Back to work today, I don’t feel quite as rested today as I did last week but the show must go on. I’ll brew some coffee before I start my day. At the weekend I got some new beans which are so fruity when brewed, unusual for their country of origin, Papua New Guinea. ☕️
Just realised it’s the return of Formula One this month! 🥳🏎
My Fastmail spam filters seems to have turned themselves up. Found a load of legitimate email in it recently, including notifications that the domain I use with Fastmail is up for renewal.
Today is the start of another long weekend, I have today and Monday off work again. I plan to spend some time painting, but I’m being drawn into looking at some alternatives to Wordpress to power my website and I can feel myself being sucked into a redesign.
Considering going back to Things to handle all my Tasks, or maybe Reminders, I feel like Roam Research for tasks has me missing things.
We’re supposed to be implementing a no calls or meetings policy at work on a Wednesday afternoon, but I’ve spent all of mine doing just that. I feel very drained.
Today is a dark mode day I think. It’s very grey and cold outside, the sun of the weekend feels like a distant memory as I sit here at my desk working by spotlight.
Routines
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
On my lunch break today as I sat reading some RSS feeds, I came across a [Daily Blogging Challenge] that started on the first of March. As I clicked through to the organising site to find out more I discovered that each day they are sharing a prompt word that everyone taking part should use to kickstart their post for the day. I'm not going to commit to taking part everyday, but I liked the prompt from 1st March, [routine].
Always with the accidental screenshots when trying to turn up the volume on my iPhone 😖
The painting continues to progress, lots of repainting things but it’s slowly starting to look a little like me 😂🎨
Realised that I can now post from Gluon instead of the official Micro.Blog app. It’s a little nicer to use on the iPhone and has some features not in the official client.
Really enjoyed this episode of Thouroughly Considered debating the future of the Mac and iPad. I’m not sure where I stand on the debate, but I’m looking forward to finding out what happens.
It’s starting to feel like spring is coming, the sky is blue and clear, the sun is shining, plants are starting to come into bud. It’s a beautiful reminder that God sustains the world and despite all that’s happening in it, His creation keeps on regardless.
Speaking to my parents earlier we realised it’s a year since Mum’s cancer diagnosis. Feels like a lot longer ago than that.
In the spirit of showing my work, the self portrait is progressing. I’m very rusty and it’s starting to look a little bit like the Joker 😂 🎨
Another day of work today as I try to use up my annual leave before the end of March. I’ve dug out my paints and plan to try and make some progress on a self portrait I started last week. It’s been so long since I did any painting, I forgot how hard it is.
Micro blogging again
Friday, February 26, 2021
I’ve recently made some changes to the hosting for my blog and other websites as part of the consolidation of my many websites in to one. I had been aiming to have one website to rule them all integrating my portfolio and my blog into one site. I’m in the process of creating a new theme to help accomplish that, but I realised that for a long time I’ve not wanted to post the short status posts and images on to this site.
Typical that the time I make the decision to try a separate micro blog my domain register is having issues with the TLD I have spare and I can’t change the name servers to point and DNS to point it to micro.blog.
A quick test from the iOS app to make sure I changed the settings properly.
Decided to try a paid version of Micro.blog out for shorter posts while I figure out if I want it all on one domain or not. I have a spare domain name that I can use here.