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.

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?

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.

Well, I've got this sit now more or less set up on a new server, using caddy to serve up the static site files, all of which are generated from org-static-blog.

Files are shifted up to the server by way of rsync:

rsync -e ssh -uvr /home/swrogers/Documents/blog/rogers.lol swrogers@rogers.lol:/var/www/

Works decently.

Of course, this is pretty much emacs-centric now.

I used pandoc to convert all of the older markdown files to org. That was fine.

I'm in the process of moving the older yaml frontmatter to the new org files. Thank FSM for emacs keyboard macros.

However, some of the ISO datestrings are acting kinda strange - really odd years and stuff. Not sure what that's about, so I've paused the migration there.

This server also does have mailcow running, but I don't know that this'll remain or not.

Let's see what we can do about getting something written on the daily, eh? I don't know if I'll be successful here, but it's important to have some kind of goal I guess. I'll file these under the journal tag (note to self: come back and make that a proper link to the journal tag page) so I can do whatever with them in the future.

Today it's Saturday. Really, most normal adults/kids/people/pigs/horses/spiders/lizards/whatever would probably love a good weekend day. For some reason, I'm not always a fan. I don't know why, I think it's because I miss working. Not that I'm a workaholic, but I find that I enjoy what I do in my normal life. There's just too much stuff that needs to be done during the weekend to maintain a house and home.

Not that I don't like that stuff, either. It's nearly lawn mowing season - I absolutely love mowing the lawn! I don't think that 12 year old me would believe that statement, but it's true. It's a time to put the buds in and listen to some nerdcore! (note to self: I should make a section dedicated to what I'm listening to, perhaps pull in my lastfm stuff as a data collection via rss.) It's also about time to make another attempt at getting some fruit trees planted, which is always fun.

Right now, I'm just sitting here, typing away, listening to the Snoopy Show on AppleTV. Outside, the weather is pretty nice, we've got the rather large bounce house set up outside for the youngest kiddo, it's kinda noisy too. It's funny, you know, the things that we purchase for our kids: the things that we would have killed to have when we were young. A swing set slash jungle gym. A bounce house. Various playground type equipment. Stuff that never gets used.

Well, I guess that's not completely true. It does get used, some. Just not as much as one would have hoped. Meh.

Sigh, well, I'm out of coffee. Of course, who needs coffee at three thirty in the afternoon? Stupid rhetorical question, that. I always need coffee.

This particular emacs setup, what I'm writing in now, from an older laptop running current Pop_OS, isn't really to my liking. Even though it's running the same doom setup as my work machine, it's not perfect. My work machine, I guess I can't really say that I run emacs from that device since I ssh into a locally hosted kvm box via wsl….meh, there are differences. I wish I could grok guix or nixos, but alas, I'm stil stuck in the realm of linux.

Where was I? Oh yes, I do have org-capture templates set up that work just fine. I need to get the popup capture buffer to take the whole frame, though. I don't like that it also visits the capture buffer in the originally opened frame as well. It's an annoyance.

I'm sure there should be more. I think I'm going to wait until I've got more, eh, content, here before I get various rss feeds set up for feeding into some of my social sites. I feel that I should probably "own my social", too, and I do have at least one I run - but it's certainly a chore. We shall see.

With that, I'm out.