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Wow… it’s been another week already?

I haven’t done this often, but I’m going to include a few photos in this update, because… why not?

Intro Over the past 48 hours I’ve once again been on a journey to rethink how I take notes.

The first part of this week I spent working remotely while visiting family (meetings during the main part of the day, helping on the farm in the morning and afternoon/evenings).

Monday was Memorial Day for the US, and I mostly spent the day relaxing at home, not really working on anything in particular.

I was once again in-office the entirety of this week, and it was a pretty standard schedule for me.

This week, I was in the office all five days, though I headed home after lunch on Friday to work remotely in the afternoon.

First off: Happy Mother’s Day to both my amazing mother, and all of the other mothers around the world!

To get it out of the way… May the Fourth Be With You!

This week was my first week back in the office after spending the last week and a half visiting family.

Today is an interesting anniversary for me, one that I never thought to keep track of until about a year ago.

Monday morning was spent hiking with my sister and second cousin, followed by some meetings, and then some afternoon canoeing!

This post is the fourth and final of my 2025 Holy Week posts, this time with one of my favorite hymns for Easter Sunday: I Know That My Redeemer Lives (LSB 461) 1 I know that my Redeemer lives; What comfort this sweet sentence gives!

Yesterday, in my post on Blogging Expectations, I mentioned the concept of a website as a virtual home, and wanted to expand on it.

This post is the third of my 2025 Holy Week posts, this time with one of my favorite hymns for Good Friday: Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted (LSB 451) 1 Stricken, smitten, and afflicted, See Him dying on the tree!

A few days ago I ran across the post Blogging Expectations by Kev Quirk, and a quick read told me that it was something I wanted to add my commentary to.

Today, while following a blogger/IndieWeb rabbit rail (when I click on a link from someone I follow, and then promptly begin following other links to other sites that interest me), I ran across an excellent post by Naz Hamid on Operating Rules for Email C…

This post is the second of my 2025 Holy Week posts, this time with one of my favorite hymns for Maundy Thursday: Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord (LSB 637) 1 Draw near and take the body of the Lord, And drink the holy blood for you outpoured; Offer…

Sunday and Monday I had a chance to once again delve back into embedded software development.

For Holy Week this year, I had the idea of posting some of my favorite Lenten/Holy Week/Easter hymns.

Saturday night/Sunday morning I didn’t sleep well, and had a few odd health symptoms.

This week is even lighter (on content) than last week!

I don’t have much to report on from work this week.

Wow… it’s already been another week?

Another week, another weekly notes update!

I originally had this written up as two separate posts, but ultimately opted to combine it into a single update (you’ll see why shortly - I think it works better as one large update).

Not too much to report on this week… my time at work was focused on two primary projects Project #1: ensuring that a device intended for limited commercial release is successfully being manufactured.

The weather continues to shift in Central Illinois, sometimes daily.

The work week for me was very busy, but most of my time was spent planning for the part of the org/team I work with, so there’s not much to share.

This year was Precision Planting’s annual Winter Conference!

I’ve shared this story with a few coworkers and family members, and decided to write up a short post to share with y’all as well.

I enjoyed reading Manu’s On the importance of friction this week.

I decided to try out weekly notes again this year, and attempt to find a happy balance between whatever caused me to avoid them by mid-ways through last year, and the alternative, which is going for months at a time without posting, if I’m not careful. 😂…

I know that they say time flies by faster as we age, but this year I’ve noticed it to be true more than in recent memory!

While I don’t recall how I found it, earlier this week I ran across You’re a Blogger, Not an Essayist by Barry Hess, and a couple of points stuck out to me.

I enjoyed reading Hyde/Lazybear’s answers to the Colbert Questionert in my RSS feeds earlier this week, and thought it would be a fun little exercise + post for my Saturday morning.

Last week, Manu’s post on blogging, substacking (?)

I’ve championed owning your own website for a while now, and have been posting more heavily about it over the past year or so.

Consistency is a common challenge for bloggers.

It’s been just shy of a year since I posted my default apps of 2023, and after seeing a few other bloggers post updates to theirs, I decided to do the same!

When traveling by car, I normally split my time between listening to audiobooks, podcasts, and music.

Two days ago, Cory Doctorow’s daily Pluralistic post showed up in my RSS reader, and the title caught my attention: Bluesky and enshittification.

After weeks (or maybe even months) of considerations and playing around with various themes, I’ve decided to migrate from the venerable Hugo-Coder theme to a custom fork of the Bilberry Hugo Theme.

Back in January, I added giscus comments to my blog, as a potential way for readers to comment and react to my posts.

As I’m typing out this blog post (in Obsidian, if you want to know), I’m sitting quietly in my living room, listening to the occasional sounds of vehicles passing by, and sipping on my final mug of coffee for the day.

A couple of weeks ago, while browsing through the book selection at my local Barnes & Noble (yes, they still exist!)

After reading My software stack is old by Manu (Manuel Moreale), I became curious about the age of the software I use day in and day out as well.

Wow, it’s already been a month since I last posted here (or, well, nearly a month - I’m rounding up slightly).

Once again, this is a combined post!

At this point, I should just summarize every week this Spring with “work is very busy, and I haven’t done much besides that of note.” 😂 (Of course, that’s boring reading though, so I won’t do that.)