I was totally surprised to receive a letter from the judge who presided over the jury trial I sat on week before last thanking me for being willing to perform my civic duty. When did doing your civic duty become something you need to be thanked for? It’s just something you do as an American citizen.

Some mnml updates about to drop…

I hear everybody talking about Vivaldi as their browser of choice. I think I’ll have to give it a spin for a while.

Super stressed today… I likely have to report for jury duty this afternoon, but also have a dental appointment to cement a crown. One of them will have to get pushed… I’ve already deferred jury duty as much as I can and getting an appt. with my dentist is tough. 😣

I’ve gone scorched earth on my phone and deleted every social media app, save two - Micro.blog and Mona. Their notifications are turned off and have been removed from my home screen. They might even get cut if I find myself opening them too much. I need some mobile peace and quiet for a while…

I’ve mentioned this in the past a long time ago, but if you have a domain you’d like to forward to another and don’t have the luxury of accessing server configs or tweaking .htaccess, ForwardDomain.net is a great alternative. You’re welcome.

I just released a minor mnml update to make the theme fully compatible with the new Micro.blog Summary feature released yesterday, plus a little tweak to some photo grid css that was bugging me when viewed on mobile.

Happy to say that mnml already supports the new Summary feature @manton introduced today! No need to fashion your own summaries in the first paragraph and add a “more” tag anymore. I’ll be real happy once MarsEdit supports it too. (Ahem, @danielpunkass. 😬)

It’s raining cats and dogs right now. Grateful for the rain, but more grateful that it started raining hard after we were all home for the evening. Rain through the night, but done by morning commute time. Yay!

The more I learn about Hugo, the more I like it. I totally understand why @manton chose to build Micro.blog on top of it.

My two week experiment with Reminders was interesting. Everything considered, I almost made the switch. But in the end, I had to return to Things. There’s less friction overall working with data and the way I use Things' tagging for context (where, what and priority) just works better for me.

Very strange… I start up and login to the work laptop, launch all the apps, and there’s not one email, Teams chat or Slack message waiting for me.

Ooh… How about being able to set more than one category for the mnml home page, like, maybe, Posts AND Photos, but omit others? I’ll neither confirm or deny you might be seeing this here already. You be the judge.

I chose to wear an analog watch today instead of Apple Watch and can honestly say I’ve not even noticed a difference.

Giving some hard thought on whether I should move my Fediverse presence to Micro.blog entirely, or keep the additional Mastodon server. I’ve interacted tons with the MB community lately, but barely looked at Mastodon. It’s a conundrum…

Just bought tickets to see Billy Idol and Joan Jett in September. Should be an awesome show.

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I somehow discovered The Chats on YouTube and now they’re one of my favorite punk bands.

😅 Whew… I just added a ton of content to the mnml demo site. Undoubtedly there are typos and grammatical errors to be fixed…

I just love, love, love working with Finance people at the day job (NOT!). In their quest to account for a single penny difference, we’ve already wasted a hundred dollars (or more) in people’s salaries.