Every once in a while I get this idea in my head of something I would like to add to my site. Normally, I would have no concept of how to go about it. I poke around and find what I think might do the trick. How knows? Maybe not? Then, I try it, see what happens, and then, boom! It works! And, at that point, I cannot contain myself and I lift my arms up to the air in excitement, and inside my head, the victory-fanfare from FFVII plays.

The best food?

eighties food

Made a few tweaks to my weblog recently.

I added a new menu, Follow My Weblog! It's got a selection of links to which you can subscribe individually. In case you just want to follow only photo posts only, long posts, and or everything.

Added a subtitle, nothing fancy but the fact that I was able to accomplish that made me happy.

Added sublime ads, and just like Mike, it is a way to promote the things I love and bring me joy. Although, I had made a mistake and I need to re-do it all. It is coming up, though — soon! 

I promise!

I have also been experimenting with the new theme, Hitchens, over on my test blog. Lots of back and forth between the two "accounts" these past few days. I figured it is safer to use the test site before committing to any changes.

According to past posts and journal writings, it is a recurring theme that I close or walk away for a while, from a social platform, every January, at least for the past two or three years. Consistently, it has been Instagram. A few years back, it was Facebook, which later, became permanently closed. The problem has always been letting go of Instagram. I have thousands of excuses on why I keep it and a few very valid reasons of why to close it, permanently. This time around, I have scheduled my account for deletion and re-opened it twice.

Last night, was my last attempt at trying to make it "better". I unfollowed almost half of the accounts I was following, and muted some others, mostly the stories. At first, it was good, then, I found myself down that rabbit hole again of going to the 'discovery' tab and just doomscrolling, and seeing all these things that make me anxious and somewhat depressed. I may not have the force of will, or the discipline required to fight these tendencies.

This is clearly an indication, that the platform is no longer good for my mental health.

So, let's add Instagram to the list of permanently closed.

On Today's commute, like in every commute of every day, I drive by this car-sale lot. In this lot, about 2 out of 5 days, there's a motorized cop. Pointing its speed-gun to all drivers, including me. I am aware of this, it is always present in my mind, and would like to keep it that way. Because the day I forget, it is gonna happen. Last week, I only saw it once, and this week, just today, so far. And on both occasions, whichever car is a bit behind me at that moment, has gotten pulled over.

tsk tsk tsk

Of all the note-taking apps I have tried and really used, I believe Simplenote doesn't get a lot of credit or mention. I have been using it a lot the past few months. Probably because is the only nice-looking app that has a Windows native app ish. The syncing between the windows app and my Apple devices it's pretty damn solid. It does not have a lot of bells and whistles but it works great for what I need. Of course, there are a few things I would like it to have from other note-taking apps I've used but I can live without them.

Marley, Luna and I, went out for a mission. The mission, go to the grocery store, get apples, coffee, milk… you know some essentials. Oh, and chicken wings, for dinner tonight.

Marley is hanging by the side of the cart, Luna in the kiddy basket, as I call it. Every time I pick an item, Luna wants to hold it. Eventually, she gets tired and puts it back in the cart, behind her.

We grabbed everything we needed, and headed to the cashiers. I noticed all are very busy, I only had about, less than ten items, so I go to the self-checkout. Scan all my items, one of the ladies working at the store even helps me out with a specific item, I pay, and go!

We are on our way to the car when I noticed, Luna, is still holding a box of taquitos 😱.

I don’t remember scanning the taquitos…

This is probably the less efficient way of doing “read it later” but, for better or worse, this is how I’ve been going about it. Yes, I use a read it later service/app, and that is instapaper, mostly. However, I don’t use it exclusively.

A lot of my read it later comes from, well, depending on where I’m browsing. If I’m on Twitter, favoriting a tweet, can be something to read (or reference) later. I think I can set up instapaper to grab those but, eh! In Micro.blog, I bookmark, and if I am in Feedbin, usually at work, using the web app, I star them.

Do I ever come back and actually read them later? I may or may not. That’s the problem with read it later, sometimes they don’t get read. But there’s always the; what if I need it later?

Read this later…