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by JamesNot only Telegram implements new features, I spontaneously had an idea and a bit of programming desire. As an optional feature GoBlog now offers “reactions”. I don’t think I need to explain this feature, just try it out on this post. 😉
Oohhh, I like this reactions idea. I may need to do something similar in Tanzawa 😀. -
Checkin to Starbucks
Once you go all milk in your Chai-tea latte, there’s no going back. -
by JamesI finished the initial pass at layerizing Tanzawa. There's still more work to be done to get more logic out of forms and into the domain layer, but the initial moving large chunks around the code base is done. Will merge and deploy it tomorrow.
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by James
- Maintenance of Wordpress sites is a never ending battle, and even the most prolific bloggers can’t be bothered.
- I miss the optimism of the web in the early 2000’s before social media silos became so dominant. The people in the indieweb help restore my faith in the potential of an open web still being "viable".
- I should do more long form blog posts and be the change I want to see.
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by JamesExcited to listen to a new episode of Inside the Energy Transition. The latest episode, A just transition: how to avoid leaving people behind, should be good.
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The Week #93
by James- After Leo got Covid last week, I knew my turn wasn't far behind, sure enough, we all tested positive. While Leo is technically out of quarantine as of Sunday, since he's 4 and can't go anywhere, he's still quarantining until we're finished on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
- Thankfully, because we were freshly boosted the effects have been minimal. I had a sore throat for a couple of days and a small cough. The day I posted positive, I felt a bit short of breath making my coffee, but by the time it brewed got some coffee in my system, it sorted itself out. And the pulse oximeter that arrived later that day confirmed it.
- Which is to say we've all been mostly indoors since March 30th and, besides not running / making regular trips to the store, I'm surprised just how little my day-to-day has changed. Perhaps because we were already in a permanent state of social distancing.
- Catching Covid, as much as it sucks, has also been a relief. The past 2+ years I've been second guessing myself, worrying "what if" most every time I went out...and now I don't need to do that. I'll still do my part and mask up and so forth, but that background thread is getting bumped down the priority queue quite a bit.
- My first batch of compost has been finished for a couple of weeks but I'd been delaying using it...and since I'm stuck at home, I decided to finally use it by replanting our rosemary plant. I think batch-1 needed to be mixed a bit better as there were still some onion skins remaining intact..but other than that it was mostly soil. My second batch got a small dose of starter and the next day when I mixed it, it was hot...the team is loving it and really breaking everything down.
- The Linda Lindas' Growing Up album finally came out and it's great.
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by JamesI keep thinking about what if we got rid of our car parking spot in front of the house and built a nice garden and terrace instead. Would bring more daily happiness.
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by JamesBeen listening to Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown podcast lately when I walk. It’s just the episode’s audio track, but feels like you’re traveling. It’s great.
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by JamesDespite my intentions to blog as I tweet, I haven’t. Probably as I have yet to automate syndication. I’m torn between doing it with brid.gy or just writing the quick integration myself…Brid.gy would probably require me to add update support to my micropub endpoint.
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The Week #92
by James- It was bound to happen. After 2 and a half years of dodging covid like Frogger, it finally made it into the house. Leo caught it at his pre-school and is part of a cluster of people (15 and counting) who all got it. He was exposed on Monday or Tuesday.
On Wednesday during the day, he was out getting visiting city hall to get documents/getting photos taken for his Japanese passport. He didn't have much appetite for at dinner time, but we assumed it was because he had a big snack around 4pm and was just tired out and about all day. Then we got notification about his potential exposure. Oops...
That night he had bad (fever?) dreams and indeed when he woke up he was super hot. Checked his temp and he was running high 38. Took a test and he was positive. By Friday evening his fever started to drop and his appetite started to return. By Saturday he fully recovered. - Thus far, knock on wood, Yumi and I have both been able to dodge it within the house or our boosters are doing their job. I'm super grateful that it's come into the house right as our antibodies are at their post-boost peak. If we don't feel any symptoms, the city has asked that we isolate for 7 days, or until the 7th as close contacts. Leo is to isolate for 10 days. If we do feel symptoms, they want us to tack another 7 days on top of that as close contacts...I think.
- We're isolating as much possible, but not entirely. The dog still gets walked (always masked before, still masked now). And we still need to eat, so I had to do some minimal grocery shopping after we were contacted by his school. I checked my temp before hand and was double masked. But that will be the extent to our "going out" for the next week.
- Which is to say that we had to cancel our trip to Disney. With how light his experience had been i.e. he's fully recovered for 3 days and neither of us showing signs (knock on wood) of having breakthrough cases, I'm most disappointed about this.
We could reschedule the tickets for another day without issue. But as it was within 7 days, canceling the hotel still cost is about 200 bucks. With our trip to Atami this summer and now this stay being canceled last minute, I'm tired of donating money to the hotel industry without actually getting to stay anywhere. I think I'll always book last minute as a matter of policy from here on out... - I started listening to X Japan for the first time in ages and I forgot how much they rock. It's a shame the selection for them on Apple Music isn't great. It doesn't have Rusty Nail, one of my favorite songs by them. The linked video is from, "The Last Live", their last concert, which I first saw in high school after downloading it off of Hotline and highly recommend.
- It was bound to happen. After 2 and a half years of dodging covid like Frogger, it finally made it into the house. Leo caught it at his pre-school and is part of a cluster of people (15 and counting) who all got it. He was exposed on Monday or Tuesday.
