"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

Navigating through today's business environment calls for resilience and adaptation. As challenges present themselves, it’s crucial to stay robust in our values yet flexible in our approach. This blend of steadfastness and adaptability is key to uncovering opportunities within obstacles.

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." - Romans 8:28 KJV

Got access to Gemini via my employer. It’s insanely useful when authoring huge documents.

Okay. Fastmail is cool. I've been using it for a while now, but I only just realised that the way I have things set up, not only does it not matter what goes before the @, but I can have an unlimited depth of subdomains. As long as it ends with my domain, I'll get the email.

My whole day is ruined. I had two episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds saved for my convalesce. ... and the first one turned out to be a Space Musical because aliens (?)

It's strange that the people who claim to hate and avoid social media the most are always the ones who spend the most time on it. [automagically generated shower thought]

Working on finding grounding and fill my cup. I’ve been in my own way quite a bit recently.

Done working

Pretty much right on schedule for the day after the day after increased exertion, some mid- to late-afternoon I had to go crash in bed for an hour, then came dinner, sitting outside with coffee to read, and now the typical evening of television, where among other things I’ll finish Heartbreak High

dinner!

I think I’ve reached my annual limit of backed Kickstarter projects

I go visit a friend, they serve me tuna sandwiches and I like them. Next time I’m at the store I buy cans of tuna. Today, I organize my cabinets and throw out years old expired cans of tuna. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s been a long time since I rode the ferry. It’s still so nice to go into the city this way.

Boy was today one heck of a Monday! Glad that it is over. Now it is time to finish some of the schoolwork I have left and then relax.

Came up with a fun project! Now the hard part: work on it enough to keep it going without burning out or getting bored.

It was a busy Monday work day that I was not mentally prepared for. But we've just ordered dinner and we're relaxing for a bit until it gets here, so I'm trying to chill out for the rest of the evening. 😊

Night night.

Monday?

Just finished Audible's recently released version of 1984. Terrific performances all round, a chilling experience from a chilling source material.

Every once in a while open the former bird app; it’s a bad habit i haven’t gotten rid of yet. I regret opening it every single time.

Just finished 3 Body Problem. Waiting for Shogun episodes. Need something new, preferably something where all the episodes are already available. Any suggestions?

I finished reading How to keep house while drowning by KC Davies last Friday. Very appropriate since depression has been winning over the last few weeks.

My biggest problem with TV shows is a watch a bit of them, get busy, and then forget all about them. Going to have to start writing reminders!

I hate the sun. Moon powers.

Paris, here I come!

Trying to figure out, what I’ve just signed up to 😂

Grabbed my running stuff today and was reminded that I still have an older iMac Mini that I have yet to do anything with as it sits on top of the one that is running as a backup and Plex meida device. I really should add doing something with that one to my list of things to do.

Content schedule, week of 4/15/2024: (all times Eastern)

Tuesday, 10 a.m.: Stream at - I need to write!

Wednesday, 10 a.m.: Podcast at

Wednesday, 11:30 a.m.: Stream at

Thursday, 10 a.m.: Stream at - Shipping stream, maybe?

Members content: April P.A.R. Thursday, Refill #421 Saturday

Work drama came to a head today during a meeting. Part 2 of that meeting is scheduled for later today.

My vertigo is back… I hate this…

I might need to go for a bike ride today. Seems really windy out there, though.

Doing a little yard work on this beautiful spring day

I think I need two French presses today.

If I can't take you to my local mexican restaurant on a date then I'm nacho kind of guy.

I have a number of ideas today that I must write down.

Hello Node Red!

Back at work after a very long two weeks away. I'm scared to open my emails...

It’s pouring outside, and not particularly warm either - Spring, from a few days ago appears to have taken a leave of absence. Right now I am grateful for a roof over my head, and heating in the home.

Started Fallout. The first episode is promising. Always happy to see Walton Goggins.

Playing Splatoon 3

Taxes completed. Owed way too much. Need to be better about figuring this stuff out. 🤨

Led a group of people in our church through the introduction to a new study called Fundamentals of the Faith tonight. I am excited to see the growth it yields.

We went to Washington DC last week! Here's the runs I did:

4 days left to decide if i keep glass photo or no...

Maintaining // VO2 Max: 53 - Superior ↗️ // Load: 705 - Optimal ➡️ - 22.5km Race Pace Run -

Watch the Lovecraft Ezine Podcast LIVE today at 6pm Eastern!

Researching e-bikes 👀

Eyeing the Graveyard Goods Silent Hill merch release and thinking about adding one of their shirts to my collection

Setting up my omg.lol stuff

LOL Arsenal. I guess all ManCity has to do to win the Premiership (again) is to wait for LIV and ARS to implode 🙄

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Just saved money booking a hotel on my iPad mini where it was £100 cheaper than on my Mac. Insane!

mourning doves again #blessed

setting up pixelfed so i can post random photos of things i find pretty

I have so many side project ideas and so little time and so many responsibilities ahhhhh

I did some tinkering with Hugo to ask AI robots to please not steal my content.

And then told the bouncer to turn them away at the door for good measure.

Helldivers 2 is so good!

oops i moved to portland oregon

Disney day today! First up, Hollywood Studios!

Yard work on this beautiful day!

A very long walk today!

Playing Genshin Impact

Saturday morning coffee & anime. Starting KonoSuba season 3 today!

Daughter went to her first dance class and she loved it.

There goes my Saturday mornings! 😅

Climbing the mountains of Watopia

I'm so behind I cant see in front of me

Gorgeous 22°c autumn afternoon for a walk. Lot of people getting their insta content in the late afternoon sun along the river.

Falling asleep to my M's, per usual.

Watching the Cubs and working on an exciting update to status.log.

Godfather on while wrapping up the day.

Hitting some kind of stride. I think. Maybe. Maybe it's because spring is in the air..

Honoring Tupac Enrique Acosta Wednesday 17th of April 2024 – 5-7PM UN Church Center, 10th Floor

WeAreIndigenous #UNPFII #UNPFII2024

my book A Pandemic Gardening Journal was featured in Littsburgh! Read about it here:

Getting back into Slay the Spire.

love 2 federate

Het is genoeg geweest voor deze werkweek!

Heading to Berlin for #HackadayEurope 🛠️

Slow morning…

Added a webmentions section and microformatting to my blog posts this morning. I think it will work.

I really wish I had the capacity to play and keep up with WoW Season of Discovery

My vacation starts tomorrow!

Buying a new car???

If you need people off their phones, you simply need to block out the sun. Cloudflare Radar reports up to a 60% drop in internet traffic during the eclipse.

Feeling overwhelmed

Dune Part 2 was great!

Five consecutive days waking up at 5am. Applying for a provisional membership in the 5amClub

No stream today, recovering from surgery!

I swear, my feet are completely composed of dry skin at this point.

Wrote about my new toy on my blog —

taking in the small things (an unexpected rainbow, butterfly flying by, flowers blooming everywhere, the way the morning sun is hitting the windows in my ) to help offset the roughest night of sleep in a long while.

This is some paste:

It's a good day when you need to create a folder called "Kung Fu" for really any reason.

Blessed my wonderful family and friends 🥰

The Café is now on Eleventy :D

Hyper bowling today was fun, I started off strong but beaten by the kids in the last game!

Remaking Mary Poppins sodium vapor chroma key in 2024 ()

Can I toot this?

I’m not at all sorry that I have a strong and sincerely-held belief that, no matter how well-intentioned it may be, a state of the state address by a state governor in a statehouse surrounded by state representatives and state senators and state cabinet members and state Supreme Court justices all paid for with state tax dollars should not begin with a prayer in Jesus’s name. There is no place for such a ritual in a public address.

SocialMedia und #Influencer auf dem Dorf, ein landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb bewirbt seinen selbstgemachten Grillkäse:

„Ich vakuumisier‘ den gleich mal und bald kommt dann auch hoffentlich der Frühling mit schönem Wetter, Hajo ist bereits mit der Scheibenegge unterwegs, das kann also nicht mehr lange dauern.“

💕

Cleaning the house

Finally got fiber. I’m going to download the whole Internet.

Very good very must read information .

I think I might not hire an editor for one of my complete serials, actually. Partly because I'm tight on money, but also because I've gotten better at editing and know what to leave on the cutting room floor now.

Browsing .

Working on prints, cool client projects and discovering Obsidian.

„Society only tolerates one change at a time.” — Tesla, The Prestige (2006)

So MREs do go bad

Shōgun.

Guh. Too tired today

Was heading outside this morning and saw it was dumping rain. Thought hey my grass and micro clover seeds are going to love that. Felt less guilty about forgetting to water them last night.

Back to the Hochschule: My new course on web-technologies starts today.

Listening to a lot of Frank Turner this week. Hits just right.

Una salutació a totes les mares i pares d'alumnes valencians que tornen hui a l'escola després de dues setmanes de vacances.

Would it keep you awake if it all just didn't seem so far away?
'Cause it keeps me awake, trying to work this out until my dying day

A lil tired rn

First 5K of the year! LOL

Just tried removing the CSS from my site in preparation for #CSS_Naked_Day, it was just a bunch of ginormous SVGs. I think I'll skip participating this year.

Going back in time

I'm about to watch the eclipse

The weekend off had quickly gone, and this week I have a pretty busy schedule. Starting with a 16 hours shift.

Feierabend

Nice to have a week at home between business trips. I try to space out travel to no more than once per month, but this month just stacked up for me. Gotta enjoy the time at home while I can!

joining the 21st century and making my blogroll into more than just a markdown list

If your iPhone on iOS 17 becomes unresponsive, be warned:

You may if you decide to before getting them off the phone.

This happened to me today. I lost three photos of my son being cuter than any other son in the world.

I finally finished my exams and entered the Ramadan holiday, I plan not to go to my family and spend a holiday with my friends.

Ending a weekend full of resting - a ton of Dragon’s Dogma 2, a bit of LAD: Infinite Wealth, so much basketball watching, some Vampire Diaries, and even watched a movie. Felt good, y’all.

Performance Evaluation:

1. Meeting expectations : bare minimum of work.
2. 4-4-5-3 Find one thing they are good at and one other thing they can improve on

Tireddddd

I DID IT. probably not in the best possible way but modals made it work lmao

Kagi's Quick Answers is magic. What AI powered search really should be. Also love the Universal Summarizer - use it all the time!

So in love with Taishi's music over these past few months. I have definitely found another favourite producer!

I still have no use for this account, but I want to have a used for it.

Spending the (finally) dry and sunny weekend cleaning up the back patio, getting rid of all the weeds that popped up along with the winter's grime on tables and chairs. Such fun.

Lazy morning in bed beside the cats 💗

Setting up a now page

Day in central London with my wife at an obscure art gallery and eating Japanese food... happy days 😊

Quake!

Finished up Masters of the Air and now moved on to Shogun - another brilliant show! And I have Loot s2 to keep things light…

Oh yeah

I've been going all in on puzzles for the past month, it's surprising. Years ago, you'd never catch me playing a crossword on purpose. Now, it's what I do every morning before I even get out of bed.

Last day before vacation

🌊 and 🌳 make for a perfect holiday.

Going to a show.

Messing with the omg.lol for the first time in a while.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

DJing at the Love Bar in Colombo tonight, assuming the rains doesn't sweep everything away.

Finally got jack.is as a domain, hehehehehehehe

I seriously want to be friends with every single person the “next semester” video. That whole crowd looks like awesome people. #twentyonepilots

Just created my omg.lol profile and first status.

Today: We have lost

I spent this afternoon cleaning all our balcony windows for our rental inspection tomorrow and oh boy if the weather hasn't just changed to 4 days of non-stop rain.

Oh no! It’s the school holidays. I’m on DadOps duty. And I’m down to my last two coffee filters!! What do I do? Eat the beans whole and raw? Use a tea strainer or muslin cloth?!Grind them and spread it on toast?!! SEND HELP!!!!!

Guess I’m going to Dallas in June.

DuckDB is fucking magical

Astrologer recommends that during Mercury retrograde we heighten our commitment to saying precisely what we mean and meaning exactly what we say.

Hello! I'm back from vacation and some even longer timeline absence. Happy to be back and I'm going to put some plans into action now.

Updating...

Just bought a Pixel 8 Pro. Hoping it'll be real blast to tinker with! I don't know how I lived with a forever-locked Samsung for so long...

Taking another short break from social media.

I feel like I’d ruin the entire economy of NYC if I introduced linguica, egg, and cheese on a bagel fr

I seem to have forgotten how to write online.

the sea and the sun gave us too much of themselves

How do you mis-measure the three point line for a major championship regional tournament? That seems like something the NCAA would check.

Surprisingly not feeling dead after my first real exercise in a year yesterday. I fear tomorrow suffering will rear its ugly head.

My take on various note-taking tools available in Emacs:

As of April 1st, I will be embracing a new role as Full Professor at the University of Hohenheim in the field of Information Systems and Digital Technologies!

doing my toes

Does anyone know if there’s a way, through iOS shortcuts, that I could set up a weekly repeating omg.lol status update. I’d like to post a weekly disclaimer reminder on my LinkedIn. Right now I’ve got statuses linked to a 3rd party that pushes to LinkedIn, but I’m not sure how to repeat the same status each week.

Wow time really does fly

March 28 was my #OMGLOL anniversary... and I forgot to do anything for it, because I was deep in #StardewValley. Whoops!

Saved! And leaving Typhon forever. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Long time, no status.

Enjoying being on holiday, and not having to set the alarm.

Time to start rewatching Stranger Things!

Reading »Dune«

Late March /now update:

Scrobbling to last.fm like it's 2007 again.

Holidays!

This one should be posted to blog.

Moving-in day at omg.lol

Got my Abmeldung from Berlin done from 1st April onwards. I'll be officially a resident of Tallinn, Estonia then.

My life is pink

no job

Since I’m back in Chicago, I went to my old comic book store that I haven’t been to since 2019. It’s a bit run down, but it brought back tons of Wednesday memories.

We're talking away I don't know what I'm to say I'll say it anyway....

All systems are great!

The fatigue is real.

in tech rehearsal.

I managed to speedrun an entire website in an hour! Awesome!

Time to build a homelab again!

Singin' in the rain

Spring training is over, now the real season begins. Go Rays ☝🏻⚾️🧢

My dad just had eye surgery. Although it was a small procedure, I think it initially shook him up a bit. However, once it was done, I could sense his relief from how talkative he was lol.

Setting up my Scribbles blog

Got some good stuff done yesterday. Today too.

Waiting for the weather to warm up.

Set up by copying :)

Roasted two beautiful batches of coffee this weekend: 250g of Sumatra Giling Basah Aceh Bebesen Aulia for espresso and 700g of Kenya Nyeri Chinga AB for pour overs.

Good mornafterning, Masto friends!

I was finally able to go for a run after being sick for a week!

Monday Migraine

The long weekend is almost upon us!

Having way too much fun tweaking my website.

Packing my stuff for a week of work and travel.

Another Mastodon user got in on the action and matched my donation. Today we gave away two 1-year omg.lol gift codes.

That was fun. 🙂

Spring Break was more like "broken" than "break" than anything else. Lots of doctor appointments and other similar fun stuff…

Started a new Scribbles blog

Well, I think that was easy enough. Happy that worked out.

Testing the omg.lol API!

Attempt Number 2

Learning to type faster is a lot of fun.

Just bought a new pair of sunglasses! very happy with it!

Surviving my first bout with COVID.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the void.

Making progress!

Wild rides.

Have two BG3 Trio campaigns going. Rewatching Lucifer.

beep work, work, work... beep

03/19/2024 23:24 — Renewed for a year.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Working on my from

Gazing into the past and the future. What's my status? I think you mean "What is time?"

The gnome on screen keyboard in conjunction with custom hot corners rocks for 10 foot ui purposes

I’m enjoying student life right now

Only two months till boards!!!

Countdown is on for DI 2025. Sorry you missed the 2024 Virginia tournament, but you can volunteer right now.

This weekend I finished reading "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and it's had quite an impression on me. It inspired further research into the topic and kept me engaged every time I reached for the book. Quite thought provoking and motivating even if I may not agree 100%. Super interesting to explore different points of view and question my own opinions. Next up: "The 4-hour workweek".

Took some test shots for Sussexhenge. It went pretty well.

Change doesn't have to be hard if you don't resist it.

life

Being a tourist in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

A photo of me

Daylight losing time

Just received the Hobonichi Techo 2024 cousin notebook in the mail! It was packaged beautifully and has some unexpected heft.

Now all that's left is to stick it on my shelf and never use it the rest of the year.

finally got mermaid.lol :D.

Does everyone learn about 3DES as if they're being let in on an inside joke?

Went for blood tests and the took 7 vials!!!

Finally cleaning up online websites!

Hi internet! I am testing omg.lol, but so far can't really figure out how to use it.

Coffee then I hope to be done with every component on Pas-Isel except potentiometers and jacks. Probably will switch from water soluble to no-clean solder at that point anyway.

I won't ever suggest you spend a year of your life working on an experimental documentary in case it completely falls apart, but I do suggest you keep everything and continue to make small games that give you hits if gender euphoria and keep your hope alive.

In fact, I highly highly highly suggest Downpour, which gets out of your way and lets you build a game in a few minutes:

i should study for my law degree, but i am sooo tempted to continue learning about rust instead...

Decided to de-priest myself for a while in #WurmOnline so I can grind some skills up, notably carpentry and pottery. Them amphorae are hard

Working on my first custom keyboard layout based on

getting the itch to spend far too much money on furniture

setting up Zimodem for Miggy and C= :)

🦄

Hopefully setting up my status to embed on my /now page...

Finally co-owns a house! EIGHT MONTHS after having our offer accepted.

been a moment since the last update. still job searching, with most things I'd like to do on hold until then. it's going to be a couple weeks before I see myself starting the research blog, though im still making progress jotting down ideas and resources for posts. if there's anything you look forward to seeing, lemme know! encouragement from friends and family is all I need to overcome the typical barriers I face with creating/sharing things 💕