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Shortly after my daughter graduated college, we bought her a new Macbook Air M4.

Because of Juneteenth, Father’s Day weekend was a three-day affair.

My brother set out this year to hike the Pacific Crest Trail.

I’ve had Rosie truck in the shop three times now for the same issue: putting the transmission in gear suddenly feels like it’s shifting through goop.

Stuck in a rut again.

If you ever happen to read my “Now” page, you might have seen in the “And so on…” section that I mentioned shelving the micro.blog experiment for the time being and moving my travel site over to Statamic.

After washing my Airpods a second time, they started acting a bit wonky.

It hasn’t been the best of years, especially this last half.

The wife and I both took an extra day off to acclimate from the time change.

Our anniversary fell on Thanksgiving this year, and rather than celebrate the two together, we opted to skip Thanksgiving and celebrate our anniversary in Germany, at the invitation from a friend who lives there.

Sometime back in the spring, my brother messaged me and told me that Fields of the Nephilim, a gothic rock band from the late 80s/early 90s, was going to be playing a show in London at the end of October.

Just a quick update.

I’m wrapping up a week long stay at a friend’s house down in the Northern Neck part of Virginia.

I never answer the “Scam Likely” calls.

In my most recent entry, I’d mentioned that I was working my way through the PHP For Beginners course on Laracasts.

As stated in the post about moving to Statamic, I’ve been diving into learning PHP via Laracasts.

The subtitle of this entry could be “fighting with Statamic, getting thrown to the ground, getting up, dusting myself off, getting kicked in the teeth, spitting out blood, advacing with fists up, and finally getting a knock-out blow in”.

The title of the this post would’ve made more sense had I managed to get my blog moved from Grav CMS over to Statamic sooner.

Going into the new year, I've been thinking about resolutions and accomplishments.

I've been wanting to write for the past two months.

The spark of creativity has fizzled.

Driving around the DMV has gotten worse.

Another work related one, and given that's all I've seemingly been doing lately (as per my last post), then that's what you're going to get.

I didn't want June to slip by without a post, but when realizing I hadn't written in some time, I also realized I didn't really have much to say.

I've recently found myself exploring options other than Goodreads for tracking books I want to read and have read.

After my recent post about getting out and engaging more, I found myself coordinating a team lunch for some co-workers in the area.

Like many people, I have found myself a little less outgoing since Covid.

My dad preferred to use the term "Frugal" as opposed to being "Cheap".

Both the Mrs. and I have this cough that just won't go away.

Yesterday was my birthday, and it was one of the better ones in a long time.

One of the things that surprised me most about my successful attempt at NaNoWriMo this year was how... not hard it was.

I actually did it. 50,000 words.

NaNoWriMo has progressed a lot better than I had expected, to be frank.

One thousand, nine hundred and fifty one words tonight.

1,707 words for my first day.

Having decided to go all-in on NaNoWriMo this year, I hopped onto the website to setup an account to help keep track of my progress, find some support in the community, and maybe even attended a local writing session.

Looking over the past few entires, it seems I’m in the habit of starting things, and then not following through.

For most of my adult years, I've leaned towards Sci-Fi and Fantasy for my genre of choice when it comes to books.

Twitter: After reading about the latest indictments of Trump, it’s very hard to stop myself from jumping into the feeds of people I know who voted for him and say “How’s that working out for you?”

When collecting the past posts from my previous blogs, I noticed a huge gap, between 2009 and 2016.

It's like this.

I need to learn Javascipt.

We had a nice, quiet Christmas; both kids were here, my mom, and our friend Gina.

Life has an annoying habit of getting in the way.

I feel like I was just here.

So, tomorrow, when Day 5 takes place, I'm going to challenge myself to complete that day's challenge.

Day four's challenge, the astute among you will notice, is Synths.

Last entry ended with me asking for some good vibes to be sent my way, as my audio had completely disappeared.

Today was all 'bout that bass (bass, bass, bass, bass), and I ended up with three different instruments filling the role.

Day 1 of the 12 Days of Creativity starts off with the foundation of pretty much all EDM, drums.