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Month: February 2025

  • Working on the site…

    As you may have noticed, the site has visually changed. Which means I’ve finally found the things I need to edit and change to get this theme where I want it.

    I’m not there yet. The visual editor just rubs me the wrong way – I know how to do what I want to do with code and scripting, but I can’t do it that way and have it work. So, I’ve got to just buckle down and work with the visual editor.

    The problem with doing this in a visual editor is it blurs the line between content control (the styles and layout and functional areas of content display) and the content itself.

    When coding, I don’t have that line blurred.

    So, yeah, I’m fighting through it. I have a second test site I’m building things in, reviewing, and tweaking before I bring things over here, so it’s a little slower than it possibly could be, but it’s coming along.

    Another barrier to figuring this out is all the training materials I’ve found are in video form.

    I watch videos to relax. I don’t retain things I watch in video. And if I do, it’s because I took copious notes while watching, and watch it multiple times.

    I’m not doing that to figure out how to get a left-side column that shows a calendar and a list of recent posts. I need to do this once. I do not want that knowledge in my head for another thirty years, it needs to move on after a very brief residence, like a vacationer on Spring Break. I also don’t want a notebook filled with scribbles and directions for a one-and-done task, and I don’t want to keep that notebook for thirty years, taking valuable shelf space that could be devoted to displaying my kodama statues. I want as much space for kodama statues that is legally permissible.

    So, yeah, things will continue to change.

    In other news, work hours are steadily increasing, but they bob up and down, as business needs change.

    Which is to be expected, but doesn’t do anything about my stress levels.

    I’m trying to get back to making videos and audio for the YouTube channel, but so far Twitch is the only thing I’ve been able to devote time to. I’m partially blaming the chaos that is happening, but also in trying to rebuild myself I just have trouble leaving behind the bad and moving on. Maybe that’s why the chaos is so affective in making me hesitant.

    Anywhoo, I should probably dive back into the theme and start fighting the “good” fight. Every minute I’m away feels like a minute wasted.

    Thanks for stopping by and reading!

    And please, take a page from Mr. Rogers and Be Kind. Not to those who are busy trying to destroy things/institutions or demonize people, but be kind to those who are the targets, being torn down by the current chaos. Lend a helping hand, as you can and your privilege allows.

    Things aren’t gonna get better fast, and more people will need more help every day.

    I’m really worried for anyone who isn’t white, male, straight, and/or cis. Really worried.

    Thank you for reading.

    Skåll!!!

  • Personal things are slowly getting better

    The American world is an absolute trash fire right now, but my personal journey towards getting back to paying all bills and eating food more often than is survivably-required is progressing.

    There’s still a whole lotta work to do, and the fact that the news is filled with such despair-worthy events doesn’t help.

    So, if you are in a relatively safe place, consider helping those who have need. There are too many people out there that are looking to demonize anyone that doesn’t fit a narrow set of guidelines of who is “appropriate” or not, or fit their “religious ideals” or not, or even just targeting those who upset them, it’s demoralizing at best, and can cost some their everything. Those who stand to lose at this overzealous attempts to make things great again, those people need help, support, real allies, not just those who will mouth the words.

    As things continue to deteriorate (with the most recent being federal funding being cast into disarray and police actions happening all over the place and more than a few preventable disasters happening,) there will be more people who need those of us who can do something to do something.

    To look at it another way – those who have helped me climb up and out of the employment/economic hole I fell into, and continue to help me, are more valuable than everything.

    To quote Red Green, which might be considered heretical/anti-something in my country now, “Remember, I’m pullin’ for ya. We’re all in this together.”

    Thanks for reading.

    Skåll!!!