crocheting a baby blanket
my current project is making a baby blanket for my brother and sister-in-law. I'm going to be an aunt! how exciting. it's coming together nicely so far :) 10/100 reply by email
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standing shoulder to shoulder talking into the void
This is often how I feel about discord servers or other online communities. Are we having a conversation with each other or is everyone just stating their own thoughts without reading or considering what the person before them sent? I think I feel this most when one message is sent, no one responds, then someone comes in with a new topic and it sparks up a conversation. Am I supposed to say "Hi, I…
two zucchini plants are plenty
I planted my garden this spring from seeds. I've got a nice big garden space in raised boxes that gets lots of sun. I decided to try to grow some zucchini. I'm a bit of a hands-off gardener. I try to water regularly, but I also forget, or wait for the rain. I weed, sort of, but sometimes the weeds reach a certain point that it's a bit overwhelming and then I just.. don't (that's this year right…
when life gives you lemons
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible…
blaugust 2026 RSS feed
I've spent today reading through a blaugust 2026 RSS feed that I imported courtesy of 82MHz. Thank you! It's been really nice to have all the blogs in one place in my RSS reader and has pushed me to make a point of reading even more of folk's blog posts. Very fun. I'm also trying to make a point to email people more this month. It makes my day when someone emails me about my blog posts (you mean…
i hate typing on my phone
i hate typing on my phone. it's so slow. it takes forever to get my thoughts out. and i'm still very prone to typos which only adds to the time it takes. (yes, i am typing this blog post on my phone) i don't have a keyboard with autocorrect anymore. ever since i swapped over to grapheneos , i started looking at keyboard alternatives. I used to really like typing with the swipe option. It was…
building my own recipe database using obsidian
I've used a few different recipe apps and websites in my lifetime. They were never quite right, but they did the job. I purchased my previous favourite app (I think for 5-8$ at the time? This was probably 7 or 8 years ago) for its pro features and ad-free use. But of course, as with so many things these days, it started to get worse. They eventually switched to a subscription model (thankfully my…
blog or website?
I find myself creating this false dichotomy when it comes to where to post - should I put this on my blog or on my website? For example, yesterday's coffee post. I could make that a blog post. But I also sort of want to make a page on my website all about coffee, because I love it so much and that sounds fun. Also, eventually that blog post will become buried and I like when I'm visiting other…
a coffee questionnaire
I love coffee! I'm not sure if I'd call myself a coffee snob but I'm sure other people might haha. I recently stumbled on this coffee questionnaire via James Zhan and Syl's Blog and I can't resist a questionnaire! How many cups of coffee per day? Usually two cups per day (500ml/~16oz). This question got me into a tangent/rabbit hole about the measurement of coffee as technically I brew 1 pot of a…
blaugust 2026
happy blaugust everyone! I am excited for this month. I have high hopes of coming back to blogging again. I'm also realistic in that I know that I might well just fall off the blogging wagon again, but I'm hoping that a challenge/event will make things a little bit different. It seems silly - I've been sitting here looking forward to Blaugust, excited for all the blog posts I'm going to write,…