Back in the Saddle

So… In case you were wondering, yes, I’m still here, alive and kicking. 😁

If you weren’t aware, I’ve been recuperating from a quadruple CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for those not in the “club”). I’m happy to report my cardiologist has given me a clean bill of health. Apart from a little leg swelling and the occasional pain in my sternum, I feel great and am back to pre-surgery activities.

If there were one piece of advice I think might help someone else going through what I went through, it would have to be that attitude makes all the difference.

Even on my worst days, I forced myself to maintain a positive outlook. It could have been easy to get depressed sitting around doing nothing – and I almost did a couple of times. But I kicked my own ass out of it, reminding myself that taking it easy to recover was important and to learn from the process.

Anyway… Enough of that. I went through it and came out aces on the other side. I’m grateful for each day’s dawn. I see things differently now and plan to write a post on that before long.

What I really wanted to share was that I felt good enough today to create that mnml archives by year plugin I promised a little bit ago. If you have a long page of archives, this could help you. Install it from the Micro.blog plugins directory.

I also took some time to make some tweaks to the mnml theme itself. Taking inspiration from @manton’s Photos with months plugin, I updated mnml to simply default to grouping images by month/year for both the grid and masonry layouts. It looks pretty awesome if I do say so myself. The new version is 2.6.0 and you should be able to update soon if not already.

That’s it. Time for this guy to get out and enjoy the day. My wife and I are going to visit Seal Beach this afternoon. Maybe I’ll snap some pics from our outing.

✌🏻❤️‍🩹