There’s a development forum I frequent that still uses vBulletin version 3.8.7. That’s software that came out in 2010. The owner refuses to upgrade and the users won’t migrate because of their post counts. Is there a way I can throw a browser based CSS skin on it for a mobile style view?

What’s that you say? You’ve never heard a Twin Reverb cranked to 10, in person? Yeah, me neither…until the Tone Master version, which allows you to attenuate down to 1 watt and play at bedroom levels while still getting that natural breakup sound. My medicine this weekend.

How are you taking care of yourself this weekend?

A Trumper resorted to criticizing my “combover” instead of my ideas yesterday. I’m still kind of smiling about it.

Probably crazy, but I’ve always wanted to take Amtrak down the west coast in one of those sleeper cabins.

Currently reading: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 📚

I’m losing followers on other platforms because of my opinions about the election. But what bothers me more is how silent so many people are being about this. People who didn’t vote for him but appear as if nothing happened. The mass silence among people I respect is fucking me up.

I think I’ve gained back all the weight I lost just since Halloween. It’s been a helluva time these last 8 days.

I was recognized as an Italian citizen, coincidentally, on Election Day 2020. We stuck around, but hell if we aren’t thinking about an extended sabbatical now.

Dog Zoey, who just turned 8, makes me laugh with her morning routine. She usually sleeps downstairs on the couch, but when my raucous children wake up and stampede downstairs, she heads upstairs and lays in my bed to avoid the chaos of mornings.

Figured I’d give Day One a spin after many years. When I logged in, it found a journal of mine from 11 years ago with 87 entries that I had completely forgotten about. This was one entry from 2013. Damn, I was an angsty brat.

Focus and self care do not come naturally to me. Maybe that’s common in this age. I am making some progress lately, slowly chipping away at some new habits. Reading, writing, small exercise routines, putting my phone down more. But progress feels glacially slow. Bad habits die hard.

Having all sorts of internet/network issues today, both personal and work.

Currently reading: Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession by Chuck Thompson 📚

I have to start making alternative plans for Thanksgiving. IYKYK

Looking like a replay of 16.

Finished reading: A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut 📚

I’m so grateful my parents are Democrats. I can’t imagine being from a family that I don’t respect.

Stepping out my front door after some rain.

I understood the assignment 🩵

Sometimes I like to live dangerously and still restart my work computer even when 143 windows are open and it asks me, “You have unsaved work. Are you sure you still want to restart?” A clean slate can feel so freeing.

There used to be this coffee shop I’d go to in high school in the 90s near Central Michigan University called U-Cup that stayed open late and had open mic nights—I even played a couple! I miss spots like that. Imagine pounding coffee after 10 p.m. like you’re at a bar without a care in the world.

I wonder if Threads has a block limit.

My five year old is learning to read. He’s picking it up, but it’s going as expected because English is strange and phonics is garbage.

When I took Japanese years ago, I used to think Kanji was insane. But now I can see how the Whole Language approach makes some sense from learning logograms then.