Weeklog 2025-13
It’s been a while since my last Weeklog post, so it’s time to summarize recent events in another one. A lot more happened than I realized at first.
Wearing my Micro.blog tee at work today and a coworker asked me what it was about. Had the opportunity to share and answer questions for about 10 minutes. Maybe she’ll sign up…
Eh, what the heck… I’m back on Bluesky again.
Well, I didn’t get a bike ride in this weekend, but my wife and I did make the mile walk down to pier plaza to sit and watch the tourists for a while. Thankfully, only a minor contingent of whackos were out (it is a beach city after all) and no MAGAts to deal with whatsoever.
I have a ton of chores to catch up on this weekend, but the weather is going to be absolutely gorgeous. I need to whittle down that chore list to spend some time doing a beach bike ride. The weeds in the yard will still be there (only bigger) next weekend.
I think if I had a dream job, it would be to work with HTML and CSS styling all day. That’s where I find my flow state.
📷 Shaded cactus.
There’s something about being in the desert at night. Total stillness and then coyotes calling out to one another. Or the brightness of so many stars you could seemingly reach out and touch each of them. I’d forgotten that the desert is where I feel the most at peace. I needed this.
I sit on the HOA board for my community. We’re trying to put together a flyer to get more people engaged. Coming from a design background, I’m finding it amusing to hear all the ideas coming from other board members, though they have no design experience whatsoever.
Today consists of washing and gassing up the RV for a trip to the desert this weekend. Naturally, today is cold and rainy. As badly as I want to procrastinate right now, I have to get moving on the task…
I whipped up a new Micro.blog theme that I hacked out of mnml this morning. I’m calling it smplr. You can fork it if you like… I don’t have any plans to release it as a Micro.blog community theme though.
Okay… Micro.blog domain updated to “jimmitchell.blog” and a DNS redirect from jimmitchell.org set up using ForwardDomain.net. All is working as expected. Next up is to move to the new Mastodon instance (social.jimmitchell.org to jimmitchell.social) sometime later today.
I’m in a quandary… I purchased the jimmitchell.social domain yesterday intending to use it for a new Mastodon instance, then had second thoughts about it. Then I find jimmitchell.blog is available. It would be the perfect domain to use here on Micro.blog. What to do? 🤪
And 2024 taxes are complete. Ended up not being quite as bad as we thought it was going to be. Glad to have that one done.
I got both the pneumonia and shingles vaccines in one sitting yesterday. Today, I’m feeling like a freight train hit me. Add the DST change to the mix and I think I’m out of commission for the day. That makes it the perfect day to work on taxes…
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…