I thought I’d missed my chance since this design was released before I had a Hobonichi journal. But my …
- This Windows girl is going to try Linux for my home system. I’m excited to get my Meerkat by System76 in a couple of weeks 😁
- 📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge day 2: Weather
- 📷 March Photo Challenge #1: Secure.
- “Hey, how’d you get up there?” 🐱
- One of these days when I take a day off I won’t be painting… But that’s not today 😂
- Finished reading: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo 📚. I really liked it. It was perfect for my mood and it was nice to be swept away in a fantasy novel for a while.
- Happy Valentines Day!
- I’ve been using this layout for the last six weeks and it’s a keeper. I’m not splitting aspects of my life across different apps, excel sheets, or notebooks and …
- I’m looking forward to family game night tonight 😁
- The weather was too nice not to sneak out for a lunch time walk.
- One thing I’ve learned about homeschooling classes and summer camps. Enrollment happens way sooner than you’d expect. I’ve snagged a few classes for my son and …
- My son is getting ready to run his first d&d campaign with some friends so I’m spending the afternoon helping him scale and print out maps. He’s responsible for all …
- One of my resolutions for 2023 was to use journal daily. And so far I’m doing it! I’m using it to practice my doodles, jot down interesting quotes and thoughts, and …
- Stopped reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 📚. It pains me to say… but this is my least favorite book by Brandon. The first third of the book was fine, …
- At work I’m tackling a huge software project and my normal approach isn’t cutting it. So over the holiday’s I read Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work …
- Session One - Portal Under the Stars - 1.1 This contain spoilers for the Dungeon Crawl Classics level 0 funnel adventure The Portal Under the Stars by Goodman Games To go to the start of this adventure …
- I signed up for an omg.lol account a couple of months back and I’m finally getting into the groove of using status updates. I don’t think I’ll sync them on …
- Dungeon Crawler Classics - Trying Out Solo Play I haven’t played a good table-top, dice slinging, rpg game in about six years. So the urge to play has been building for a while. But my schedule is …
- Off to the orthopedic surgeon this morning. My daughter broke her hand in her gymnastics dance class. Hopefully just a cast and time is required for healing.
- I got a Hobonichi Cousin journal for the new year and I’ve been been trying out different layouts to keep track of homeschooling, work, and my personal tasks. This is my …
- My son had his first swim meet of the season! He’s improved so much this year 🏊
- Someone is helping my son with math today 🐱. One overlooked benefit of homeschooling, lots of cat breaks 😂
- I finally found the time and energy to make it to a Kung Fu practice last night. Lots of good stretching and sword forms in class, plus some new faces 😀.
- I made myself take my time and not rush in finishing my orchid in one sitting. It’s finally done, and I love how it looks on my window sill 🌸
- One thing I’ve really enjoyed this week was writing down a daily quote in my journal. To start the year out I’m reading “The Practicing Stoic” by Ward …
- It’s been so grey and rainy here this week. Plus going back to work and ramping up homeschooling has left me extra drained. I needed something lovely to look at. My favorite …
- For Christmas I got my son a telsa coil and a set of noble gasses. Today we finally had the time to set it up and enjoy. It’s so cool looking!
- I’m really enjoying this Lego set I got from my sister for Christmas. I can’t wait to finish it and have it on my desk to enjoy 🪷
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- Spending New Year’s Eve playing monopoly with the kids 🥰
- Figures I take a day off of work only to spend it on a migraine 😒
- My secret for hiccups: Hold a butter knife covered in a thin layer of peanut butter between your teeth while drinking a cup of water. Try not to eat the peanut butter! Just drink …
- When I get stressed I want to add more things to my plate. I kept track this year because my stress interests seem to be rather cyclical and I wanted to spot some trends. I wanted …
- I just finished reading The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚. It’s not my usual cup of tea, zombies, but I ended up really enjoying it.
- Snowflakes are up! They’re one of my favorite decorations ❄️
- I found a new ornament! 🐱
- Maui snuck into our room and found his Christmas present. Now he’s defending it fiercely and will growl at any who dare come near. 🐱
- Fire rises Water falls Wood expands Metal contracts Earth Mankind ☯️
- But… but I 💖 dark chocolate. 😢 Food Safety: Lead and Cadmium in Dark Chocolate and As You Sow - Toxic Chocolate.
- Since there are two rambunctious cats in the house, I decided to hang the fragile ornaments up high 🎄
- This weekend I bought mp3’s for an album in the first time since forever. I’ve been using Amazon Prime’s music service to stream songs for ages but now you …
- One of the benefits of homeschooling: I get to decide when there is a snowday! It might be just an inch but the kids are outside having fun and I’ll make hot chocolate when …
- First snowfall ❄️
- So far I’m really enjoying this book. I’m about 1/3 of the way through and I can wait to see where it goes. The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚
- I am so over painting and household projects. These just need one last coat. Then my husband and I need to figure out what we’re doing with the other twelve 😬
- Yes! Happy Dance Time! 🥳 We sold our condo! After 10 years of constant stress, becoming very reluctant landlords, dealing with court systems and having to lawyer up we are done! …
- One of my biggest homeschooling wins this year was finding Falcons for my kids to join two days a week. My daughter needed more peer interaction, my son needed his creative muscles …
- Mantle over the pellet stove is decorated 🎄
- I wonder how long it will be until one of the cats knocks over the Christmas tree? I did think ahead and only decorated with durable ornaments 🎄
- It’s time to play find the cats 🐈🐈⬛
- I finally took the time to write down the version of eight silk brocades I use as part of my tai chi practice. You can check the page out on my website Qi Gong - Eight Silk …
- This year’s advent calendar.
- Why is it that when I super stressed out and my to-do list is overflowing my brain just wants to add one more new craft/book/task/app to try and make it all better? 😒
- I’ve cleaned up my notion set up to be more in line with the Johnny Decimal System and I’m liking it so far.
- It’s so hard to get the motivation to drive anywhere when it’s dark by 4pm. Toss in some rain and heavy winds and I really just want to spend the rest of today at home. …
- Finished the Slytherin collage in my daughter’s room. I love how it’s coming along!
- I might have messed up the stuffing… but the chickens didn’t mind 😊
- RSVPing maybe to IndieWebCamp Popup: How to Make the IndieWeb More Approachable
- I never see my name out in the wild but today I spotted it at Starbucks!
- Brushed off the old Notion app and digging into the Johnny Decimal system. Also on the list tonight is freezing some Cheese Gougères for Thanksgiving and roasting some beets. Maybe …
- I finally have a Wednesday evening free. I’m looking forward to attending my second Homebrew Website Club - Pacific.
- I just finished my first ballet class! 🩰 I got to meet some pretty neat people and I can’t wait until next week. Another item off the bucket list 😊
- And the first dish for Thanksgiving is prepped and in the fridge 🍳
- Season 37 Episode 48 of My Life Some weeks really do pass by in a blur. I think it’s because I tend to “go-go-go” and then collapse down to rest at the end of the day. This …
- Today’s highlight was a chilly walk in the woods with some homeschooling friends!
- The first pass at my new blog design is done! There are still some rough spots (I’m 👀 at you archive page) but it was an enjoyable way to spend the weekend being silly with …
- Caturday 🐱. Someone can’t wait for Thanksgiving…
- More fall colors in the yard 🍁
- For personal projects I try to write clean and minimal code 👩💻. Then I go to my 9-5 and it’s an absolute mess. It’s so hard not to take a figurative scrub brush and …
- Nothing like a Tai Chi class to help let go of a stressful week. ☯️
- My sister crocheted me a grumpy matcha tea latte and it’s fantastic! It’s been making me smile all morning. 🧶
- Awww, the cats figured out how to share their favorite chair. 🐱
- Today had such lovely colors.
- For mbnov I need to come up with something using the word license. With my migraine 🤕 I don’t see inspiration striking.
- “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a …
- I need to figure out why there are pipettes all over the house… Oh wait… 😂
- Pumpkin decoration time 🎃
- Trunk or teat with kids yesterday. It was fun!
- Caturday - Attempted camouflage by Maui 🐱
- “In Tai Chi, just like in life, if you have a way in then you need a way out.” - 💬Sifu Jamie
- It’s been way too long since I’ve managed to gather up the energy to attend a Kung Fu class. But going back tonight helped remind me why I love it. ⚔️ Two Person Stick, …
- Tai Chi was just the thing after a long and stressful day ☯️ Old Yang, Broadsword, and 108 Yang Forms today
- My favorite Halloween decoration. Combines my favorite holiday with my favorite sea creature!
- This morning, aimed at my daughter. "Please stop decapitating the cat toy and get back your math."