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Not From the Peanut Gallery

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Published: 01 June 2024

I am notoriously difficult to purchase any kind of gift for.

Anything that I generally want, I have a tendency to go ahead and make the purchase at any and every time.

Anything that I don't immediately buy, is most likely because the item just cost too much and I can not justify the purchase.

I do have a few things that I enjoy though, and high on that list is anything and everything Peanuts.

Of the Charles Schulz variety, of course. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock, all of them! I've been enamored of the crew since I was a child.

Some of my earliest memories of reading, not just making things up and babbling and looking at pictures, is of laying on the living room floor, the Sunday Comics spread open in front of me, reading and laughing at Peanuts.

I remember Dad asking me if I was actually reading, then him being surprised when I said yep!

All of that to say that my wife is pretty awesome! She always knows what to get me.

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The best squishmellow of all time!

This is post 3/100 of my #100DaysToOffload posts. You can read the other posts in this series here.

Not a tall tale

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Published: 01 June 2024

Ah, the Tale of the Telluride just will not quit. It's like the gift that keeps on giving.

Not in a good way.

But then, how often are things "good" when that particular phrase comes into play. Yeah, not all that often.

So after paying too stonking much for repairs due to a, um, we shall say "self imposed" accident, now it looks like we might have a little bit of salt rubbed into that festering wound.

You know, for good measure.

While it's probably entirely coincidental, it looks like we'll be replacing the battery in the beast. Twice today when going to start it up we've experienced a series of error checks (ecs, bcw, blah blah blah) and clicks and basically what looks like a computer system spasming out and proverbially vomiting all over itself.

It's great. The vehicle is a 2021, so I guess it's about that time for the oem battery to go. At least that's the opinion of the interwebs, that they'll last about 2.5 years. I don't mind, really. Having the battery die or running out of gas are about two of the larger vehicle fears that I have.

Hopefully that's what the problem is.

The mobile posting process

Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Published: 31 May 2024

All of the following is more for myself and future reference than anything. (Though, who am I kidding, this whole blog thing is all personal future reference, isn't it?)

I figure that I've been blogging this way for a month or better at this point, so it might be worthwhile to get down what my current process is for getting a post up. I'll even include some nifty screenshots. All from mobile, even!

The process

Currently my site is statically generated by way of eleventy, hosted on GitHub pages, using porkbun as dns.

My writing is done using Zettel Notes on Android, using Markdown and it connects to my GitHub repository to push and pull as needed. The push triggers a GitHub action to update the static pages.

The flow

Here is where I start things off, using Zettel Notes I open my "local" storage on my phone via the App Directory.

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I've got a handful of templates and half started junk in here - I really should clean this out. The main item of interest is the blog-template-default.md file here, though.

I open that file up and copy the contents... //cdn.some.pics/swrogers/6660872d78e5f.png

...into a new entry within the Blog drafts directory. Ive got Zettel set up to automatically name the new note entries with the date as I like, I just have to add the rest of the file name and the extension.

To the rest of the yaml front matter I will add the title, change the date (the only thing I have yet to figure out if is easily automated in Zettel or not) and the tags.

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After I edit the file, I then manually copy the note into the posts directory of the Lol Blog section/repository and refresh the listing. This initiates the needed push to start the publishing process.

Any images that I use, I have just been uploading to my omg.lol pictures area and copying the markdown links. It works.

It's all kind of clunky, manual, somewhat kludgy, but it works for me.

Yeah I am a sucker

Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Published: 31 May 2024

I kept telling myself that I wasn't going to go through with it, that I've already spent enough money on games - specifically my Steam backlog - but they just keep pulling me back in.

Silly sales. Gah, dang it.

It's half off now, so naturally I've got to make one last, final splurge. At least I've only bought one copy of this title. Ha!

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Now, all I've got to do is wait for the thing to download and install. Only 11.6 Gigs down, another 75 Gigs to go. It's disgusting. 😑

The Steam Deck Age

Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Published: 31 May 2024

Just because the May challenge is over doesn't mean that I can't still try to keep some writing going.

As I had stated earlier, I've had the opportunity to move my workspace into a downstairs location, and I think I kind of like how things are situated now. It's a good feeling to have a nice clean start, without quite so much clutter. I had even brought another box down, but said to myself: "Self, do I really need to bring all this crap down here? No. No I do not." At which point, I promptly packed that box back and trotted it right back upstairs.

Probably one of the nicest bonuses to having this setup down here is that I can dock my SteamDeck and play it without feeling too guilty about not being around the family. I don't get a whole lot of time to game these days, so I haven't really been able to take advantage of having my Deck. Now, maybe that can change.

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All right, with that I think it's getting to be about time to get some dinner prepped. It's spaghetti squash with homemade alfredo night, with a side of asparagus.

Have a good night all!