For the first time this year we managed to sneak away for a family vacation.
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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 sci-fi when I’m stressed out.
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 not using, Mail, Tasks, and Calendar. It was also easy to install a couple of apps I needed. So far I find it charming 😄
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 they have the same name.
- Blogger stats tweaked (label and order)
- Addded surprise-me plugin
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, Lillihub isn’t half bad black and white. P. S. Applying screen protectors isn’t my strong suit 😂
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 writes matches my experience of being deficient at recognizing people, stereoblind, and no visual mind (aphantasia).
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 differently 😂
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 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 limits. Based on the logs, the CPU time per request limit was hit a few times. Probably large image uploads.
Caturday 🐈
Fuzzyboots steals my chair any chance he gets.
Finally a nice weekend to get some yard work done.
Just testing something out :)
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 and posts you can re-enable it under settings. UI redesign, backend rewrite and more! Whew! 😆
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 from sharing the make and model of every car, airplane, or helicopter he can in the films. Or any other trivia he can think of. ❤️
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 this summer/early fall. We’re on a waiting list, for a case review, to get on the official waiting list 🙄. It’s tough to see things worsen and not be able to speed up this process. But I’ve set it up so she has things to look forward to every couple of weeks. Fingers crossed that the wait time passes quickly.
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 release ready. No guarantee I’ll be able to implement any of them 😄
Here is a sneak peak of the UI changes:
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 and add to my journal if I need to fiddle around with pens and ink. So back to my old pens I go.
I’m curious if the micro.blog timeline respects the details element