18 January 2026 (Sunday)
STATUS: Linux and Emacs
PLANS: More of the same. Buckle down for the storm coming (both literal and figurative)
I'm not even supposed to be here today.
Hi! I'm Jack 👋
I'm glad you're here!
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Well, since I'm on-again-off-again with macOS, I can't really go all in with Tinderbox for this blog? It's sad, but I've swapped in the older Kirby version. I have not migrated the content since december, and don't know if I will bother, sorry. Who knows how long this will last.
Note that this doesn't officially count as switching blogging platforms, because I don't have a choice this time. Right?!
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We're all walking around with these little creation myths about every domain we care about, and they all end the same way: with us as witnesses to a decline that began right after we showed up. How convenient that the golden age always ended just as we aged into it.
Joan Westenberg, Everything is Dead and We Killed It.
Maybe so, but music really has been getting worse since around 1982! 😅
17 January 2026 (Saturday)
STATUS: Oscillating
PLANS: Try to stop oscillating
A big part of me prefers posting places where no one (or very few people) will even see it. It's nice having it "out there" but without adding to anyone's (including mine) burden.
20 December 2025 (Saturday)
STATUS: Still using my Mac
PLANS: Visit my stepson in Detroit for his 25th birthday
19 December 2025 (Friday)
After yesterday's failure with Gnome and dislike of KDE, I'm using the Mac today. It's a relief, if I'm being honest.
Well I don't know what to do about Micro.blog...again. It has so much value but I don't need most of it. In fact, it actually confuses things for me. Still noodlin' on it.
17 December 2025 (Wednesday)
STATUS: Working on some tweaks to this site
PLANS: Haircut, maybe. Finishing the Fedora/Cosmic setup on both machines.
Upgraded Kirby to 5.2.1. It's been a while since I've done that and I almost forgot how. It's just a matter deleting the ./public/media folder and replacing the ./kirby folder with the new one. Easy peasy. I've also replaced the 3rd-party markdown plugin with stock textarea fields. I lose some fancy formatting, but no longer need worry about updates or breakage.
16 December 2025 (Tuesday)
STATUS: One foot in macOS...the other in Linux
PLANS: Ignore the above as long as possible
14 December 2025 (Sunday)
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It was quite cold this morning. Like below zero cold. I took Alice for a walk around 4:30 AM and my feet made the snow squeak.