Made our pulled pork ragout for tomorrow while I was on the call. Who says I can’t multitask?
I spent 2 hours today helping a client upload our product to his IBM i system. IBM uploader stalled. SFTP stalled. Even plain old FTP crapped out. The problem was buried somewhere in Windows 11. Probably a local firewall setting. He switched PCs and we were done in 10 minutes with both the upload and install. I hate Windows.
Eeesh. A nasty day. High winds. Cold. Feels like 3ºF as a result. A smattering of snow so far. Roads seem OK for now. It’s going to slow down holiday travel a tad.
Grandson Aydrien is driving down this evening. If the winds die down a bit he should not have much trouble.
Finally looking at getting a really good office chair for the home office from the Steelcase dealer in town. It will replace the stool I’ve been using for 2½ years. My neck says “thank you!”.
I have been back and forth between Safari and Dia. I am leaning Dia. It feels lightweight compared to Safari and it seems to strike a nice balance with AI features. I wonder if it will ever be cross platform or even if it will survive against the likes of Atlas.
I haven’t picked up the camera in weeks and now the weather is miserable. Gotta get out soon or I’ll forget what all the buttons are for.
Spent most of the day at the Mayo Clinic accompanying Ann. Sometimes on wheelchair duty and sometimes just keeping pace with her walker. Covered a fair amount of ground for her being 5 weeks post-op. As the PT folks say “Motion is Lotion”. Recovery progresses.
Not a bad day so far. Mass. Some cleaning. A decent lunch. Some work on the clippings site. Learning new CSS tricks. Ordered a Daylight DC-1. Balanced bank accounts. Guests this evening.
Getting close with the clippings blog and Zola. I like what I’m getting so far.
Just watched Stiller and Meara: Nothing is Lost. Funny in spots, thoughtful, very interesting.
Evening Note
Got a few things off the list today but still a lot more to work on with Zola. The clippings blog has over 1600 posts which Zola gens in about 6 seconds. Not too bad. Still thinking of how best to do a photography site. I may end up back here at m.b. Farmer’s Market tomorrow. I’m buying for Thanksgiving. No turkey this year; pork shoulder instead for pulled pork ragout over egg noodles.
Back to using the micro.blog cross-posting to Day One.
I’m finding the IFTTT thing I built to be too unreliable. In general I am finding the IFTTT triggers (RSS feed, clock, button) to be a bit iffy.
Morning Note
Attempting to move my clippings site to Zola SSG. Lots of styling to do. Continue writing articles for my company’s site. One more attempt at using an SSG for a photo portfolio. SmugMug does the trick but just feels crazy expensive for how I use it. Housework, shopping, and “nurse duty” for Ann who is recovering from back surgery.
My daughter got married to her long-time boyfriend on Friday. Both of my kids chose minimal courthouse weddings. Neither wanted anything big. I wonder if this is a thing these days?
Playing some more with IFTTT. It’s both fun and frustrating.
Checked out the new Day One cross-posting. It works fine, but I’ve gotten used to the little scheme I worked out with IFTTT and I’m sticking with that.
A "Portfolio" Adventure
Well, I tried to do my (decidedly amateur) photography site on micro.blog. I wanted something super-easy to publish from Lightroom using “smart” galleries; I didn’t want to have to fiddle with finding and modifying a theme; and I thought I wanted just a single page. The constraints were too much for m.b galleries and I ended back at SmugMug which does everything I want for a price. Turns out I wanted several separate galleries.
The beginnings of a squash and bacon soup!
Spending much of the day fixing keywords in a (very) small chunk of my Lightroom catalog. This is a vacuum cleaner for time.
Aurora just north of Rochester MN
