But She's A Girl

Day 6: windy #mbapr

Day 5: serene #mbapr

Day 4: foliage #mbapr

Day 3: card #mbapr Mr Bsag knows my relationship to chocolate very well.

Day 2: flowers #mbapr

Day 1: toy. Mr B spotted some kids zooming around in this shopping cart a few days ago. #mbapr

The clocks have gone forward, and our kitchen wall clock (that we need to use a step ladder to adjust) has gone back to reading the correct time. Ish. Who says laziness doesn’t pay?

Somebody is chilly today.

I’ve been playing around today with Nitro the RAW photo library/editing app for macOS (with an iOS version on the way). It’s really good: a nice workflow, flexible, easy to use, but a lot of power too. It’s also very reasonably priced, with options to pay once or subscribe.

Well, this is fun: The Mortimiser, generating names to Bob Mortimer’s formula. My favourite so far is ‘Wolfgang Sideboard’.

I’ve been off with ‘flu this week, and not for the first time, I’ve wished that there was some setting on the Apple Watch to tell it that I’m sick, to pause all the ring closing nags and somehow put the fitness stuff on pause. Counter-productive when I should be resting.

Finished reading: Dagger of Death at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison 📚Good fun, though a lot of characters to keep track of.

Ignore me, just testing I can post now…

I love people, but I find face to face (or Zoom) time exhausting. 5 back to back contact hours yesterday wiped me out waaayy more than 7+ very focused grant writing and budget creation hours today. Both required a big effort but only the first made me want to crawl into a quiet cave afterwards.

I made a /now page.

I forgot to post this on Wednesday - it was an incredible sunset.

Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚 Loved this and will seek out the next books in the series. Not what I was expecting, but in a great way!

I am wrestling with an irritating tech problem. I have a script which fetches webmentions using the webmention.io API. It works perfectly when run locally. Then a GitHub Action runs this script automatically on a schedule. It errors each time, with an invalid response from webmention.io. I’ve checked that the token is correct, and double checked the scripts till I am blue in the face, but I can’t figure out why it is not working.

This is my solution to Bianca sitting on top of my keyboard mat (and therefore on top of my keyboard). Turns out that if you build it (a cat-sized rectangle), they will come 😄

As part of my ongoing tweaking, I have finally entered the 21st Century and upgraded my fruitbat avatar in my profile from a 40px to a 400px version. Still the same original from the 1911 edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.

I’ve been pottering with my site, having a minor revamp (that ancient Twitter link had to go!) and adding IndieWeb features. I’ve also signed up for omg.lol which I will gradually add more to, and their Mastodon instance.

It’s Friday, so it’s peanut butter sandwich day. I don’t have particular foods I habitually eat on other days, but I like the clear signal to myself that the weekend is approaching. Plus, I really like peanut butter so would eat it every day of if I didn’t artificially restrict myself.

I’ve been having a fun Sunday pottering with my ‘macroblog’, trying to add Webmentions. I think have all the moving parts assembled, but trying to send a webmention from here to one of my articles doesn’t seem to have produced anything in the Webmention.io dashboard. Patience, I guess?

Finished reading: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner 📚 Funny, poignant, joyful, and a brilliant feminist book.