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I am happy to see that this year’s World Series will be the Rays versus the Brewers. As one would expect I would sure prefer the Phillies to be in the finals, but they were ass this year and did not deserve it. Part of me still held out hope that it would wind up being the Phillies and the Rays. If things had gone that way we were going to put a serious effort in going to Florida. Baseball wasn’t the main reason for that trip though. The Brewers and the Rays played good baseball the entire…

Last night I slept good. I went to bed early thinking that the baseball game was tonight. I even checked before I went to bed. I was happy to see the Rays won while I was drinking my coffee. The coffee was excellent as always. I was looking forward to getting in gear and heading out into the garage to do my deadlifts. No I don’t mean on gear! That isn’t my cup of tea, but I am not here to judge either. Around mid-morning I got changed and headed out into the garage to get started. I spent the…

Doughnuts For Breakfast This morning I woke up feeling tired. I thought I slept well and even enough, but my body just wants to stay in bed and do nothing. Regardless I got up and drank my coffee. I was anxious to get out into the garage and do something as soon as it warmed up enough outside that I could take the plants back outside. We will do something else with them later but with the potential frost I brought our spider plant and palm in and put them just inside the door. That is right…

It seems like lifetimes ago when they were still a thing, but I remember way back yesteryear when a lot of times sites would have a guest book. I created a guestbook for this website some time ago but only just now got around to linking it. Feel free to browse it and sign it if you wish. Just don’t be a dick and spam. Long before social media was a thing they were interesting to read when you came across an interesting site. There are often links to similar ones. Spam wasn’t big yet. Social…

I see a red tree and I want it painted black. I couldn’t help but think of that song when I saw this tree across the softball field when we were at one of the granddaughters’ softball games. It was the first fall like day. It was mostly cloudy and breezy with the temperatures only in the upper 40s to lower 50s. A pretty big shock after being in the 80s yesterday and a lot of last week. There were a few periods of brief sun while we were over there and the first one I noticed this lone bright…

The morning started out with thick clouds that hung around here until shortly after lunchtime. Around then the clouds began thinning and breaking up. It quickly became mostly clear by early this afternoon It warmed up in the lower 80s with bright sunshine most of the afternoon. It was nice to relax on the patio and get some sun. Late this afternoon we decided to walk over to Harvey’s BBQ for supper. Storms were popping on radar else we would have thought about eating outside over there. We got…

This morning I woke up feeling pretty good. I was warm enough last night to sleep with the fan in the window. The cool air felt great and helped me get a restful night’s sleep I even slept in a little this morning until nearly 5! I got up and started drinking my coffee. I had to make a small little tweak on my sass files because I had misplaced a rule. That was a pretty straightforward fix after I tried everything wrong first. I realized what I did after I moved the at @media and @supports rule…

The smell of the leaves and the woods in the autumn is one of my favorite smells in the world! I am feeling a bit nostalgic still about the mountains. It really started when some idiot started a fire pit. I don’t even know where it was, but unfortunately the smoke was strong enough it was burning my eyes and making me throat irritated inside our own house. So I had to close the windows. That got me thinking of the campfires up the mountains. I can remember that from when I was very small.…

This morning I woke up feeling a bit tired. It didn’t help meters that I woke up not too long after 3 o’clock. Even being tired though I felt pretty okay. I was eager to get to my bench press later in the morning. While I was drinking my coffee I started working on setting up a light color scheme for this website too so set it up with both prefers-color-scheme and light-dark() in the style sheets to let the browsers choose people’s preference. With my vision I prefer dark, but I know a lot of…

Last night I slept decently enough. It was kind of surprising as the rain and thunder outside along with a picture that I saw on social media reminded me greatly of where I used to camp. I would probably put money on the picture being taken there, and I have a good idea where it was taken. I am not 100% positive though as things have changed a lot in nearly 30 years. Between that picture and talking to an old friend the other night from up there I have been feeling pretty nostalgic about those…

I did not sleep well at all last night and certainly didn’t sleep well enough on Thursday night. I am feeling rundown. Last night I fell asleep early but got a phone called pretty late. At some point my settings must have changed, so I get a notification on my watch at night whereas I didn’t tin the past. That got me in panic but it’s all good. I was glad to catch up with an old friend! It has been a long time since we chatted. He actually told me something I needed to hear. It was nice to…

I really do find that AI answers quite handy for certain queries. It’s great to ask something simple like “What time is the Eagles game today?” or something like that. Often times these websites that are made, written and maintained by an actual human being are far more interesting. They are usually unique too. It is common for me to explore their other posts or pages if I find what they wrote appealing. I suppose a lot of that is nostalgia from when I first got on the internet. It was a lot…

I did a little messing around with this site’s templates this morning. I discovered the ability for browsers to popoverfor it. Earlier this year I had switched to a collapsable menu using or abusing the <summary and <details> elements. That worked just fine and had no reason to switch it besides the fact that I just happened to notice the pop-over feature. Me being me of course I had to explore that and get that implemented. It was pretty straight forward to get it set up. I had the normal…

Last night I slept great. I wanted to watch the Rays game and watch for people but the idea of just relaxing in bed under the cover sounded too good to pass up on. I was tired anyway. I woke up this morning feeling very refreshed and energetic. That cool air really helped me get a good night’s rest. I have not had that in a few days. I enjoyed my coffee this morning. The slight chill in the house made it all the better to drink it. While I was drinking my coffee I found and fixed a small little…

Winter must be on its way here in Mount Joy. Last night the air had a distinct chill to it as it got into the 40s early and stayed there all night. It wasn’t the first time this fall but today it felt cooler in the house as we have lost some heat. Yesterday whilst I was mowing the grass I noticed that the breeze had a bit of a nip to it. It was in the upper 60s but the air felt a little cooler than that. I say bring it on! I t was a long and hot summer. If Molly sees this it might be my last…

LanguageTool, at least the paid version has been good to me like I stated yesterday. Harper seems great too but there are little things about it that it was missing. I proofread my stuff and all. I have a habit of mistyping to as too and vice versa. Likely my vision is a huge factor in it but when I am proofreading I tend to miss that. It has always been a struggle for me to see my own errors unless I am looking years later when it’s now hanging fresh in my mind. There are a few things like…

This morning I woke up feeling pretty good. I wasn’t ready to wake up when Molly’s alarm woke me up but regardless I felt pretty good. I was anxious to get my bench press in but first I had to drink my coffee. Priorities right? The coffee was excellent and it was a nice and cool this morning so it made the coffee even better. While I was drinking it I messed around a bit on m computer working on getting a self hosted LanguageTool instance going. Well that was after Molly left for work. Most…

LanguageTool has certainly served me very well over the years. The price is reasonable too and has been worth every penny I have spent on it. I have been thinking about moving on to Harper for my grammar checking though. The program has an LSP server but it doesn’t seem to play well with Kate. At least not for my use case. Recently I have also noticed that LanguageTool seems to be missing quite a bit and seems to be slower to check the text. Another issue is it requires me to have an internet…

I have noticed an uptick in the stupid EdgeSuite errors that I have been getting on the website. Major websites simply are not working for me. I first noticed it with Lowe’s and MLB earlier this year. Before that, there were sporadic CDN errors like that and the stupid Cloudflare ones, but things usually just worked. Now they are flat-out refusing to load. There is no explanation. As usual with this sort of thing, there is a link to a page about the error but no actual help or suggestions. I am…

This morning we had some clouds, but the sky was not actually overcast for a change. The past couple of days have been drier too, so I figured it was a good idea to water the waning garden. I noticed it needed it yesterday afternoon. I like to water it before the sun is actually up. My logic is that I am already awake, so I might as well do it then. I figure it would allow the water to soak into the ground a little more before it starts evaporating. The humidity is usually high then, and there…

To start things off on the right foot this morning, I am exhausted. The game was on later last night. The Phillies lost, but I actually expected that. It just was not their year this year. After the dreadful start to the season, I am surprised that they even made the playoffs at all. Oh well. Starting Nola was a choice last night. So was keeping Kevin long after the bats all became inconsistent every year. I feel like I did not sleep enough last night because of that. That aside, I did want to…

Last night I slept great. It was certainly much needed, but I woke up after 5:00 AM! I think it was a combination of the just-right air temperature and humidity with the fan in the window. The white noise and the slight air on my face certainly helped make for a wonderful night’s sleep. I woke up feeling great. I did not have any stiffness in that leg when I got out of bed, so I was thinking I wanted to get a simple and easy WOD in before it got too warm outside. So far this week I have been…

This morning I saw something on Hacker News about how we are forgetting about darkness. I have complained about the local light pollution on here numerous times. When people have floodlights that are on all night and blind me inside our house. Not only that, but some of them are blinding from blocks away. The same goes for car headlights. Don’t even get me started on that ridiculousness. This article was about not being able to see the stars and Milky Way and things like that. I was able to…

First things first, the Kindle is a godsend to me when it comes to reading. Being visually impaired, there is no way I can read for entertainment a regular print book. Even large print ones can be tough, and there is not a good variety of large print available. Maybe I could look into the Free Library for the Blind if that is still a thing. Not only is the selection poor with large print books, but they are also pricier. My favorite kind I had was the paperwhite. That was the easiest to see for…

This morning I woke feeling exhausted. Before I stayed up last night to watch the shit show that was the Eagles game, I was tired to begin with. I woke up on about 5 hours of sleep. For a second or two I thought I could go back to sleep, but then a wave of wakefulness shot through my brain. The game was a waste of my time to watch. I want Howie to give my my time back! I guess the Phillies eking their way into the playoffs used the Philly sports juju up for this week. I drank my coffee and sat…

I was editing a post recently about my eyesight and mentioned in there that I don’t believe in miracles. I thought I would expand on those thoughts a little here. The start of it was when I was very young. I realized how religion in general just seems so nonsensical. If that stuff exists, why do so many people suffer? I have always known of people that were abused badly as a child. It should not have been, but it was. When my dad had his heart attacks, I was probably the first one to give up…

I slept pretty okay last night. Not long enough, but I felt rested okay enough. My head was pretty stuffy when I woke up, but that happens this time of the year. I drank my coffee and cleaned up some of my templates for this site a bit, but I kept thinking about how I wanted to approach working out today. Yesterday my knee went wonky during the WOD which was not ideal, but I finished the WOD with no issues. After I was done, the one time I noticed it was when I first took the first step down…

During the winter this nor’easter would probably be frustrating because it would be bringing a little too much warm air off the ocean for snow. It’d be wet and chilly, though. That aside, it is late September, so snow is not even in the books. It is nice seeing that storm sitting off the Jersey coast and spinning. It is not racing off to the northeast like so many of them seem to do during the winter. More often than not during the cold season, it is a timing thing about whether it can throw…

To start things off on the right foot, this morning, I woke up feeling good but a bit tired. I fell asleep quickly but woke up early. I almost always wake up early, so it’s actually nothing new. My brain just says ok time to get up! I drank my coffee and then did stuff on here while finishing my coffee after Molly left for work. I was thinking I wanted to get a WOD in earlier this morning and see how my leg felt. Last evening, like any normal visually impaired person, I didn’t see something at…

I woke up this morning and came up with the bright idea that I wanted to add the modified date to my posts. It was so damned hot in here, and just getting outside and stuff, I never really got started any further than thinking about it. I actually miss doing this sort of stuff, but I had a lot on my mind for the past several months. With that mind clutter, wasn’t able to focus as well as other times in the past. It’s been on the back of my mind, though. Today was the day I was going to get at…