Nowhere/Nothing
Well, hello there! Fancy seeing you here! Although I guess that I'm not actually seeing you here. Now that I think about it, I don't even really know that you're truly here - what with no tracking or anything. Anyhow, take this as my personal "Thank you!" for taking the time to click on whatever link it was you clicked on that has brought you here. I would say that I promise it will be worth your money, but I think we all know that there was zero cost associated with this transaction. I can't say that it will be worth your time, either, but hey, that's not really for me to determine.
Who am I? I'm just some guy living in Lawrence, Kansas with his super amazing and awesome wife, phenomenal kiddos, amazingly annoying cat named Shire, socially anxious and fraidy-cat dog (Sheepadoodle by name of Chicken) and bearded dragons (two of them, Pete and Pumpkin). We have a full house.
I enjoy reading, both for pleasure and learning, though I find that as I've gotten older and my time has become more limited, I don't get to do either of these things as much as I would like. So, I try to overlap some of these loves and enjoyments - for example by reading to my kids. It's all about the little pleasures in life, right?
I will, on occasion, write something every now and then. Some of it might even be interesting. Most of it is just going to be something of a journal of the publically personal nature. I do find that I don't mind writing. There was one point in my life where I would not have minded doing this as an actual job. Now, not so much, but not for lack of wanting to.
Other things that I enjoy are playing games - board, tabletop, roleplaying, computer, whatever - and doing crossword puzzles. All of which I do badly, but that's all right.
One day, I might document how this site is built, but in all honesty I use emacs, org and org-static-blog. There is plenty of documentation out there on using eleventy. I don't do anything uber special or out of the ordinary.
Not going the hugo route
Deciding against hugo
I was going to see about jumping back into ox-hugo, for some reason.
I don't really know why. I've done that in the past and really didn't care for it.
While this particular version of my blog isn't pure emacs and org, it's pretty close. I like it.
I'd like it more if I could blog from android, though.
2025-06-23-It-was-a-Monday
I'm writing this from my phone, not that that's a big deal or anything.
With Zettle, I'd like to see if there is a way for the "title" attribute to be non-sluggified, while the filename is slugged and prepended with the date.
This is where org is preferred. But, I don't want to use emacs on my phone. Grrrrrr.
A not quite new start
Here we are once again
We are just sitting here, nearing the end of a long four day weekend.
I'm more or less alone in the home, the couple of kiddos that are here are hanging out upstairs; there are a couple of kiddos that are out, one is at a friends playing and the other is chilling downtown - eventually that one will bring the other back home.
What have I got going on? Not much. I've been attempting to do some work on this blog, living under a new domain name, which I picked up awhile ago in hopes to host some family-oriented stuff. Maybe email, maybe social stuff. I don't know. I'm slowly attempting to move away from all of the large big-tech stuff. Diversification and all that. I don't mind paying for services, I'd much rather use the product than be the product, you know?
A new site, you say?
Yeah, I'm thinking of changing up my workflow.
I like emacs and org mode, so I thought it might not be a bad thing to go all in a blog using those tools.
While it would be nice to go straight up pure emacs and org, I found org-static-blog and I really like it, so I'm using it. Built up a small self-contained config/script file that can run from the command line to build the site, then rsync it up to the static server hosted overseas.
Five, ten years ago I never would have thought that I'd go the static route, but here we are. It's quick, easy, simple.