Mikes Thoughts

This is me coming back and hiding out in our bedroom as more Khmer family visits. These particular family units are not my favorite ones. I won’t do things that may involve them because of some things done to other people. It was particularly nasty twice and involved drinking. People that can’t control their baser and more violent instincts should not get involved with alcohol. It just removes the usual barriers and a person can act out the way they feel inside. It’s one thing to peacefully…

Last night I had puppy duty. My wife complains I don’t sleep much but when I see the puppies running to me, needing attention, wanting some love; life seems to circle back on itself. I remember another dog I had. Way back. This particular red monster was a Golden Retriever. A large and red child. Never the smartest tool but if you talk love and companionship, she was it. Her first night I stayed with her on the couch and she coming over every so often to find some love. She missed all those…

Finding little 11ty plugins I wish to add. This one embeds most everything. It’s installing it using npm. Adding some stanzas to the config file and not screwing it all up and then testing it. Finally I make it all work upstream with vercel by pushing changes to GitHub. Vercel builds my site and it’s like magic. Sometimes [1]. This time I will test it out. Maybe with some YouTube I just happen to like. Some song. Let us see. Ok. Got it. All I do is copy and paste the YouTube link on a line all…

This is the start of the Pchum Ben holiday here in Cambodia. Its about three days of national holiday. Most businesses do not close these days but some people take time off to be with family. I don’t really do the Cambodian holidays just like we do not do the American ones. For me, nothing really changes. The things I enjoy doing I still end up doing. I’ll get a coffee somewhere, take a walk, think some thoughts. Sometimes Khmer family stop by during the holidays or people go to temples to…

Today has been this learning day I think with 11ty. It is fun to learn how a minute difference in the core configuration file can mean a thing like RSS just won’t work right. I built all this from a howto but then I found issues with some of how it works. At least for me. The biggest thing was how RSS was not creating a proper feed file which got me for some time. I admit to using Google Gemini to show me the error and suggest the fix. It is always worth it to run the development server first…

One of my favorite places must be here. This place always seems like a home to me. A nice family owns it and I’ve been coming here for some time. It’s good to sit. To think. To write. Never feel rushed although today I did not get the table I always want. It never matters. This is it. My morning defined. My life has been not defined by what came before. Those things cannot matter. They’ve happened. Instead I’ve found this strange and wonderful life in Cambodia. Sometimes feels like I will never…

Welcome to my kinda newe and almost improved blog. I built this from a very nice howto I found on the 11ty site. I added in some additional things I wanted not included in the documentation. Fixed a few things I found along the way. I really wanted to build a thing i could kinda call mine. The whole idea with it is to have this small space that’s mine. A place I can turn to write, record, complain, and cuss and discuss my daily life in whatever detail I want. I have a feeling the site will be…