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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 can’t wait ✈️🏝️

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 😏) and started moving my audiobooks over to audiobookshelf (open source).

I woke up, voted for Kamala Harris, got a pumpkin spice latte, and uploaded a cute picture of my cats.

Auto-generated description: Two cats are lounging on a wooden beam under a ceiling with light strings and a painted wall in the background.

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, then you’re stuck at your computer until 10pm to make up the work hours. 😴 ☕ 👩🏻‍💻

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.

two metal statues featuring big spherical heads and wide open mouths with teeth. The one on the left is holding a fishing pole and fish, the other has its middle finger raised.

We dropped the kids off with my parents this weekend and my husband and I are off to New Hampshire 😄🍁🍂

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. It’s only been a couple of hours and I’m already really liking it. (Note: this is not in production yet)

screenshot of lillihub UI with the private notes feature

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 may go out in a month or two.

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Auto-generated description: A collection of intricately carved, glowing jack-o'-lanterns is displayed against a dark background. Auto-generated description: A large display of intricately carved and illuminated Jack-o'-lanterns creates a spooky and vibrant Halloween scene. Auto-generated description: A vibrant Halloween display features numerous carved, glowing pumpkins with various expressions, set against a backdrop of eerie colored lights and fog.

Went to see the Jack-O-Lantern spectacular in Providence RI. It was stunning! 🎃

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 place: tech support or to catch up.
  • calls me: the wildcard; nothing or a death in the family.
  • a text to call him: no good could come of this.
  • his place… sans kids + spouse: concerning.
  • at Starbucks, alone: uh oh…. this is serious.

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 👩‍💻

screenshot of Lillihub timeline screenshot of Lillihub comment box with @mention dropdown screenshot of Lillihub notebook page with notes about code

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 everyone!

I might not have time to do this everyday but I’m going to see what I can do 🤩

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 😎

Auto-generated description: A pixel-art-style webpage featuring a blog with categories, adventure logs, and a retro visitor counter, set against a Halloween-themed background.

  1. Disabled if browser has prefers-reduced-motion ↩︎

  2. In my opinion 😆 ↩︎

Auto-generated description: A festive Halloween display on a brick mantel features glowing decorations, small skulls, a pumpkin ornament, and a cat.

Caturday 😺 and Maui is helping me with Halloween decorations 🎃

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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.

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You’re never too old for a Just Dance 2022 battle 💃

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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 pen. It’s the perfect size for me. I’m also really thrilled with my 4&1 uniball jetstream pen.

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 work with much needed weeding and now I’m enjoying some time getting things set up for the upcoming week.

My parents are off vacationing in the Azores and I’m at home trying to offer tech support from 2500 miles away 😆

Today is a build lots of Ikea furniture day 🛠️

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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 in nature, chatting and enjoying something so simple. He was a fantastic and brilliant man who will be missed.