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				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/11/a-little-tidbit.html",
				"title": "A little tidbit from yesterday.",
				"content_html": "<p>My mom has dementia. She has good days and bad days, and days that surprise me. She&rsquo;ll often call me with some weird tear she&rsquo;s on, seemingly having conversations with herself in which she thinks it was me (or something). Today she called me and asked me if I wanted to write another story.</p>\n<p>I asked her what other story she thinks that I wrote, she wasn&rsquo;t sure. I think she is conflating &ldquo;stories&rdquo; as memories we have talked about and I may have blogged about. Regardless, I asked her to tell me the story she thinks I should write. And guess what? It was about <a href=\"https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/21/apples.html\">apples</a>. There is apparently yet <em>another</em> aspect of my family history involving apples.</p>\n<p>But then the story took a turn and I ended up doing some very preliminary research online about my great grandfather on my mother&rsquo;s mother&rsquo;s side, whom I never met. He too was into growing apples in Selah, Washington, and made a fortune in the 1920s, so much that he apparently never had to work again. What I discovered in my research was a story of great tragedy and death that my grandmother never talked about. The only part of this story that I was aware of was about <em>her</em> mother, my great grandmother, dying when my grandmother was nine.</p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s more to the story. My great great grandparents on my grandmother&rsquo;s side lived in Minnesota. They had two children, a boy and a girl. The girl was my grandmother&rsquo;s mother. The boy died at age fourteen. So far I cannot find anything about cause of death or even a death certificate, which I don&rsquo;t find very odd. It was the early 1900s and kids under certain ages may not have had their deaths officially captured.</p>\n<p>The girl grew up and married my great grandfather and they had one child, my grandmother. They moved to eastern Washington where my great grandfather grew apples, as previously mentioned. Where things start to turn again, as if my great grandmother&rsquo;s brother dying at 14 isn&rsquo;t sad enough, she herself then dies when my grandmother is nine, as I also mentioned. But here is where it really gets sad. In the obituary I found for my great great grandmother, it lays out all the deaths and they happen is such quick succession, leaving my grandmother with only a father and no one else. No wonder she never talked about any of this.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>&mdash; </p>\n<p><strong>98</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "My mom has dementia. She has good days and bad days, and days that surprise me. She'll often call me with some weird tear she's on, seemingly having conversations with herself in which she thinks it was me (or something). Today she called me and asked me if I wanted to write another story.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI asked her what other story she thinks that I wrote, she wasn't sure. I think she is conflating \"stories\" as memories we have talked about and I may have blogged about. Regardless, I asked her to tell me the story she thinks I should write. And guess what? It was about [apples](https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/21/apples.html). There is apparently yet *another* aspect of my family history involving apples.\r\n\r\nBut then the story took a turn and I ended up doing some very preliminary research online about my great grandfather on my mother's mother's side, whom I never met. He too was into growing apples in Selah, Washington, and made a fortune in the 1920s, so much that he apparently never had to work again. What I discovered in my research was a story of great tragedy and death that my grandmother never talked about. The only part of this story that I was aware of was about *her* mother, my great grandmother, dying when my grandmother was nine.\r\n\r\nThere's more to the story. My great great grandparents on my grandmother's side lived in Minnesota. They had two children, a boy and a girl. The girl was my grandmother's mother. The boy died at age fourteen. So far I cannot find anything about cause of death or even a death certificate, which I don't find very odd. It was the early 1900s and kids under certain ages may not have had their deaths officially captured.\r\n\r\nThe girl grew up and married my great grandfather and they had one child, my grandmother. They moved to eastern Washington where my great grandfather grew apples, as previously mentioned. Where things start to turn again, as if my great grandmother's brother dying at 14 isn't sad enough, she herself then dies when my grandmother is nine, as I also mentioned. But here is where it really gets sad. In the obituary I found for my great great grandmother, it lays out all the deaths and they happen is such quick succession, leaving my grandmother with only a father and no one else. No wonder she never talked about any of this.\r\n\r\n<figure>\r\n<img class=\"img-flow\" src=\"https://100daysof.blog/uploads/2024/mary-rauscher-obit.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"709\" alt=\"Screenshot of an obituary on a website for my great great grandmother, laying out the deaths of her entire family in fairly quick succession.\">\r\n<figcaption></figcaption>\r\n</figure>\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**98**/100\r\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-11T06:07:50-07:00",
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				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/10/im-okay-with.html",
				"title": "I'm okay with me.",
				"content_html": "<p>I woke up this morning and almost felt a pang of FOMO upon seeing some people enjoying their time together, in a hubbub of noise and commotion. I say almost because I quickly reminded myself, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t really thrive in that setting anymore&rdquo; and the internal twisting immediately went away and I felt at ease.</p>\n<p><em>I&rsquo;m okay with me.</em></p>\n<p>I find that smaller groups, sometimes just being alone or one-on-one, quieter and less stressful settings, little to no commotion, contemplative and reflective friendly spaces, are what I thrive on. They&rsquo;re what I need to feel at peace and be myself. I need time to read something and think about it. Decide what angle I want to focus on and make a response, if I even decide to. Often we are encouraged for a quick reply with little thought and that&rsquo;s just not my style. Many times, after reflecting on something, I find I don&rsquo;t need to voice an opinion at all, it doesn&rsquo;t add much.</p>\n<p><em>And I&rsquo;m okay with me.</em></p>\n<p>Comparing yourself to others is a losing game. Nobody else is in the same situation as you are. They don&rsquo;t have the same life experiences and contemporary needs. They don&rsquo;t live in your brain, you live in your brain. What you need to do to make the space in your brain yours, make it happy with what you have and who you are, is more important than what the outside world imposes on you.</p>\n<p><em>That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m okay with me.</em></p>\n<p>It took a long time to be fine with this identity. When I was younger, prior to becoming ill, I was very outgoing and popular. I don&rsquo;t know if you would have called me an extrovert but I certainly wasn&rsquo;t an introvert. I am incontrovertibly an introvert now. Large crowds absolutely drain me, I get nothing from them but pain. Partly I am sure my illness made me introverted due to circumstance, but I also believe I came to prefer the situation introversion puts me in.</p>\n<p><em>So I&rsquo;m okay with me.</em></p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s something I wish others could understand. People who are extroverted or otherwise very outgoing, who spend all their days coming and going, among many people, constantly chatting and moving, they have no concept of the peace that people like myself can thrive with. They end up feeling sorry for us or thinking something is wrong with us, wondering how they can help, as if we didn&rsquo;t arrive here on purpose, as if by chance. I hope you will give people in your lives who need to spend time outside of the maddening fast spaced world the benefit of the doubt.</p>\n<p><em>The&rsquo;re probably okay like me.</em></p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>97</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I woke up this morning and almost felt a pang of FOMO upon seeing some people enjoying their time together, in a hubbub of noise and commotion. I say almost because I quickly reminded myself, \"I don't really thrive in that setting anymore\" and the internal twisting immediately went away and I felt at ease.\r\n\r\n*I'm okay with me.*\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that smaller groups, sometimes just being alone or one-on-one, quieter and less stressful settings, little to no commotion, contemplative and reflective friendly spaces, are what I thrive on. They're what I need to feel at peace and be myself. I need time to read something and think about it. Decide what angle I want to focus on and make a response, if I even decide to. Often we are encouraged for a quick reply with little thought and that's just not my style. Many times, after reflecting on something, I find I don't need to voice an opinion at all, it doesn't add much.\r\n\r\n*And I'm okay with me.*\r\n\r\nComparing yourself to others is a losing game. Nobody else is in the same situation as you are. They don't have the same life experiences and contemporary needs. They don't live in your brain, you live in your brain. What you need to do to make the space in your brain yours, make it happy with what you have and who you are, is more important than what the outside world imposes on you.\r\n\r\n*That's why I'm okay with me.*\r\n\r\nIt took a long time to be fine with this identity. When I was younger, prior to becoming ill, I was very outgoing and popular. I don't know if you would have called me an extrovert but I certainly wasn't an introvert. I am incontrovertibly an introvert now. Large crowds absolutely drain me, I get nothing from them but pain. Partly I am sure my illness made me introverted due to circumstance, but I also believe I came to prefer the situation introversion puts me in.\r\n\r\n*So I'm okay with me.*\r\n\r\nThat's something I wish others could understand. People who are extroverted or otherwise very outgoing, who spend all their days coming and going, among many people, constantly chatting and moving, they have no concept of the peace that people like myself can thrive with. They end up feeling sorry for us or thinking something is wrong with us, wondering how they can help, as if we didn't arrive here on purpose, as if by chance. I hope you will give people in your lives who need to spend time outside of the maddening fast spaced world the benefit of the doubt.\r\n\r\n*The're probably okay like me.*\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**97**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-10T10:14:11-07:00",
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				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/09/early-morning.html",
				"title": "Early morning.",
				"content_html": "<p>I love the early morning. I would be up at 5am every day if I could. I feel like the world is my own and anything is possible. I still retain hope for the day and all the hours lay out ahead of me full of their possibility before anything else can interfere. I&rsquo;m still fresh (hopefully) from a night&rsquo;s sleep and my pains have not begun.</p>\n<p>For a really long time, the early morning was a curse to me. I regularly slept until 10am&hellip;noon. I was far more of a night owl and my job made that a necessity. I worked as a waitress in a previous life for more than 10 years. I worked 12-hour shifts, sometimes until 11pm at night and then I&rsquo;d be up until 2 or 3am.</p>\n<p>A change happened after college and buying a house. I not only started waking up earlier but I welcomed it at times. The solitude and peace of making coffee before anyone else is making noise in the neighborhood is some kind of joy. Going out into the garden and listening to the birds with a fresh cup is like the dawn of a miracle. I really do think it is straight out of heaven. Perhaps one of the only slices we get to witness on earth.</p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a magic light in the morning and evening, a golden hour. The light is softer, almost like heaven has sliced open a little glimpse and shined its grace across the land. That is a moving point in time as the sun moves with earth&rsquo;s rotation and we lose our opportunity to witness it until later and earlier in the day. I missed out on this for so long when I slept in late, almost like I didn&rsquo;t realize what I was missing.</p>\n<p>In the winter, the early morning is a dreary envelope, dark and cold, but still holds a mysticism. Listening to the rain on the roofs has its own simple pleasure and drowns out the other remaining night sounds. Once cars start, all is lost, the swishing on the roads becomes a constant roar, and the morning loses its special quiet.</p>\n<p>I love an early morning after snowfall. That intense cold and hush is like a pillow for your soul. It awakens and calms senses seemingly simultaneously. A brisk walk results in pleasing crunches underfoot. When the sun reveals itself the ice and snow begins to crackle and drip. Perhaps that is my soul I&rsquo;m hearing, crackle and drip.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>96</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I love the early morning. I would be up at 5am every day if I could. I feel like the world is my own and anything is possible. I still retain hope for the day and all the hours lay out ahead of me full of their possibility before anything else can interfere. I'm still fresh (hopefully) from a night's sleep and my pains have not begun.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nFor a really long time, the early morning was a curse to me. I regularly slept until 10am...noon. I was far more of a night owl and my job made that a necessity. I worked as a waitress in a previous life for more than 10 years. I worked 12-hour shifts, sometimes until 11pm at night and then I'd be up until 2 or 3am.\r\n\r\nA change happened after college and buying a house. I not only started waking up earlier but I welcomed it at times. The solitude and peace of making coffee before anyone else is making noise in the neighborhood is some kind of joy. Going out into the garden and listening to the birds with a fresh cup is like the dawn of a miracle. I really do think it is straight out of heaven. Perhaps one of the only slices we get to witness on earth.\r\n\r\nThere's a magic light in the morning and evening, a golden hour. The light is softer, almost like heaven has sliced open a little glimpse and shined its grace across the land. That is a moving point in time as the sun moves with earth's rotation and we lose our opportunity to witness it until later and earlier in the day. I missed out on this for so long when I slept in late, almost like I didn't realize what I was missing.\r\n\r\nIn the winter, the early morning is a dreary envelope, dark and cold, but still holds a mysticism. Listening to the rain on the roofs has its own simple pleasure and drowns out the other remaining night sounds. Once cars start, all is lost, the swishing on the roads becomes a constant roar, and the morning loses its special quiet.\r\n\r\nI love an early morning after snowfall. That intense cold and hush is like a pillow for your soul. It awakens and calms senses seemingly simultaneously. A brisk walk results in pleasing crunches underfoot. When the sun reveals itself the ice and snow begins to crackle and drip. Perhaps that is my soul I'm hearing, crackle and drip.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**96**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-09T06:19:15-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/10/09/early-morning.html",
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				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/08/whirlwind-october.html",
				"title": "Whirlwind October",
				"content_html": "<p>I think this month is going to fly. It already feels like time has accelerated and with the election now less than a month away, I expect to wake up tomorrow and it already be November. In some ways I am glad <em>this</em> little venture may be coming to a pause soon, with only five more posts to go. I&rsquo;ve got some things to think about, plan for, and get done this month.</p>\n<p>One thing I will be very grateful for this fall is that I no longer have to clean up leaves from my neighbor&rsquo;s apricot tree that fell on my garage this spring. That tree hung halfway over my property and I&rsquo;d have to fill several yard bins full of just those stinky leaves every year. These aren&rsquo;t leaves I could have left, as most of them fell directly on my garage roof, in the gutters and downspouts, and a narrow walkway between the side of the garage and fence that separated our properties. Left long enough the leaves piled up to my mid-shin in that walkway and would have become a slimy mess if left to decompose.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve never felt so affected by someone possibly not liking me or being unhappy with me before than I have in the past few weeks. It&rsquo;s having a negative effect on my psyche and I just want to get over it. I felt like I&rsquo;d worked some things out but this sinking feeling that I&rsquo;m hanging around where I&rsquo;m really unwanted I just can&rsquo;t shake. I don&rsquo;t know how to fix it and it&rsquo;s brought me to tears several times. I tried to cover this a bit in my post last night, <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/10/online-is-absolutely-real-life\"><em>Online is absolutely real life.</em></a> I mentioned how upset I have felt about the struggle, and how real the hurt feels even though it is entirely based on online interactions.</p>\n<p>The CSS workshop I signed up for starts next week and I&rsquo;m so thankful to have something else to occupy my brain other than dwelling on what upsets me right now. I need a good project to distract me and engage me and give me some new perspectives. Being mostly homebound can make that really rough at times. I have to work at finding things to liven the day and prevent me from feeling stagnant in my activities.</p>\n<p>I hope that after I finish that workshop I will feel reinvigorated to tackle my CSS architecture project on weblog. This was supposed to start in spring and then never did. If I were to trace back when the trajectory of 2024 got off for me it would be May, during WeblogPoMo when all my plans fell apart and I haven&rsquo;t felt &ldquo;right&rdquo; since. I&rsquo;m not really a depressive person but I really have been feeling like I can&rsquo;t get <em>into</em> all the projects I know I <em>want</em> to work on.</p>\n<p>What is waiting in the wings right now?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Table for One Cafe, where I explore recipes I inherited in a banker box from my grandmother;</li>\n<li>Wiki Garden, my hopefully new digital garden;</li>\n<li>Tiny Pages, where I work on CSS experiments and write about them on weblog;</li>\n<li>Blogs and Coffee, a yet undetermined blog about blogs and coffee&hellip;?</li>\n<li>Updates to themes.lol, finish what I started;</li>\n<li>CSS rearchitecture on weblog;</li>\n<li>Untether theme on microblog to use full custom theme;</li>\n<li>Possibly do the same on 100 Days of Blog;</li>\n<li>Plus all the other things on my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/roadmap\">roadmap</a> and in my head;</li>\n<li>More updating todo lists, they are never done.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>It feels like a lot. It is a lot. Last year I found that NaBloPoMo was useful for me. Maybe I need to work it a little differently and make it about working on my blogs instead. That was actually my goal for WeblogPoMo before I got derailed. Can&rsquo;t believe six months have gone by and I don&rsquo;t feel any further along. Of course, I&rsquo;ve gotten some things done, but sometimes I can get on a tear of productivity and even surprise myself. The last six months have been the polar opposite of that.</p>\n<p>Alright, that&rsquo;s enough navel gazing for one day. On with it!</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>95</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I think this month is going to fly. It already feels like time has accelerated and with the election now less than a month away, I expect to wake up tomorrow and it already be November. In some ways I am glad *this* little venture may be coming to a pause soon, with only five more posts to go. I've got some things to think about, plan for, and get done this month.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nOne thing I will be very grateful for this fall is that I no longer have to clean up leaves from my neighbor's apricot tree that fell on my garage this spring. That tree hung halfway over my property and I'd have to fill several yard bins full of just those stinky leaves every year. These aren't leaves I could have left, as most of them fell directly on my garage roof, in the gutters and downspouts, and a narrow walkway between the side of the garage and fence that separated our properties. Left long enough the leaves piled up to my mid-shin in that walkway and would have become a slimy mess if left to decompose.\n\n--- \n\nI've never felt so affected by someone possibly not liking me or being unhappy with me before than I have in the past few weeks. It's having a negative effect on my psyche and I just want to get over it. I felt like I'd worked some things out but this sinking feeling that I'm hanging around where I'm really unwanted I just can't shake. I don't know how to fix it and it's brought me to tears several times. I tried to cover this a bit in my post last night, [*Online is absolutely real life.*](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/10/online-is-absolutely-real-life) I mentioned how upset I have felt about the struggle, and how real the hurt feels even though it is entirely based on online interactions.\n\nThe CSS workshop I signed up for starts next week and I'm so thankful to have something else to occupy my brain other than dwelling on what upsets me right now. I need a good project to distract me and engage me and give me some new perspectives. Being mostly homebound can make that really rough at times. I have to work at finding things to liven the day and prevent me from feeling stagnant in my activities.\n\nI hope that after I finish that workshop I will feel reinvigorated to tackle my CSS architecture project on weblog. This was supposed to start in spring and then never did. If I were to trace back when the trajectory of 2024 got off for me it would be May, during WeblogPoMo when all my plans fell apart and I haven't felt \"right\" since. I'm not really a depressive person but I really have been feeling like I can't get *into* all the projects I know I *want* to work on.\n\nWhat is waiting in the wings right now?\n\n- Table for One Cafe, where I explore recipes I inherited in a banker box from my grandmother;\n- Wiki Garden, my hopefully new digital garden;\n- Tiny Pages, where I work on CSS experiments and write about them on weblog;\n- Blogs and Coffee, a yet undetermined blog about blogs and coffee...?\n- Updates to themes.lol, finish what I started;\n- CSS rearchitecture on weblog;\n- Untether theme on microblog to use full custom theme;\n- Possibly do the same on 100 Days of Blog;\n- Plus all the other things on my [roadmap](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/roadmap) and in my head;\n- More updating todo lists, they are never done.\n\nIt feels like a lot. It is a lot. Last year I found that NaBloPoMo was useful for me. Maybe I need to work it a little differently and make it about working on my blogs instead. That was actually my goal for WeblogPoMo before I got derailed. Can't believe six months have gone by and I don't feel any further along. Of course, I've gotten some things done, but sometimes I can get on a tear of productivity and even surprise myself. The last six months have been the polar opposite of that.\n\nAlright, that's enough navel gazing for one day. On with it!\n\n--- \n\n**95**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-08T10:39:18-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/10/08/whirlwind-october.html",
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				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/07/the-last-weekend.html",
				"title": "The last weekend.",
				"content_html": "<p>Feels a little bit like I just spent the last weekend of the year in the garden, stuck into anything &ldquo;gardening&rdquo;, that is. I will undoubtably still do plenty of cutback and raking as the time comes for those chores, but the changeover of the patio containers is always a marked event in the garden.</p>\n<p>I thought I was going to dismantle my raised beds on Saturday but after recalling the issues I had with the end-of-summer dry clay soil last weekend when digging up and transplanting the hellebores, I&rsquo;ve opted to wait until spring. The only real reason to get that done this fall was because I thought I&rsquo;d get the garage painted at some point soon. I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s going to happen before the weather changes now.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not feeling myself for the past week. I&rsquo;ve separated from several places I used to frequent IRL and online and it is starting to &ldquo;be real&rdquo; that I might not go back. That&rsquo;s a sad state, but I can&rsquo;t shake the feeling that I can&rsquo;t be myself. In fact, I am feeling like I can&rsquo;t be myself in a lot of situations in the world right now. Apparently now Louisville, KY, has also joined the places instating or resurrecting mask bans. This trend of what can only be called <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law\">ugly laws</a> is making me feel excluded from society. It is extremely taxing on my well being how we&rsquo;ve decided that a whole class of vulnerable people are just not welcome in public places anymore because they still take Covid seriously. It is impossible to explain to anyone who refuses to fully understand the risks from repeat infections from this virus.</p>\n<p>Yeah, I know, I talk about illness a lot. But, when you are chronically ill, you really have no choice. When you have a chronic illness that has been ignored and dismissed and degraded by the very medical and public health systems we have to rely on for sound advice, it becomes life and death. I currently do not feel like I can pursue life, liberty, or happiness in this society anymore and I&rsquo;m sort of turning inward and it is really hard. I shouldn&rsquo;t have to turn inward and find what is wrong with me, nothing is wrong with me. I am who I am and it is society who is ill. The default state is <em>not</em> healthy and fit, that is <em>temporary</em>. You will all become infirm at some point and I sure hope others are kinder to you than what I have felt over the past 30 years.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>94</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Feels a little bit like I just spent the last weekend of the year in the garden, stuck into anything \"gardening\", that is. I will undoubtably still do plenty of cutback and raking as the time comes for those chores, but the changeover of the patio containers is always a marked event in the garden.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI thought I was going to dismantle my raised beds on Saturday but after recalling the issues I had with the end-of-summer dry clay soil last weekend when digging up and transplanting the hellebores, I've opted to wait until spring. The only real reason to get that done this fall was because I thought I'd get the garage painted at some point soon. I don't think that's going to happen before the weather changes now.\n\nI'm not feeling myself for the past week. I've separated from several places I used to frequent IRL and online and it is starting to \"be real\" that I might not go back. That's a sad state, but I can't shake the feeling that I can't be myself. In fact, I am feeling like I can't be myself in a lot of situations in the world right now. Apparently now Louisville, KY, has also joined the places instating or resurrecting mask bans. This trend of what can only be called [ugly laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law) is making me feel excluded from society. It is extremely taxing on my well being how we've decided that a whole class of vulnerable people are just not welcome in public places anymore because they still take Covid seriously. It is impossible to explain to anyone who refuses to fully understand the risks from repeat infections from this virus.\n\nYeah, I know, I talk about illness a lot. But, when you are chronically ill, you really have no choice. When you have a chronic illness that has been ignored and dismissed and degraded by the very medical and public health systems we have to rely on for sound advice, it becomes life and death. I currently do not feel like I can pursue life, liberty, or happiness in this society anymore and I'm sort of turning inward and it is really hard. I shouldn't have to turn inward and find what is wrong with me, nothing is wrong with me. I am who I am and it is society who is ill. The default state is *not* healthy and fit, that is *temporary*. You will all become infirm at some point and I sure hope others are kinder to you than what I have felt over the past 30 years.\n\n--- \n\n**94**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-07T09:46:30-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/10/07/the-last-weekend.html",
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				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/04/the-fearsome-foursome.html",
				"title": "The Fearsome Foursome",
				"content_html": "<p>Saturday&rsquo;s post is early this week. I was part of a group of friends, four girls, called The Fearsome Foursome. Pretty sure we called ourselves that but it may have been someone&rsquo;s mother. The four of us were friends of some sort, though perhaps not all together, from late elementary school through at least the middle of HS, and acquaintances into college.</p>\n<p>On our own, if we were only to couple up as friends, I&rsquo;m not sure the group would have entirely formed if it wasn&rsquo;t for who I&rsquo;m going to call the &ldquo;glue girl.&rdquo; The glue girl wasn&rsquo;t necessarily popular of extremely charismatic but there was obviously something about her that made the group work. Individually I was only connected to one of the other girls via basketball and the third only tangentially as friends.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>I played basketball with the basketball girl from around fifth grade through my junior year in HS. We both started playing on a YMCA team as we were both tall and athletic and expected to get a jump start on a career playing basketball. Both of us were favored to go on to play college basketball. She did, I became sick in HS and did not. In fact, my HS basketball career ended my junior year. I didn&rsquo;t play any sports my senior year, I was lucky to be able to graduate at that point in my illness. Basketball girl went on to become a college professor somewhere out east.</p>\n<p>The other girl and I were friends but never super close. She was probably the most pretty and charismatic of the group. She had a long-time boyfriend that she ended up marrying and they lived somewhere in the Puget Sound area. I lost touch with her fairly early on, though managed to dip in and out of contact with glue girl. I was closest to glue girl in a lot of ways. Close enough that in 2018 we met out of the blue after having not seen or talked to each other in probably 20 years. The reason was sad, the other girl had suddenly died. We lost a friend far too early. Glue girl and I vowed to stay in touch as we were the only two remaining on the west coast and in close proximity with Portland. Unfortunately that hasn&rsquo;t happened.</p>\n<p>Glue girl and I grew up a very short distance from each other and were the closest of the bunch. We were part of the same church and youth group. We were in youth choir and travelled with the youth group every summer. We were started driving at the same time and bought our first cars at nearly the same time. We had our first boyfriends around the same time. We did so much together. She ended up marrying a boy from our church youth group, but they are no longer together.</p>\n<p>Through all of this there was the tension of my illness, as we all grew apart due to me having to disappear from life as a teenager. I&rsquo;m not sure I ever forgave any of them. I don&rsquo;t necessarily hold a grudge, but it was such a hard time. It&rsquo;s hard to be a teenager anyway but to sort of end up abandoned by your closest group of friends because, no, I cannot spend time with you guys this weekend, I&rsquo;m too ill, is more than they want to deal with, hurt beyond what I am even able to come to terms with today. There is so much trauma from those years in HS that I&rsquo;ve never fully gotten over or through because it was so long ago. But I think back to that group of girls.</p>\n<p>In that picture we had all gone to the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Fair\">Puyallup Fair </a>. Glue girl&rsquo;s mother drove us up in her late-80s Lincoln Continental. I can still smell that car, I&rsquo;m sure you can imagine it. It was the model that was a deep burgundy. The interior was burgundy leather. Her mother smoked and the car smelled of coffee, leather, cigarettes, and car cleaner. The picture was from one of those dress-up photo booths. We were harlots, apparently.</p>\n<p>Can you figure out which one is me? Basketball girl? Other girl? Glue girl?</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>93</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Saturday's post is early this week. I was part of a group of friends, four girls, called The Fearsome Foursome. Pretty sure we called ourselves that but it may have been someone's mother. The four of us were friends of some sort, though perhaps not all together, from late elementary school through at least the middle of HS, and acquaintances into college.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nOn our own, if we were only to couple up as friends, I'm not sure the group would have entirely formed if it wasn't for who I'm going to call the \"glue girl.\" The glue girl wasn't necessarily popular of extremely charismatic but there was obviously something about her that made the group work. Individually I was only connected to one of the other girls via basketball and the third only tangentially as friends.\n\n<img src=\"uploads/2024/fearsome-foursome.jpeg\" width=\"501\" height=\"727\" alt=\"A sepia toned image of four girls dressed as 1800s harlots.\">\n\nI played basketball with the basketball girl from around fifth grade through my junior year in HS. We both started playing on a YMCA team as we were both tall and athletic and expected to get a jump start on a career playing basketball. Both of us were favored to go on to play college basketball. She did, I became sick in HS and did not. In fact, my HS basketball career ended my junior year. I didn't play any sports my senior year, I was lucky to be able to graduate at that point in my illness. Basketball girl went on to become a college professor somewhere out east.\n\nThe other girl and I were friends but never super close. She was probably the most pretty and charismatic of the group. She had a long-time boyfriend that she ended up marrying and they lived somewhere in the Puget Sound area. I lost touch with her fairly early on, though managed to dip in and out of contact with glue girl. I was closest to glue girl in a lot of ways. Close enough that in 2018 we met out of the blue after having not seen or talked to each other in probably 20 years. The reason was sad, the other girl had suddenly died. We lost a friend far too early. Glue girl and I vowed to stay in touch as we were the only two remaining on the west coast and in close proximity with Portland. Unfortunately that hasn't happened.\n\nGlue girl and I grew up a very short distance from each other and were the closest of the bunch. We were part of the same church and youth group. We were in youth choir and travelled with the youth group every summer. We were started driving at the same time and bought our first cars at nearly the same time. We had our first boyfriends around the same time. We did so much together. She ended up marrying a boy from our church youth group, but they are no longer together.\n\nThrough all of this there was the tension of my illness, as we all grew apart due to me having to disappear from life as a teenager. I'm not sure I ever forgave any of them. I don't necessarily hold a grudge, but it was such a hard time. It's hard to be a teenager anyway but to sort of end up abandoned by your closest group of friends because, no, I cannot spend time with you guys this weekend, I'm too ill, is more than they want to deal with, hurt beyond what I am even able to come to terms with today. There is so much trauma from those years in HS that I've never fully gotten over or through because it was so long ago. But I think back to that group of girls.\n\nIn that picture we had all gone to the [Puyallup Fair ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Fair). Glue girl's mother drove us up in her late-80s Lincoln Continental. I can still smell that car, I'm sure you can imagine it. It was the model that was a deep burgundy. The interior was burgundy leather. Her mother smoked and the car smelled of coffee, leather, cigarettes, and car cleaner. The picture was from one of those dress-up photo booths. We were harlots, apparently.\n\nCan you figure out which one is me? Basketball girl? Other girl? Glue girl?\n\n--- \n\n**93**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-04T20:06:55-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/10/04/the-fearsome-foursome.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/04/i-will-not.html",
				"title": "I will not push it.",
				"content_html": "<p>I slept better last night than any other night in the past week. I can&rsquo;t even recall if I had any dreams. Other than waking up around 1am and having a toss, I slept until I woke up this morning and a lovely rain is my reward. I feel more like myself today than in a long while, nearly baseline. But I will not push it.</p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s a hard and fast rule of ME/CFS and PEM: do not take your baseline or near baseline for granted. You might feel like you are back to your &ldquo;old self&rdquo; but one slip up can send you to the doldrums. We basically only have pacing on our side, there are no treatments or cures for ME/CFS. There are <em>some</em> things that help with symptoms and some &ldquo;experimental&rdquo; treatments that require you to have money to cover them because without FDA approval no insurance is going to pick up the cost. So all I can do is savor the relative stability of each day, or try to get back to that stability on other days, measuring carefully what I choose to do when I have the choice, or what I go without when I don&rsquo;t.</p>\n<p>I watched an <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-MZqi6mUPo\">excellent video put out by the Bateman Horne Center</a> yesterday on what this is like. The analogy is to a cell phone and the apps you have running. Some apps are always running in the background, these are body processes like breathing, pumping your heart and blood, thinking, etc, that although they run automatically still take energy and &ldquo;drain the battery&rdquo;. If you forget to charge your phone even these base apps (processes) have a hard time running. Or, worse, what if your phone can&rsquo;t hold a charge anymore? and this is likened to someone with ME/CFS. It&rsquo;s only six minutes long and worth a watch if you are not very familiar with the illness but are curious to know more.</p>\n<p>I have more big plans in the garden this weekend, so I&rsquo;ve got to work on retaining this stasis today. I will be dismantling the raised vegetable beds, which are finally starting to fall apart. It&rsquo;s going to be pretty funny so see the cube of soil left once they are gone. Some of the soil I have plans for elsewhere, the rest will get carted down to the curb and left for people to take. Hopefully it will get taken. My neighbor did the same type of thing this spring after he dug trenches for a French drain and walkway and it was all taken. But it may be a different story in the fall, maybe less people are looking for fill dirt or good soil? I guess we&rsquo;ll see.</p>\n<p>The area where the raised beds are is a fairly level and quarter-minus-gravelled rectangle that I plan to leave that way. I will need to order a small load of quarter minus to fill the squares that remain when the beds and soil is removed. Next year I&rsquo;ll buy some smaller and mobile raised vegetable beds, the kinds that can be moved out of the way and are on casters of some kind, and put some seating out there for a little open air patio. I&rsquo;d love to also get a fire pit but I&rsquo;ll have to wait to see what kind of funds I have at the time. I&rsquo;m still waiting on my student loan discharge and worried that if Harris looses the election, these student loan services are going to try to undo the discharge if the Dept. of Education gets dismantled. Otherwise, theoretically, I should get some type of money back from the discharge&hellip;I hope.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>92</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I slept better last night than any other night in the past week. I can't even recall if I had any dreams. Other than waking up around 1am and having a toss, I slept until I woke up this morning and a lovely rain is my reward. I feel more like myself today than in a long while, nearly baseline. But I will not push it.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThat's a hard and fast rule of ME/CFS and PEM: do not take your baseline or near baseline for granted. You might feel like you are back to your \"old self\" but one slip up can send you to the doldrums. We basically only have pacing on our side, there are no treatments or cures for ME/CFS. There are *some* things that help with symptoms and some \"experimental\" treatments that require you to have money to cover them because without FDA approval no insurance is going to pick up the cost. So all I can do is savor the relative stability of each day, or try to get back to that stability on other days, measuring carefully what I choose to do when I have the choice, or what I go without when I don't.\r\n\r\nI watched an [excellent video put out by the Bateman Horne Center](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-MZqi6mUPo) yesterday on what this is like. The analogy is to a cell phone and the apps you have running. Some apps are always running in the background, these are body processes like breathing, pumping your heart and blood, thinking, etc, that although they run automatically still take energy and \"drain the battery\". If you forget to charge your phone even these base apps (processes) have a hard time running. Or, worse, what if your phone can't hold a charge anymore? and this is likened to someone with ME/CFS. It's only six minutes long and worth a watch if you are not very familiar with the illness but are curious to know more.\r\n\r\nI have more big plans in the garden this weekend, so I've got to work on retaining this stasis today. I will be dismantling the raised vegetable beds, which are finally starting to fall apart. It's going to be pretty funny so see the cube of soil left once they are gone. Some of the soil I have plans for elsewhere, the rest will get carted down to the curb and left for people to take. Hopefully it will get taken. My neighbor did the same type of thing this spring after he dug trenches for a French drain and walkway and it was all taken. But it may be a different story in the fall, maybe less people are looking for fill dirt or good soil? I guess we'll see.\r\n\r\nThe area where the raised beds are is a fairly level and quarter-minus-gravelled rectangle that I plan to leave that way. I will need to order a small load of quarter minus to fill the squares that remain when the beds and soil is removed. Next year I'll buy some smaller and mobile raised vegetable beds, the kinds that can be moved out of the way and are on casters of some kind, and put some seating out there for a little open air patio. I'd love to also get a fire pit but I'll have to wait to see what kind of funds I have at the time. I'm still waiting on my student loan discharge and worried that if Harris looses the election, these student loan services are going to try to undo the discharge if the Dept. of Education gets dismantled. Otherwise, theoretically, I should get some type of money back from the discharge...I hope.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**92**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-04T09:48:49-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/10/04/i-will-not.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/03/when-my-brain.html",
				"title": "When my brain is mush.",
				"content_html": "<p>I want to talk a bit about brain fog. This is an extremely important phrase for people with post-infectious (or &ldquo;infection-associated chronic conditions and illnesses&rdquo;, &ldquo;IACC&rdquo;) illnesses like ME/CFS. You&rsquo;ve probably heard a coworker use that term out of hand, or perhaps you&rsquo;ve used it yourself to describe a day where you just can&rsquo;t focus. But I think there&rsquo;s a lot of dumbing down involved by this becoming part of the common vernacular.</p>\n<p>People with ME/CFS use brain fog to describe one of the core symptoms of the illness. There are several accepted diagnostic criteria today and all of them will use &ldquo;memory and thinking problems&rdquo; (aka &ldquo;brain fog&rdquo;) as one of them. The current <a href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/signs-symptoms/\">ME/CFS core symptoms page on the CDC</a> lists it under &ldquo;additional symptoms&rdquo; but I think that does it an injustice for the severe impact it can have on one&rsquo;s quality of life.</p>\n<p>What I want more than anything is to think clearly. Everything I do in a day requires thought. Grasping that thought and being able to make it malleable and form to my will becomes nearly impossible with brain fog. I have come to call brain fog &ldquo;mush&rdquo; because it is much more than just an inability to think or remember, sometimes it is an actual feeling on my brain, and I can only imagine it inside my head like a bowl of oatmeal or, as my father calls it, mush.</p>\n<p>A little while back I was reading <a href=\"https://www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/marolt-if-i-haven-t-seemed-like-myself-lately/article_514db18c-11c1-11ef-a507-3fb6e81cde90.html\">a piece by a columnist for the Aspen Daily News</a>. It isn&rsquo;t a common outlet for me to read but it was shared via an ME/CFS and Long Covid community I frequent. The beginning of the piece provides one of the best descriptions of brain fog I&rsquo;ve ever encountered:</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>I&rsquo;m sure I have shared this quote on my main microblog before. But I come back to it in my mind so often I felt I had to share it now as I am in the thick of mush on the brain today. Yesterday as well, I struggled all day to get the blog posts written that I wanted so desperately to write and even after getting them done none of them are of the quality or condition I would want them to be. The work is harder than ever and the result still a disappointment.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>91</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I want to talk a bit about brain fog. This is an extremely important phrase for people with post-infectious (or \"infection-associated chronic conditions and illnesses\", \"IACC\") illnesses like ME/CFS. You've probably heard a coworker use that term out of hand, or perhaps you've used it yourself to describe a day where you just can't focus. But I think there's a lot of dumbing down involved by this becoming part of the common vernacular.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nPeople with ME/CFS use brain fog to describe one of the core symptoms of the illness. There are several accepted diagnostic criteria today and all of them will use \"memory and thinking problems\" (aka \"brain fog\") as one of them. The current [ME/CFS core symptoms page on the CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/signs-symptoms/) lists it under \"additional symptoms\" but I think that does it an injustice for the severe impact it can have on one's quality of life.\n\nWhat I want more than anything is to think clearly. Everything I do in a day requires thought. Grasping that thought and being able to make it malleable and form to my will becomes nearly impossible with brain fog. I have come to call brain fog \"mush\" because it is much more than just an inability to think or remember, sometimes it is an actual feeling on my brain, and I can only imagine it inside my head like a bowl of oatmeal or, as my father calls it, mush.\n\nA little while back I was reading [a piece by a columnist for the Aspen Daily News](https://www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/marolt-if-i-haven-t-seemed-like-myself-lately/article_514db18c-11c1-11ef-a507-3fb6e81cde90.html). It isn't a common outlet for me to read but it was shared via an ME/CFS and Long Covid community I frequent. The beginning of the piece provides one of the best descriptions of brain fog I've ever encountered:\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https://www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/marolt-if-i-haven-t-seemed-like-myself-lately/article_514db18c-11c1-11ef-a507-3fb6e81cde90.html\">\n<p>Mentally, it comes in waves. When they crest, my thoughts are like wax objects I am sorting under a hot sun. Uncomfortable. Some stick together and I fumble to figure out what they were. Others melt into pools beyond recognition and I have to let them go.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\nI'm sure I have shared this quote on my main microblog before. But I come back to it in my mind so often I felt I had to share it now as I am in the thick of mush on the brain today. Yesterday as well, I struggled all day to get the blog posts written that I wanted so desperately to write and even after getting them done none of them are of the quality or condition I would want them to be. The work is harder than ever and the result still a disappointment.\n\n--- \n\n**91**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-03T10:44:46-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/10/03/when-my-brain.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/02/on-secret-blogs.html",
				"title": "On secret blogs.",
				"content_html": "<p>I sort of ended up exploring this subject yesterday. It wasn&rsquo;t anything I set out to do when the day started, but I just happened to stumble into the subject in yesterday&rsquo;s post after randomly coming across a few mentions of this idea that I&rsquo;d off-handedly considered myself the night before.</p>\n<p>To nom de plume or not nom de plume, is that the question? Well, not entirely. Though &ldquo;serious&rdquo; writers will often take a pen name I&rsquo;m not sure the practice is as common anymore nor as applicable to blogging. And I also don&rsquo;t know that &ldquo;secret&rdquo; blogging is quite the same as writing under a pen name. I decided to investigate it a bit nonetheless.</p>\n<p>Some authors with cache in one genre may choose a pen name in order to cross into a new genre unawares, without preexisting biases or preferences. Apparently, unknown to me before reading about it, Mark Twain chose that pen name in order to bury some personal disgraces of his past life. Surely others choose pen names to write about things they may not publicly want to be associated with.</p>\n<p>It seems that one of the base reasons for pen names, oh for shock!, is sexism:</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>But as I read I still wasn&rsquo;t quite finding what I was drawn to about secretly blogging until I read this paragraph:</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>Does that sound scandalous? Perhaps, but maybe also a bit freeing. That is what I&rsquo;m seeking: a means to write uninhibited. Someone asked me why not just write in a journal? To which I said that I didn&rsquo;t think it would provide as much release. Putting some words into the world for some unknown eyes to read has got to be one of the greatest human mysteries. It transcends time, language, and place. I&rsquo;m not even sure I want the words found, I just want to put them out there.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>90</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I sort of ended up exploring this subject yesterday. It wasn't anything I set out to do when the day started, but I just happened to stumble into the subject in yesterday's post after randomly coming across a few mentions of this idea that I'd off-handedly considered myself the night before.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nTo nom de plume or not nom de plume, is that the question? Well, not entirely. Though \"serious\" writers will often take a pen name I'm not sure the practice is as common anymore nor as applicable to blogging. And I also don't know that \"secret\" blogging is quite the same as writing under a pen name. I decided to investigate it a bit nonetheless.\n\nSome authors with cache in one genre may choose a pen name in order to cross into a new genre unawares, without preexisting biases or preferences. Apparently, unknown to me before reading about it, Mark Twain chose that pen name in order to bury some personal disgraces of his past life. Surely others choose pen names to write about things they may not publicly want to be associated with.\n\nIt seems that one of the base reasons for pen names, oh for shock!, is sexism: \n\n<blockquote cite=\"https://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/a-brief-history-of-pen-names\">\n<p>A much more common reason, and possibly one of the oldest, is good old sexism. The history of literature is well populated with women who either used men’s names or fudged it with some androgynous initials....Browse the shelves in any bookstore and you’ll find a list of gender-neutral initials, usually double letters and a snappy surname, intended to disguise the authors’ double-X chromosomes....It’s a sad reality that while women generally don’t discriminate in their reading, men are more prone to foolishly pass female writers by.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\nBut as I read I still wasn't quite finding what I was drawn to about secretly blogging until I read this paragraph:\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/essay-the-rise-and-fall-of-pseudonyms.html\">\n<p>Perhaps what’s most remarkable about the nom de plume, and rarely talked about, is its power to unlock creativity — and its capacity to withhold it. Even when its initial adoption is utilitarian, a pen name can assume a life of its own. Many writers have been surprised by the intimate and even disorienting relationships they have formed with their alter egos. The consequences can prove grievous and irrevocable.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\nDoes that sound scandalous? Perhaps, but maybe also a bit freeing. That is what I'm seeking: a means to write uninhibited. Someone asked me why not just write in a journal? To which I said that I didn't think it would provide as much release. Putting some words into the world for some unknown eyes to read has got to be one of the greatest human mysteries. It transcends time, language, and place. I'm not even sure I want the words found, I just want to put them out there.\n\n--- \n\n**90**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-02T17:07:17-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/10/02/on-secret-blogs.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/10/01/trying-to-write.html",
				"title": "Trying to write this today.",
				"content_html": "<p>I had a hard time sleeping last night after reviewing an email that sort of demoralized me. I&rsquo;m once again feeling like I&rsquo;m living the nightmare we used to have during puberty when people you didn&rsquo;t even consider opinions of all of a sudden were gossiping with your &ldquo;friends&rdquo; about you. Without another analogy to reach for, that&rsquo;s sort of what this feels like. It is completely foreign to me, except for experiences during junior high. I&rsquo;m not sure if that says more about me or the other people involved.</p>\n<p>Caveat: this is not me sub-tooting, this is me thinking through things on my blog, which I sure hope I still have the right to do. <a href=\"https://annie.micro.blog/2024/09/30/the-secret-power.html\">Annie linked to</a> <a href=\"https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/29/the-secret-power-of-a-blog/\">Tracy&rsquo;s post that linked to</a> <a href=\"https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/having-a-shit-blog-has-made-me-feel\">a post about a &ldquo;junk blog&rdquo;</a> and funny enough I posted on an alt Mastodon account last night that I need a secret blog! How sad that I have 10+ (potential) blogs and I feel the need for one that nobody knows about so I can blow off steam and talk about shit without someone taking it personally.</p>\n<p>This blog sort of used to fill that space, but apparently people are reading it now—<em>hi! 👋</em>. The point of these &ldquo;secret&rdquo; places is to learn about yourself and explore topics and feelings without judgement, either by yourself <em>or others</em>. People who write sometimes get way too serious about their writing. Once you&rsquo;ve been writing for any amount of time, you become your own worse critic (actually, that may begin at inception&hellip;) and often the burden to make something perfect prevents you from doing anything at all. What a shame, writing is exploration and should be done with abandon!</p>\n<p>I think I first came to this realization during NaBloPoMo 2023 and then during WeblogPoMo 2024 I saw a reaction to the challenge from someone that went something like &ldquo;writing every day produces a lot of junk posts&rdquo; as if that was a bad thing. You never learn anything if you don&rsquo;t try. You won&rsquo;t ever get better if you don&rsquo;t make mistakes. And as I&rsquo;ve said before, <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/your-blog-is-a-vulnerability\">your blog is a vulnerability</a>. When you make yourself vulnerable you give permission for others to be vulnerable too. Making space for vulnerability softens the world and we could all use a little softening right now, less judgement and more grace.</p>\n<p>BTW: <em>should I make that secret blog?</em></p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>89</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I had a hard time sleeping last night after reviewing an email that sort of demoralized me. I'm once again feeling like I'm living the nightmare we used to have during puberty when people you didn't even consider opinions of all of a sudden were gossiping with your \"friends\" about you. Without another analogy to reach for, that's sort of what this feels like. It is completely foreign to me, except for experiences during junior high. I'm not sure if that says more about me or the other people involved.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nCaveat: this is not me sub-tooting, this is me thinking through things on my blog, which I sure hope I still have the right to do. [Annie linked to](https://annie.micro.blog/2024/09/30/the-secret-power.html) [Tracy's post that linked to](https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/29/the-secret-power-of-a-blog/) [a post about a \"junk blog\"](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/having-a-shit-blog-has-made-me-feel) and funny enough I posted on an alt Mastodon account last night that I need a secret blog! How sad that I have 10+ (potential) blogs and I feel the need for one that nobody knows about so I can blow off steam and talk about shit without someone taking it personally.\r\n\r\nThis blog sort of used to fill that space, but apparently people are reading it now—*hi! 👋*. The point of these \"secret\" places is to learn about yourself and explore topics and feelings without judgement, either by yourself *or others*. People who write sometimes get way too serious about their writing. Once you've been writing for any amount of time, you become your own worse critic (actually, that may begin at inception...) and often the burden to make something perfect prevents you from doing anything at all. What a shame, writing is exploration and should be done with abandon!\r\n\r\nI think I first came to this realization during NaBloPoMo 2023 and then during WeblogPoMo 2024 I saw a reaction to the challenge from someone that went something like \"writing every day produces a lot of junk posts\" as if that was a bad thing. You never learn anything if you don't try. You won't ever get better if you don't make mistakes. And as I've said before, [your blog is a vulnerability](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/your-blog-is-a-vulnerability). When you make yourself vulnerable you give permission for others to be vulnerable too. Making space for vulnerability softens the world and we could all use a little softening right now, less judgement and more grace.\r\n\r\nBTW: *should I make that secret blog?*\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**89**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-10-01T09:32:31-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/10/01/trying-to-write.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/30/into-the-garden.html",
				"title": "Into the garden.",
				"content_html": "<p>It was a massive garden task weekend. Saturday I spent <em>three and a half hours</em> digging up, dividing, and moving two hellebores (four, after dividing) to the back yard. I nearly died doing that. I massively underestimated the effort involved. Then Sunday I did lawn work, mowing, edging, fertilizing for the last time this year, and finishing the work from Sunday.</p>\n<p>The hellebores in the front yard were in locations they never should have been, but they&rsquo;d been there for more than a decade and were well established so they always performed even if their exposure was far too sunny. However, the soil around them is clay and we find ourselves at the end of a Portland summer, hot and dry. Digging these plants out, with such an extensive root system, in soil that was basically a concrete block took everything in me. I was worried my spade was going to snap a few times. Dividing them took my entire body weight, stepping on the sides of the spade shearing straight down through the root ball.</p>\n<p>Of course that&rsquo;s only half of the work. I had to go into the back to dig four equally large holes to transplant them, and move that soil into the holes in the front. This basically was the bulk of the time I was out there. At one point, kneeling on my long kneeling pad behind the berm, under the magnolia, I simply collapsed and laid down for 10-15 minutes and considered just staying there. Someone would eventually find my body, right? But I had to finish, so I did.</p>\n<p>Luckily it was a fairly cool day as long as I wasn&rsquo;t in the direct sun. I finally got the hellebores into their new holes in the woodland shade garden near the berm and magnolia. In the places they were removed in the front I put two new perennials and most of the soil I dug out of the back holes. The first perennial is a yellow echinacea which is in bloom but will probably peter out soon as soon as it really starts cooling down. The second is a light purple aster that hasn&rsquo;t started blooming yet. Once that gets going it will last until frost, which, if you read one of my recent post, isn&rsquo;t usually until mid-late November.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>Sunday was dedicated to lawn work. I also tidied up a bit on the hellebores in the back, laying some new mulch around them and the freshly planted perennials in the front. I&rsquo;m planning on dismantling the raised vegetable beds next weekend so in preparation for that I removed the bird netting, which was currently just wadded up on the back with some bricks. Then I took the bricks and placed them around the base of the hellebores to discourage the squirrels from digging in the newly disturbed soil, which they are keen to do this time of year.</p>\n<p>I did some light grooming on some other plants and clearing of hard surfaces and took the bins out to the curb. In all I spent almost six hours working in the garden this weekend and today I feel it. Saturday night it was mostly my arms and wrists from digging holes and messing with root balls. Today I can feel it in my head as well. I am easy to fatigue when trying to read something and earlier this morning my eyes glazed over as I was trying to work on the light theme version of <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/29/i-made-an.html\">a new set of 88x31 buttons for weblog</a>. So I likely won&rsquo;t get that done today.</p>\n<p>I was able to update my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/blogroll\">Blogroll</a> with some new section navigation and add a new section for 88x31 buttons as soon as I get a decent collection going. I also finished getting organized enough with my bookmarks to publish another <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-5\">bookmarks post</a> last night, but I&rsquo;m certain another blitz is coming. Maybe this week, but likely not until closer to the weekend. I will try to get my patio containers done this week, tearing out summer annuals and replacing with pansies and violas. Looking forward to that.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>88</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "It was a massive garden task weekend. Saturday I spent *three and a half hours* digging up, dividing, and moving two hellebores (four, after dividing) to the back yard. I nearly died doing that. I massively underestimated the effort involved. Then Sunday I did lawn work, mowing, edging, fertilizing for the last time this year, and finishing the work from Sunday.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe hellebores in the front yard were in locations they never should have been, but they'd been there for more than a decade and were well established so they always performed even if their exposure was far too sunny. However, the soil around them is clay and we find ourselves at the end of a Portland summer, hot and dry. Digging these plants out, with such an extensive root system, in soil that was basically a concrete block took everything in me. I was worried my spade was going to snap a few times. Dividing them took my entire body weight, stepping on the sides of the spade shearing straight down through the root ball.\r\n\r\nOf course that's only half of the work. I had to go into the back to dig four equally large holes to transplant them, and move that soil into the holes in the front. This basically was the bulk of the time I was out there. At one point, kneeling on my long kneeling pad behind the berm, under the magnolia, I simply collapsed and laid down for 10-15 minutes and considered just staying there. Someone would eventually find my body, right? But I had to finish, so I did.\r\n\r\nLuckily it was a fairly cool day as long as I wasn't in the direct sun. I finally got the hellebores into their new holes in the woodland shade garden near the berm and magnolia. In the places they were removed in the front I put two new perennials and most of the soil I dug out of the back holes. The first perennial is a yellow echinacea which is in bloom but will probably peter out soon as soon as it really starts cooling down. The second is a light purple aster that hasn't started blooming yet. Once that gets going it will last until frost, which, if you read one of my recent post, isn't usually until mid-late November.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/new-perennials.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"A split image showing two garden bed plantings with damp mulch: the first is a yellow echinacea in front of a low growing variegated euonymus; the second shows a curved bed next to grass with a couple sedums, day lily foliage, and a newly planted aster not yet in bloom.\">\r\n\r\nSunday was dedicated to lawn work. I also tidied up a bit on the hellebores in the back, laying some new mulch around them and the freshly planted perennials in the front. I'm planning on dismantling the raised vegetable beds next weekend so in preparation for that I removed the bird netting, which was currently just wadded up on the back with some bricks. Then I took the bricks and placed them around the base of the hellebores to discourage the squirrels from digging in the newly disturbed soil, which they are keen to do this time of year.\r\n\r\nI did some light grooming on some other plants and clearing of hard surfaces and took the bins out to the curb. In all I spent almost six hours working in the garden this weekend and today I feel it. Saturday night it was mostly my arms and wrists from digging holes and messing with root balls. Today I can feel it in my head as well. I am easy to fatigue when trying to read something and earlier this morning my eyes glazed over as I was trying to work on the light theme version of [a new set of 88x31 buttons for weblog](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/29/i-made-an.html). So I likely won't get that done today.\r\n\r\nI was able to update my [Blogroll](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/blogroll) with some new section navigation and add a new section for 88x31 buttons as soon as I get a decent collection going. I also finished getting organized enough with my bookmarks to publish another [bookmarks post](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-5) last night, but I'm certain another blitz is coming. Maybe this week, but likely not until closer to the weekend. I will try to get my patio containers done this week, tearing out summer annuals and replacing with pansies and violas. Looking forward to that.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**88**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-30T12:10:56-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/30/into-the-garden.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/28/ive-moved-my.html",
				"title": "I've moved my computer back to my office.",
				"content_html": "<p>It&rsquo;s a MBP, so obviously it can still move around, but for the last 18 months or so I&rsquo;ve just been carrying it with me from room-to-room. I don&rsquo;t want to do that anymore. I want it to be a conscious choice to work on something or look at something. Too much looking at shit, reading shit, and feeling like shit about it lately. It should be intentional. I also have this giant monitor in here, and additional external monitors, and I haven&rsquo;t been using them at all. It&rsquo;s a better feeling now. I won&rsquo;t always be scrolling or staring or wasting time.</p>\n<p>Today, I want to avoid social media as much as I can, outside my blogs. I have plans for the garden. The forecast for the five day is like a fever dream, I couldn&rsquo;t choose better weather if I tried. Time to savor time in the garden again until it&rsquo;s too cold to feel my hands.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>So I just wouldn&rsquo;t come into my office except to pass through. It has two doors and sort of acts as a passageway from a vestibule between my bedroom and the living/dining room side of the house, and a vestibule between the kitchen/bathroom side. It&rsquo;s an excellent room. It has two desks facing a large window onto my driveway and a row of trees to the east. One wall has a large black Storables unit with books and trinkets and boxes and some other storage items. Yet another wall has a matching credenza to my desks with all my network devices on a small rack, two printers, and a bunch of storage for paper and office supplies below.</p>\n<p>I love the colors in here. Most of it is a sage green. The walls are green and I used to have a set of storage boxes that matched. I think they&rsquo;re in the basement now. The floor is hardwood but I have a Flor tile rug that is also the same green in a striped pattern with blue, gold, and a black/brown. The desks and credenza are also black like the Storables unit. The storage on that unit has woven square baskets for all manner of storage. I have the same style baskets in my bedroom in a similar wall unit. There are two pieces of artwork in the office, both Van Gogh prints. One of them is a the Pink Peach Tree; the other is Irises. The Iris print frame has two prints in it that I switch out often. The other one is Night over the Rhone.</p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s my office. I&rsquo;m back in here and hopefully, unless I&rsquo;m on my phone or iPad, you will only hear from me when I purposefully come in here. Let&rsquo;s see how this goes.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>87</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "It's a MBP, so obviously it can still move around, but for the last 18 months or so I've just been carrying it with me from room-to-room. I don't want to do that anymore. I want it to be a conscious choice to work on something or look at something. Too much looking at shit, reading shit, and feeling like shit about it lately. It should be intentional. I also have this giant monitor in here, and additional external monitors, and I haven't been using them at all. It's a better feeling now. I won't always be scrolling or staring or wasting time.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nToday, I want to avoid social media as much as I can, outside my blogs. I have plans for the garden. The forecast for the five day is like a fever dream, I couldn't choose better weather if I tried. Time to savor time in the garden again until it's too cold to feel my hands.\n\n<figure>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/pdx-forecast.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"162\" alt=\"Screenshot from weather.gov for the five days ahead in Portland, OR, showing mostly sunny with mild daytime temps and cool nights.\">\n<figcaption>Portland's five day forecast is from my dreams.</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n<p>I used to avoid my office. For around <s>two years</s> six months (I disliked it for two years) after I left my job I just couldn't come in here. The association was terror, I went to therapy for it. This was tied to my burnout and I used to actually have night terrors towards the end of that employment. I would wake up (my bedroom directly next to my office) in absolute fright, I couldn't breathe, my heart was racing, sometimes tears would be streaming down my face, and a couple times I'd actually be screaming something out. That was one of the most horrible times of my life.</p>\n\nSo I just wouldn't come into my office except to pass through. It has two doors and sort of acts as a passageway from a vestibule between my bedroom and the living/dining room side of the house, and a vestibule between the kitchen/bathroom side. It's an excellent room. It has two desks facing a large window onto my driveway and a row of trees to the east. One wall has a large black Storables unit with books and trinkets and boxes and some other storage items. Yet another wall has a matching credenza to my desks with all my network devices on a small rack, two printers, and a bunch of storage for paper and office supplies below.\n\nI love the colors in here. Most of it is a sage green. The walls are green and I used to have a set of storage boxes that matched. I think they're in the basement now. The floor is hardwood but I have a Flor tile rug that is also the same green in a striped pattern with blue, gold, and a black/brown. The desks and credenza are also black like the Storables unit. The storage on that unit has woven square baskets for all manner of storage. I have the same style baskets in my bedroom in a similar wall unit. There are two pieces of artwork in the office, both Van Gogh prints. One of them is a the Pink Peach Tree; the other is Irises. The Iris print frame has two prints in it that I switch out often. The other one is Night over the Rhone.\n\nThat's my office. I'm back in here and hopefully, unless I'm on my phone or iPad, you will only hear from me when I purposefully come in here. Let's see how this goes.\n\n---\n\n**87**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-28T08:43:52-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/28/ive-moved-my.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/27/i-am-not.html",
				"title": "I am not a bundle of joy today.",
				"content_html": "<p>It&rsquo;s so weird how whatever you do right before you go to bed can affect how you feel when you wake up the next day. I think that is the culprit in my feelings this morning. I&rsquo;m just not &ldquo;with it&rdquo; today. I don&rsquo;t necessarily feel sorry for myself, but I&rsquo;m also not feeling hopeful. Brains are so weird.</p>\n<p>This week I had a small back and forth with a handful of other omg.lol members. I poked a couple people who I thought might be interested in putting on a small ad hoc month long photo challenge in lieu of Micro.blog no longer (I assume) having one. Very very early days in discussion (we&rsquo;ve only had one day) and very early in terms of when it might happen (likely early 2025) but one fun thing was deciding to use <a href=\"https://ponder.us/\">Ponder</a> to discuss.</p>\n<p>Good Enough has some really fun tools. I use <a href=\"https://letterbird.co/\">Letterbird</a> Pro for my contact form, more and more people are using Pika for blogging, I&rsquo;ve played around with <a href=\"https://beta.quack.page/\">Quack</a>, and I&rsquo;m super interested in trying <a href=\"https://doevery.day/\">doevery.day</a> to help me with tracking my work: blogging, challenges, todos across my various projects. I only wish that all the tools could use a single login.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>I mentioned in yesterday&rsquo;s post that I might want to take a lighter media diet. I really do think that is in order, especially after how the past week has been. I&rsquo;ve got oodles of work to do on my sites, things I haven&rsquo;t even started, tasks halfway done that I&rsquo;d like to finish. I want to feel more positive and less dragged down by drama I have no control over. I already limit my exposure to news in the lead up to a presidential election. This is similar, but limits on social type media outside of blogging and other verbal or written communication.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll still be around. Goals are simply attempts by imperfect people to achieve desired ends. I will undoubtably fail at times. But I guess what matters is that I try. Perhaps then I won&rsquo;t wake up on mornings like this and feel a lack of joy. The more of my small seemingly meaningless tasks I can complete, the more little hits of dopamine, and the better I feel. It&rsquo;s proven that completing even small tasks and chores lead to better mental health outcomes. Trying and failing at larger things takes a toll, but I know I can do the little stuff.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>I chose a <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/26/todays-featured-photo.html\">featured photo yesterday on my main microblog</a> that I swore in my recollection was from Cape Argo near Coos Bay. As I was writing up the accompanying description I attempted to find the spot on a map in order to identify the small structure visible on the bluff in the distance. I discovered my recollection was wrong! The photo was not from Cape Arago, but from Haceta Head. The two locations were only a day apart on the Oregon coast trip in 2010, a trip I have yet to capture in a meaningful way, as I did with <a href=\"https://anniegreens.substack.com/p/southern-oregon-coast-a-series\">the second leg of the trip in 2017</a> on my now defunct newsletter.</p>\n<p>This discovery, and subsequent filtering in the Photos app, had me realizing I really need to get my &ldquo;photo story&rdquo; template done on weblog so I can write the post about the first Oregon coast roadtrip leg. It is going to be hard to do because it was fourteen years ago and two years ago when I wrote the post for the 2017 trip I mentioned that. It will be even harder today when I&rsquo;ve aged even more, but it has to be done, and what better photo story than that one.</p>\n<p>While filtering photos to find what I thought was one location, but according to the map was another, I ended up filtering my entire photo library by &ldquo;September&rdquo; and let me tell you folks, <em>all</em> the best photos (and the trips I took them on) were taken in September. What a good month September is. Too short and only given to us once a year. I will be savoring these last few days.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>86</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "It's so weird how whatever you do right before you go to bed can affect how you feel when you wake up the next day. I think that is the culprit in my feelings this morning. I'm just not \"with it\" today. I don't necessarily feel sorry for myself, but I'm also not feeling hopeful. Brains are so weird.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis week I had a small back and forth with a handful of other omg.lol members. I poked a couple people who I thought might be interested in putting on a small ad hoc month long photo challenge in lieu of Micro.blog no longer (I assume) having one. Very very early days in discussion (we've only had one day) and very early in terms of when it might happen (likely early 2025) but one fun thing was deciding to use [Ponder](https://ponder.us/) to discuss.\r\n\r\nGood Enough has some really fun tools. I use [Letterbird](https://letterbird.co/) Pro for my contact form, more and more people are using Pika for blogging, I've played around with [Quack](https://beta.quack.page/), and I'm super interested in trying [doevery.day](https://doevery.day/) to help me with tracking my work: blogging, challenges, todos across my various projects. I only wish that all the tools could use a single login.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\nI mentioned in yesterday's post that I might want to take a lighter media diet. I really do think that is in order, especially after how the past week has been. I've got oodles of work to do on my sites, things I haven't even started, tasks halfway done that I'd like to finish. I want to feel more positive and less dragged down by drama I have no control over. I already limit my exposure to news in the lead up to a presidential election. This is similar, but limits on social type media outside of blogging and other verbal or written communication.\r\n\r\nI'll still be around. Goals are simply attempts by imperfect people to achieve desired ends. I will undoubtably fail at times. But I guess what matters is that I try. Perhaps then I won't wake up on mornings like this and feel a lack of joy. The more of my small seemingly meaningless tasks I can complete, the more little hits of dopamine, and the better I feel. It's proven that completing even small tasks and chores lead to better mental health outcomes. Trying and failing at larger things takes a toll, but I know I can do the little stuff.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\nI chose a [featured photo yesterday on my main microblog](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/26/todays-featured-photo.html) that I swore in my recollection was from Cape Argo near Coos Bay. As I was writing up the accompanying description I attempted to find the spot on a map in order to identify the small structure visible on the bluff in the distance. I discovered my recollection was wrong! The photo was not from Cape Arago, but from Haceta Head. The two locations were only a day apart on the Oregon coast trip in 2010, a trip I have yet to capture in a meaningful way, as I did with [the second leg of the trip in 2017](https://anniegreens.substack.com/p/southern-oregon-coast-a-series) on my now defunct newsletter.\r\n\r\nThis discovery, and subsequent filtering in the Photos app, had me realizing I really need to get my \"photo story\" template done on weblog so I can write the post about the first Oregon coast roadtrip leg. It is going to be hard to do because it was fourteen years ago and two years ago when I wrote the post for the 2017 trip I mentioned that. It will be even harder today when I've aged even more, but it has to be done, and what better photo story than that one.\r\n\r\nWhile filtering photos to find what I thought was one location, but according to the map was another, I ended up filtering my entire photo library by \"September\" and let me tell you folks, *all* the best photos (and the trips I took them on) were taken in September. What a good month September is. Too short and only given to us once a year. I will be savoring these last few days.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**86**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-27T10:24:42-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/27/i-am-not.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/26/an-unglamorous-day.html",
				"title": "An unglamorous day.",
				"content_html": "<p>Though I admit to really liking days like these. I have household chores to do: unload dishwasher, clean some kitchen bits, iron some stuff, change bedding, do a load of laundry, futz in the garden, take a shower&hellip;if I can get all that done I&rsquo;m a superhero. But that is my agenda, not in any particular order except the shower comes last.</p>\n<p>Days like this let me listen to my brain. I might have music playing or listen to a podcast, but mostly I get to think and use my hands, one of the best combos for my brain to do some thinking, some clearing of the backlog. I think there is a &ldquo;modern&rdquo; issue with silence and thinking. I put modern in quotes because I&rsquo;m not able to pinpoint the shift. It may go back farther than I actually know, but it seems like as soon as we had the ability to be constantly surrounded by sound and distraction, be that of our own making or others, we stopped enveloping ourselves in silence and just listening to the ambience and taking time with our thoughts.</p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know if people find their own thoughts uncomfortable but you can&rsquo;t really make personal progress without examining your thoughts. Yesterday I was thinking about interpersonal conflict and why people dredge up past conflict to use as examples in current conflicts, sort of a whataboutism. Most of this occurs in couples but it can also occur with family, colleagues, and friends. The term I came across was new to me and not what I thought it was called: &ldquo;kitchen sinking&rdquo; or thinking, or kitchen sink thinking. I saw it in a few forms.</p>\n<p>Here are a few quotes I found meaningful:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Kitchen sinking&rdquo; refers to a situation where one or both [people] bring up multiple past issues or grievances during an argument, often resulting in the original problem being overshadowed or lost amidst a barrage of other complaints or criticisms.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes, [people] who aren’t able to effectively communicate about the current concern also feel the need to throw in other examples of&hellip;dissatisfaction to substantiate their claims and prove the other person wrong in any way they can. However, this is much more likely to drive people apart than bring them together.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When one begins to kitchen sink [another person], they can feel criticized, confused, invalidated about their current concern and blindsided by the other concerns being brought up. This can also make them defensive, leading to hurt and a complete breakdown in communication on both ends.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kitchen sinking quickly turns any disagreement counter-productive. The focus of the argument shifts from addressing the immediate issue to a broader array of unresolved issues from the past. This can escalate conflicts, as each [person] feels overwhelmed or attacked by the accumulation of grievances, leaving them unable to process or respond effectively.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>In my experience, a lot of guys do this, especially guys with communication issues. They&rsquo;d rather ignore an issue in the moment, until it has built up over time, and then at some breaking point the dam sets loose a flood, making whatever the current discussion is completely lost and overwhelmed. I think women get labelled as nitpickers because we often bring things up at the time, we don&rsquo;t hold onto things (much). Once we think an issue is resolved, we don&rsquo;t expect it to be dredged up again and used as ammunition later. Of course, this is a generalization, and as I prefaced &ldquo;in my experience.&rdquo;</p>\n<p>Online interpersonal conflict just exacerbates this to some degree, as there is little ability to gauge emotional expression, body language, and other communication cues. There are even issues with those for some people who don&rsquo;t respond to those cues or don&rsquo;t see them at all. Emotions are powerful and we carry them from one part of our life to others and they can get in the way of interpersonal responses to unrelated conflict. I know I have been subject to this before and it&rsquo;s important to recognize, especially when an interaction ends in an undesirable way. There&rsquo;s that common saying for reason: you don&rsquo;t always know what is going on in someone else&rsquo;s life.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>Another thing I have been thinking about is my reliance on online community. I think it is taking a toll and I should spend less time there. I don&rsquo;t know that I mean writing less on my blogs, as I sometimes view that as a conversation with myself even if others are also consuming the words. But other online places that don&rsquo;t foster deep thought and favor quick reactions and synchronous dialogues. Of course, this is a tough decision to make for me because I am mostly homebound and I rely a lot on online communication to feel less alone. However, I think it can cause other issues that don&rsquo;t compensate for loneliness.</p>\n<p>As an example, I witnessed a lot of the outrage over the WordPress kerfuffle, which I do think is problematic, but literally everyone was in outrage mode yesterday and spawning their own takes in a blog post or thread on social media. It became just as toxic (to me) as what was happening with Mullenweg&rsquo;s inability to &ldquo;log off&rdquo; and stop talking. I am not fond of the outrage machine no matter who is churning it out. I can get sucked in but I really try not to. A non-response to outrage does not mean you don&rsquo;t agree with one side or the other, it just means you don&rsquo;t feel a need to add to the noise. I haven&rsquo;t even opened anything this morning because I am wary of this outrage continuing. It&rsquo;s similar to how I despise the &ldquo;former guy&rdquo; outrage by the media, I just don&rsquo;t want to consume it.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>On a lighter note, my patio containers are already starting to look like a change is upon us. As soon as we drop below 50°F at night a couple times, both the coleus and sweet potato vines begin to degrade. This morning when I was changing the hummingbird feeder, I noticed one of the sweet potato vines with yellowing leaves and a few dropped to the ground. I think I&rsquo;ll try to get to the garden center tomorrow to pick up my pansies, violas, and ornamental kale/cabbage. The changeover to the winter annuals is always a joyful time for me. I adore pansies and violas and they stay with me in the patio containers for many more months than the summer plantings.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>85</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Though I admit to really liking days like these. I have household chores to do: unload dishwasher, clean some kitchen bits, iron some stuff, change bedding, do a load of laundry, futz in the garden, take a shower...if I can get all that done I'm a superhero. But that is my agenda, not in any particular order except the shower comes last.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nDays like this let me listen to my brain. I might have music playing or listen to a podcast, but mostly I get to think and use my hands, one of the best combos for my brain to do some thinking, some clearing of the backlog. I think there is a \"modern\" issue with silence and thinking. I put modern in quotes because I'm not able to pinpoint the shift. It may go back farther than I actually know, but it seems like as soon as we had the ability to be constantly surrounded by sound and distraction, be that of our own making or others, we stopped enveloping ourselves in silence and just listening to the ambience and taking time with our thoughts.\n\nI don't know if people find their own thoughts uncomfortable but you can't really make personal progress without examining your thoughts. Yesterday I was thinking about interpersonal conflict and why people dredge up past conflict to use as examples in current conflicts, sort of a whataboutism. Most of this occurs in couples but it can also occur with family, colleagues, and friends. The term I came across was new to me and not what I thought it was called: \"kitchen sinking\" or thinking, or kitchen sink thinking. I saw it in a few forms.\n\nHere are a few quotes I found meaningful:\n\n> \"Kitchen sinking\" refers to a situation where one or both [people] bring up multiple past issues or grievances during an argument, often resulting in the original problem being overshadowed or lost amidst a barrage of other complaints or criticisms.\n\n> Sometimes, [people] who aren’t able to effectively communicate about the current concern also feel the need to throw in other examples of...dissatisfaction to substantiate their claims and prove the other person wrong in any way they can. However, this is much more likely to drive people apart than bring them together.\n\n> When one begins to kitchen sink [another person], they can feel criticized, confused, invalidated about their current concern and blindsided by the other concerns being brought up. This can also make them defensive, leading to hurt and a complete breakdown in communication on both ends.\n\n> Kitchen sinking quickly turns any disagreement counter-productive. The focus of the argument shifts from addressing the immediate issue to a broader array of unresolved issues from the past. This can escalate conflicts, as each [person] feels overwhelmed or attacked by the accumulation of grievances, leaving them unable to process or respond effectively.\n\nIn my experience, a lot of guys do this, especially guys with communication issues. They'd rather ignore an issue in the moment, until it has built up over time, and then at some breaking point the dam sets loose a flood, making whatever the current discussion is completely lost and overwhelmed. I think women get labelled as nitpickers because we often bring things up at the time, we don't hold onto things (much). Once we think an issue is resolved, we don't expect it to be dredged up again and used as ammunition later. Of course, this is a generalization, and as I prefaced \"in my experience.\"\n\nOnline interpersonal conflict just exacerbates this to some degree, as there is little ability to gauge emotional expression, body language, and other communication cues. There are even issues with those for some people who don't respond to those cues or don't see them at all. Emotions are powerful and we carry them from one part of our life to others and they can get in the way of interpersonal responses to unrelated conflict. I know I have been subject to this before and it's important to recognize, especially when an interaction ends in an undesirable way. There's that common saying for reason: you don't always know what is going on in someone else's life.\n\n--- \n\nAnother thing I have been thinking about is my reliance on online community. I think it is taking a toll and I should spend less time there. I don't know that I mean writing less on my blogs, as I sometimes view that as a conversation with myself even if others are also consuming the words. But other online places that don't foster deep thought and favor quick reactions and synchronous dialogues. Of course, this is a tough decision to make for me because I am mostly homebound and I rely a lot on online communication to feel less alone. However, I think it can cause other issues that don't compensate for loneliness.\n\nAs an example, I witnessed a lot of the outrage over the WordPress kerfuffle, which I do think is problematic, but literally everyone was in outrage mode yesterday and spawning their own takes in a blog post or thread on social media. It became just as toxic (to me) as what was happening with Mullenweg's inability to \"log off\" and stop talking. I am not fond of the outrage machine no matter who is churning it out. I can get sucked in but I really try not to. A non-response to outrage does not mean you don't agree with one side or the other, it just means you don't feel a need to add to the noise. I haven't even opened anything this morning because I am wary of this outrage continuing. It's similar to how I despise the \"former guy\" outrage by the media, I just don't want to consume it.\n\n--- \n\nOn a lighter note, my patio containers are already starting to look like a change is upon us. As soon as we drop below 50°F at night a couple times, both the coleus and sweet potato vines begin to degrade. This morning when I was changing the hummingbird feeder, I noticed one of the sweet potato vines with yellowing leaves and a few dropped to the ground. I think I'll try to get to the garden center tomorrow to pick up my pansies, violas, and ornamental kale/cabbage. The changeover to the winter annuals is always a joyful time for me. I adore pansies and violas and they stay with me in the patio containers for many more months than the summer plantings.\n\n--- \n\n**85**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-26T10:33:59-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/26/an-unglamorous-day.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/25/i-made-a.html",
				"title": "I made a soup yesterday.",
				"content_html": "<p>First soup of the soup season, even though the high temp was nearly 90°F. Today we&rsquo;ll be twenty degrees cooler and hopefully get some rain this afternoon. Looking forward to sitting on the patio and having the rain pattering overhead on the patio cover. That&rsquo;s a good time, if you ask me.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>I&rsquo;m <em>still</em> internally singing <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8\">True Faith by New Order</a> from at least two days ago. The song was in a recent episode of a series I&rsquo;m watching on Netflix, <em>A Discovery of Witches</em>, and it brought up so many vivid feelings and memories. I&rsquo;m now seeking to write about Skate World, which I think many GenX people may have also grown up spending a bunch of time at. That was a seminal experience to my childhood. I spent oodles of Saturdays there, countless birthday parties, hung out with boys, held hands, kissed in the corner, discovered music and listened to music I wouldn&rsquo;t have otherwise discovered. Skate World was amazing and as an adult I would absolutely go to a modern version if my health would allow it.</p>\n<p>I had the pleasure of receiving some junk mail this morning from a meels on wheels service. The start of the plea: &ldquo;Anne, homebound neighbors need your help.&rdquo;</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>Earlier this week it dawned on me that it is September. In fact, September is nearly over, and there has been no MB photo challenge. The photo challenges were always such a joy, something I really liked participating in. It was a big reason I actually came back here and resurrected my account after forgetting about it last year. I don&rsquo;t know if we&rsquo;ll ever see community organizing like that again on Micro.blog with Jean gone. It&rsquo;s a little sad how so many parts seem to be &ldquo;dilapidated&rdquo; for lack of a better term. I noticed over the weekend that nearly six days went by without a refresh of the Discover timeline. Even though I have claimed I&rsquo;m not entirely here for the community, it has been nice to be a part of it when I felt like being a part. That doesn&rsquo;t seem much of an option anymore.</p>\n<p>So on the tail of realizing that perhaps there would never be another photo challenge here, I reached out to a couple other omg.lol members on social.lol and asked if they&rsquo;d want to help sort of set up an ad hoc photo challenge in the next several months. I think they hesitatingly seemed interested. Another acquaintance chimed in with a project they&rsquo;d previously had going for a type of photo challenge, but is currently on hold. I think maybe there&rsquo;s a way to all create something together. That would be really nice. I&rsquo;d love to help work on a site or organize a challenge, in a similar way to WeblogPoMo. I guess we&rsquo;ll see where this goes if it goes anywhere.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>84</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "First soup of the soup season, even though the high temp was nearly 90°F. Today we'll be twenty degrees cooler and hopefully get some rain this afternoon. Looking forward to sitting on the patio and having the rain pattering overhead on the patio cover. That's a good time, if you ask me.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<figure>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/img-6365.jpeg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"A pot of soup with a tomato base and veggies and cheese tortellini.\">\n<figcaption>Soup! <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/tortellini-vegetable-soup\">Get the recipe on my weblog.</a></figcaption>\n</figure>\n\nI'm *still* internally singing [True Faith by New Order](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8) from at least two days ago. The song was in a recent episode of a series I'm watching on Netflix, *A Discovery of Witches*, and it brought up so many vivid feelings and memories. I'm now seeking to write about Skate World, which I think many GenX people may have also grown up spending a bunch of time at. That was a seminal experience to my childhood. I spent oodles of Saturdays there, countless birthday parties, hung out with boys, held hands, kissed in the corner, discovered music and listened to music I wouldn't have otherwise discovered. Skate World was amazing and as an adult I would absolutely go to a modern version if my health would allow it.\n\nI had the pleasure of receiving some junk mail this morning from a meels on wheels service. The start of the plea: \"Anne, homebound neighbors need your help.\"\n\n<ol type=\"a\">\n<li>I am basically homebound. My illness is still mostly in the moderate stage, but that partially is defined as mostly homebound.</li>\n<li>I am chronically ill, disabled, and unemployed.</li>\n<li>I have no money to spare. I'm withdrawing from retirement to pay my bills.</li>\n<li>I'd sure like to know how I ended up on their mailing list.</li>\n</ol>\n\nEarlier this week it dawned on me that it is September. In fact, September is nearly over, and there has been no MB photo challenge. The photo challenges were always such a joy, something I really liked participating in. It was a big reason I actually came back here and resurrected my account after forgetting about it last year. I don't know if we'll ever see community organizing like that again on Micro.blog with Jean gone. It's a little sad how so many parts seem to be \"dilapidated\" for lack of a better term. I noticed over the weekend that nearly six days went by without a refresh of the Discover timeline. Even though I have claimed I'm not entirely here for the community, it has been nice to be a part of it when I felt like being a part. That doesn't seem much of an option anymore.\n\nSo on the tail of realizing that perhaps there would never be another photo challenge here, I reached out to a couple other omg.lol members on social.lol and asked if they'd want to help sort of set up an ad hoc photo challenge in the next several months. I think they hesitatingly seemed interested. Another acquaintance chimed in with a project they'd previously had going for a type of photo challenge, but is currently on hold. I think maybe there's a way to all create something together. That would be really nice. I'd love to help work on a site or organize a challenge, in a similar way to WeblogPoMo. I guess we'll see where this goes if it goes anywhere.\n\n---\n\n**84**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-25T10:58:30-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/25/i-made-a.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/24/i-feel-like.html",
				"title": "I feel like I'm drowning right now.",
				"content_html": "<p>Just as my head rises above the water, something comes along and another wave crashes over me. I keep getting forced down, it&rsquo;s so murky down here. The sounds aren&rsquo;t clear, up and down is a tumble. I just want to close my eyes and when I open them my world is set right, where right is at a minimum a baseline that I can cope with.</p>\n<p>Getting anything more than that ever again seems an impossibility. I have no reserves left and very few resources outside myself to rely on. I&rsquo;m the source of support for others when I can hardly carry myself forward. This is not a plea but a warning. To all of you so sure of your footing. The sands beneath you can give way just as easily and your head may dip into the waters too.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>One of the most toxic things to me are the previously inactive-turned-active people. Someone who has a &ldquo;come to Jesus&rdquo; moment in terms of athleticism. It&rsquo;s so nauseating. How about an active-turned-inactive person <em>against their will</em> through <em>no fault of their own</em> simply because chronic illness struck them down? The people who have suddenly become active just have to announce to the world all their activity—look at me! I am so strong and righteous and all of you are lazy and lesser! I know this because I too used to be lazy and lesser but I <em>chose</em> to become strong and righteous!—when their assumptions about others may just be wrong.</p>\n<p>I once was very active. I remember back to those times like in a dream, it was another life! I think about it like I&rsquo;m watching a movie in my head about another person, and it <em>was</em> another person. I am a shell of that being, I&rsquo;m not even sure my cells are the same. My DNA is damaged and I keep getting sicker and sicker. The hardest part of my day is food. Do you know how much thought and energy food takes?</p>\n<p>Food consumes brain power to figure out what to buy, how to put the things together, and what you can pay for. Then there is the energy to <em>get</em> the food and put it away. The time and energy to put the ingredients together, cook the food. After that you have to consume it and clean up after. As if all that isn&rsquo;t enough, your body has to digest and process it, one of the most energy intensive processes you all take for granted. And finally, your body must extract the waste. All that is activity that nearly drains me completely on a bad day. No, a bad week. I&rsquo;m currently in a bad series of weeks.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>84</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Just as my head rises above the water, something comes along and another wave crashes over me. I keep getting forced down, it's so murky down here. The sounds aren't clear, up and down is a tumble. I just want to close my eyes and when I open them my world is set right, where right is at a minimum a baseline that I can cope with.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nGetting anything more than that ever again seems an impossibility. I have no reserves left and very few resources outside myself to rely on. I'm the source of support for others when I can hardly carry myself forward. This is not a plea but a warning. To all of you so sure of your footing. The sands beneath you can give way just as easily and your head may dip into the waters too.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nOne of the most toxic things to me are the previously inactive-turned-active people. Someone who has a \"come to Jesus\" moment in terms of athleticism. It's so nauseating. How about an active-turned-inactive person *against their will* through *no fault of their own* simply because chronic illness struck them down? The people who have suddenly become active just have to announce to the world all their activity—look at me! I am so strong and righteous and all of you are lazy and lesser! I know this because I too used to be lazy and lesser but I *chose* to become strong and righteous!—when their assumptions about others may just be wrong.\r\n\r\nI once was very active. I remember back to those times like in a dream, it was another life! I think about it like I'm watching a movie in my head about another person, and it *was* another person. I am a shell of that being, I'm not even sure my cells are the same. My DNA is damaged and I keep getting sicker and sicker. The hardest part of my day is food. Do you know how much thought and energy food takes?\r\n\r\nFood consumes brain power to figure out what to buy, how to put the things together, and what you can pay for. Then there is the energy to *get* the food and put it away. The time and energy to put the ingredients together, cook the food. After that you have to consume it and clean up after. As if all that isn't enough, your body has to digest and process it, one of the most energy intensive processes you all take for granted. And finally, your body must extract the waste. All that is activity that nearly drains me completely on a bad day. No, a bad week. I'm currently in a bad series of weeks.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**84**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-24T09:51:51-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/24/i-feel-like.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/21/apples.html",
				"title": "Apples",
				"content_html": "<p>I had a weird conversation yesterday about apples and my life. Yes, I have the nickname of Apple Annie which I have explained the inspiration for in my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2023/01/origins-of-a-nickname\"><em>Origins of a nickname.</em></a> But there really is more to it than that and it being apple season and I&rsquo;ve been enjoying scrumptious apples the past few days, let&rsquo;s dig in.</p>\n<h2 id=\"forbidden-fruit\">Forbidden fruit</h2>\n<p>Of course, the infamous forbidden fruit was the apple. This story of Adam and Eve was part of my childhood and attending church. Today I realize the framing of this as an apple was probably a simplified attempt at something recognizable. It may have been a pomegranate or crabapple or other now since extinct variety of fruit. Regardless, this apple as forbidden part of our human past is part of me and I think about it randomly.</p>\n<h2 id=\"johnny-appleseed\">Johnny Appleseed</h2>\n<p>If you grew up in the United States you undoubtedly heard the story of Johnny Appleseed. If you paid any attention to what he did and how apple cultivation actually works, you also know that Johnny spread around seeds that grew unknown apples. No doubt, apples got a leg up from Johnny Appleseed but also likely flourished into new varieties that would have never existed and evolved to produce in places they never would have before, due to Johnny&rsquo;s promiscuity (with apple seeds).</p>\n<h2 id=\"washington-state\">Washington state</h2>\n<p>I grew up in Washington and the state fruit of Washington is the apple. According to the <a href=\"https://agr.wa.gov/departments/business-and-marketing-support/international/statistics\">Washington State Department of Agriculture</a>, apples exports are number four in the top ten exports for the state.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>Apples are such a big deal in Washington that the current governor wears a the classic Red Delicious apple pin on his lapel. This governor used to be the US Representative to the district in eastern Washington covering some of the richest apple producing land in the state.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<h2 id=\"orchards\">Orchards</h2>\n<p>My mother grew up outside of Yakima, WA, in what was (and may still be) the most productive apple producing area in the entire state of Washington. My grandfather and his brother were farmers on orchards as long as I knew them. I&rsquo;ve talked before in other writing about the outsized influence on my psyche and as a child spending summers on that farm and in the orchards around their house.</p>\n<h2 id=\"computers\">Computers</h2>\n<p>I once declared that my family home, where my parents still live, consistently had an Apple computer in it since 1984. That&rsquo;s still true today. My mother has always been an Apple computer user since the very first one, an Apple //e. That is the computer I learned to use a computer on and I taught my parents, who were complete novices at the time. I was nine years old. Since that time, my mom has had endless different models and even Apple Laserwriter printers, eventually doing desktop publishing during the 1990s.</p>\n<h2 id=\"devices\">Devices</h2>\n<p>The Apple device is ubiquitous in my life, be it an iPod, iPhone or iPad, or now also MacBook Pros, a Mac Pro tower, an iMac, AppleTVs, and HomePod Minis. I have my own small museum of devices. Not on purpose, but over the years, I&rsquo;ve only sold one of them, the first iPhone I owned. Now I just set them aside and let them collect dust.</p>\n<h2 id=\"grandmas-deep-dish-apple-pie\">Grandma&rsquo;s deep dish apple pie</h2>\n<p>The final entry here is a recipe: my great grandmother&rsquo;s apple pie, which is more of a crisp than a pie. This staple in my family has been made during the fall and winter for as long as I can remember and I make it myself to this day. I&rsquo;ll also share a link to a <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2023/11/spiced-applesauce-cake\">Spiced Applesauce Cake</a> that I adore but is not a family recipe.</p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"ingredients\">Ingredients:</h3>\n<p><strong>Crust:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 cups flour</li>\n<li>1 teaspoon salt</li>\n<li>2 teaspoons sugar</li>\n<li>⅔ cup oil</li>\n<li>3 tablespoons milk</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Filling:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>8-12 apples, sliced</li>\n<li>1 cup sugar</li>\n<li>1 tablespoon cinnamon</li>\n<li>1 teaspoon nutmeg</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Topping:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 ½ cups flour</li>\n<li>1 cup brown sugar</li>\n<li>1 teaspoon salt</li>\n<li>1 cup quick oats</li>\n<li>½ teaspoon baking powder</li>\n<li>¾ cup butter, melted</li>\n</ul>\n<h3 id=\"instructions\">Instructions</h3>\n<p>Preheat oven to 350°F.</p>\n<p>Combine the crust ingredients in a large bowl. Press the loose dough into the bottom of a 9x13 inch glass or metal pan.</p>\n<p>Prepare apples and spread them into an even layer on top of the crust. Mix sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and sprinkle over apples evenly.</p>\n<p>Mix topping ingredients in the same bowl you used for the crust and crumble over the top of the apples and sugar layer.</p>\n<p>Bake for 1 to 1.5 hours, depending on your oven.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>83</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I had a weird conversation yesterday about apples and my life. Yes, I have the nickname of Apple Annie which I have explained the inspiration for in my [*Origins of a nickname.*](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2023/01/origins-of-a-nickname) But there really is more to it than that and it being apple season and I've been enjoying scrumptious apples the past few days, let's dig in.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n## Forbidden fruit\n\nOf course, the infamous forbidden fruit was the apple. This story of Adam and Eve was part of my childhood and attending church. Today I realize the framing of this as an apple was probably a simplified attempt at something recognizable. It may have been a pomegranate or crabapple or other now since extinct variety of fruit. Regardless, this apple as forbidden part of our human past is part of me and I think about it randomly.\n\n## Johnny Appleseed\n\nIf you grew up in the United States you undoubtedly heard the story of Johnny Appleseed. If you paid any attention to what he did and how apple cultivation actually works, you also know that Johnny spread around seeds that grew unknown apples. No doubt, apples got a leg up from Johnny Appleseed but also likely flourished into new varieties that would have never existed and evolved to produce in places they never would have before, due to Johnny's promiscuity (with apple seeds).\n\n## Washington state\n\nI grew up in Washington and the state fruit of Washington is the apple. According to the [Washington State Department of Agriculture](https://agr.wa.gov/departments/business-and-marketing-support/international/statistics), apples exports are number four in the top ten exports for the state.\n\n<figure>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/wa-top-exports-2023.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"536\" alt=\"Table showing the top ten exports in 2023 for Washington state: Frozen French Fries, Fish and Seafood, Wheat, Apples, Diary, Hay, Beef, Hop Cones and Extracts, Fresh Sweet Cherries, and Pulses.\">\n<figcaption>Top 10 exports in Washington state in 2023. <a href=\"https://agr.wa.gov/departments/business-and-marketing-support/international/statistics\">Source</a>.</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\nApples are such a big deal in Washington that the current governor wears a the classic Red Delicious apple pin on his lapel. This governor used to be the US Representative to the district in eastern Washington covering some of the richest apple producing land in the state.\n\n<figure>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/wa-apple-pin.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"598\" alt=\"A pin in the shape and color of a red delicious apple with a curved ribbon across the center and the word Washington.\">\n<figcaption>I remember this design well and when it was used as a logo on apple products from the state. Maybe it still is?</figcaption>\n</figure>\n\n## Orchards\n\nMy mother grew up outside of Yakima, WA, in what was (and may still be) the most productive apple producing area in the entire state of Washington. My grandfather and his brother were farmers on orchards as long as I knew them. I've talked before in other writing about the outsized influence on my psyche and as a child spending summers on that farm and in the orchards around their house.\n\n## Computers\n\nI once declared that my family home, where my parents still live, consistently had an Apple computer in it since 1984. That's still true today. My mother has always been an Apple computer user since the very first one, an Apple //e. That is the computer I learned to use a computer on and I taught my parents, who were complete novices at the time. I was nine years old. Since that time, my mom has had endless different models and even Apple Laserwriter printers, eventually doing desktop publishing during the 1990s.\n\n## Devices\n\nThe Apple device is ubiquitous in my life, be it an iPod, iPhone or iPad, or now also MacBook Pros, a Mac Pro tower, an iMac, AppleTVs, and HomePod Minis. I have my own small museum of devices. Not on purpose, but over the years, I've only sold one of them, the first iPhone I owned. Now I just set them aside and let them collect dust.\n\n## Grandma's deep dish apple pie\n\nThe final entry here is a recipe: my great grandmother's apple pie, which is more of a crisp than a pie. This staple in my family has been made during the fall and winter for as long as I can remember and I make it myself to this day. I'll also share a link to a [Spiced Applesauce Cake](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2023/11/spiced-applesauce-cake) that I adore but is not a family recipe.\n\n--- \n\n### Ingredients:\n\n**Crust:**\n- 2 cups flour\n- 1 teaspoon salt\n- 2 teaspoons sugar\n- ⅔ cup oil\n- 3 tablespoons milk\n\n**Filling:**\n- 8-12 apples, sliced\n- 1 cup sugar\n- 1 tablespoon cinnamon\n- 1 teaspoon nutmeg\n\n**Topping:**\n- 1 ½ cups flour\n- 1 cup brown sugar\n- 1 teaspoon salt\n- 1 cup quick oats\n- ½ teaspoon baking powder\n- ¾ cup butter, melted\n\n### Instructions\n\nPreheat oven to 350°F.\n\nCombine the crust ingredients in a large bowl. Press the loose dough into the bottom of a 9x13 inch glass or metal pan.\n\nPrepare apples and spread them into an even layer on top of the crust. Mix sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and sprinkle over apples evenly.\n\nMix topping ingredients in the same bowl you used for the crust and crumble over the top of the apples and sugar layer.\n\nBake for 1 to 1.5 hours, depending on your oven.\n\n--- \n\n**83**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-21T15:03:45-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/21/apples.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/20/a-day-of.html",
				"title": "A day of organization.",
				"content_html": "<p>What I want to accomplish today on this day with no pressing requirements is get some shit in order. I want to finish categorizing my bookmarks; I want to finesse my todo lists; I want to do some arranging in the garage and throwing out of things. This is just a first step in the garage, there&rsquo;s a whole thing that needs to happen there so that painting can get done. I&rsquo;ve lost hope that I will get the painting finished this year, but I still have hope I will get the shed removed off the back.</p>\n<p>I will mow the lawn tomorrow and may wash the car this weekend as well. This will all leave me with a wide open garage to get things arranged. Get the car out, get the mower out, make some piles. I might wait to do the stuff on my computer until this evening when it is dark. I should probably head outside while the sun is out and it is lovely. There&rsquo;s probably a few things I can take some pictures of in the garden too.</p>\n<p>I read <a href=\"https://meandorla.substack.com/p/something-i-need-to-tell-you\">this beautifully touching and haunting account</a> of having a chronic illness, hiding it for many years, yearning to hold onto &ldquo;normalcy&rdquo; until it is too late and impossible to do so anymore. I relate to so many parts of this. So many quotes I want to pull out. For now I&rsquo;ll just share two.</p>\n<p>This first one was basically me for the first 25-30 years of my illness. I didn&rsquo;t tell many people, I didn&rsquo;t have to, I could mostly manage to &ldquo;get by&rdquo; when out in public and then hide away at home when things got the worst. When I finally requested accommodations at work, it was too late, there was nothing left in me to fight for what I deserved and I left.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It took my own health getting unignorably bad for me to finally advocate for myself properly, and by then, so much damage had been done. And still, the masking dies hardest. Even now, I’ll waste precious energy pretending to be ‘normal’ to people who don’t matter at all. It’s a survival mechanism of sorts, I suppose, but it’s also just escapism for me. I cling to these moments where a stranger perceives me as a whole and fully healthy human. For that handful of minutes, I get to be her again.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Today this is what I do. On a daily basis, I assess my reserves and figure out what is accomplishable. I never get through everything in a day. I often plan a week at a time. And even then, I have no control over what life will throw at me and sometimes weeks or months go by when a task just sits there waiting to be acknowledged.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chronic illness has made me pare back and pare back until I hit the core.. All the waste and unnecessary and the frivolous was gone from my world long ago. Now when I make cuts - which I must, with only four hours in which to do everything - what’s lost is inevitably the juicy goodness of life.</p>\n<p>Supermarkets. Dog walks. Coffee with friends. Opening my own parcels. Training a bird to do tricks. Do I want to shower today, or reply to some texts? Simple touchstones that can seem insignificant, but that tether us all to this life.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I often plan much loftier than reality allows. So these hopes I have for today will slam up against what I really can do. I&rsquo;ll probably start most of them and not finish them for a few days. But thinking about getting things done is so satisfying and when I have the cognition to become my Type A self and make lists and organize, I snatch that opportunity with as much fervor as I can.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>82</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "What I want to accomplish today on this day with no pressing requirements is get some shit in order. I want to finish categorizing my bookmarks; I want to finesse my todo lists; I want to do some arranging in the garage and throwing out of things. This is just a first step in the garage, there's a whole thing that needs to happen there so that painting can get done. I've lost hope that I will get the painting finished this year, but I still have hope I will get the shed removed off the back.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI will mow the lawn tomorrow and may wash the car this weekend as well. This will all leave me with a wide open garage to get things arranged. Get the car out, get the mower out, make some piles. I might wait to do the stuff on my computer until this evening when it is dark. I should probably head outside while the sun is out and it is lovely. There's probably a few things I can take some pictures of in the garden too.\r\n\r\nI read [this beautifully touching and haunting account](https://meandorla.substack.com/p/something-i-need-to-tell-you) of having a chronic illness, hiding it for many years, yearning to hold onto \"normalcy\" until it is too late and impossible to do so anymore. I relate to so many parts of this. So many quotes I want to pull out. For now I'll just share two.\r\n\r\nThis first one was basically me for the first 25-30 years of my illness. I didn't tell many people, I didn't have to, I could mostly manage to \"get by\" when out in public and then hide away at home when things got the worst. When I finally requested accommodations at work, it was too late, there was nothing left in me to fight for what I deserved and I left.\r\n\r\n> It took my own health getting unignorably bad for me to finally advocate for myself properly, and by then, so much damage had been done. And still, the masking dies hardest. Even now, I’ll waste precious energy pretending to be ‘normal’ to people who don’t matter at all. It’s a survival mechanism of sorts, I suppose, but it’s also just escapism for me. I cling to these moments where a stranger perceives me as a whole and fully healthy human. For that handful of minutes, I get to be her again.\r\n\r\nToday this is what I do. On a daily basis, I assess my reserves and figure out what is accomplishable. I never get through everything in a day. I often plan a week at a time. And even then, I have no control over what life will throw at me and sometimes weeks or months go by when a task just sits there waiting to be acknowledged.\r\n\r\n> Chronic illness has made me pare back and pare back until I hit the core.. All the waste and unnecessary and the frivolous was gone from my world long ago. Now when I make cuts - which I must, with only four hours in which to do everything - what’s lost is inevitably the juicy goodness of life.\r\n> \r\n> Supermarkets. Dog walks. Coffee with friends. Opening my own parcels. Training a bird to do tricks. Do I want to shower today, or reply to some texts? Simple touchstones that can seem insignificant, but that tether us all to this life.\r\n\r\nI often plan much loftier than reality allows. So these hopes I have for today will slam up against what I really can do. I'll probably start most of them and not finish them for a few days. But thinking about getting things done is so satisfying and when I have the cognition to become my Type A self and make lists and organize, I snatch that opportunity with as much fervor as I can.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**82**/100\r\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-20T12:51:02-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/20/a-day-of.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/19/a-post-in.html",
				"title": "A post in three parts.",
				"content_html": "<p>Glad to have finally finished my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-blitz-day-5\">bookmarks blitz</a> yesterday after failing to pull myself out of a crash at the end of last week. So &ldquo;blitz week&rdquo; technically fell over a week, but it ended with five days. Good enough! I have around 89 new bookmarks to organize today, setting myself up for another weekly post and probably another blitz at some point.</p>\n<p>Yesterday I again encountered the nasty digging on persons between my two online &ldquo;communities&rdquo; and I&rsquo;m just so fucking tired of it. There seems to be a condition where small independent companies or developers are held to the highest levels of accountability and ridicule for bad behavior and the Big Guys just get away with participating in ethnic cleansing, spreading misinformation about infectious diseases, and interfering in democratic elections.</p>\n<p>People balance the decisions they make about the tools and services they choose to support on a number of factors and perhaps those factors are not the same as yours. A massive factor in my consideration is how much work it would be to move elsewhere weighed against the bad behavior (continual bad behavior in some instances) by the people behind those tools/services. If I had to pack up shop and move every single time some man acted poorly, I&rsquo;d never find a place to stay. As a chronically ill person with very limited energy and resources, I cannot do that.</p>\n<p>I choose not to go near any Meta services. I disabled and eventually deleted my Twitter account. I do not join any of the other toxic AI or Crypto adjacent services and platforms. I am not even active on Reddit anymore due to disgusting behavior. But apparently the actions of one man behind a small indie outfit is enough to continually feed the hate machine that makes others feel like absolute crap for continuing to use his service. At this point, the reaction to that behavior is starting to feel more toxic to me than the actual behavior itself.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>I read a piece in The Times (London) this morning about the dire situation that folks with severe ME/CFS find themselves in at hospitals and with the NHS. You can <a href=\"https://archive.is/XVxOt\">read the piece on archive.org</a> to bypass a paywall if you&rsquo;d like. There was also a letter written in response to the piece talking about the lack of care and the situation many sufferers find themselves in in Canada, where many are told to use euthanasia to find their way out of this illness. I have lived a lifetime of neglect with this illness and it continues to this day. The lack of respect by my fellow humans is one thing, but to find that the medical establishment does everything to do nothing, is enough to make me want to die.</p>\n<p>In the US there are no FDA approved treatments for ME/CFS and no cure. Funding for research is among the lowest for an illness with a disease burden like ME/CFS. Some compare this burden to be worse than cancer and AIDS. Just this year, the NIH cut the current ME/CFS funding in half. We are facing some dire situations with up to 50% of Long Covid sufferers qualifying for the ME/CFS diagnostic criteria. Something has to be done.</p>\n<p>If you care, you can contact your US Senators right now and voice your support for the Long Covid Research Moonshot Act which &ldquo;specifically requires research into ME/CFS, POTS, and post-treatment Lyme disease (PTLDS) as well.&rdquo; It wouldn&rsquo;t hurt to also contact your US Representative on the matter. Read more about this proposed bill and what it means to patients with infection-associated chronic conditions and illnesses <a href=\"https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/09/15/changing-world-long-covid-mooshot-bill/\">here</a>.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>81</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Glad to have finally finished my [bookmarks blitz](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-blitz-day-5) yesterday after failing to pull myself out of a crash at the end of last week. So \"blitz week\" technically fell over a week, but it ended with five days. Good enough! I have around 89 new bookmarks to organize today, setting myself up for another weekly post and probably another blitz at some point.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nYesterday I again encountered the nasty digging on persons between my two online \"communities\" and I'm just so fucking tired of it. There seems to be a condition where small independent companies or developers are held to the highest levels of accountability and ridicule for bad behavior and the Big Guys just get away with participating in ethnic cleansing, spreading misinformation about infectious diseases, and interfering in democratic elections.\r\n\r\nPeople balance the decisions they make about the tools and services they choose to support on a number of factors and perhaps those factors are not the same as yours. A massive factor in my consideration is how much work it would be to move elsewhere weighed against the bad behavior (continual bad behavior in some instances) by the people behind those tools/services. If I had to pack up shop and move every single time some man acted poorly, I'd never find a place to stay. As a chronically ill person with very limited energy and resources, I cannot do that.\r\n\r\nI choose not to go near any Meta services. I disabled and eventually deleted my Twitter account. I do not join any of the other toxic AI or Crypto adjacent services and platforms. I am not even active on Reddit anymore due to disgusting behavior. But apparently the actions of one man behind a small indie outfit is enough to continually feed the hate machine that makes others feel like absolute crap for continuing to use his service. At this point, the reaction to that behavior is starting to feel more toxic to me than the actual behavior itself.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nI read a piece in The Times (London) this morning about the dire situation that folks with severe ME/CFS find themselves in at hospitals and with the NHS. You can [read the piece on archive.org](https://archive.is/XVxOt) to bypass a paywall if you'd like. There was also a letter written in response to the piece talking about the lack of care and the situation many sufferers find themselves in in Canada, where many are told to use euthanasia to find their way out of this illness. I have lived a lifetime of neglect with this illness and it continues to this day. The lack of respect by my fellow humans is one thing, but to find that the medical establishment does everything to do nothing, is enough to make me want to die.\r\n\r\nIn the US there are no FDA approved treatments for ME/CFS and no cure. Funding for research is among the lowest for an illness with a disease burden like ME/CFS. Some compare this burden to be worse than cancer and AIDS. Just this year, the NIH cut the current ME/CFS funding in half. We are facing some dire situations with up to 50% of Long Covid sufferers qualifying for the ME/CFS diagnostic criteria. Something has to be done.\r\n\r\nIf you care, you can contact your US Senators right now and voice your support for the Long Covid Research Moonshot Act which \"specifically requires research into ME/CFS, POTS, and post-treatment Lyme disease (PTLDS) as well.\" It wouldn't hurt to also contact your US Representative on the matter. Read more about this proposed bill and what it means to patients with infection-associated chronic conditions and illnesses [here](https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2024/09/15/changing-world-long-covid-mooshot-bill/).\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**81**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-19T11:22:01-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/19/a-post-in.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/18/what-id-really.html",
				"title": "What I'd really like to talk about today.",
				"content_html": "<p>Isn&rsquo;t what I&rsquo;m going to talk about. Sometimes I want to create a secret blog just to blog about things that I don&rsquo;t want anyone to discover. I&rsquo;d particularly like to create an <code>in-reply-to</code> post about another blog post I recently read but doing so will probably alert the author and I&rsquo;d rather avoid that. This requires me not providing the reply context which sort of defeats the purpose of it, and not linking to the post, also sort of pointless in context.</p>\n<p>It isn&rsquo;t even that I want to push back on <em>that</em> person&rsquo;s blog post, but the idea behind it, which many people hold, and an industry props up and perpetuates. It&rsquo;s largely tied to another issue I&rsquo;ve started writing about but haven&rsquo;t completed. Maybe it&rsquo;s time to do so and combine it with this new response. Could I thereby avoid the issue I&rsquo;m worried about? Perhaps. I could avoid mentioning the other post altogether and provide context in a more generic manner.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>My hope for rain yesterday was dashed until the day was nearly over. We did end up getting a little bit but nothing like I expected and now there is no rain in sight for the 10-day forecast. In fact, there is another 87°F day in the future. Ugh. False fall strikes again. So false that my only rhododendron (that isn&rsquo;t an azalea) has started throwing off some blooms! The seriously confused plant opened first one truss, and now I see at least three more with color. This will definitely negatively impact next spring&rsquo;s showing.</p>\n<p>I sometimes wonder how smart plants are. For example, the magnolia and rhododendron are related. Both seem to want to throw blooms off during other times of the year than expected. The magnolia is doing this very dramatically this year. Why this is a sign of smarts? The magnolia produces blooms through the winter. It forms buds in the fall and sets them to grow during December, January, and February, putting on its show in March. We often get hit with late winter ice storms that damage and desiccate the buds. This has also happened within the last couple years to the rhododendron. It&rsquo;s almost like they now know this, that in my yard where they live, they may lose half their buds, so are they setting ones in the opposite seasons?</p>\n<p>This year the magnolia tree has been blooming nearly all summer. In the first couple years I had it, it didn&rsquo;t do this at all. In the last couple years it has been increasing. None of these blooms are as large or dramatic as the spring show, but the number of them has been astounding this year. Of course you can&rsquo;t see them as well because during the growing season the tree has leaves; in the spring it blooms before the leaves emerge. The rhododendron is evergreen but it is also a small shrub so the blooms are more readily visible no matter what time of year it is.</p>\n<p>If these two plants are smart enough to figure this out, is it a matter of time and environment now or was this ability already built in? I&rsquo;m not a biologist or botanist and I don&rsquo;t have an answer to that. I can only speculate or create assumptions by observing. Regardless of the mechanism, plants are amazing and adapt to conditions that you may not think they could adapt to. In my yard I have sedums growing alongside hellebores. Seems like an unlikely combo, but they both seem to thrive. I also have a gentian that acts like a weed in the location it is in my garden, whereas my mother struggled to grow gentians in her garden when I was a kid, and I wouldn&rsquo;t think our gardens are that different.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>80</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Isn't what I'm going to talk about. Sometimes I want to create a secret blog just to blog about things that I don't want anyone to discover. I'd particularly like to create an `in-reply-to` post about another blog post I recently read but doing so will probably alert the author and I'd rather avoid that. This requires me not providing the reply context which sort of defeats the purpose of it, and not linking to the post, also sort of pointless in context.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nIt isn't even that I want to push back on *that* person's blog post, but the idea behind it, which many people hold, and an industry props up and perpetuates. It's largely tied to another issue I've started writing about but haven't completed. Maybe it's time to do so and combine it with this new response. Could I thereby avoid the issue I'm worried about? Perhaps. I could avoid mentioning the other post altogether and provide context in a more generic manner.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nMy hope for rain yesterday was dashed until the day was nearly over. We did end up getting a little bit but nothing like I expected and now there is no rain in sight for the 10-day forecast. In fact, there is another 87°F day in the future. Ugh. False fall strikes again. So false that my only rhododendron (that isn't an azalea) has started throwing off some blooms! The seriously confused plant opened first one truss, and now I see at least three more with color. This will definitely negatively impact next spring's showing.\r\n\r\nI sometimes wonder how smart plants are. For example, the magnolia and rhododendron are related. Both seem to want to throw blooms off during other times of the year than expected. The magnolia is doing this very dramatically this year. Why this is a sign of smarts? The magnolia produces blooms through the winter. It forms buds in the fall and sets them to grow during December, January, and February, putting on its show in March. We often get hit with late winter ice storms that damage and desiccate the buds. This has also happened within the last couple years to the rhododendron. It's almost like they now know this, that in my yard where they live, they may lose half their buds, so are they setting ones in the opposite seasons?\r\n\r\nThis year the magnolia tree has been blooming nearly all summer. In the first couple years I had it, it didn't do this at all. In the last couple years it has been increasing. None of these blooms are as large or dramatic as the spring show, but the number of them has been astounding this year. Of course you can't see them as well because during the growing season the tree has leaves; in the spring it blooms before the leaves emerge. The rhododendron is evergreen but it is also a small shrub so the blooms are more readily visible no matter what time of year it is.\r\n\r\nIf these two plants are smart enough to figure this out, is it a matter of time and environment now or was this ability already built in? I'm not a biologist or botanist and I don't have an answer to that. I can only speculate or create assumptions by observing. Regardless of the mechanism, plants are amazing and adapt to conditions that you may not think they could adapt to. In my yard I have sedums growing alongside hellebores. Seems like an unlikely combo, but they both seem to thrive. I also have a gentian that acts like a weed in the location it is in my garden, whereas my mother struggled to grow gentians in her garden when I was a kid, and I wouldn't think our gardens are that different.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**80**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-18T12:31:20-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/18/what-id-really.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/17/waiting-for-the.html",
				"title": "Waiting for the rain.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;ve been looking forward to today since the last time it rained last week. We&rsquo;re still about a month out from the &ldquo;real&rdquo; rain of the seasons changing but these intermittent late summer/early fall rains are nice too. It&rsquo;s dark this morning, so dark that it feels like last night&rsquo;s moon provided more light than the sun hiding behind an overcast sky.</p>\n<p>Yesterday someone who lives in the NE US lamented at the changing seasons. They love the summer, they dislike having to bundle up during the winter months, the lack of humidity that cold weather brings. I had a reaction but kept it to myself because my energy for interaction still isn&rsquo;t on the level. Another PNW resident chimed in and I then had no option but to also agree and provide some context.</p>\n<p>Winter here is a reprieve. It&rsquo;s so hard to explain if you don&rsquo;t live here. We don&rsquo;t fall into a cold dry situation with endless snow storms. We gently slide into a mild wet cloud that often feels like a soft embrace after 3-4 months of harsh hot dry and often smoky summer months. A lot of people who live here are here for those wetter months. We tolerate the summers but it isn&rsquo;t our favorite season. A lot of us love the shoulder seasons, spring and fall.</p>\n<p>Of course, after four months of dark and rain, by February, and the inevitable advent of an ice storm, I am ready for winter to end. But by the end of August/beginning of September I yearn for rain. The days are much more inviting and a little drizzle never hurt anyone. You can still get a lot done outside until nearly the end of November here. We have a very long growing season. Portland has a 100 day longer growing season that Olympia, WA, a fact that shocks me every time I look it up to confirm. Our first average frost date is November 22.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>My neighborhood is sometimes dubbed the banana belt by gardeners and nursery folks in the area because we can get away with growing almost anything. I&rsquo;m in a &ldquo;hollow&rdquo; near the Willamette River that gets sheltered from some of the harshest weather that comes out of the Columbia River Gorge that blasts the eastern part of the metro area. Just a few blocks east of me can receive several degrees lower in temperature during extreme events, due to a rise in elevation and more exposure.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>Every winter is different. Some years we get no snow or only a trace. Other years we can have multiple snow events with accumulation. One thing is certain though, if it is raining or snowing in the valley, it is snowing in the Cascades and/or Coast Range. Where else can you live in a relatively mild location year round where the ocean is an hour west and the mountains (<em>real</em> mountains) are an hour east. There is so much varied landscape and ecological environment that I can&rsquo;t imagine living anywhere else. And if you get tired of the green, because it is nearly always green, you can drive a few hours east and land in in the high desert and sagebrush steppe of eastern Oregon.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>79</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I've been looking forward to today since the last time it rained last week. We're still about a month out from the \"real\" rain of the seasons changing but these intermittent late summer/early fall rains are nice too. It's dark this morning, so dark that it feels like last night's moon provided more light than the sun hiding behind an overcast sky.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nYesterday someone who lives in the NE US lamented at the changing seasons. They love the summer, they dislike having to bundle up during the winter months, the lack of humidity that cold weather brings. I had a reaction but kept it to myself because my energy for interaction still isn't on the level. Another PNW resident chimed in and I then had no option but to also agree and provide some context.\r\n\r\nWinter here is a reprieve. It's so hard to explain if you don't live here. We don't fall into a cold dry situation with endless snow storms. We gently slide into a mild wet cloud that often feels like a soft embrace after 3-4 months of harsh hot dry and often smoky summer months. A lot of people who live here are here for those wetter months. We tolerate the summers but it isn't our favorite season. A lot of us love the shoulder seasons, spring and fall.\r\n\r\nOf course, after four months of dark and rain, by February, and the inevitable advent of an ice storm, I am ready for winter to end. But by the end of August/beginning of September I yearn for rain. The days are much more inviting and a little drizzle never hurt anyone. You can still get a lot done outside until nearly the end of November here. We have a very long growing season. Portland has a 100 day longer growing season that Olympia, WA, a fact that shocks me every time I look it up to confirm. Our first average frost date is November 22.\r\n\r\n<figure>\r\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/growing-season-pdx.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"49\" alt=\"Screenshot from Almanac.com for average first and last frost dates for Portland, OR.\">\r\n<figcaption>Portland, OR, growing season is 260 days long, beginning on March 6 and ending on November 22.</figcaption>\r\n</figure>\r\n\r\n<figure>\r\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/growing-season-oly.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"49\" alt=\"Screenshot from Almanac.com for average first and last frost dates for Olympia, WA.\">\r\n<figcaption>Olympia, WA, growing season is 153 days long, beginning on May 5 and ending on October 6.</figcaption>\r\n</figure>\r\n\r\nMy neighborhood is sometimes dubbed the banana belt by gardeners and nursery folks in the area because we can get away with growing almost anything. I'm in a \"hollow\" near the Willamette River that gets sheltered from some of the harshest weather that comes out of the Columbia River Gorge that blasts the eastern part of the metro area. Just a few blocks east of me can receive several degrees lower in temperature during extreme events, due to a rise in elevation and more exposure.\r\n\r\n<figure>\r\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/img-4118.jpeg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Two yellow Rudbeckia blooms on a plant in a raised bed surrounded by fallen leaves and a dusting of snow.\">\r\n<figcaption>Rudbeckia blooms in December during a light snow.</figcaption>\r\n</figure>\r\n\r\nEvery winter is different. Some years we get no snow or only a trace. Other years we can have multiple snow events with accumulation. One thing is certain though, if it is raining or snowing in the valley, it is snowing in the Cascades and/or Coast Range. Where else can you live in a relatively mild location year round where the ocean is an hour west and the mountains (*real* mountains) are an hour east. There is so much varied landscape and ecological environment that I can't imagine living anywhere else. And if you get tired of the green, because it is nearly always green, you can drive a few hours east and land in in the high desert and sagebrush steppe of eastern Oregon.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**79**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-17T09:39:34-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/17/waiting-for-the.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/16/try-try-again.html",
				"title": "Try, try again.",
				"content_html": "<p>I started this once in the morning, but abandoned it. I tried again mid-day and walked away. This is the third try and it might take me the rest of the day. I&rsquo;m really struggling with this crash, it&rsquo;s a pretty long tail for the event. I did not expect to be on day three as a result of a one-day outing in the middle of last week.</p>\n<p>Another day will go by that I do not get my final Bookmarks Blitz post out. I have a whole slew of new tabs to tally away for more bookmarks. Those will have to wait until Sunday. I&rsquo;m conspiring to create a &ldquo;wiki garden&rdquo; which shall serve as my digital garden. Right now I think it is going to be a microblog. I originally thought I would create a new template for weblog and confine an area there for that, but I&rsquo;m first going to try the microblog route.</p>\n<p>What I like about using a microblog is it can be its own site. I won&rsquo;t have to share tags/categories/taxonomy with anything else. I can use most of the other microblog theme styles that I already created. This should prompt me to get on top of further customizing my templates, as the organization of a digital garden will not be the same as how my other microblogs are organized. At least I don&rsquo;t think so right now. I will also start to serve custom styles from my CDN as I do with weblog.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m looking to consolidate bookmarks. This is such a deep subject. I have bookmarks everywhere. I have them on each of my Mastodon accounts (x4), on my main microblog, now on weblog, and also in Raindrop.io. Attempting to wrangle these to fit a wiki of &ldquo;what I know&rdquo; and &ldquo;what I write&rdquo; and any other matter of &ldquo;gardening&rdquo; is going to be a task. I think it will be satisfying though. Right now it feels a little out of reach, as I struggle through this downturn in my energy levels.</p>\n<p>I have been digging through <a href=\"https://tracydurnell.com/mind-garden/\">Tracy Durnell&rsquo;s <em>Mind Garden</em></a> as well as some others out there and learning more about how other people are tackling this method. I discovered that a mutual on Mastodon is also in the beginning stage of creating a digital garden. This seems to be a desire that many people are approaching, so I&rsquo;m not alone. I also realize that no way is the wrong way or right way. We will all find our own path to doing this. I like that we have each other to learn from, though. Leave breadcrumbs for others.</p>\n<p>I think it is time for a new todo list, of course, in the form of a spreadsheet. Perhaps I should put together a list for Sunday&rsquo;s bookmarks in dedication to this pursuit. I can spend the rest of the week reading and investigating and decide by the weekend if that seems like a useful topic for a set. I think it could be.</p>\n<p>I made a short trip into the <em>actual</em> garden this morning. It was garbage day so I wandered out for a bit and took a couple pictures. It&rsquo;s looking nice for mid September. The shoulder seasons are rather kind to the garden. We are looking at a straight week of mild temperatures and a little rain. If I can get out of this crash I have a few fall projects to complete out there. Several weeks ago I transplanted two plants to the front garden that had been in containers and they&rsquo;re looking great now. I&rsquo;d also like to move two other plants from the front to the back garden. I have more pruning to do on the magnolia. And I&rsquo;m gearing up to dismantle the raised garden beds to make way for using that graveled area as an uncovered patio. It would be a great place for one of those standalone hammocks or a set of Adirondack chairs and a fire pit.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>78</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I started this once in the morning, but abandoned it. I tried again mid-day and walked away. This is the third try and it might take me the rest of the day. I'm really struggling with this crash, it's a pretty long tail for the event. I did not expect to be on day three as a result of a one-day outing in the middle of last week.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAnother day will go by that I do not get my final Bookmarks Blitz post out. I have a whole slew of new tabs to tally away for more bookmarks. Those will have to wait until Sunday. I'm conspiring to create a \"wiki garden\" which shall serve as my digital garden. Right now I think it is going to be a microblog. I originally thought I would create a new template for weblog and confine an area there for that, but I'm first going to try the microblog route.\r\n\r\nWhat I like about using a microblog is it can be its own site. I won't have to share tags/categories/taxonomy with anything else. I can use most of the other microblog theme styles that I already created. This should prompt me to get on top of further customizing my templates, as the organization of a digital garden will not be the same as how my other microblogs are organized. At least I don't think so right now. I will also start to serve custom styles from my CDN as I do with weblog.\r\n\r\nI'm looking to consolidate bookmarks. This is such a deep subject. I have bookmarks everywhere. I have them on each of my Mastodon accounts (x4), on my main microblog, now on weblog, and also in Raindrop.io. Attempting to wrangle these to fit a wiki of \"what I know\" and \"what I write\" and any other matter of \"gardening\" is going to be a task. I think it will be satisfying though. Right now it feels a little out of reach, as I struggle through this downturn in my energy levels.\r\n\r\nI have been digging through [Tracy Durnell's *Mind Garden*](https://tracydurnell.com/mind-garden/) as well as some others out there and learning more about how other people are tackling this method. I discovered that a mutual on Mastodon is also in the beginning stage of creating a digital garden. This seems to be a desire that many people are approaching, so I'm not alone. I also realize that no way is the wrong way or right way. We will all find our own path to doing this. I like that we have each other to learn from, though. Leave breadcrumbs for others.\r\n\r\nI think it is time for a new todo list, of course, in the form of a spreadsheet. Perhaps I should put together a list for Sunday's bookmarks in dedication to this pursuit. I can spend the rest of the week reading and investigating and decide by the weekend if that seems like a useful topic for a set. I think it could be.\r\n\r\nI made a short trip into the *actual* garden this morning. It was garbage day so I wandered out for a bit and took a couple pictures. It's looking nice for mid September. The shoulder seasons are rather kind to the garden. We are looking at a straight week of mild temperatures and a little rain. If I can get out of this crash I have a few fall projects to complete out there. Several weeks ago I transplanted two plants to the front garden that had been in containers and they're looking great now. I'd also like to move two other plants from the front to the back garden. I have more pruning to do on the magnolia. And I'm gearing up to dismantle the raised garden beds to make way for using that graveled area as an uncovered patio. It would be a great place for one of those standalone hammocks or a set of Adirondack chairs and a fire pit.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**78**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-16T16:29:40-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/16/try-try-again.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/15/i-missed-yesterday.html",
				"title": "I missed yesterday.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;m making up for it today, on a Sunday, a day I normally do not post here. I&rsquo;m in a crash, though mildly better today. My trip on Wednesday had me crashing Friday afternoon/evening. I had a poor night&rsquo;s sleep and woke up extremely early Saturday and then was back in bed before dinnertime Saturday night. I slept nearly 12 hours last night.</p>\n<p>What a beast of an illness. You don&rsquo;t want it. You don&rsquo;t want your friends or family to have it. You wouldn&rsquo;t wish it on your worst enemies. And yet everyone thinks they&rsquo;re special, that if an illness like this happens to them (firstly, they don&rsquo;t think an illness like this would ever happen to them) they&rsquo;d have a savior to fix them. Or at least they&rsquo;d have a savior to help them. That is unlikely.</p>\n<p>My crash meant I didn&rsquo;t get the last day&rsquo;s bookmarks published for the blitz on Friday. I thought maybe I&rsquo;d get it done yesterday, but that didn&rsquo;t happen. Maybe I can do it today, maybe not. I won&rsquo;t push it. The blitz week may end tomorrow.</p>\n<p>There was a fantastic rainstorm last night. I was sleeping upstairs and it woke me up, so I crawled out from under the covers and walked around the house looking at the rain out the windows. This morning the garden looks freshly washed. I love how the garden looks after a rainstorm when things are still growing and blooming. We don&rsquo;t get the benefit of that during the summer. We do during the spring and fall. But during the summer it is often so hot and dry the garden starts to look tired and dirty.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve resumed watching an HBO series that I started several years ago, <em>My Brilliant Friend</em>. It&rsquo;s in Italian with subtitles so it takes a bit of concentration to watch. I&rsquo;m on season three and listening to the main character with her friend internally reflect on the effects of men on women in regards to sex and I want to capture just this series of lines:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&rsquo;d never shared such intimate details. I listened to her. I was careful not to mention Nino&rsquo;s &ldquo;made wrong in sex.&rdquo; If she was, so was I.</p>\n<p>Sex gave me pleasure and I desired that pleasure, but I was riddled with anxiety, scared of getting pregnant or being judged by men. It was on them who told us how to behave and criticized us whether we pulled back or gave in.</p>\n<p>Nino, too, with his remark, had done the same. Men behaved as if their desires were necessarily ours. As a result, pleasure became depraved unhappiness.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>And I can&rsquo;t believe we&rsquo;ve gotten no-fucking-where. We are still there. This show is based on books by the main character. Most of it takes place in mid-century Italy in a very fascist adjacent time when the battles for workers' rights and against capitalist forces sometimes became explosive. And the women are under so much pressure. What the fuck needs to happen for this shit to stop.</p>\n<p>One of the parts that I find so upsetting is that the main character&rsquo;s friend is very ill. I watch them going from doctor to doctor and in the back of my mind I&rsquo;m thinking &ldquo;they&rsquo;re going to tell her it is in her head&rdquo; and you&rsquo;ll never believe what happens? She asks to get a prescription for the pill and the doctor pushes back, asks her if she&rsquo;s married, asks her how many children she has. Just the same types of bullshit that are still going on today.</p>\n<p>Our presidential candidate is a woman and she dominated the debate. She beat back the misinformation and lies from the corrupt orange balloon that is her opponent, and some people had the nerve to <em>talk about what she wore</em>. They talked about her hair and the balloon accused her of having listening devices in her earrings because no way could a woman be <em>that</em> prepared for a debate. I&rsquo;m so fucking sick of this world. I wish it was only women and all the men just got on Elon&rsquo;s rockets and left.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>77</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I'm making up for it today, on a Sunday, a day I normally do not post here. I'm in a crash, though mildly better today. My trip on Wednesday had me crashing Friday afternoon/evening. I had a poor night's sleep and woke up extremely early Saturday and then was back in bed before dinnertime Saturday night. I slept nearly 12 hours last night.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nWhat a beast of an illness. You don't want it. You don't want your friends or family to have it. You wouldn't wish it on your worst enemies. And yet everyone thinks they're special, that if an illness like this happens to them (firstly, they don't think an illness like this would ever happen to them) they'd have a savior to fix them. Or at least they'd have a savior to help them. That is unlikely.\r\n\r\nMy crash meant I didn't get the last day's bookmarks published for the blitz on Friday. I thought maybe I'd get it done yesterday, but that didn't happen. Maybe I can do it today, maybe not. I won't push it. The blitz week may end tomorrow.\r\n\r\nThere was a fantastic rainstorm last night. I was sleeping upstairs and it woke me up, so I crawled out from under the covers and walked around the house looking at the rain out the windows. This morning the garden looks freshly washed. I love how the garden looks after a rainstorm when things are still growing and blooming. We don't get the benefit of that during the summer. We do during the spring and fall. But during the summer it is often so hot and dry the garden starts to look tired and dirty.\r\n\r\nI've resumed watching an HBO series that I started several years ago, *My Brilliant Friend*. It's in Italian with subtitles so it takes a bit of concentration to watch. I'm on season three and listening to the main character with her friend internally reflect on the effects of men on women in regards to sex and I want to capture just this series of lines:\r\n\r\n> We'd never shared such intimate details. I listened to her. I was careful not to mention Nino's \"made wrong in sex.\" If she was, so was I.\r\n> \r\n> Sex gave me pleasure and I desired that pleasure, but I was riddled with anxiety, scared of getting pregnant or being judged by men. It was on them who told us how to behave and criticized us whether we pulled back or gave in.\r\n> \r\n> Nino, too, with his remark, had done the same. Men behaved as if their desires were necessarily ours. As a result, pleasure became depraved unhappiness.\r\n\r\nAnd I can't believe we've gotten no-fucking-where. We are still there. This show is based on books by the main character. Most of it takes place in mid-century Italy in a very fascist adjacent time when the battles for workers' rights and against capitalist forces sometimes became explosive. And the women are under so much pressure. What the fuck needs to happen for this shit to stop.\r\n\r\nOne of the parts that I find so upsetting is that the main character's friend is very ill. I watch them going from doctor to doctor and in the back of my mind I'm thinking \"they're going to tell her it is in her head\" and you'll never believe what happens? She asks to get a prescription for the pill and the doctor pushes back, asks her if she's married, asks her how many children she has. Just the same types of bullshit that are still going on today.\r\n\r\nOur presidential candidate is a woman and she dominated the debate. She beat back the misinformation and lies from the corrupt orange balloon that is her opponent, and some people had the nerve to *talk about what she wore*. They talked about her hair and the balloon accused her of having listening devices in her earrings because no way could a woman be *that* prepared for a debate. I'm so fucking sick of this world. I wish it was only women and all the men just got on Elon's rockets and left.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**77**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-15T11:14:54-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/15/i-missed-yesterday.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/13/sometimes-ideas-overwhelm.html",
				"title": "Sometimes ideas overwhelm me.",
				"content_html": "<p>I get a lot of them and I have half the ability to follow through on them. I come up with topics and things I want to express and I end up blasting them in places where they will disappear into the ether instead of ending up on a blog. Sometimes I catch myself and move the string of text over to a post or draft but then never end up finishing or expanding on the thoughts. How do I become better at this?</p>\n<p>Maybe I need to set aside a day every week or every couple weeks where I go back through all my drafts and see if anything in the backlog is ticking any boxes in the present. This is coming up today because this morning I had a conversation with someone about scheduling and convenience and we went back and forth for about 20 minutes and I decided, as something I have discussed before, and that I&rsquo;m now talking about again, I needed to make it a blog post.</p>\n<p>I also recently found myself ranting in &ldquo;dumpster-fire&rdquo; on the omg.lol Discord about the non-existent coverage of wildfires in the west usually unless it is in California. Someone (not naming any names) tried to push back on this and went looking to prove that I was wrong, only to find that I was right. This is a subject that is quite important to me and deserves for me to put a stamp on it in a blog post. So I&rsquo;ve now started two posts in Drafts today, they are mere shells, but then I went to add them to my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/wips\">Works in Progress</a> post and realized I have nearly two dozen other drafts I could be working on. In fact, that post itself was originally an attempt to push me to start a digital garden.</p>\n<p>Now again I&rsquo;m thinking about the digital garden I want to foster and how I&rsquo;d love to go back and convert these half ideas where I have half the energy and probably won&rsquo;t finish half of them and make them seedlings in the digital garden. I already added the need for a template around this idea to my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/roadmap\">Roadmap</a>, they could be &ldquo;stubs&rdquo; or even, as I just said &ldquo;seedlings,&rdquo; thereby giving me permission to publish them and get them out of Drafts but not feeling like I need to push through finishing them if I can&rsquo;t or don&rsquo;t feel up to it right away.</p>\n<p>What if I called them &ldquo;halflings&rdquo; as I just said &ldquo;half&rdquo; three times when trying to describe them and I like the idea of having little Hobbit posts on my weblog. I may be getting somewhere in this ramble today. Do these belong on weblog? Should they live on another microblog? I have two unused microblogs on my premium account. I originally thought, as I intended when adding them to the weblog roadmap, that they would be on weblog, but now I wonder if they should be in their own place. Since we do not yet have the idea of &ldquo;post types&rdquo; on Micro.blog, I could simply make the differentiator the blog itself. Definitely some things to consider now.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>76</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I get a lot of them and I have half the ability to follow through on them. I come up with topics and things I want to express and I end up blasting them in places where they will disappear into the ether instead of ending up on a blog. Sometimes I catch myself and move the string of text over to a post or draft but then never end up finishing or expanding on the thoughts. How do I become better at this?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMaybe I need to set aside a day every week or every couple weeks where I go back through all my drafts and see if anything in the backlog is ticking any boxes in the present. This is coming up today because this morning I had a conversation with someone about scheduling and convenience and we went back and forth for about 20 minutes and I decided, as something I have discussed before, and that I'm now talking about again, I needed to make it a blog post.\r\n\r\nI also recently found myself ranting in \"dumpster-fire\" on the omg.lol Discord about the non-existent coverage of wildfires in the west usually unless it is in California. Someone (not naming any names) tried to push back on this and went looking to prove that I was wrong, only to find that I was right. This is a subject that is quite important to me and deserves for me to put a stamp on it in a blog post. So I've now started two posts in Drafts today, they are mere shells, but then I went to add them to my [Works in Progress](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/wips) post and realized I have nearly two dozen other drafts I could be working on. In fact, that post itself was originally an attempt to push me to start a digital garden.\r\n\r\nNow again I'm thinking about the digital garden I want to foster and how I'd love to go back and convert these half ideas where I have half the energy and probably won't finish half of them and make them seedlings in the digital garden. I already added the need for a template around this idea to my [Roadmap](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/roadmap), they could be \"stubs\" or even, as I just said \"seedlings,\" thereby giving me permission to publish them and get them out of Drafts but not feeling like I need to push through finishing them if I can't or don't feel up to it right away.\r\n\r\nWhat if I called them \"halflings\" as I just said \"half\" three times when trying to describe them and I like the idea of having little Hobbit posts on my weblog. I may be getting somewhere in this ramble today. Do these belong on weblog? Should they live on another microblog? I have two unused microblogs on my premium account. I originally thought, as I intended when adding them to the weblog roadmap, that they would be on weblog, but now I wonder if they should be in their own place. Since we do not yet have the idea of \"post types\" on Micro.blog, I could simply make the differentiator the blog itself. Definitely some things to consider now.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**76**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-13T15:46:11-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/13/sometimes-ideas-overwhelm.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/12/number-seventyfive.html",
				"title": "Number seventy-five.",
				"content_html": "<p>Can you believe it? This thing is 75 blogs posts old. I can&rsquo;t believe it. I&rsquo;m not even sure what I&rsquo;ve accomplished. I feel like I&rsquo;ve essentially rambled for 75 blog posts. I&rsquo;m rambling right now. I&rsquo;ll be honest, this type of rambling blog post is not my preferred style. I like to think about a topic or recent discussion that has interested me and dive into it, perhaps read some other pieces or do a bit of research, and then make it personal. I was never one to keep a diary, much.</p>\n<p>I would consider weblog to be more of this style. I don&rsquo;t publish as much there, but that&rsquo;s because each piece takes more time and thought. Weblog is now twenty-one months old and has 150 published posts and 35+ pages. That still seems like a lot of posts. That&rsquo;s just over seven blog posts per month on average.</p>\n<p>The topic of monetizing blogs came up recently on the omg.lol Discord. This was before and separate to <a href=\"https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/\">that piece that went around the other day about monetization</a>. But then I also read that <a href=\"https://www.sigops.org/2024/the-moral-implications-of-being-a-moderately-successful-computer-scientist-and-a-woman/\">excellent yet sobering blog post about women in tech</a> and there is a quote that stuck out to me and made me feel like I understood my resistance to attempting to monetize my blog(s):</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As anyone who’s read Entitled – or ever used the Internet – knows, some men love to be experts. Men were born to pontificate, and women to listen. Not surprisingly, I have run into an excess of this kind of man. If you want an entertaining description of this experience, read Men Explain Things to Me.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>When I perused the folks on <a href=\"https://oneamonth.club/\">One a Month Club</a> it seemed like mostly a list of guys (from what I could identify). I thought that interesting from the standpoint of <em>why</em> it was mostly guys. And then that quote came crawling out of the back of my head. Some of the people obviously don&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;re experts and that&rsquo;s not why they&rsquo;ve chosen to monetize (even via this rather insignificant token of support). It takes time and money to keep a blog going and they&rsquo;re just trying to even things out.</p>\n<p>But I can&rsquo;t help think there&rsquo;s gotta be a little ego boost in there too. Because if I were to sign up for that and nobody gave me $1/month, that surely is an ego detriment. Either, a) nobody reads my blog (which I don&rsquo;t believe is true), or b) nobody thinks my blog is worth $1/month. I&rsquo;ve had a Buy me a Coffee button my blog for nearly the entire twenty-one months it has existed and how much do you think I&rsquo;ve gotten? It isn&rsquo;t zero, but I&rsquo;m not paying any bills with it.</p>\n<p>Perhaps this is just me whining a bit or getting some feelings off my chest. Or maybe this is me talking myself off the proverbial ledge. I go back and forth on the subject of &ldquo;who is my blog for?&rdquo; I&rsquo;ve written about it <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2023/11/is-your-blog-for-you-or-other-people\">at least once in depth</a> and more times tangentially. It might be time to revisit that again because I obviously have more to explore on the subject, especially when it comes to the concept of monetization.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>75</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Can you believe it? This thing is 75 blogs posts old. I can't believe it. I'm not even sure what I've accomplished. I feel like I've essentially rambled for 75 blog posts. I'm rambling right now. I'll be honest, this type of rambling blog post is not my preferred style. I like to think about a topic or recent discussion that has interested me and dive into it, perhaps read some other pieces or do a bit of research, and then make it personal. I was never one to keep a diary, much.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI would consider weblog to be more of this style. I don't publish as much there, but that's because each piece takes more time and thought. Weblog is now twenty-one months old and has 150 published posts and 35+ pages. That still seems like a lot of posts. That's just over seven blog posts per month on average.\r\n\r\nThe topic of monetizing blogs came up recently on the omg.lol Discord. This was before and separate to [that piece that went around the other day about monetization](https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/). But then I also read that [excellent yet sobering blog post about women in tech](https://www.sigops.org/2024/the-moral-implications-of-being-a-moderately-successful-computer-scientist-and-a-woman/) and there is a quote that stuck out to me and made me feel like I understood my resistance to attempting to monetize my blog(s):\r\n\r\n> As anyone who’s read Entitled – or ever used the Internet – knows, some men love to be experts. Men were born to pontificate, and women to listen. Not surprisingly, I have run into an excess of this kind of man. If you want an entertaining description of this experience, read Men Explain Things to Me.\r\n\r\nWhen I perused the folks on [One a Month Club](https://oneamonth.club/) it seemed like mostly a list of guys (from what I could identify). I thought that interesting from the standpoint of *why* it was mostly guys. And then that quote came crawling out of the back of my head. Some of the people obviously don't think they're experts and that's not why they've chosen to monetize (even via this rather insignificant token of support). It takes time and money to keep a blog going and they're just trying to even things out.\r\n\r\nBut I can't help think there's gotta be a little ego boost in there too. Because if I were to sign up for that and nobody gave me $1/month, that surely is an ego detriment. Either, a) nobody reads my blog (which I don't believe is true), or b) nobody thinks my blog is worth $1/month. I've had a Buy me a Coffee button my blog for nearly the entire twenty-one months it has existed and how much do you think I've gotten? It isn't zero, but I'm not paying any bills with it.\r\n\r\nPerhaps this is just me whining a bit or getting some feelings off my chest. Or maybe this is me talking myself off the proverbial ledge. I go back and forth on the subject of \"who is my blog for?\" I've written about it [at least once in depth](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2023/11/is-your-blog-for-you-or-other-people) and more times tangentially. It might be time to revisit that again because I obviously have more to explore on the subject, especially when it comes to the concept of monetization.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**75**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-12T07:39:22-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/12/number-seventyfive.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/11/i-wasnt-going.html",
				"title": "I wasn't going to post today.",
				"content_html": "<p>I was gone all day at a birthday gathering for my dad. He turned 80 today. I drove nearly three hours round trip, and cooked while I was there, and interacted with people, all which shredded my energy levels. I didn&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;d want to or be able to post anything. I think I&rsquo;m operating on fumes right now.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m home in time for id24, a 24-hour virtual accessibility conference, so I&rsquo;ve got that going in the background until I pass out. Luckily I brought home some of the curry chicken &amp; broccoli casserole that I made, because I have no energy to make any other food tonight. I think I partly did too much yesterday when I knew today would be a lot.</p>\n<p>A while ago I asked Adam if a virtual watch party for the presidential debate was something we could do on the omg.lol Discord. So that was last night and in the morning yesterday I second guessed attending even though it was primarily my idea. Well, I did end up watching and it was pretty good. The chat was fun and the conversation after it ended pretty worthwhile. So I&rsquo;m glad I attended but it was probably more energy that I should have used up before today.</p>\n<p>I think I&rsquo;ll end here. I can catch up on anything else tomorrow.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>74</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I was gone all day at a birthday gathering for my dad. He turned 80 today. I drove nearly three hours round trip, and cooked while I was there, and interacted with people, all which shredded my energy levels. I didn't think I'd want to or be able to post anything. I think I'm operating on fumes right now.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI'm home in time for id24, a 24-hour virtual accessibility conference, so I've got that going in the background until I pass out. Luckily I brought home some of the curry chicken & broccoli casserole that I made, because I have no energy to make any other food tonight. I think I partly did too much yesterday when I knew today would be a lot.\r\n\r\nA while ago I asked Adam if a virtual watch party for the presidential debate was something we could do on the omg.lol Discord. So that was last night and in the morning yesterday I second guessed attending even though it was primarily my idea. Well, I did end up watching and it was pretty good. The chat was fun and the conversation after it ended pretty worthwhile. So I'm glad I attended but it was probably more energy that I should have used up before today.\r\n\r\nI think I'll end here. I can catch up on anything else tomorrow.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**74**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-11T18:33:39-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/11/i-wasnt-going.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/10/i-shouldnt-have.html",
				"title": "I shouldn't have to do these.",
				"content_html": "<p>Technically, during Blitz Week, I shouldn&rsquo;t also have to make a post here to complete my challenge. But it&rsquo;s almost like I&rsquo;m completely a personal challenge in addition to the main challenge. 100 Days to Offload is someone else&rsquo;s challenge; 100 Days of Blog is my challenge. So I&rsquo;m pulling double duty this week I guess.</p>\n<p>I put out <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-blitz-day-2\">Day 2 of the Blitz</a> yesterday. It was a pretty good one with two fantastic sets. The tools have some really great bits in them and the blog posts were excellent as well. I hate the word &ldquo;content&rdquo; but there was a bunch of good content in yesterday&rsquo;s post. I&rsquo;ll be doing another post today but taking tomorrow off for family stuff.</p>\n<p>My dad turns 80 tomorrow. It&rsquo;s crazy to remember that for his 60th birthday we were in Puerto Rico. How is that 20 years ago? How? I can see just like it was yesterday watching him wade into the waves at Crash Boat Beach. My sister, mom, and I attempted to snorkel with my sister&rsquo;s husband, Chris, but the waters on the north side of the island were too rough and choppy on the tail end of a hurricane. The hurricane we flew around on our flight from Atlanta to San Juan.</p>\n<p>That trip was two years before I bought my first digital camera. I had no smart phone. I did have a camcorder and I took footage, which I still have, but I have no idea if that camcorder still functions or what the condition of the footage is anymore. A lot of the electronics graveyard in my house is in the basement and I don&rsquo;t know how things fare down there. Might be interesting to dig some things out someday and find out.</p>\n<p>Tomorrow is also supposed to be the start of the cool down with a chance of rain even. Boy, wouldn&rsquo;t that be a treat. I am ready for the hot dry summer to be over. Oregon is as full of wildfires this year as any year in the past five or so. I was just looking at photos from 2020 yesterday and remembering the choking wildfire smoke that covered the entire west coast for weeks in September. It&rsquo;s been four years since the worst wildfires I&rsquo;ve ever experienced in my life.</p>\n<p>September is also the month I would normally do some traveling in the before times. Yes, it is still a before/after times scenario for me. Once my chronic illness took a turn in 2018/19 and then the pandemic set in, I just can&rsquo;t really carry on like I used to. I really miss going hiking and to visit gardens and natural areas around the Pacific Northwest. I miss photography and wild spaces. I miss having just enough energy to get by. Now, I barely get by.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>73</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Technically, during Blitz Week, I shouldn't also have to make a post here to complete my challenge. But it's almost like I'm completely a personal challenge in addition to the main challenge. 100 Days to Offload is someone else's challenge; 100 Days of Blog is my challenge. So I'm pulling double duty this week I guess.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI put out [Day 2 of the Blitz](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-blitz-day-2) yesterday. It was a pretty good one with two fantastic sets. The tools have some really great bits in them and the blog posts were excellent as well. I hate the word \"content\" but there was a bunch of good content in yesterday's post. I'll be doing another post today but taking tomorrow off for family stuff.\n\nMy dad turns 80 tomorrow. It's crazy to remember that for his 60th birthday we were in Puerto Rico. How is that 20 years ago? How? I can see just like it was yesterday watching him wade into the waves at Crash Boat Beach. My sister, mom, and I attempted to snorkel with my sister's husband, Chris, but the waters on the north side of the island were too rough and choppy on the tail end of a hurricane. The hurricane we flew around on our flight from Atlanta to San Juan.\n\nThat trip was two years before I bought my first digital camera. I had no smart phone. I did have a camcorder and I took footage, which I still have, but I have no idea if that camcorder still functions or what the condition of the footage is anymore. A lot of the electronics graveyard in my house is in the basement and I don't know how things fare down there. Might be interesting to dig some things out someday and find out.\n\nTomorrow is also supposed to be the start of the cool down with a chance of rain even. Boy, wouldn't that be a treat. I am ready for the hot dry summer to be over. Oregon is as full of wildfires this year as any year in the past five or so. I was just looking at photos from 2020 yesterday and remembering the choking wildfire smoke that covered the entire west coast for weeks in September. It's been four years since the worst wildfires I've ever experienced in my life.\n\nSeptember is also the month I would normally do some traveling in the before times. Yes, it is still a before/after times scenario for me. Once my chronic illness took a turn in 2018/19 and then the pandemic set in, I just can't really carry on like I used to. I really miss going hiking and to visit gardens and natural areas around the Pacific Northwest. I miss photography and wild spaces. I miss having just enough energy to get by. Now, I barely get by.\n\n---\n\n**73**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-10T08:37:28-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/10/i-shouldnt-have.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/09/blitz-week.html",
				"title": "Blitz week.",
				"content_html": "<p>Yesterday I <em>finally</em> wrapped up (for now) the updates to the weblog <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/domain-map\">Domain Map</a>. This was a long-time coming and I had been putting it off, mostly because it required some thought and it isn&rsquo;t automated. I broke it into two parts: the changes to the homepage (this took the most time) and the changes to the global footer links. I know there are some places where I could drill down even further, but I can always add more levels later. I was just glad to have the main structure updated.</p>\n<p>The weekend was otherwise uneventful, save for the activity I mentioned on Saturday. I spent some more time with my bookmarks spreadsheet and worked out a filter that hides rows (bookmarks) once they&rsquo;ve been published but doesn&rsquo;t delete them and keeps them on the master sheet. I realized that I have so many bookmarks right now I need to do something or I&rsquo;ll never get through them and new ones will become &ldquo;lost.&rdquo; So I&rsquo;m doing a blitz week.</p>\n<p>Every day this week I will publish a new set of bookmarks. I have the most in the blog post category, probably unsurprising, so every day will likely get a good dose of blog posts. But I&rsquo;m also clearing out other categories. For example, <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-blitz-day-1\">yesterday&rsquo;s post</a> included all of the collection bookmarks I currently have. I explain a bit about what I consider a collection and how I&rsquo;m assigning it.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-4\">Saturday&rsquo;s post</a> was the first time publishing bookmarks in category sets. This is the format I will follow this week. I explain in the post:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To start with, I have thirteen categories of bookmarks: article, blog post, collection, demo, font, issue, reference, resource, service, site, tool, video, and zine. Some things will likely cross categories and when that happens I may post it twice under different categories or I might just mention it in the description for the bookmark. Most of these categories are tech- or web-related but hopefully some other things can sneak in about design, typography, health, climate change, society, and the world.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>The only day I might skip this week is Wednesday, as I&rsquo;ll be busy with family stuff and may not have time. Otherwise, expect a new post with a slew of interesting (in my opinion) links every day this week.</p>\n<p>We finally cool down this week and mid-week is looking to be a refreshingly cool and possibly wet day. I literally am giddy with anticipation. Fall really is my favorite season. I love spring because the garden is so fresh and bursting at the seems, but fall is that season where I can go back to feeling relaxed and not always on edge about the weather, at least until February rolls around. Then I&rsquo;m ready again to be done with the weather.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>72</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Yesterday I *finally* wrapped up (for now) the updates to the weblog [Domain Map](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/domain-map). This was a long-time coming and I had been putting it off, mostly because it required some thought and it isn't automated. I broke it into two parts: the changes to the homepage (this took the most time) and the changes to the global footer links. I know there are some places where I could drill down even further, but I can always add more levels later. I was just glad to have the main structure updated.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe weekend was otherwise uneventful, save for the activity I mentioned on Saturday. I spent some more time with my bookmarks spreadsheet and worked out a filter that hides rows (bookmarks) once they've been published but doesn't delete them and keeps them on the master sheet. I realized that I have so many bookmarks right now I need to do something or I'll never get through them and new ones will become \"lost.\" So I'm doing a blitz week.\r\n\r\nEvery day this week I will publish a new set of bookmarks. I have the most in the blog post category, probably unsurprising, so every day will likely get a good dose of blog posts. But I'm also clearing out other categories. For example, [yesterday's post](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-blitz-day-1) included all of the collection bookmarks I currently have. I explain a bit about what I consider a collection and how I'm assigning it.\r\n\r\n[Saturday's post](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-4) was the first time publishing bookmarks in category sets. This is the format I will follow this week. I explain in the post:\r\n\r\n> To start with, I have thirteen categories of bookmarks: article, blog post, collection, demo, font, issue, reference, resource, service, site, tool, video, and zine. Some things will likely cross categories and when that happens I may post it twice under different categories or I might just mention it in the description for the bookmark. Most of these categories are tech- or web-related but hopefully some other things can sneak in about design, typography, health, climate change, society, and the world.\r\n\r\nThe only day I might skip this week is Wednesday, as I'll be busy with family stuff and may not have time. Otherwise, expect a new post with a slew of interesting (in my opinion) links every day this week.\r\n\r\nWe finally cool down this week and mid-week is looking to be a refreshingly cool and possibly wet day. I literally am giddy with anticipation. Fall really is my favorite season. I love spring because the garden is so fresh and bursting at the seems, but fall is that season where I can go back to feeling relaxed and not always on edge about the weather, at least until February rolls around. Then I'm ready again to be done with the weather.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**72**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-09T10:01:18-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/09/blitz-week.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/07/pity-or-purpose.html",
				"title": "Pity or purpose.",
				"content_html": "<p>I had yard work to get done this morning. It was already over 70°F when I headed out, which is fine, but it was still pretty early and the day is warming up. We&rsquo;re a little overcast and a bit more humid than I would like. There&rsquo;s some activity happening around the neighborhood. Two blocks over is a popular intersection of neighborhood haunts and apparently it is blocked off for some activity. Block party, street fair, something or other.</p>\n<p>So there is a bunch of cut through traffic on the block today, and so many cars coming and going, it&rsquo;s pretty annoying. I was trying to clear the gutters of debris on the street and kept getting interrupted by cars parking or moving. At one point I finally managed to get the entire curb gutter cleared and blown out into the street, just as one of my neighbors came over to chat.</p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t a great chat, to be honest. This is what is happening lately in conversations: &ldquo;we&rsquo;re so concerned about you, you seem so isolated, what can we do?&rdquo; But the thing that can be done is what nobody wants to do. It&rsquo;s getting so fucking old. I don&rsquo;t need your pity, I need your purpose. The purpose to acknowledge the harms still being inflicted by illness run-amok, to do what you can to lessen those harms, by way of masking in public, pushing for indoor air quality regulations, talking with your friends and family about doing the same, and educating yourself as to the real life harms to people in your community.</p>\n<p>Stop putting this on us. This isn&rsquo;t our fault. We would not choose to do this if we didn&rsquo;t have to. We are forced into isolation so that you can run around pretending nothing is going on. That&rsquo;s what is happening. This is the position we have been put in by your actions. I&rsquo;m so tired of having this conversation with people. I&rsquo;m so tired of the concerned looks and the obvious sneers. I&rsquo;m sick of being harassed to remove my mask, of having to explain to anybody why I need to wear one or why I need you to wear one when you come into my house.</p>\n<p>I just read a piece the other day about a girl who was bullied and harassed at school because she was still masking. She was doing so because her mother was ill and immunocompromised from cancer treatment. The girl eventually stopped masking because of the bullying, the school apparently did nothing to help her or protect her, and of course she got Covid, brought it home, infected her mother, and her mother died. This scenario is just one person, one family, and there are many of them across the world that this is happening to in some fashion. We are just throwing away health and lives for a fake perception of &ldquo;normality&rdquo; when there is nothing normal about rare cancers being on the rise, mass vaccine hesitancy and misinformation, previously managed infectious diseases on the rise, and everyone being sick all the time.</p>\n<p>I would choose this isolation again, a million times, over burying my head on this and constantly getting sick. I&rsquo;m worried about <em>you</em>! I&rsquo;m worried that you are killing yourselves and this society by refusing to see the damages that are happening all around you. Maybe you need to seek some help, because I&rsquo;m not the one ignoring reality. I face it every day and I react accordingly.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>71</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I had yard work to get done this morning. It was already over 70°F when I headed out, which is fine, but it was still pretty early and the day is warming up. We're a little overcast and a bit more humid than I would like. There's some activity happening around the neighborhood. Two blocks over is a popular intersection of neighborhood haunts and apparently it is blocked off for some activity. Block party, street fair, something or other.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nSo there is a bunch of cut through traffic on the block today, and so many cars coming and going, it's pretty annoying. I was trying to clear the gutters of debris on the street and kept getting interrupted by cars parking or moving. At one point I finally managed to get the entire curb gutter cleared and blown out into the street, just as one of my neighbors came over to chat.\n\nIt wasn't a great chat, to be honest. This is what is happening lately in conversations: \"we're so concerned about you, you seem so isolated, what can we do?\" But the thing that can be done is what nobody wants to do. It's getting so fucking old. I don't need your pity, I need your purpose. The purpose to acknowledge the harms still being inflicted by illness run-amok, to do what you can to lessen those harms, by way of masking in public, pushing for indoor air quality regulations, talking with your friends and family about doing the same, and educating yourself as to the real life harms to people in your community.\n\nStop putting this on us. This isn't our fault. We would not choose to do this if we didn't have to. We are forced into isolation so that you can run around pretending nothing is going on. That's what is happening. This is the position we have been put in by your actions. I'm so tired of having this conversation with people. I'm so tired of the concerned looks and the obvious sneers. I'm sick of being harassed to remove my mask, of having to explain to anybody why I need to wear one or why I need you to wear one when you come into my house.\n\nI just read a piece the other day about a girl who was bullied and harassed at school because she was still masking. She was doing so because her mother was ill and immunocompromised from cancer treatment. The girl eventually stopped masking because of the bullying, the school apparently did nothing to help her or protect her, and of course she got Covid, brought it home, infected her mother, and her mother died. This scenario is just one person, one family, and there are many of them across the world that this is happening to in some fashion. We are just throwing away health and lives for a fake perception of \"normality\" when there is nothing normal about rare cancers being on the rise, mass vaccine hesitancy and misinformation, previously managed infectious diseases on the rise, and everyone being sick all the time.\n\nI would choose this isolation again, a million times, over burying my head on this and constantly getting sick. I'm worried about *you*! I'm worried that you are killing yourselves and this society by refusing to see the damages that are happening all around you. Maybe you need to seek some help, because I'm not the one ignoring reality. I face it every day and I react accordingly.\n\n--- \n\n**71**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-07T13:04:39-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/07/pity-or-purpose.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/06/on-again-off.html",
				"title": "On again, off again.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;m on an &ldquo;off&rdquo; day again, immediately following an &ldquo;on&rdquo; day, if only for the morning yesterday. This type of on/off behavior when viewed externally is misconstrued and then blame is put on the illness sufferer. I just read a great piece on this <a href=\"https://mecfsskeptic.com/boom-and-bust-another-me-cfs-myth/\"><em>Boom and bust, another ME/CFS myth?</em></a></p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>The piece goes further into the &ldquo;theory&rdquo; and provides links to many of the supposed trials and studies from over the years. And yet, ultimately, there is no proof. There is a thing in ME/CFS we call &ldquo;baseline&rdquo; and though that sounds like an immovable place in time and space, much like moving goalposts, it isn&rsquo;t. Our baseline at any one time is something we try to maintain to avoid overexertion. But that baseline can move and it can move permanently if we&rsquo;ve &ldquo;busted&rdquo; too much.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>I think about this need to keep moving a lot when I look back to the many years I was a waitress. Now I wonder how I ever did that, but I also remember that I&rsquo;d often rather work an NBD shift, which started at 1pm and often lasted until well beyond closing (10-11pm), because it was a through shift. Working a spit meant I would stop the activity and sit down or go home and then attempting to resume was often impossible.</p>\n<p>So I don&rsquo;t look at my on/off days as boom/bust. I don&rsquo;t even look at days as days. What I mean by that is that sometimes I look at an entire week at a time because at any point during that week I could be thrown off for any number of days in a row. It&rsquo;s much easier to chunk activities together and hope that I succeed to get more done at once, and then have the luxury of downtime, rather than to expect to do a little bit every single day. I know this may not work for everyone, but as long as I&rsquo;m home and not somewhere else, and I have a place to immediately rest, this is the pattern that works for me most of the time.</p>\n<p>I really did get quite a bit done yesterday so today I expect to get relatively little done. And that is just fine. It&rsquo;s going to be hot again today, I gave myself permission to sleep in, and as a result the day will be short. I did all my outdoor watering in the morning yesterday, so I have very little to worry about outside today. I&rsquo;ll probably mostly work on blog stuff when it strikes me, but I may even give my brain a rest. I have nothing planned for the next two days, and then early to mid-next week I have several appointments and I will need to travel to help family, so pre-rest is probably on the agenda.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>70</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I'm on an \"off\" day again, immediately following an \"on\" day, if only for the morning yesterday. This type of on/off behavior when viewed externally is misconstrued and then blame is put on the illness sufferer. I just read a great piece on this [*Boom and bust, another ME/CFS myth?*](https://mecfsskeptic.com/boom-and-bust-another-me-cfs-myth/)\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"https://mecfsskeptic.com/boom-and-bust-another-me-cfs-myth/\">\r\n<p>Patients were thought to overdo it when they have a bit more energy, then crash, causing fatigue and frustration.</p><p>These spikes of high activity followed by prolonged rest are often referred to as ‘boom and bust’, a term originally used to describe the cycles of economic expansion and recession. In ME/CFS patients, boom and bust means doing lots one day and then very little the next.</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n\r\nThe piece goes further into the \"theory\" and provides links to many of the supposed trials and studies from over the years. And yet, ultimately, there is no proof. There is a thing in ME/CFS we call \"baseline\" and though that sounds like an immovable place in time and space, much like moving goalposts, it isn't. Our baseline at any one time is something we try to maintain to avoid overexertion. But that baseline can move and it can move permanently if we've \"busted\" too much.\r\n\r\n<p>For me, I find that high(er) activity days should be used to their full advantage. The idea that an object in motion stays in motion (<q cite=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_laws_of_motion\">A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, except insofar as it is acted upon by a force.</q>), as simplistic as it may sound when applied to a body, is actually something that works for me. The effort to \"get ready\" to do something is sometimes as much effort as the thing itself. So once I've started into a task, it is often better to see it through than abandon it.\r\n\r\nI think about this need to keep moving a lot when I look back to the many years I was a waitress. Now I wonder how I ever did that, but I also remember that I'd often rather work an NBD shift, which started at 1pm and often lasted until well beyond closing (10-11pm), because it was a through shift. Working a spit meant I would stop the activity and sit down or go home and then attempting to resume was often impossible.\r\n\r\nSo I don't look at my on/off days as boom/bust. I don't even look at days as days. What I mean by that is that sometimes I look at an entire week at a time because at any point during that week I could be thrown off for any number of days in a row. It's much easier to chunk activities together and hope that I succeed to get more done at once, and then have the luxury of downtime, rather than to expect to do a little bit every single day. I know this may not work for everyone, but as long as I'm home and not somewhere else, and I have a place to immediately rest, this is the pattern that works for me most of the time.\r\n\r\nI really did get quite a bit done yesterday so today I expect to get relatively little done. And that is just fine. It's going to be hot again today, I gave myself permission to sleep in, and as a result the day will be short. I did all my outdoor watering in the morning yesterday, so I have very little to worry about outside today. I'll probably mostly work on blog stuff when it strikes me, but I may even give my brain a rest. I have nothing planned for the next two days, and then early to mid-next week I have several appointments and I will need to travel to help family, so pre-rest is probably on the agenda.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**70**/100\r\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-06T11:53:44-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/06/on-again-off.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/05/on-my-way.html",
				"title": "On my way to a productive day.",
				"content_html": "<p>Despite the forecasted heat, I was up early, feeling alright and started my tasks without a hitch (so far). Nothing major today: some laundry and clothes folding; empty dishwasher and put other stuff away in kitchen from baking yesterday; some bills and budgeting; some blogging (hi!); more vacuuming—how I need to constantly vacuum in a house I live in alone, I do not understand—including cleaning hardwood floors; and probably some other stuff I&rsquo;m forgetting.</p>\n<p>I went outside and finished the watering in the front that I didn&rsquo;t do yesterday when I only watered things in the back and sideyard. What usually ends up happening is I go out there in the middle of the day, the worst time to be out there, but somehow that is how things pan out. Happy I got out there around 9:30am this morning. I remember a saying or perhaps just advice from a smart gardener that the best time to water in the garden is early in the morning or late in the evening and the second best time is when you get around to doing it 😁</p>\n<p>I took a few photos, haven&rsquo;t checked them out yet. If there&rsquo;s anything worthwhile maybe I&rsquo;ll do a garden status post or just a featured photo. I didn&rsquo;t get around to posting any bookmarks yesterday but I should do that today. I&rsquo;m also due for another blogroll spin/postroll on weblog and a some day note on microblog soon. I should get my Domain Map changes wrapped up first though, I&rsquo;m so pathetic at my follow-through lately.</p>\n<p>Adam made some changes to the profile page markup with microformats so I might review those changes and see if they interfere with my customizations. I had been planning on moving the profile page to raw HTML and perhaps now is the time. He also added my nine-part microformats series to an <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/omg.lol#IndieWeb_Friendly\">omg.lol entry on indieweb.org</a> after it was pointed out by another member. Part of this move to raw HTML from the pseudo-WYSIWYG editor will also prompt me to get the theme picker integrated. The profile and /now pages are currently dark theme only, and that&rsquo;s not great.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>69</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Despite the forecasted heat, I was up early, feeling alright and started my tasks without a hitch (so far). Nothing major today: some laundry and clothes folding; empty dishwasher and put other stuff away in kitchen from baking yesterday; some bills and budgeting; some blogging (hi!); more vacuuming—how I need to constantly vacuum in a house I live in alone, I do not understand—including cleaning hardwood floors; and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI went outside and finished the watering in the front that I didn't do yesterday when I only watered things in the back and sideyard. What usually ends up happening is I go out there in the middle of the day, the worst time to be out there, but somehow that is how things pan out. Happy I got out there around 9:30am this morning. I remember a saying or perhaps just advice from a smart gardener that the best time to water in the garden is early in the morning or late in the evening and the second best time is when you get around to doing it 😁\r\n\r\nI took a few photos, haven't checked them out yet. If there's anything worthwhile maybe I'll do a garden status post or just a featured photo. I didn't get around to posting any bookmarks yesterday but I should do that today. I'm also due for another blogroll spin/postroll on weblog and a some day note on microblog soon. I should get my Domain Map changes wrapped up first though, I'm so pathetic at my follow-through lately.\r\n\r\nAdam made some changes to the profile page markup with microformats so I might review those changes and see if they interfere with my customizations. I had been planning on moving the profile page to raw HTML and perhaps now is the time. He also added my nine-part microformats series to an [omg.lol entry on indieweb.org](https://indieweb.org/omg.lol#IndieWeb_Friendly) after it was pointed out by another member. Part of this move to raw HTML from the pseudo-WYSIWYG editor will also prompt me to get the theme picker integrated. The profile and /now pages are currently dark theme only, and that's not great.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**69**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-05T12:00:59-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/05/on-my-way.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/04/i-opened-more.html",
				"title": "I opened more tabs.",
				"content_html": "<p>After my spreadsheet accomplishment the previous day, I dashed it all by finding and opening a ridiculous number of excellent tabs yesterday. I further organized my spreadsheet with &ldquo;type&rdquo; filters, working off a master sheet, and now have more bookmarks to enter today. Trying to wrap up a few outdoor tasks this morning before we set in for hot nasty weather for the next several days.</p>\n<p>The hummingbirds appear to be molting, or at the tail-end of molting, as they&rsquo;re even more in a frenzied state than normal. This morning I sat on the patio and had two males, one my resident &ldquo;I hang out in the magnolia tree 24/7 male&rdquo; and an interloper. Both came to the feeder above my head looking a little scruffy and missing quite a few gorget feathers.</p>\n<p>I watered a tree in the back corner with a slow trickle and gave some of the containers a little supplemental drink. It looks like the digitalis is on its way out for the season. Very thankful that I even got a bloom stalk in the first year. Some other late bloomers still coming on, like the New England aster and a few sedums. Overall the garden looks pretty good for early September.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m going to bake something today. I have a few apples that are beyond cutting-up-and-eating raw so I think I&rsquo;ll make an apple coffee cake. I thought I might make apple crisp muffins but then I&rsquo;d have a muffin tin to clean and that&rsquo;s no fun. I love muffins but I hate cleaning individual muffin cups and I never use liners. My favorite form of baked good is: bundt cake, loaf cake, or 8x8 cake/bars.</p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve got some new seasons of shows now, like Only Murders in the Building and Slow Horses, but I&rsquo;m likely to let a few episodes build up so I can watch them back-to-back instead of waiting week-to-week. I will never understand the streaming trend of doing this. There&rsquo;s no reason for it, it&rsquo;s an unnecessary hold over from cable and broadcast TV and I hate it. I&rsquo;d rather wait an entire season and watch it all at once that adhere to a weekly schedule.</p>\n<p>So I started watching The Bay on BritBox yesterday and it&rsquo;s pretty good. Just about done with season one and have three more seasons I can fit it before I go back to the new seasons of other shows. I&rsquo;m a bit addicted to British detective shows, and a few New Zealand or Australia ones (pretty much the same format). It seems like both AcornTV and BritBox cater almost exclusively to that genre.</p>\n<p>Maybe I&rsquo;ll finish my Domain Map updates today. I got pretty far on that yesterday and then discovered I needed to update all my footnotes and that meant renumbering a bunch of them and I lost interest quickly. As Charlie Brown would say, &ldquo;oh bother.&rdquo; Perhaps I&rsquo;ll put out a bonus bookmarks post today, after I finish entering all the new ones and see what type of set I can come up with. The day is sort of up in the air, the best kind of day.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>68</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "After my spreadsheet accomplishment the previous day, I dashed it all by finding and opening a ridiculous number of excellent tabs yesterday. I further organized my spreadsheet with \"type\" filters, working off a master sheet, and now have more bookmarks to enter today. Trying to wrap up a few outdoor tasks this morning before we set in for hot nasty weather for the next several days.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe hummingbirds appear to be molting, or at the tail-end of molting, as they're even more in a frenzied state than normal. This morning I sat on the patio and had two males, one my resident \"I hang out in the magnolia tree 24/7 male\" and an interloper. Both came to the feeder above my head looking a little scruffy and missing quite a few gorget feathers.\r\n\r\nI watered a tree in the back corner with a slow trickle and gave some of the containers a little supplemental drink. It looks like the digitalis is on its way out for the season. Very thankful that I even got a bloom stalk in the first year. Some other late bloomers still coming on, like the New England aster and a few sedums. Overall the garden looks pretty good for early September.\r\n\r\nI'm going to bake something today. I have a few apples that are beyond cutting-up-and-eating raw so I think I'll make an apple coffee cake. I thought I might make apple crisp muffins but then I'd have a muffin tin to clean and that's no fun. I love muffins but I hate cleaning individual muffin cups and I never use liners. My favorite form of baked good is: bundt cake, loaf cake, or 8x8 cake/bars.\r\n\r\nWe've got some new seasons of shows now, like Only Murders in the Building and Slow Horses, but I'm likely to let a few episodes build up so I can watch them back-to-back instead of waiting week-to-week. I will never understand the streaming trend of doing this. There's no reason for it, it's an unnecessary hold over from cable and broadcast TV and I hate it. I'd rather wait an entire season and watch it all at once that adhere to a weekly schedule.\r\n\r\nSo I started watching The Bay on BritBox yesterday and it's pretty good. Just about done with season one and have three more seasons I can fit it before I go back to the new seasons of other shows. I'm a bit addicted to British detective shows, and a few New Zealand or Australia ones (pretty much the same format). It seems like both AcornTV and BritBox cater almost exclusively to that genre.\r\n\r\nMaybe I'll finish my Domain Map updates today. I got pretty far on that yesterday and then discovered I needed to update all my footnotes and that meant renumbering a bunch of them and I lost interest quickly. As Charlie Brown would say, \"oh bother.\" Perhaps I'll put out a bonus bookmarks post today, after I finish entering all the new ones and see what type of set I can come up with. The day is sort of up in the air, the best kind of day.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**68**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-04T13:17:11-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/04/i-opened-more.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/03/carrying-the-theme.html",
				"title": "Carrying the theme.",
				"content_html": "<p>So much for not laboring yesterday. I was so exhausted last night I slept until 9:15am this morning and was very thankful that the outside conditions were conducive to not being blasted out of bed. My bedroom faces SE so I am usually always up with the sun in the summer.</p>\n<p>This morning is a lovely overcast with light drizzle. Quite unexpected but I will not complain because the forecast still shows nearly 100°F on Thursday. So I&rsquo;m going to <em>really</em> take it easy today, which was what I had planned on doing yesterday. But instead, I showered and ironed a bunch of stuff, made my bed, made a casserole, and did some major bookmarks management.</p>\n<p>I now have a spreadsheet with all my current bookmarks and columns for: title, URL, publish date, author, site, organization, and type. Not every bookmark will use every piece of data, but this should really help me organize what I have and see if I can start to put out sets of categories of bookmarks. So far the category types are: blog post, collection, article, font, site, issue, video, tool, resource, demo, and reference.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m still looking at these and trying to see where some may overlap or be combined. I have issue with calling CSS resources &ldquo;resource&rdquo; but yet I&rsquo;m calling a font &ldquo;font&rdquo; which is also a resource. Maybe I just need to call CSS resources &ldquo;CSS&rdquo; but it isn&rsquo;t like the CSS resources are just &ldquo;download this thing and use it&rdquo; they are resources to get what you need for your CSS. I know, it&rsquo;s complicated. Fonts are fonts, CSS is not.</p>\n<p>The spreadsheet now has 58 entries 🥹 that all used to be open in tabs. Haha what a relief to close all those tabs. So the pain and energy spent was obviously well worth it. And I have plenty of material for crafting some yummy link lists. On the subject of that, I&rsquo;ve been putting the &ldquo;sub-title&rdquo; of the lists in the &ldquo;feed&rdquo; so it is attached to the content of the bookmarks, but that leaves the title of the post just a generic &ldquo;Bookmarks #&rdquo; with a count. I suppose that is alright, but now I think I may need to put something more in the title to reveal the post contents. I will think on this more.</p>\n<p>Today&rsquo;s post marks 2/3rds completion of the challenge!</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>67</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "So much for not laboring yesterday. I was so exhausted last night I slept until 9:15am this morning and was very thankful that the outside conditions were conducive to not being blasted out of bed. My bedroom faces SE so I am usually always up with the sun in the summer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis morning is a lovely overcast with light drizzle. Quite unexpected but I will not complain because the forecast still shows nearly 100°F on Thursday. So I'm going to *really* take it easy today, which was what I had planned on doing yesterday. But instead, I showered and ironed a bunch of stuff, made my bed, made a casserole, and did some major bookmarks management.\r\n\r\nI now have a spreadsheet with all my current bookmarks and columns for: title, URL, publish date, author, site, organization, and type. Not every bookmark will use every piece of data, but this should really help me organize what I have and see if I can start to put out sets of categories of bookmarks. So far the category types are: blog post, collection, article, font, site, issue, video, tool, resource, demo, and reference.\r\n\r\nI'm still looking at these and trying to see where some may overlap or be combined. I have issue with calling CSS resources \"resource\" but yet I'm calling a font \"font\" which is also a resource. Maybe I just need to call CSS resources \"CSS\" but it isn't like the CSS resources are just \"download this thing and use it\" they are resources to get what you need for your CSS. I know, it's complicated. Fonts are fonts, CSS is not.\r\n\r\nThe spreadsheet now has 58 entries 🥹 that all used to be open in tabs. Haha what a relief to close all those tabs. So the pain and energy spent was obviously well worth it. And I have plenty of material for crafting some yummy link lists. On the subject of that, I've been putting the \"sub-title\" of the lists in the \"feed\" so it is attached to the content of the bookmarks, but that leaves the title of the post just a generic \"Bookmarks #\" with a count. I suppose that is alright, but now I think I may need to put something more in the title to reveal the post contents. I will think on this more.\r\n\r\nToday's post marks 2/3rds completion of the challenge!\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**67**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-03T10:34:26-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/03/carrying-the-theme.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/09/02/a-no-labor.html",
				"title": "A no labor day.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;m resting today, following a day that I did far more than I expected to. Yesterday I ended up in the garden and then on the street. It&rsquo;s bin day so I took the bins to the curb and decided to cut a branch off one of the street trees that keeps getting hit by oversized vehicles trying to shove their way into a spot they&rsquo;re too large for.</p>\n<p>I had to haul the ladder out and I placed the bins in a way that I hoped no one would kill me with their car while I was up on the ladder with my head inside a tree. I did a nearly perfect job cutting that branch off, it fell cleanly to the ground after making the proper top and bottom cuts. It was too large to shove into the bin as-is so I started cutting it up and noticed towards the top to one side a nest!</p>\n<p>This late in the season, it was no longer in use, but the size and construction as well as the remnants of poop sure made it appear to be an Anna&rsquo;s hummingbird nest. Amazing that they chose a branch in a tree hanging over the road! Not only due to noise and pollution but the temperature must be so much higher from the radiant heat. Perhaps this nest was in use very early this year and the temperature increase was a feature. Anna&rsquo;s start to construct nests as early as December or January.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>I have saved the branch for further inspection. Eventually the remaining leaves will dry up and fall off and then I can decide what I want to do with it. For now it is a curiosity and makes me love my hummingbirds even more than I already did. I&rsquo;m curious to try to figure out what all the material is that was used to make the nest. I&rsquo;m positive I see synthetic fibers in there, but also twigs, straw/grass, lichen, moss. Amazing feat of engineering considering the size of these birds.</p>\n<p>In the afternoon I fell down a web rabbit hole. The best kind, where you start reading a blog post that links to other blog posts that further link to more blog posts. I ended up with an entirely new set of bookmarks to post, different than the ones I had intended to publish yesterday. Maybe I&rsquo;ll end up making a bonus bookmarks post this week. Anyway, I decided to go ahead with the new set because the subject of the rabbit hole prompted me to write <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/what-the-indie-web-means-to-me\">a post for weblog</a> and I wanted to link to the <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-3\">list of bookmarks</a>.</p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a line of discussion and reflection that goes something like: the IndieWeb is exclusive and the technology a barrier to entry. While I can agree with that to some extent, most things do present themselves as a barrier to entry nearly everywhere when someone is new. And while that is not an excuse, some of these other places are actual barriers to someone living a full life. The difference is when the people provide help with entry, and for the most part, I see that with the &ldquo;indie web&rdquo;. I&rsquo;ve rarely come across someone that did not want to help someone else to implement some piece of IndieWeb tooling.</p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t mean to continue my discussion here beyond what I already said in my post, but the discussion continues on in various channels so I guess I had a little more to say. I&rsquo;m considering adding a small addendum to the post with a few more points. We&rsquo;ll see how that goes. I&rsquo;m sort of wanting to get some things cooked today while it is still cool, as we&rsquo;re going to get hot again this week. Today is the only repreive.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>66</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I'm resting today, following a day that I did far more than I expected to. Yesterday I ended up in the garden and then on the street. It's bin day so I took the bins to the curb and decided to cut a branch off one of the street trees that keeps getting hit by oversized vehicles trying to shove their way into a spot they're too large for.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI had to haul the ladder out and I placed the bins in a way that I hoped no one would kill me with their car while I was up on the ladder with my head inside a tree. I did a nearly perfect job cutting that branch off, it fell cleanly to the ground after making the proper top and bottom cuts. It was too large to shove into the bin as-is so I started cutting it up and noticed towards the top to one side a nest!\r\n\r\nThis late in the season, it was no longer in use, but the size and construction as well as the remnants of poop sure made it appear to be an Anna's hummingbird nest. Amazing that they chose a branch in a tree hanging over the road! Not only due to noise and pollution but the temperature must be so much higher from the radiant heat. Perhaps this nest was in use very early this year and the temperature increase was a feature. Anna's start to construct nests as early as December or January.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/img-6298.jpeg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"A very small intricate bird nest constructed onto and into branches in a Japanese maple tree.\">\r\n\r\nI have saved the branch for further inspection. Eventually the remaining leaves will dry up and fall off and then I can decide what I want to do with it. For now it is a curiosity and makes me love my hummingbirds even more than I already did. I'm curious to try to figure out what all the material is that was used to make the nest. I'm positive I see synthetic fibers in there, but also twigs, straw/grass, lichen, moss. Amazing feat of engineering considering the size of these birds.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon I fell down a web rabbit hole. The best kind, where you start reading a blog post that links to other blog posts that further link to more blog posts. I ended up with an entirely new set of bookmarks to post, different than the ones I had intended to publish yesterday. Maybe I'll end up making a bonus bookmarks post this week. Anyway, I decided to go ahead with the new set because the subject of the rabbit hole prompted me to write [a post for weblog](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/what-the-indie-web-means-to-me) and I wanted to link to the [list of bookmarks](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/09/bookmarks-3).\r\n\r\nThere's a line of discussion and reflection that goes something like: the IndieWeb is exclusive and the technology a barrier to entry. While I can agree with that to some extent, most things do present themselves as a barrier to entry nearly everywhere when someone is new. And while that is not an excuse, some of these other places are actual barriers to someone living a full life. The difference is when the people provide help with entry, and for the most part, I see that with the \"indie web\". I've rarely come across someone that did not want to help someone else to implement some piece of IndieWeb tooling.\r\n\r\nI don't mean to continue my discussion here beyond what I already said in my post, but the discussion continues on in various channels so I guess I had a little more to say. I'm considering adding a small addendum to the post with a few more points. We'll see how that goes. I'm sort of wanting to get some things cooked today while it is still cool, as we're going to get hot again this week. Today is the only repreive.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**66**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-09-02T09:23:35-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/09/02/a-no-labor.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/31/sleep-shift.html",
				"title": "Sleep shift.",
				"content_html": "<p>Ended up exhausted yesterday and crawled into bed extremely early, fell asleep by 8pm. Then woke up today at 4:15am and it&rsquo;s not even 7am and I&rsquo;ve already: vacuumed the living room, had coffee, finished some laundry, washed some dishes and emptied the dishwasher. And now I&rsquo;m already blogging.</p>\n<p>Just more of my inconsistent life state lately. Soon, I&rsquo;ll be ironing a few things, changing the sheets on my bed and taking a shower. If that&rsquo;s all I get done today that can be marked as a success. Speaking of getting things done, yesterday became such a write-off I did not finish my weblog task of wrapping up the Domain Map changes, so hopefully I squeeze that in today&hellip;or tomorrow. I&rsquo;m not too worried about it, it will get done when it gets done.</p>\n<p>I finished watching Signora Volpe yesterday. There are only two season, and each season is only three episodes long. Though each episode is like a mini-feature film in length at almost 1.5 hours. It&rsquo;s kind of strange. I guess the thing it has going for it is that most detective series that try to shove a crime, investigation, and solution into 30 minutes is unrealistic. This series has the benefit of time to more fully explore those requirements. Yesterday I said the acting wasn&rsquo;t that great. I&rsquo;m not sure it is <em>better</em> than I suggested but it became less offensive as the series continued and I have grown more fond of the characters.</p>\n<p>The Italian police characters are quite interesting, they seem to be an arm of the military, or at least they used to be. Everything about them feels fascist even in a country that considers itself a democracy today. Yes, that is rich coming from someone living in the US, I know. There&rsquo;s an awful feeling of their past still sort of sticking around in the Carabinieri with their uniforms and seeming influence on everyday rights of citizens. I should probably read more about them rather than forming an opinion from a TV series, Wikipedia only goes so far.</p>\n<p>As a gardener, it was interesting to critique plants and gardens in the series. One of the plot points is that Signora Volpe buys a ramshackle villa and rehabs it. The garden is also sort of ramshackle but I can pick out things in it that are not native to Italy. There is a giant evergreen magnolia in the yard which are native to the southeast US, as well as a birch tree that could be a North American species or a northern latitude European species, hard to tell from what I&rsquo;ve seen. Either way, the garden has some &ldquo;exotic&rdquo; plants to Italy and I&rsquo;d love to be able to wander around IRL.</p>\n<p>Today is going to be hot, yet again. The hottest day in this late August heatwave. I hate it. I&rsquo;m done with the heat. I just want to be able to go out and spend time in my garden again comfortably. I have things I want to get done before November. I just can&rsquo;t do it when it is above 90°F. I still want to get an estimate for two more sections of fence on adjoining properties with mine, which I&rsquo;d also love to have done before the season ends, but they might have to wait for next year.</p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think I said today what I wanted to say, this post feels very stream-of-consciousness. I&rsquo;ve got plenty of blog post material floating around in my head. The hard part is getting it out of there. That has felt rather hard lately as fatigue greatly affects how well I am braining on any given day. This is worsened by heatwaves and swings in the weather, so what&rsquo;s going on outside, even though I&rsquo;m inside keeping cool, still affects my overall well-being. My nervous system still gets thrown out of whack by atmospheric and external temperature changes. This is definitely why fall/winter/spring are better seasons for me.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>65</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Ended up exhausted yesterday and crawled into bed extremely early, fell asleep by 8pm. Then woke up today at 4:15am and it's not even 7am and I've already: vacuumed the living room, had coffee, finished some laundry, washed some dishes and emptied the dishwasher. And now I'm already blogging.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nJust more of my inconsistent life state lately. Soon, I'll be ironing a few things, changing the sheets on my bed and taking a shower. If that's all I get done today that can be marked as a success. Speaking of getting things done, yesterday became such a write-off I did not finish my weblog task of wrapping up the Domain Map changes, so hopefully I squeeze that in today...or tomorrow. I'm not too worried about it, it will get done when it gets done.\r\n\r\nI finished watching Signora Volpe yesterday. There are only two season, and each season is only three episodes long. Though each episode is like a mini-feature film in length at almost 1.5 hours. It's kind of strange. I guess the thing it has going for it is that most detective series that try to shove a crime, investigation, and solution into 30 minutes is unrealistic. This series has the benefit of time to more fully explore those requirements. Yesterday I said the acting wasn't that great. I'm not sure it is *better* than I suggested but it became less offensive as the series continued and I have grown more fond of the characters.\r\n\r\nThe Italian police characters are quite interesting, they seem to be an arm of the military, or at least they used to be. Everything about them feels fascist even in a country that considers itself a democracy today. Yes, that is rich coming from someone living in the US, I know. There's an awful feeling of their past still sort of sticking around in the Carabinieri with their uniforms and seeming influence on everyday rights of citizens. I should probably read more about them rather than forming an opinion from a TV series, Wikipedia only goes so far.\r\n\r\nAs a gardener, it was interesting to critique plants and gardens in the series. One of the plot points is that Signora Volpe buys a ramshackle villa and rehabs it. The garden is also sort of ramshackle but I can pick out things in it that are not native to Italy. There is a giant evergreen magnolia in the yard which are native to the southeast US, as well as a birch tree that could be a North American species or a northern latitude European species, hard to tell from what I've seen. Either way, the garden has some \"exotic\" plants to Italy and I'd love to be able to wander around IRL.\r\n\r\nToday is going to be hot, yet again. The hottest day in this late August heatwave. I hate it. I'm done with the heat. I just want to be able to go out and spend time in my garden again comfortably. I have things I want to get done before November. I just can't do it when it is above 90°F. I still want to get an estimate for two more sections of fence on adjoining properties with mine, which I'd also love to have done before the season ends, but they might have to wait for next year.\r\n\r\nI don't think I said today what I wanted to say, this post feels very stream-of-consciousness. I've got plenty of blog post material floating around in my head. The hard part is getting it out of there. That has felt rather hard lately as fatigue greatly affects how well I am braining on any given day. This is worsened by heatwaves and swings in the weather, so what's going on outside, even though I'm inside keeping cool, still affects my overall well-being. My nervous system still gets thrown out of whack by atmospheric and external temperature changes. This is definitely why fall/winter/spring are better seasons for me.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**65**/100\r\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-31T06:52:46-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/31/sleep-shift.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/30/tgif.html",
				"title": "TGIF",
				"content_html": "<p>It was a hell of a night. I had a hard time falling asleep and then it was like my body was just not keen with functioning like a body. You really do not want a chronic illness, and if that means avoiding the plague, by all means, avoid the plague. Post-viral illnesses are the modern malady of society, and &ldquo;modern&rdquo; medicine doesn&rsquo;t want to face this.</p>\n<p>There are pockets of medical professionals that care and do the research, but funding is limited, and the clinics are overwhelmed with the onslaught of Long Covid patients. Not to mention that many do not take insurance because there are no approved treatments for ME/CFS or Long Covid, so prescriptions and testing often fall outside medical billing codes.</p>\n<p>On a lighter note, I have a &ldquo;new&rdquo; show I&rsquo;m binging on AcornTV. I feel like I&rsquo;m scraping the barrel until the fall TV seasons start. The premise of the show is alright and the location is lovely, but the acting is just okay. I&rsquo;m watching <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signora_Volpe\">Signora Volpe</a>. I could watch just about any story taking place in Italy or Southern France, the townships and countryside are just so gorgeous. Actually anywhere around the Adriadic Sea as well.</p>\n<p>So I&rsquo;m laying low today because the night has left me with little to give. If I get anything done it will be cooking something or doing a couple loads of laundry. It&rsquo;s going to be hot again today. I have no desire to venture outside much. I am about halfway done with my Domain Map edits on weblog. I should hopefully get those finished and published today, if not tomorrow. One more thing to check off the todo list, yay!</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>64</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "It was a hell of a night. I had a hard time falling asleep and then it was like my body was just not keen with functioning like a body. You really do not want a chronic illness, and if that means avoiding the plague, by all means, avoid the plague. Post-viral illnesses are the modern malady of society, and \"modern\" medicine doesn't want to face this.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThere are pockets of medical professionals that care and do the research, but funding is limited, and the clinics are overwhelmed with the onslaught of Long Covid patients. Not to mention that many do not take insurance because there are no approved treatments for ME/CFS or Long Covid, so prescriptions and testing often fall outside medical billing codes.\r\n\r\nOn a lighter note, I have a \"new\" show I'm binging on AcornTV. I feel like I'm scraping the barrel until the fall TV seasons start. The premise of the show is alright and the location is lovely, but the acting is just okay. I'm watching [Signora Volpe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signora_Volpe). I could watch just about any story taking place in Italy or Southern France, the townships and countryside are just so gorgeous. Actually anywhere around the Adriadic Sea as well.\r\n\r\nSo I'm laying low today because the night has left me with little to give. If I get anything done it will be cooking something or doing a couple loads of laundry. It's going to be hot again today. I have no desire to venture outside much. I am about halfway done with my Domain Map edits on weblog. I should hopefully get those finished and published today, if not tomorrow. One more thing to check off the todo list, yay!\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**64**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-30T09:42:00-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/30/tgif.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/29/happy-friday-eve.html",
				"title": "Happy Friday Eve!",
				"content_html": "<p>Haha, really looking forward to ending another week. I was mildly successful with my goals yesterday and finished most of them this morning before it got too warm. We have this thing here in Portland, I think it only applies to the summer months, where whatever the temperature is at noon, you can add 12°F to it for the day&rsquo;s high. They call it 12-at-12. So when I finished up outside this morning it was about noon and it was 80°F already, so our high will be about 92°F. Two days ago the high was only 73°F.</p>\n<p>I got the magnolia tree trimmed yesterday&hellip;mostly. I had two branches in mind, fairly large branches. Large in that they stuck out over places I walk and I was tired of ducking. But not large in diameter&hellip;or so I thought. It ended up that I used up most of my effort on only one of the branches and then had no will left to tackle the other one.</p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t that the branch was large, but it was long, and I misjudged how much effort sawing through the collar was going to be. The branch was so long I cut it into thirds. The last third was cut off at the collar and it was about twice as thick as the rest of the branch. I swear I was sawing through that for half an hour. It sucked. But today I benefited, as I walked behind the berm I instinctively went to duck and I no longer needed to, hooray!</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll have to cut the other one this weekend. It hangs more over the grassy side and isn&rsquo;t as low hanging, though when I mow the lawn I have to keep an eye on it so I don&rsquo;t bonk my head. Speaking of the grass, I ended up mowing the lawn today, because after I finished the one branch on the magnolia yesterday, I cleared of the patio cover of detritus.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not entirely sure what else I accomplished yesterday. It feels a bit blurry. That really does happen once in a while. I think I just puttered on weblog. Worked on tasks, updating lists. I read some blog posts. In fact, I read one that was so good <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/28/viral-infections-are.html\">I shared it on microblog as a bookmark</a>. It will be going in my weekly bookmarks on weblog as well.</p>\n<p>On that subject, yesterday was a banner day for excellent posts and resources to add my next bookmarks post on weblog. So many good things coming out and wonderful new CSS support in browsers. What an exciting time. I keep having the thought that I <em>want</em> to work in front-end or design engineering again so much, but that the landscape out there is even worse than it was when I left, burned out and sick. The only way I could do it would be working for myself or contract on a basis that I get to make my hours and decide how I work. I&rsquo;m just not convinced that opportunity is out there yet, and if it is, I don&rsquo;t have the resources to find it right now.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>63</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Haha, really looking forward to ending another week. I was mildly successful with my goals yesterday and finished most of them this morning before it got too warm. We have this thing here in Portland, I think it only applies to the summer months, where whatever the temperature is at noon, you can add 12°F to it for the day's high. They call it 12-at-12. So when I finished up outside this morning it was about noon and it was 80°F already, so our high will be about 92°F. Two days ago the high was only 73°F.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI got the magnolia tree trimmed yesterday...mostly. I had two branches in mind, fairly large branches. Large in that they stuck out over places I walk and I was tired of ducking. But not large in diameter...or so I thought. It ended up that I used up most of my effort on only one of the branches and then had no will left to tackle the other one.\r\n\r\nIt wasn't that the branch was large, but it was long, and I misjudged how much effort sawing through the collar was going to be. The branch was so long I cut it into thirds. The last third was cut off at the collar and it was about twice as thick as the rest of the branch. I swear I was sawing through that for half an hour. It sucked. But today I benefited, as I walked behind the berm I instinctively went to duck and I no longer needed to, hooray!\r\n\r\nI'll have to cut the other one this weekend. It hangs more over the grassy side and isn't as low hanging, though when I mow the lawn I have to keep an eye on it so I don't bonk my head. Speaking of the grass, I ended up mowing the lawn today, because after I finished the one branch on the magnolia yesterday, I cleared of the patio cover of detritus.\r\n\r\nI'm not entirely sure what else I accomplished yesterday. It feels a bit blurry. That really does happen once in a while. I think I just puttered on weblog. Worked on tasks, updating lists. I read some blog posts. In fact, I read one that was so good [I shared it on microblog as a bookmark](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/28/viral-infections-are.html). It will be going in my weekly bookmarks on weblog as well.\r\n\r\nOn that subject, yesterday was a banner day for excellent posts and resources to add my next bookmarks post on weblog. So many good things coming out and wonderful new CSS support in browsers. What an exciting time. I keep having the thought that I *want* to work in front-end or design engineering again so much, but that the landscape out there is even worse than it was when I left, burned out and sick. The only way I could do it would be working for myself or contract on a basis that I get to make my hours and decide how I work. I'm just not convinced that opportunity is out there yet, and if it is, I don't have the resources to find it right now.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**63**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-29T13:17:01-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/29/happy-friday-eve.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/28/better-today.html",
				"title": "Better today.",
				"content_html": "<p>Though circumstances remain unchanged, my outlook feels different. Maybe I&rsquo;m just in denial. It might be that I wandered around the garden this morning and took pictures. Perhaps I got better sleep last night. Who knows. I won&rsquo;t question the change, I&rsquo;m just going to enjoy it while it lasts.</p>\n<p>I finished my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/pets\">Pets</a> post on weblog and can&rsquo;t believe I wrote 2500 words about the animals I&rsquo;ve had as pets. The bulk of it was cats, and I think I flubbed a couple times on the order of things, but we are talking about 40+ years of memories so I did the best I could. In this post I talk about Ketchup in the intro, a small terrier that lived around my grandparents' farm. I&rsquo;ve always wanted to write short stories about Ketchup and a little girl that get into all sorts of mischief. Of course, the little girl is me.</p>\n<p>I cooked bacon in the oven in the morning so that I had some prepared for a recipe today. I also used four strips in a sandwich yesterday that was absolutely delicious. I&rsquo;ve had this sandwich idea for a couple weeks and I keep missing an ingredient when I think about making it. Here&rsquo;s the setup, from top to bottom:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>toasted sourdough slice</li>\n<li>lightly herbed ricotta (kosher salt + dried thyme)</li>\n<li>drizzle of maple syrup (could use honey)</li>\n<li>layer of apple slices (I used Gala, but Honey Crisp preferred)</li>\n<li>bacons slices</li>\n<li>baby arugula (very large handful)</li>\n<li>layer of apple slices (I used Gala, but Honey Crisp preferred)</li>\n<li>drizzle of maple syrup (could use honey)</li>\n<li>lightly herbed ricotta (kosher salt + dried thyme</li>\n<li>toasted sourdough slice</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Honestly one of the best sandwiches I&rsquo;ve ever had. I might have to make another one today if I don&rsquo;t use up all the bacon in the recipe I&rsquo;m planning on making.</p>\n<p>Today will be the last mild weather day before we heat back up. Last weekend was lovely, in fact, last Friday&rsquo;s high was 67°F and by the end of this week we&rsquo;ll be back up over 90°F. I am more ready for fall than ever before, and we haven&rsquo;t even been all that hot this year. I&rsquo;m just tired of the sun and heat, I much prefer mild and slightly cloudy. I will get out today and do a little yard work, or at least by tomorrow. I need to mow the lawn and cut some low branches off the magnolia.</p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t see any rain in the forecast for a while, but since the magnolia tree seems to bloom all season lately, I do have more detritus to clear out of the patio cover drainage. Might as well get that done when I cut the branches off. Other than that I&rsquo;ll likely work on some blog posts or items on my weblog todo list. I color coded the lists yesterday. This was mostly to have a more visual clue of where I&rsquo;m at when I glance at them, but it also makes them nice to look at. Green rows now signify items that are done; aqua rows are in-progress; blue rows are ongoing; pink rows still need to be done; and yellow rows are abandoned/obsolete items.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>62</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Though circumstances remain unchanged, my outlook feels different. Maybe I'm just in denial. It might be that I wandered around the garden this morning and took pictures. Perhaps I got better sleep last night. Who knows. I won't question the change, I'm just going to enjoy it while it lasts.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI finished my [Pets](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/pets) post on weblog and can't believe I wrote 2500 words about the animals I've had as pets. The bulk of it was cats, and I think I flubbed a couple times on the order of things, but we are talking about 40+ years of memories so I did the best I could. In this post I talk about Ketchup in the intro, a small terrier that lived around my grandparents' farm. I've always wanted to write short stories about Ketchup and a little girl that get into all sorts of mischief. Of course, the little girl is me.\n\nI cooked bacon in the oven in the morning so that I had some prepared for a recipe today. I also used four strips in a sandwich yesterday that was absolutely delicious. I've had this sandwich idea for a couple weeks and I keep missing an ingredient when I think about making it. Here's the setup, from top to bottom:\n\n- toasted sourdough slice\n- lightly herbed ricotta (kosher salt + dried thyme)\n- drizzle of maple syrup (could use honey)\n- layer of apple slices (I used Gala, but Honey Crisp preferred)\n- bacons slices\n- baby arugula (very large handful)\n- layer of apple slices (I used Gala, but Honey Crisp preferred)\n- drizzle of maple syrup (could use honey)\n- lightly herbed ricotta (kosher salt + dried thyme\n- toasted sourdough slice\n\nHonestly one of the best sandwiches I've ever had. I might have to make another one today if I don't use up all the bacon in the recipe I'm planning on making.\n\nToday will be the last mild weather day before we heat back up. Last weekend was lovely, in fact, last Friday's high was 67°F and by the end of this week we'll be back up over 90°F. I am more ready for fall than ever before, and we haven't even been all that hot this year. I'm just tired of the sun and heat, I much prefer mild and slightly cloudy. I will get out today and do a little yard work, or at least by tomorrow. I need to mow the lawn and cut some low branches off the magnolia.\n\nI don't see any rain in the forecast for a while, but since the magnolia tree seems to bloom all season lately, I do have more detritus to clear out of the patio cover drainage. Might as well get that done when I cut the branches off. Other than that I'll likely work on some blog posts or items on my weblog todo list. I color coded the lists yesterday. This was mostly to have a more visual clue of where I'm at when I glance at them, but it also makes them nice to look at. Green rows now signify items that are done; aqua rows are in-progress; blue rows are ongoing; pink rows still need to be done; and yellow rows are abandoned/obsolete items.\n\n--- \n\n**62**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-28T11:48:07-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/28/better-today.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/27/yesterday-was-all.html",
				"title": "Yesterday was all about washing.",
				"content_html": "<p>I ran some errands in the morning, then made an un-fun phone call (truly, what phone call <em>is</em> fun?), and after lunch I probably used up my water quota for the next month. I washed the car, ran the dishwasher, took a shower, and did one load of laundry. That also was my quota of energy for the week, oof 😣</p>\n<p>I worked a little bit more on my cats (now pets) blog post. I already have written more than a 1000 words about my pets. I find that sort of funny. I went looking for a masthead photo to use with this post and found a pretty good one but it is at my parents' house and I don&rsquo;t think I took the photo. That makes me not want to use it, even though it is the perfect orientation for a masthead.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m feeling a bit in a funk today. I can&rsquo;t shake the uneasy feeling about my future. I can&rsquo;t make the plans I need to make. I can&rsquo;t see how things are going to work out. They aren&rsquo;t going to work out, I&rsquo;m out of money. Without selling my other car, which would leave me without a car, something I cannot go without with elderly family that I help care for out of town, my next move will be <em>really</em> tapping into and draining my retirement. This entire situation is so unfair.</p>\n<p>Retirement plans are set up so that when you put the money in you don&rsquo;t pay tax on those funds. When you draw from them later, it is assumed that your tax bracket at that time will be less and you then pay the tax. But if you aren&rsquo;t working due to sickness and disability, there is no exception for that. I am in a lower &ldquo;bracket&rdquo;, in fact, I am in <em>no</em> bracket at all. I have no income. But drawing from the retirement plan means I pay a 10% penalty, <em>TEN PERCENT</em>, I am essentially paying a tax for being a poor sick and disabled person during prime working years. I&rsquo;m just at a loss on what to do. Things feel very grim.</p>\n<p>I could sell my house and get a whole bunch of money, but then I have nowhere to live that is my own. That is not an option. I need the safety of my home as a chronically ill person. Even moving with family and selling the home does not provide me the protection I need. Once that family is no longer with us, I would be forced to split the property with other inheritors, basically I would have to buy them out. I can&rsquo;t do that.</p>\n<p>As a homeowner, I have a certain amount of protection. Living with someone else removes that. Renting or living in assisted accommodations gives me a fright in this capitalistic hellscape. No, I will remain here as long as I possibly can. It&rsquo;s all I really have, as bleak as that sounds. If anyone wonders how people end up without somewhere to live, just get a chronic illness or disability, lose your ability to work, drain all your savings, sell all your belongings, and have no family to support you, there you have it. There&rsquo;s truly no safety net in America.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>61</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I ran some errands in the morning, then made an un-fun phone call (truly, what phone call *is* fun?), and after lunch I probably used up my water quota for the next month. I washed the car, ran the dishwasher, took a shower, and did one load of laundry. That also was my quota of energy for the week, oof 😣\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI worked a little bit more on my cats (now pets) blog post. I already have written more than a 1000 words about my pets. I find that sort of funny. I went looking for a masthead photo to use with this post and found a pretty good one but it is at my parents' house and I don't think I took the photo. That makes me not want to use it, even though it is the perfect orientation for a masthead.\n\nI'm feeling a bit in a funk today. I can't shake the uneasy feeling about my future. I can't make the plans I need to make. I can't see how things are going to work out. They aren't going to work out, I'm out of money. Without selling my other car, which would leave me without a car, something I cannot go without with elderly family that I help care for out of town, my next move will be *really* tapping into and draining my retirement. This entire situation is so unfair.\n\nRetirement plans are set up so that when you put the money in you don't pay tax on those funds. When you draw from them later, it is assumed that your tax bracket at that time will be less and you then pay the tax. But if you aren't working due to sickness and disability, there is no exception for that. I am in a lower \"bracket\", in fact, I am in *no* bracket at all. I have no income. But drawing from the retirement plan means I pay a 10% penalty, *TEN PERCENT*, I am essentially paying a tax for being a poor sick and disabled person during prime working years. I'm just at a loss on what to do. Things feel very grim.\n\nI could sell my house and get a whole bunch of money, but then I have nowhere to live that is my own. That is not an option. I need the safety of my home as a chronically ill person. Even moving with family and selling the home does not provide me the protection I need. Once that family is no longer with us, I would be forced to split the property with other inheritors, basically I would have to buy them out. I can't do that.\n\nAs a homeowner, I have a certain amount of protection. Living with someone else removes that. Renting or living in assisted accommodations gives me a fright in this capitalistic hellscape. No, I will remain here as long as I possibly can. It's all I really have, as bleak as that sounds. If anyone wonders how people end up without somewhere to live, just get a chronic illness or disability, lose your ability to work, drain all your savings, sell all your belongings, and have no family to support you, there you have it. There's truly no safety net in America.\n\n--- \n\n**61**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-27T09:50:41-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/27/yesterday-was-all.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/26/im-back.html",
				"title": "I'm back!",
				"content_html": "<p>It&rsquo;s been a week and I don&rsquo;t even know what I did. I did stuff, but it went by so fast. I know I had the brain space to post elsewhere and that was rather nice. I wrote a few things on weblog and on microblog. In that time Micro.blog rolled out a new web UI editor and I dealt with some bugs, which Manton quickly addressed.</p>\n<p>I got into the garden and took some photos. I&rsquo;m pretty smitten with the digitalis and captured two new <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/21/garden-status.html\">Garden</a> <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/25/garden-status.html\">Status</a> posts. I even wrote a new <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/23/some-day-notes.html\">Some Day Note</a> which was frankly so belated I&rsquo;m ashamed. I finished updating some weblog stuff, including adding a new template for <code>linklist</code> which I may have already mentioned here. But since then, I&rsquo;ve published two <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/tag/bookmarks\">Bookmarks</a> posts and a <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/diving-into-indiewebify-me-microformats-part-ix\">new part in the microformats series</a>.</p>\n<p>As I put these posts out I&rsquo;m reminded that I said I might break the lists up into groups of like links. This is now obviously a need and I&rsquo;m glad I had already sort of planned for it. Since these <code>linklist</code> posts are all one feed of links, there&rsquo;s no real way to categorize each entry.</p>\n<p>I now have quite a few links I&rsquo;d like to post together that are &ldquo;tools&rdquo; and I see a pattern in other links such as: video, blog post, research article, web component (such as a Github URL). And then there are things that I don&rsquo;t have a name for yet, I keep thinking &ldquo;framework&rdquo; but that term has such unlikeable connotations lately I do not want to use it. An example of this would be something like <a href=\"https://smolcss.dev/\">SmolCSS</a> which isn&rsquo;t quite a tool.</p>\n<p>I have quite a few new in-progress posts for weblog now. I put up a new Slash page: <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/why\">Why</a>, in a fairly rough state but plan to do much more digging in and exploring for what more I&rsquo;d like to put there in regards to how my &ldquo;minifesto&rdquo; ties into the work I want to do and try to do and write about on weblog (and elsewhere). The in-progress posts cover various subjects, the most recent, and the one I&rsquo;ll probably finish first, is about pets. I&rsquo;m writing about all my pets and I think it will be rather sweet.</p>\n<p>I still need to finish updating my Domain Map with the homepage changes, in fact, since I updated my todo list I have sort of been neglecting it and doing other things. I&rsquo;m also still trying to finish pages on weblog for Privacy and my Resume. So much to do and I haven&rsquo;t even gotten started on the three other sites I want to work on, including Tiny Pages for my CSS experiments. I think that will become a priority next so that I spend the winter months working on things there.</p>\n<p>There were two events in Portland over the weekend that I would have loved to attended: XOXOFest, the last one, and for which I wrote about on weblog, and IndieWebCamp. Looking forward to catching up on what people write about following each and ideas that were formed.</p>\n<p>Well, it&rsquo;s good to be back here and rambling once again. The break was nice, but writing things out here is so good for my brain. I mentioned before that I want to continue with this site even after finishing the current challenge and I still think that is what I will do.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>60</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "It's been a week and I don't even know what I did. I did stuff, but it went by so fast. I know I had the brain space to post elsewhere and that was rather nice. I wrote a few things on weblog and on microblog. In that time Micro.blog rolled out a new web UI editor and I dealt with some bugs, which Manton quickly addressed.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI got into the garden and took some photos. I'm pretty smitten with the digitalis and captured two new [Garden](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/21/garden-status.html) [Status](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/25/garden-status.html) posts. I even wrote a new [Some Day Note](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/23/some-day-notes.html) which was frankly so belated I'm ashamed. I finished updating some weblog stuff, including adding a new template for `linklist` which I may have already mentioned here. But since then, I've published two [Bookmarks](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/tag/bookmarks) posts and a [new part in the microformats series](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/diving-into-indiewebify-me-microformats-part-ix).\n\nAs I put these posts out I'm reminded that I said I might break the lists up into groups of like links. This is now obviously a need and I'm glad I had already sort of planned for it. Since these `linklist` posts are all one feed of links, there's no real way to categorize each entry.\n\nI now have quite a few links I'd like to post together that are \"tools\" and I see a pattern in other links such as: video, blog post, research article, web component (such as a Github URL). And then there are things that I don't have a name for yet, I keep thinking \"framework\" but that term has such unlikeable connotations lately I do not want to use it. An example of this would be something like [SmolCSS](https://smolcss.dev/) which isn't quite a tool.\n\nI have quite a few new in-progress posts for weblog now. I put up a new Slash page: [Why](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/why), in a fairly rough state but plan to do much more digging in and exploring for what more I'd like to put there in regards to how my \"minifesto\" ties into the work I want to do and try to do and write about on weblog (and elsewhere). The in-progress posts cover various subjects, the most recent, and the one I'll probably finish first, is about pets. I'm writing about all my pets and I think it will be rather sweet.\n\nI still need to finish updating my Domain Map with the homepage changes, in fact, since I updated my todo list I have sort of been neglecting it and doing other things. I'm also still trying to finish pages on weblog for Privacy and my Resume. So much to do and I haven't even gotten started on the three other sites I want to work on, including Tiny Pages for my CSS experiments. I think that will become a priority next so that I spend the winter months working on things there.\n\nThere were two events in Portland over the weekend that I would have loved to attended: XOXOFest, the last one, and for which I wrote about on weblog, and IndieWebCamp. Looking forward to catching up on what people write about following each and ideas that were formed.\n\nWell, it's good to be back here and rambling once again. The break was nice, but writing things out here is so good for my brain. I mentioned before that I want to continue with this site even after finishing the current challenge and I still think that is what I will do.\n\n--- \n\n**60**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-26T11:00:14-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/26/im-back.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/20/taking-the-week.html",
				"title": "Taking the week off.",
				"content_html": "<p>I won&rsquo;t be posting here this week. I had such a relaxing morning and day yesterday, I&rsquo;m going to finish the week by mostly staying off the internet. I&rsquo;ll continue plugging away on my weblog tasks and posting as necessary there, but I&rsquo;m taking a short &ldquo;summer&rdquo; break over here.</p>\n<p>See you soon!</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>​59</strong>​/100</p>\n",
				"content_text": "I won't be posting here this week. I had such a relaxing morning and day yesterday, I'm going to finish the week by mostly staying off the internet. I'll continue plugging away on my weblog tasks and posting as necessary there, but I'm taking a short \"summer\" break over here.\r\n\r\nSee you soon!\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**​59**​/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-20T08:36:36-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/20/taking-the-week.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/17/digging-into-tasks.html",
				"title": "Digging into tasks today.",
				"content_html": "<p>Starting with some laundry and ironing. It is lovely outside but I spent my outside spoons yesterday and really need to get some stuff done inside today. Not holding my breath on the &ldquo;emergency alert&rdquo; event that was announced on Thursday, where we may get thunderstorms and flash flooding. I guess we&rsquo;ll find out.</p>\n<p>After laundry and ironing, I&rsquo;m going to get back to the baking I wanted to do a couple days ago. The options are:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>snickerdoodles</li>\n<li>peanut butter cookies</li>\n<li>lemon cake (probably with poppy seeds)</li>\n<li>a pumpkin loaf</li>\n<li>an &ldquo;everything&rdquo; breakfast cookie</li>\n<li>scones with chocolate nibs</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not really leaning any particular way yet. If I had the energy I&rsquo;d make them all 😁</p>\n<p>This afternoon I&rsquo;m going to dig into the newly created todos that I organized yesterday, starting with finalizing the <code>linklist</code> template so that tomorrow I can roll out my first links/bookmarks post on weblog. Then I&rsquo;ll be updating my domain map to reflect the changes to weblog homepage.</p>\n<p>While organizing tasks yesterday, I also did some considering about this blog and what I&rsquo;d like to do with it after I finish the initial <a href=\"https://100daystooffload.com/\">100 Days to Offload</a> challenge. What I think I&rsquo;m going to do is create my own challenge named after the blog itself, using the hashtag <code>#100DaysofBlog</code>. It makes perfect sense to me. I don&rsquo;t plan on making it a &ldquo;public&rdquo; thing but I&rsquo;ll be updating the &ldquo;about&rdquo; page here with my intentions moving forward.</p>\n<p>I cleaned gutters yesterday in anticipation of some major rain with the thunderstorms. It may prove unnecessary but at least it is done. This had me up on a ladder under the magnolia again pruning branches. There is no end to pruning on the magnolia. That tree grows like a weed and blooms year round now. It isn&rsquo;t an evergreen magnolia, which <em>does</em> tend to bloom year round in temperate climates, but a deciduous saucer magnolia which usually only puts on a giant show in the very early spring. But this tree appears so happy in my yard it throws off blooms on the new growth all summer long now.</p>\n<p>I also seem to have a mated pair of mourning doves in my yard. They appear to be taking up residence somewhere in the front yard. I have encountered them on the front porch twice this week and this morning found them camped out on the driveway gate. I don&rsquo;t know if they&rsquo;re in the process of establishing a nesting site but I certainly hope they aren&rsquo;t eyeballing any places <em>on</em> my house.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>58</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Starting with some laundry and ironing. It is lovely outside but I spent my outside spoons yesterday and really need to get some stuff done inside today. Not holding my breath on the \"emergency alert\" event that was announced on Thursday, where we may get thunderstorms and flash flooding. I guess we'll find out.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAfter laundry and ironing, I'm going to get back to the baking I wanted to do a couple days ago. The options are:\r\n\r\n- snickerdoodles\r\n- peanut butter cookies\r\n- lemon cake (probably with poppy seeds)\r\n- a pumpkin loaf\r\n- an \"everything\" breakfast cookie\r\n- scones with chocolate nibs\r\n\r\nI'm not really leaning any particular way yet. If I had the energy I'd make them all 😁\r\n\r\nThis afternoon I'm going to dig into the newly created todos that I organized yesterday, starting with finalizing the `linklist` template so that tomorrow I can roll out my first links/bookmarks post on weblog. Then I'll be updating my domain map to reflect the changes to weblog homepage.\r\n\r\nWhile organizing tasks yesterday, I also did some considering about this blog and what I'd like to do with it after I finish the initial [100 Days to Offload](https://100daystooffload.com/) challenge. What I think I'm going to do is create my own challenge named after the blog itself, using the hashtag `#100DaysofBlog`. It makes perfect sense to me. I don't plan on making it a \"public\" thing but I'll be updating the \"about\" page here with my intentions moving forward.\r\n\r\nI cleaned gutters yesterday in anticipation of some major rain with the thunderstorms. It may prove unnecessary but at least it is done. This had me up on a ladder under the magnolia again pruning branches. There is no end to pruning on the magnolia. That tree grows like a weed and blooms year round now. It isn't an evergreen magnolia, which *does* tend to bloom year round in temperate climates, but a deciduous saucer magnolia which usually only puts on a giant show in the very early spring. But this tree appears so happy in my yard it throws off blooms on the new growth all summer long now.\r\n\r\nI also seem to have a mated pair of mourning doves in my yard. They appear to be taking up residence somewhere in the front yard. I have encountered them on the front porch twice this week and this morning found them camped out on the driveway gate. I don't know if they're in the process of establishing a nesting site but I certainly hope they aren't eyeballing any places *on* my house.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**58**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-17T09:40:37-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/17/digging-into-tasks.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/16/fuck-yeah-friday.html",
				"title": "Fuck yeah Friday.",
				"content_html": "<p>Happy Friday, folks. It&rsquo;s a great day to be a Friday! I&rsquo;m all over the place in terms of tasks and todos right now. It&rsquo;s time to reign it in. I made all those content updates to my weblog homepage a few weeks ago and completely neglected to update my Domain Map. I noticed that last night while I was working on a new template. Today I need to get some todo lists updated so I don&rsquo;t miss things like that.</p>\n<p>I was going to bake something yummy yesterday, but I ended up doing yard work instead. Energy levels just won&rsquo;t allow me to complete two tasks like that in the same day. Yes, standing in the kitchen and working on something that requires a bunch of steps and preparation, no matter how enjoyable the activity is or ends up being (or how yummy the result), is an exertion that leads to <a href=\"https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Post-exertional_malaise\">PEM</a>. It sucks. In fact, it is one of the scariest things about this illness.</p>\n<p>Folks with severe or very severe ME can die from starvation/malnutrition. It&rsquo;s a cyclical, self-fulfilling malady to find yourself in. I&rsquo;ve only slightly encountered the issue, where I&rsquo;m in a crash, I need to eat, prepare food, buy food, but due to the crash, do not have the energy to do any of it. Living alone and getting into a crash that you continuously can&rsquo;t get out of or dig yourself deeper into due to PEM, makes you hungry, and you can&rsquo;t get food or eat, is about as frightening as it gets. Now couple that with being in the severe/very severe stage of this illness and your body is so exhausted <em>it cannot even digest and absorb the food/nutrition put into it</em>. Hoo boy.</p>\n<p>Yesterday I had the idea that I&rsquo;d ask Adam if omg.lol could do additional fundraisers for other things. This came about due to the recent news that the ME/CFS and Long Covid study at the NIH will now pivot to only studying Long Covid. This was an immense let down and put me in a very bad place earlier this week. I was quite fraught even though I predicted this to some extent. The CDC and NIH have a history of denying and ignoring this illness and now we see them using their past neglect to further avoid it now that they actually have funds to do something. I&rsquo;m not shocked, anything they do cannot shock me, but it is astounding nonetheless.</p>\n<p>While I was attempting to watch some news yesterday, attempt unsuccessful by the way, an emergency alert came over the channel. I was thrown off! I can&rsquo;t remember the last time I encountered an emergency alert, but I think it was several years ago when we were supposed to have severe thunderstorms bringing one-inch sized hail. I still had two cars at the time and only one garage so I moved the small car onto the patio, which is not meant for cars, and the car was just inches from my house&rsquo;s foundation. The hail never materialized and then I had to maneuver the car out of that tight spot very carefully.</p>\n<p>This emergency alert was for flash flooding two days before the event is supposed to even happen, Saturday! Another thing I&rsquo;ve never encountered, notice of something two days prior to the emergency! Couple this with a drastic change to the forecasted temperature for Saturday, what the heck is going on at the National Weather Service office in Portland? Just two days ago, Saturday&rsquo;s high was forecasted to be around 73°F and now it says it will be mid-80s! So flash flooding and mid-80s is not the muggy and hot weather I desire. I will be trying to clear some gutters today prior to this supposed emergency event. I guess we&rsquo;ll see what happens when/if it happens.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>57</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Happy Friday, folks. It's a great day to be a Friday! I'm all over the place in terms of tasks and todos right now. It's time to reign it in. I made all those content updates to my weblog homepage a few weeks ago and completely neglected to update my Domain Map. I noticed that last night while I was working on a new template. Today I need to get some todo lists updated so I don't miss things like that.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI was going to bake something yummy yesterday, but I ended up doing yard work instead. Energy levels just won't allow me to complete two tasks like that in the same day. Yes, standing in the kitchen and working on something that requires a bunch of steps and preparation, no matter how enjoyable the activity is or ends up being (or how yummy the result), is an exertion that leads to [PEM](https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Post-exertional_malaise). It sucks. In fact, it is one of the scariest things about this illness.\r\n\r\nFolks with severe or very severe ME can die from starvation/malnutrition. It's a cyclical, self-fulfilling malady to find yourself in. I've only slightly encountered the issue, where I'm in a crash, I need to eat, prepare food, buy food, but due to the crash, do not have the energy to do any of it. Living alone and getting into a crash that you continuously can't get out of or dig yourself deeper into due to PEM, makes you hungry, and you can't get food or eat, is about as frightening as it gets. Now couple that with being in the severe/very severe stage of this illness and your body is so exhausted *it cannot even digest and absorb the food/nutrition put into it*. Hoo boy.\r\n\r\nYesterday I had the idea that I'd ask Adam if omg.lol could do additional fundraisers for other things. This came about due to the recent news that the ME/CFS and Long Covid study at the NIH will now pivot to only studying Long Covid. This was an immense let down and put me in a very bad place earlier this week. I was quite fraught even though I predicted this to some extent. The CDC and NIH have a history of denying and ignoring this illness and now we see them using their past neglect to further avoid it now that they actually have funds to do something. I'm not shocked, anything they do cannot shock me, but it is astounding nonetheless.\r\n\r\nWhile I was attempting to watch some news yesterday, attempt unsuccessful by the way, an emergency alert came over the channel. I was thrown off! I can't remember the last time I encountered an emergency alert, but I think it was several years ago when we were supposed to have severe thunderstorms bringing one-inch sized hail. I still had two cars at the time and only one garage so I moved the small car onto the patio, which is not meant for cars, and the car was just inches from my house's foundation. The hail never materialized and then I had to maneuver the car out of that tight spot very carefully.\r\n\r\nThis emergency alert was for flash flooding two days before the event is supposed to even happen, Saturday! Another thing I've never encountered, notice of something two days prior to the emergency! Couple this with a drastic change to the forecasted temperature for Saturday, what the heck is going on at the National Weather Service office in Portland? Just two days ago, Saturday's high was forecasted to be around 73°F and now it says it will be mid-80s! So flash flooding and mid-80s is not the muggy and hot weather I desire. I will be trying to clear some gutters today prior to this supposed emergency event. I guess we'll see what happens when/if it happens.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**57**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-16T09:17:41-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/16/fuck-yeah-friday.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/15/on-being-a.html",
				"title": "On being a realist.",
				"content_html": "<p>I saw a <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/14/i-definitely-needed.html\">Mastodon post yesterday</a> that hit me at the right time. People who tend to push back on &ldquo;negativity&rdquo; as pessimism, rather than seeing it as realism in the face of bad things that affect someone, are lost in their ways. On the greater whole of society, there seems to be a need to frame everything with optimism and, frankly, I find that to be toxic. It is often why I find the community aspect of Micro.blog so hard, it seems that only cheerful or pleasant things make it to Discover, when that is not reality.</p>\n<p>This closely maps to society as well. As I have seen first-hand with a chronic illness, people tend to not stick around very long when an illness does not go away. When someone is sick and doesn&rsquo;t get better, but also doesn&rsquo;t die, people do not know what to do with that. And suddenly they are uncomfortable and faced with their own existence and possibility of a slow and painful demise.</p>\n<p>We can&rsquo;t seem to grapple as a species with anything that doesn&rsquo;t feel &ldquo;normal&rdquo; and how normal is defined is quite the case study. Take for example the Covid-19 pandemic. Many insist it is over, and while you can argue that the acute stage of the pandemic may be over, the pandemic itself is far from over. Even with a dismantled testing and reporting infrastructure, we know there are at least one million cases per day right now. But no one is talking about it anymore, whether that be the media, the government, or our public health services. There is a collective imposed amnesia and avoidance, they&rsquo;ve chosen to define normal as if it isn&rsquo;t happening and if you still think it is, you are the abnormal one.</p>\n<p>It is all very gaslighty. Those of us with experience being treated with gaslighting in our own medical history are experiencing a type of PTSD. My own history with my own illness coupled with watching the slow motion destruction of so many lives by Long Covid has a real impact on my psyche. There&rsquo;s a little bit of Cassandra syndrome to this, as many of us raised alarms over how it seemed the handling of the pandemic and continued and repeat Covid infections would go: very similar to how our own course of illness went, along with the medical gaslighting. It is a nightmare.</p>\n<p>Anyway, on being a realist, I will not put on a happy face simply to make others more comfortable in their denial. That will not help anyone, let alone myself. When I am faced with negative consequences from collective action, I&rsquo;m going to call it out. Especially when it seems that the powers that be are the ones responsible for and influential in the decision to change course.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>56</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I saw a [Mastodon post yesterday](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/14/i-definitely-needed.html) that hit me at the right time. People who tend to push back on \"negativity\" as pessimism, rather than seeing it as realism in the face of bad things that affect someone, are lost in their ways. On the greater whole of society, there seems to be a need to frame everything with optimism and, frankly, I find that to be toxic. It is often why I find the community aspect of Micro.blog so hard, it seems that only cheerful or pleasant things make it to Discover, when that is not reality.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nThis closely maps to society as well. As I have seen first-hand with a chronic illness, people tend to not stick around very long when an illness does not go away. When someone is sick and doesn't get better, but also doesn't die, people do not know what to do with that. And suddenly they are uncomfortable and faced with their own existence and possibility of a slow and painful demise.\n\nWe can't seem to grapple as a species with anything that doesn't feel \"normal\" and how normal is defined is quite the case study. Take for example the Covid-19 pandemic. Many insist it is over, and while you can argue that the acute stage of the pandemic may be over, the pandemic itself is far from over. Even with a dismantled testing and reporting infrastructure, we know there are at least one million cases per day right now. But no one is talking about it anymore, whether that be the media, the government, or our public health services. There is a collective imposed amnesia and avoidance, they've chosen to define normal as if it isn't happening and if you still think it is, you are the abnormal one.\n\nIt is all very gaslighty. Those of us with experience being treated with gaslighting in our own medical history are experiencing a type of PTSD. My own history with my own illness coupled with watching the slow motion destruction of so many lives by Long Covid has a real impact on my psyche. There's a little bit of Cassandra syndrome to this, as many of us raised alarms over how it seemed the handling of the pandemic and continued and repeat Covid infections would go: very similar to how our own course of illness went, along with the medical gaslighting. It is a nightmare.\n\nAnyway, on being a realist, I will not put on a happy face simply to make others more comfortable in their denial. That will not help anyone, let alone myself. When I am faced with negative consequences from collective action, I'm going to call it out. Especially when it seems that the powers that be are the ones responsible for and influential in the decision to change course.\n\n--- \n\n**56**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-15T09:52:49-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/15/on-being-a.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/14/trying-only-gets.html",
				"title": "Trying only gets you so far.",
				"content_html": "<p>A person can try, try, and try again, but without community support, the trying could be for nothing. Sometimes trying cannot beat the forces that keep someone down. We have created a society where we blame people for &ldquo;failing&rdquo; in a system that is stacked with caveats and cracks to fall through. Then we deem that their situation is up to them to get out of.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve done nothing wrong. I was &ldquo;gifted&rdquo; and put in advanced courses since elementary school. I excelled in both academics and sports all the way through high school. After I got sick, my family and I tried to find solutions and were denied, turned away, gaslit and psychologized. And still I tried to find a way.</p>\n<p>I battled for a decade against this illness. I found relief only after taking a course of anit-virals for another condition. Then spent the next decade trying to dig myself out of the mire that I had been stuck in. I went back to college. I graduated and started a new career. I bought a house. I worked diligently and loyally for every employer I had for as many years as I could. And then I got sicker again and I got no support.</p>\n<p>Today, I find myself very quickly slipping away through those cracks and caveats. I&rsquo;m still not fully believed, the medical system is no better than it was thirty years ago. It is overwhelmed with the continued rampage of Covid and other conditions following on the heals of Covid trashing the immune systems of the masses. It isn&rsquo;t safe for me to get basic care in a medical facility because there are no infection mitigations remaining.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m running out of money to pay my bills. I will have to drain all my savings before I can even consider applying for disability. Disability is such a labyrinth of poverty-by-design I hesitate to even go there because then I&rsquo;m locked in to the limitations it imposes. My house needs maintenance but inviting workers inside is a risk I try to limit due to infection exposure. I can&rsquo;t really go and do anything anymore because, a) I&rsquo;m chronically ill, but, perhaps more so, b) it isn&rsquo;t safe for someone who is immune compromised.</p>\n<p>I just don&rsquo;t know what is left anymore. The only thing I have is this digital sphere, this place I can scream into the void from a safe distance in my own home. But this home isn&rsquo;t guaranteed forever. I will run out of money and then I&rsquo;m not sure what I will do. I can&rsquo;t work right now for the same reasons I can&rsquo;t really go anywhere. It&rsquo;s so messed up and I&rsquo;ve tried so hard and it nearly means nothing.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>55</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "A person can try, try, and try again, but without community support, the trying could be for nothing. Sometimes trying cannot beat the forces that keep someone down. We have created a society where we blame people for \"failing\" in a system that is stacked with caveats and cracks to fall through. Then we deem that their situation is up to them to get out of.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI've done nothing wrong. I was \"gifted\" and put in advanced courses since elementary school. I excelled in both academics and sports all the way through high school. After I got sick, my family and I tried to find solutions and were denied, turned away, gaslit and psychologized. And still I tried to find a way.\n\nI battled for a decade against this illness. I found relief only after taking a course of anit-virals for another condition. Then spent the next decade trying to dig myself out of the mire that I had been stuck in. I went back to college. I graduated and started a new career. I bought a house. I worked diligently and loyally for every employer I had for as many years as I could. And then I got sicker again and I got no support.\n\nToday, I find myself very quickly slipping away through those cracks and caveats. I'm still not fully believed, the medical system is no better than it was thirty years ago. It is overwhelmed with the continued rampage of Covid and other conditions following on the heals of Covid trashing the immune systems of the masses. It isn't safe for me to get basic care in a medical facility because there are no infection mitigations remaining.\n\nI'm running out of money to pay my bills. I will have to drain all my savings before I can even consider applying for disability. Disability is such a labyrinth of poverty-by-design I hesitate to even go there because then I'm locked in to the limitations it imposes. My house needs maintenance but inviting workers inside is a risk I try to limit due to infection exposure. I can't really go and do anything anymore because, a) I'm chronically ill, but, perhaps more so, b) it isn't safe for someone who is immune compromised.\n\nI just don't know what is left anymore. The only thing I have is this digital sphere, this place I can scream into the void from a safe distance in my own home. But this home isn't guaranteed forever. I will run out of money and then I'm not sure what I will do. I can't work right now for the same reasons I can't really go anywhere. It's so messed up and I've tried so hard and it nearly means nothing.\n\n--- \n\n**55**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-14T10:05:00-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/14/trying-only-gets.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/13/wasnt-sure-what.html",
				"title": "Wasn't sure what to say today.",
				"content_html": "<p>Didn&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;d say anything. Fully funked out, both from energy spent over the weekend and from an article I read this morning. I&rsquo;m just feeling very disheartened and unsure about my future on this planet. I don&rsquo;t write these types of posts for pity. I don&rsquo;t care if anyone else cares. Honestly, I know most people don&rsquo;t, and most people aren&rsquo;t even going to read this. I write this to mark it for myself.</p>\n<p>My illness, well documented across my blogs, has been ignored, dismissed, and under-funded for decades, longer than I&rsquo;ve been ill with it and I&rsquo;ve been ill for more than three decades. So when funding was earmarked for a new NIH study into ME/CFS I was skeptical, and it <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/13/cool-thats-what.html\">looks like my skepticism was right</a> (again). I&rsquo;ve read the internal mocking in the halls of the CDC. I&rsquo;ve been gaslit and psychologized by many doctors. I am living proof that most of the medical establishment would rather just let us rot away in squalor.</p>\n<p>At some point though I&rsquo;m going to say I&rsquo;ve had enough and decide that what remains of this life isn&rsquo;t a life anymore. Where that leaves me, I&rsquo;m not sure. I&rsquo;m sorry if this isn&rsquo;t cheery enough for you, but you get to carry on out there in the world and pretend we aren&rsquo;t in a pandemic anymore, and apparently now if you do end up with Long Covid, well, the funding and will is there now for medicine to want to do something. I&rsquo;m pretty sure they&rsquo;ll end up at the same place they did with ME/CFS, but for now you get to hold onto that hope that so many of us with ME/CFS did. I don&rsquo;t have that hope anymore, holding onto it takes too much work. I&rsquo;ve had my hopes dashed too many times and I can&rsquo;t take it anymore.</p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s all I have to say today.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>54</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Didn't think I'd say anything. Fully funked out, both from energy spent over the weekend and from an article I read this morning. I'm just feeling very disheartened and unsure about my future on this planet. I don't write these types of posts for pity. I don't care if anyone else cares. Honestly, I know most people don't, and most people aren't even going to read this. I write this to mark it for myself.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nMy illness, well documented across my blogs, has been ignored, dismissed, and under-funded for decades, longer than I've been ill with it and I've been ill for more than three decades. So when funding was earmarked for a new NIH study into ME/CFS I was skeptical, and it [looks like my skepticism was right](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/13/cool-thats-what.html) (again). I've read the internal mocking in the halls of the CDC. I've been gaslit and psychologized by many doctors. I am living proof that most of the medical establishment would rather just let us rot away in squalor.\r\n\r\nAt some point though I'm going to say I've had enough and decide that what remains of this life isn't a life anymore. Where that leaves me, I'm not sure. I'm sorry if this isn't cheery enough for you, but you get to carry on out there in the world and pretend we aren't in a pandemic anymore, and apparently now if you do end up with Long Covid, well, the funding and will is there now for medicine to want to do something. I'm pretty sure they'll end up at the same place they did with ME/CFS, but for now you get to hold onto that hope that so many of us with ME/CFS did. I don't have that hope anymore, holding onto it takes too much work. I've had my hopes dashed too many times and I can't take it anymore.\r\n\r\nThat's all I have to say today.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**54**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-13T12:19:27-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/13/wasnt-sure-what.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/12/cooling-down.html",
				"title": "Cooling down.",
				"content_html": "<p>We have a cooler week coming up and I&rsquo;m here for it. Today and tomorrow are seeing nights with lows below 60°F and daytime highs below 80°F. Heck yeah. Looks like it won&rsquo;t last forever, but it is heaven while it does. I&rsquo;m taking it easy today after a weekend of energy consumption. I detailed the inside of my car on Saturday and travelled to visit family yesterday.</p>\n<p>I also put up four posts on Saturday across my many blogs. None of them extremely long, though the ME Life post was a bit taxing to write. I had to think back quite a bit and I wanted to say the things I said carefully. I know this type of &ldquo;lesson&rdquo; probably gets through to barely anyone, but I have a lifetime of experience with an illness and I&rsquo;m watching the world throw their health away in slow motion instead of taking easy precautions. Even if only one person learns something and makes a change to their behavior, it is worth it.</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>I may also get back to working on the <code>/shortcodes</code> page on <a href=\"https://custom.themes.lol\">Custom</a> because I need to finish compiling my questions for Adam on where some of the shortcodes can/should be used. That&rsquo;s really the only hold-up to finishing that page. Then I need to go back and review the work I did on several features so I can make how-to/pattern posts for them. One of the posts I put up on Saturday was an <a href=\"https://themes.lol/2024/08/august-2024-updates\">August 2024 updates</a> post and I realized I&rsquo;m quite behind on getting the how-tos done relatively close to when I completed the work.</p>\n<p>I will start brainstorming on design and ideas for blogsand.coffee soon and I&rsquo;ve been thinking about the logo/icon I commissioned from <a href=\"https://heyheymomo.com/\">@heyheymomo</a> not that long ago to use on tableforone.cafe. Now I think I might want to use it for blogsand.coffee instead and commission a different one for tableforone.cafe. I think the tipsy coffee cup fits blogsand.coffee better for obvious reasons. I have other ideas for tableforone.cafe, such as a mixing bowl or mixer, or some other kitchen implement.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>53</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "We have a cooler week coming up and I'm here for it. Today and tomorrow are seeing nights with lows below 60°F and daytime highs below 80°F. Heck yeah. Looks like it won't last forever, but it is heaven while it does. I'm taking it easy today after a weekend of energy consumption. I detailed the inside of my car on Saturday and travelled to visit family yesterday.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI also put up four posts on Saturday across my many blogs. None of them extremely long, though the ME Life post was a bit taxing to write. I had to think back quite a bit and I wanted to say the things I said carefully. I know this type of \"lesson\" probably gets through to barely anyone, but I have a lifetime of experience with an illness and I'm watching the world throw their health away in slow motion instead of taking easy precautions. Even if only one person learns something and makes a change to their behavior, it is worth it.\r\n\r\n<p>I've got laundry to do today and I'd still like to get some scones baked. I'm looking at the <a href=\"https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/scones\">recipes for scones</a> on the King Arthur Baking site and there is plenty to choose from. I think I'm going with the one they claim is the <q cite=\"https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/scones-recipe\"><a href=\"https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/scones-recipe\">basic \"start here\" scone recipe</a></q> and I can use it as the basis for any number of add-ins. This time I want to add cocoa nibs.</p>\r\n\r\nI may also get back to working on the `/shortcodes` page on [Custom](https://custom.themes.lol) because I need to finish compiling my questions for Adam on where some of the shortcodes can/should be used. That's really the only hold-up to finishing that page. Then I need to go back and review the work I did on several features so I can make how-to/pattern posts for them. One of the posts I put up on Saturday was an [August 2024 updates](https://themes.lol/2024/08/august-2024-updates) post and I realized I'm quite behind on getting the how-tos done relatively close to when I completed the work.\r\n\r\nI will start brainstorming on design and ideas for blogsand.coffee soon and I've been thinking about the logo/icon I commissioned from [@heyheymomo](https://heyheymomo.com/) not that long ago to use on tableforone.cafe. Now I think I might want to use it for blogsand.coffee instead and commission a different one for tableforone.cafe. I think the tipsy coffee cup fits blogsand.coffee better for obvious reasons. I have other ideas for tableforone.cafe, such as a mixing bowl or mixer, or some other kitchen implement.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**53**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-12T11:49:20-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/12/cooling-down.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/10/its-a-day.html",
				"title": "It's a day, a Saturday.",
				"content_html": "<p>Neither good nor bad, it&rsquo;s just a day. This morning I&rsquo;ve already been outside and puttered. I made a pot of coffee which I am still nursing in my chair while I write and read blog posts. I finished that <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/10/my-me-life.html\">ME Life series post</a> I started yesterday. I&rsquo;m considering what the day holds for me and I&rsquo;m still not sure. Maybe that just means I take it as it comes.</p>\n<p>This morning I awoke with a start right before 6am. I swear the thing that woke me was a firework right out on the street, but I can&rsquo;t be sure. This has been happening ever since July 4th this year. I&rsquo;m sure it is the same people, they&rsquo;re just roaming around the neighborhood letting off single fireworks at any time of day. It&rsquo;s absolutely disruptive and I&rsquo;m positive that is the intention.</p>\n<p>Yesterday I discovered a cigarette butt had been tossed into one of my front flower beds. It wasn&rsquo;t put out first, it had gone out on its own. Luckily nothing caught fire, but my front yard is elevated off the sidewalk by four to five feet and the bed it landed in is about ten feet from the sidewalk so the person knew what they were doing. There are many other yards around this neighborhood that would go up in flames if a burning cigarette were tossed onto them.</p>\n<p>Earlier this week I finished my masthead with title pattern and <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/creating-a-masthead-with-title-pattern\">published a weblog post</a> walking through what I did and where I looked for inspiration and options. I forgot to mention anything here afterwards, so I&rsquo;m mentioning it now. I think it was a pretty good post and I&rsquo;m anxious to get my fluid type done so that the pattern is even more responsive. I think I&rsquo;ve earmarked that as the next priority preceding the major CSS refactor I have planned.</p>\n<p>Possible plans today:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>make spinach and cheese ravioli</li>\n<li>bake scones with chocolate nibs</li>\n<li>vacuum car</li>\n<li>work on another blog post</li>\n</ul>\n<p>But honestly, I&rsquo;d be fine if I didn&rsquo;t do anything at all. I feel like resting and that&rsquo;s probably what I should do. I&rsquo;m traveling to visit family tomorrow so resting would probably be the wisest choice.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>52</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Neither good nor bad, it's just a day. This morning I've already been outside and puttered. I made a pot of coffee which I am still nursing in my chair while I write and read blog posts. I finished that [ME Life series post](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/10/my-me-life.html) I started yesterday. I'm considering what the day holds for me and I'm still not sure. Maybe that just means I take it as it comes.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis morning I awoke with a start right before 6am. I swear the thing that woke me was a firework right out on the street, but I can't be sure. This has been happening ever since July 4th this year. I'm sure it is the same people, they're just roaming around the neighborhood letting off single fireworks at any time of day. It's absolutely disruptive and I'm positive that is the intention.\r\n\r\nYesterday I discovered a cigarette butt had been tossed into one of my front flower beds. It wasn't put out first, it had gone out on its own. Luckily nothing caught fire, but my front yard is elevated off the sidewalk by four to five feet and the bed it landed in is about ten feet from the sidewalk so the person knew what they were doing. There are many other yards around this neighborhood that would go up in flames if a burning cigarette were tossed onto them.\r\n\r\nEarlier this week I finished my masthead with title pattern and [published a weblog post](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/08/creating-a-masthead-with-title-pattern) walking through what I did and where I looked for inspiration and options. I forgot to mention anything here afterwards, so I'm mentioning it now. I think it was a pretty good post and I'm anxious to get my fluid type done so that the pattern is even more responsive. I think I've earmarked that as the next priority preceding the major CSS refactor I have planned.\r\n\r\nPossible plans today:\r\n\r\n- make spinach and cheese ravioli\r\n- bake scones with chocolate nibs\r\n- vacuum car\r\n- work on another blog post\r\n\r\nBut honestly, I'd be fine if I didn't do anything at all. I feel like resting and that's probably what I should do. I'm traveling to visit family tomorrow so resting would probably be the wisest choice.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**52**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-10T11:24:28-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/10/its-a-day.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/09/thanks-to-prior.html",
				"title": "Thanks to prior me.",
				"content_html": "<p>I love the days where I left things in a way the day (or days) before that set me up for easy wins another day. Some days I awake in worse shape than I went to bed the night before. Such is the nature of my illness. Sleep is not always a reprieve. Our bodies do some of their hardest work while we sleep and with an energy limiting illness that doesn&rsquo;t always result in a good night&rsquo;s sleep.</p>\n<p>This morning I was thankful that my kitchen was clean, my coffee accoutrements ready for brewing, and nearly everything put away in its place throughout the house, because I will be in semi-crash mode today. It always amazes me when the night goes so badly that I am forced to &ldquo;lay about&rdquo; all day, even though I just spent the night laying about.</p>\n<p>I had a dream last night that pissed me off so much in the dream that my mood this morning IRL was also sour. How about that. Thanks a lot, brain. The dream had me at a party at a house that I apparently lived at. My car was parked in its spot in the front parking spot, room for two cars. Someone who I didn&rsquo;t know and did not have permission took my keys and moved my car so that they could park there.</p>\n<p>When I can remember dreams like this I try to evaluate them, see if I can pick out what the purpose of the story is that I can use in my life. I always assume they have meaning, otherwise I don&rsquo;t think our brains will spend the energy having them. Is the lesson here that others are selfish and will always take it upon themselves to make their lot in life easier at the expense of others? Is it that I feel encroached upon by others, that me and myself and my things are threatened for the taking without my input or control? I&rsquo;m not sure, but whatever it is, it seems this one really angered me and I felt that the moment I woke up.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve started a new post on my microblog after yesterday&rsquo;s post here where I lament that I haven&rsquo;t been posting to my series there. This one will recount an experience with illness in My ME Life series. This series is a set of sporadic events throughout my life that I can recall that may be related to my chronic illness, ME/CFS. Nothing is chronological, and it isn&rsquo;t meant to be, I recall things when I recall them. This is one I&rsquo;ve wanted to write about for a while. Not sure how long it will be or if I&rsquo;ll finish it today, but soon.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>51</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I love the days where I left things in a way the day (or days) before that set me up for easy wins another day. Some days I awake in worse shape than I went to bed the night before. Such is the nature of my illness. Sleep is not always a reprieve. Our bodies do some of their hardest work while we sleep and with an energy limiting illness that doesn't always result in a good night's sleep.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis morning I was thankful that my kitchen was clean, my coffee accoutrements ready for brewing, and nearly everything put away in its place throughout the house, because I will be in semi-crash mode today. It always amazes me when the night goes so badly that I am forced to \"lay about\" all day, even though I just spent the night laying about.\r\n\r\nI had a dream last night that pissed me off so much in the dream that my mood this morning IRL was also sour. How about that. Thanks a lot, brain. The dream had me at a party at a house that I apparently lived at. My car was parked in its spot in the front parking spot, room for two cars. Someone who I didn't know and did not have permission took my keys and moved my car so that they could park there.\r\n\r\nWhen I can remember dreams like this I try to evaluate them, see if I can pick out what the purpose of the story is that I can use in my life. I always assume they have meaning, otherwise I don't think our brains will spend the energy having them. Is the lesson here that others are selfish and will always take it upon themselves to make their lot in life easier at the expense of others? Is it that I feel encroached upon by others, that me and myself and my things are threatened for the taking without my input or control? I'm not sure, but whatever it is, it seems this one really angered me and I felt that the moment I woke up.\r\n\r\nI've started a new post on my microblog after yesterday's post here where I lament that I haven't been posting to my series there. This one will recount an experience with illness in My ME Life series. This series is a set of sporadic events throughout my life that I can recall that may be related to my chronic illness, ME/CFS. Nothing is chronological, and it isn't meant to be, I recall things when I recall them. This is one I've wanted to write about for a while. Not sure how long it will be or if I'll finish it today, but soon.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**51**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-09T08:48:13-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/09/thanks-to-prior.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/08/fiftyfifty.html",
				"title": "Fifty:Fifty",
				"content_html": "<p>This post marks the halfway point in the <a href=\"https://100daystooffload.com/\">100 Days to Offload</a> challenge. It both feels like I&rsquo;ve written fifty of these posts and like I just started yesterday, so that means I would have written fifty posts in a day. Yep, that sounds about right. Today I thought I would reflect on how it has been going so far, what I would change if I decide to switch it up for the second half, and any other insights I might have. I haven&rsquo;t thought much about this yet so we&rsquo;re both learning as we go here.</p>\n<p>I really do enjoy not having a guiding theme and the fact that I intended to make these posts daily reviews of days past, considerations of the current day, and really anything that crosses my mind. In that respect, this is a little bit like a journal. I&rsquo;ve never actually had a journal, physical <em>or</em> digital. I may have had a diary at some point in my adolescence but I don&rsquo;t think the habit of writing in it ever really stuck. It was more filled with poetry and other ramblings. I wish I had been more organized and knew where all that was now, probably in boxes in my parents garage.</p>\n<p>I have found that some of the rambling thoughts could lead to full-fledged posts, so once in a while one of these posts is less of a journal and more of a rant or exploration of something bothering me or that I&rsquo;m thinking about. I&rsquo;d like more of this. Even if I don&rsquo;t expand on them here, perhaps I could pick up a subject on my weblog or microblog and write about it there. I want to try to be better about capturing those thoughts, no matter how silly, just in case they could lead to something more.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m wondering where this blog and the content goes when the challenge is done. Do I leave it up in perpetuity? That incurs a cost for the domain. Do I start over every time I want to renew the challenge? How often could that occur? I might take long expanses of not writing in between or just keep going. But then does the title still make sense? And then perhaps I have not organized the posts well enough. I&rsquo;m only numbering them within the content itself, not within any metadata. I&rsquo;m not sure if Micro.blog provides any sort of bulk edit capability if I were to want to add some categories for &ldquo;volume&rdquo; to correspond with the version of the challenge the post is part of, if that makes any sense.</p>\n<p>Maybe this is a one time thing and the lessons I have learned here should be ported to one of my other &ldquo;main&rdquo; blogs. Since I have found myself in a posting dearth on my microblog (the other one, not this one). And that is a curious thing. I feel more free on this one&hellip;why? Have I locked myself into something on the other one, even if only in my own head? I had several series going over there and I&rsquo;ve not been keeping up on them lately. That&rsquo;s a shame, some of them were really good. Maybe that is the issue with a series, just as a guiding theme: the freedom in not being restricted in what you write about leads to more writing.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>50</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "This post marks the halfway point in the [100 Days to Offload](https://100daystooffload.com/) challenge. It both feels like I've written fifty of these posts and like I just started yesterday, so that means I would have written fifty posts in a day. Yep, that sounds about right. Today I thought I would reflect on how it has been going so far, what I would change if I decide to switch it up for the second half, and any other insights I might have. I haven't thought much about this yet so we're both learning as we go here.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI really do enjoy not having a guiding theme and the fact that I intended to make these posts daily reviews of days past, considerations of the current day, and really anything that crosses my mind. In that respect, this is a little bit like a journal. I've never actually had a journal, physical *or* digital. I may have had a diary at some point in my adolescence but I don't think the habit of writing in it ever really stuck. It was more filled with poetry and other ramblings. I wish I had been more organized and knew where all that was now, probably in boxes in my parents garage.\r\n\r\nI have found that some of the rambling thoughts could lead to full-fledged posts, so once in a while one of these posts is less of a journal and more of a rant or exploration of something bothering me or that I'm thinking about. I'd like more of this. Even if I don't expand on them here, perhaps I could pick up a subject on my weblog or microblog and write about it there. I want to try to be better about capturing those thoughts, no matter how silly, just in case they could lead to something more.\r\n\r\nI'm wondering where this blog and the content goes when the challenge is done. Do I leave it up in perpetuity? That incurs a cost for the domain. Do I start over every time I want to renew the challenge? How often could that occur? I might take long expanses of not writing in between or just keep going. But then does the title still make sense? And then perhaps I have not organized the posts well enough. I'm only numbering them within the content itself, not within any metadata. I'm not sure if Micro.blog provides any sort of bulk edit capability if I were to want to add some categories for \"volume\" to correspond with the version of the challenge the post is part of, if that makes any sense.\r\n\r\nMaybe this is a one time thing and the lessons I have learned here should be ported to one of my other \"main\" blogs. Since I have found myself in a posting dearth on my microblog (the other one, not this one). And that is a curious thing. I feel more free on this one...why? Have I locked myself into something on the other one, even if only in my own head? I had several series going over there and I've not been keeping up on them lately. That's a shame, some of them were really good. Maybe that is the issue with a series, just as a guiding theme: the freedom in not being restricted in what you write about leads to more writing.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**50**/100\r\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-08T09:06:42-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/08/fiftyfifty.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/07/looking-back-in.html",
				"title": "Looking back in time.",
				"content_html": "<p>The benefits of posting every day include being able to look back when something started. Today I am looking back to when the roof across the street started being torn off. I&rsquo;ve just about had it with the <em>rap rap rap rap rap</em> noise of a constant nail gun. It&rsquo;s the summer of way-too-long projects, apparently. The fence between my driveway and neighbor&rsquo;s yard took two friggin' weeks.</p>\n<p>Yesterday I felt the sweet success of finishing a task I started and then wondered why I put it off for so long. I spent the morning in the shady part of my driveway scrubbing a patio shade, the grill cover, and the all-season floor mats from my car. Very satisfying to watch soap and water and a little elbow grease do such a good job.</p>\n<p>I dug more into CSS grid yesterday regarding my new masthead-with-title pattern because I thought I could do a little clean up. And I could, and I did, but in the process discovered that Safari was treating some declarations differently. This was discovered while writing the blog post about the pattern and I wanted to be sure I was saying the right thing, so testing across browsers is just a habit I still employ from years of development. It all worked out in the end, but I was unable to clean it up as much as I had hoped. Thanks, Safari.</p>\n<p>Feeling a bit in a funk this morning, but I do hope to finish that weblog post today. I thought I might not post at all today, including this post, since my head feels like it weighs a thousands pounds, but here I am. I also need to put up a 3x5.pics post today and I&rsquo;m not entirely sure what the subject will be yet. I usually gear those towards some event we are all witnessing/experiencing or a personal feeling. Still noodling on what that should be.</p>\n<p>I also realized yesterday I&rsquo;m just not using Micro.blog that much anymore. Other than authoring my posts, I don&rsquo;t really interact that much here, it feels sort of &ldquo;dead&rdquo; compared to Mastodon. Perhaps that is due to what I prefer to interact with or that I have found more people/accounts that create the content I am most likely to interact with there. I&rsquo;m not sure, and I don&rsquo;t mean to beat a dead horse, as I&rsquo;ve mentioned my issues with finding accounts to follow here and any sort of community several times. The reality of it just bubbles up from time to time and I find myself questioning the cost of remaining.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>49</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "The benefits of posting every day include being able to look back when something started. Today I am looking back to when the roof across the street started being torn off. I've just about had it with the *rap rap rap rap rap* noise of a constant nail gun. It's the summer of way-too-long projects, apparently. The fence between my driveway and neighbor's yard took two friggin' weeks.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nYesterday I felt the sweet success of finishing a task I started and then wondered why I put it off for so long. I spent the morning in the shady part of my driveway scrubbing a patio shade, the grill cover, and the all-season floor mats from my car. Very satisfying to watch soap and water and a little elbow grease do such a good job.\n\nI dug more into CSS grid yesterday regarding my new masthead-with-title pattern because I thought I could do a little clean up. And I could, and I did, but in the process discovered that Safari was treating some declarations differently. This was discovered while writing the blog post about the pattern and I wanted to be sure I was saying the right thing, so testing across browsers is just a habit I still employ from years of development. It all worked out in the end, but I was unable to clean it up as much as I had hoped. Thanks, Safari.\n\nFeeling a bit in a funk this morning, but I do hope to finish that weblog post today. I thought I might not post at all today, including this post, since my head feels like it weighs a thousands pounds, but here I am. I also need to put up a 3x5.pics post today and I'm not entirely sure what the subject will be yet. I usually gear those towards some event we are all witnessing/experiencing or a personal feeling. Still noodling on what that should be.\n\nI also realized yesterday I'm just not using Micro.blog that much anymore. Other than authoring my posts, I don't really interact that much here, it feels sort of \"dead\" compared to Mastodon. Perhaps that is due to what I prefer to interact with or that I have found more people/accounts that create the content I am most likely to interact with there. I'm not sure, and I don't mean to beat a dead horse, as I've mentioned my issues with finding accounts to follow here and any sort of community several times. The reality of it just bubbles up from time to time and I find myself questioning the cost of remaining.\n\n--- \n\n**49**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-07T10:18:22-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/07/looking-back-in.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/06/a-new-pattern.html",
				"title": "A new pattern and post.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;m nearly done with a new title pattern for weblog and currently writing a blog post. That&rsquo;s top priority to finish. I wasn&rsquo;t planning on using it right away until I had the fluid typography refactor done, but the two places I planned to use it really don&rsquo;t suffer from the issue that fluid type will help. It&rsquo;s live on the homepage and 404 page on weblog.</p>\n<p>I baked a casserole and it was one of the best versions yet. It seems like every time I make something I tweak it just a little and it gets better. I&rsquo;m not sure I even measured what went into this one. The Penzey&rsquo;s spices order came so I was able to toss in some stuff from that. It&rsquo;s a giant haul and currently sitting on my kitchen island because I&rsquo;m going to have completely reorganize my spice cabinet, pull everything out and possibly discard of anything hidden in the back that I no longer use. I need more room for all my spices!</p>\n<p>The landscape designer came out yesterday to talk about two projects, one of which is moot now that the fence is done and the retaining wall issue has been &ldquo;buried&rdquo; on the neighbor&rsquo;s side. Folks, when you&rsquo;re doing a project that impacts your neighbors, the rules are simple: get their input, communicate clearly, answer their questions, and <em>be home when the work is being done</em> at least part of the time. The other project we discussed was an extension of the sideyard path around the west side of the front porch. That will remove all the grass in the front yard, leaving the small round grass under the magnolia the remaining lawn.</p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t have immediate plans to complete this project, it will have to wait until after the house/garage is painted, but I want to get an idea of cost since the sideyard path was put in three years ago and costs have changed. I&rsquo;ll also need to start pulling out plants in the terraces that have been there since I first planted the front yard more than a decade ago. They are far too large now, past their prime, and I&rsquo;m ready for a fresh look. So when the path gets done, I&rsquo;ll likely replant much of the front yard garden. There are a few specimen pieces and shrubs I&rsquo;ll keep, but it will feel like a new space when I&rsquo;m done.</p>\n<p>Other tasks I plan on doing today include scrubbing three objects outside: a patio shade that has some organic matter growing along the bottom, my grill cover that I haven&rsquo;t cleaned in a while, and the all season floor mats in the car. While those are drying I can vacuum the car and get started on going through the inside of the garage. Both of those tasks require me to lug the shopvac up from the basement, it is probably a two-person job but there&rsquo;s no one else here to help me. Wish me luck 🤞</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>48</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I'm nearly done with a new title pattern for weblog and currently writing a blog post. That's top priority to finish. I wasn't planning on using it right away until I had the fluid typography refactor done, but the two places I planned to use it really don't suffer from the issue that fluid type will help. It's live on the homepage and 404 page on weblog.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI baked a casserole and it was one of the best versions yet. It seems like every time I make something I tweak it just a little and it gets better. I'm not sure I even measured what went into this one. The Penzey's spices order came so I was able to toss in some stuff from that. It's a giant haul and currently sitting on my kitchen island because I'm going to have completely reorganize my spice cabinet, pull everything out and possibly discard of anything hidden in the back that I no longer use. I need more room for all my spices!\r\n\r\nThe landscape designer came out yesterday to talk about two projects, one of which is moot now that the fence is done and the retaining wall issue has been \"buried\" on the neighbor's side. Folks, when you're doing a project that impacts your neighbors, the rules are simple: get their input, communicate clearly, answer their questions, and *be home when the work is being done* at least part of the time. The other project we discussed was an extension of the sideyard path around the west side of the front porch. That will remove all the grass in the front yard, leaving the small round grass under the magnolia the remaining lawn.\r\n\r\nI don't have immediate plans to complete this project, it will have to wait until after the house/garage is painted, but I want to get an idea of cost since the sideyard path was put in three years ago and costs have changed. I'll also need to start pulling out plants in the terraces that have been there since I first planted the front yard more than a decade ago. They are far too large now, past their prime, and I'm ready for a fresh look. So when the path gets done, I'll likely replant much of the front yard garden. There are a few specimen pieces and shrubs I'll keep, but it will feel like a new space when I'm done.\r\n\r\nOther tasks I plan on doing today include scrubbing three objects outside: a patio shade that has some organic matter growing along the bottom, my grill cover that I haven't cleaned in a while, and the all season floor mats in the car. While those are drying I can vacuum the car and get started on going through the inside of the garage. Both of those tasks require me to lug the shopvac up from the basement, it is probably a two-person job but there's no one else here to help me. Wish me luck 🤞\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**48**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-06T08:49:20-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/06/a-new-pattern.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/05/hello-to-everything.html",
				"title": "Hello to everything I've forgotten.",
				"content_html": "<p>It&rsquo;s only been two days and I&rsquo;ve done so much I don&rsquo;t remember where I left off&hellip;oh, right, I was trying to turn a day around. Well, I think I did. I managed to submit Saturday to my will by force. After writing my post in the morning I went outside and took a hammer to the mess left by the fence builders. It wasn&rsquo;t <em>too</em> bad but not up to my standards. Then I did some yard work and mowed and edged the lawn. I spent nearly three hours outside and it was just what I needed.</p>\n<p>After that I crashed in the living room and spent the rest of the day lounging around watching various shows via streaming. Sunday I continued yard work and arrived at a somewhat massive todo list on what I&rsquo;d like to get done before the weather turns 100% winter. That gives me many good months to accomplish it all. Today I have the landscape company coming to give me an estimate and then I&rsquo;m getting started on the list.</p>\n<p>I also managed to get a little weblog work in over the weekend, starting and mostly finishing a new heading pattern that incorporates the page title and an image masthead. I&rsquo;m not entirely satisfied with it and likely won&rsquo;t be until I finish incorporating a fluid type refactor, but I&rsquo;ve added it to the Styleguide and will continue making improvements. This morning already I&rsquo;ve fixed a bug with the icon sizing.</p>\n<p>I started two new blog posts on weblog, one of them about the lessons I learned working on this new heading pattern. The other is something I&rsquo;ve been mulling for a while about how &ldquo;exclusive&rdquo; the accessibility movement is. This isn&rsquo;t necessarily about the people working in the community, but about the forces that have outsized power to shape it in ways perhaps a lot of the people wouldn&rsquo;t choose but don&rsquo;t have the means to fight back properly. It&rsquo;s difficult to think about because it is so meaningful to me.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been up since 4am today. I thought I might fall back asleep but some time ago I made the rule that if I wake up too early and cannot fall back asleep by 5am I won&rsquo;t force it and instead &ldquo;reward&rdquo; myself with coffee. It has been working out okay. Coffee is definitely a reward for waking up too early. It also isn&rsquo;t so bad to get all those wonderfully cool and quiet morning hours to yourself once in a while.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>47</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "It's only been two days and I've done so much I don't remember where I left off...oh, right, I was trying to turn a day around. Well, I think I did. I managed to submit Saturday to my will by force. After writing my post in the morning I went outside and took a hammer to the mess left by the fence builders. It wasn't *too* bad but not up to my standards. Then I did some yard work and mowed and edged the lawn. I spent nearly three hours outside and it was just what I needed.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAfter that I crashed in the living room and spent the rest of the day lounging around watching various shows via streaming. Sunday I continued yard work and arrived at a somewhat massive todo list on what I'd like to get done before the weather turns 100% winter. That gives me many good months to accomplish it all. Today I have the landscape company coming to give me an estimate and then I'm getting started on the list.\r\n\r\nI also managed to get a little weblog work in over the weekend, starting and mostly finishing a new heading pattern that incorporates the page title and an image masthead. I'm not entirely satisfied with it and likely won't be until I finish incorporating a fluid type refactor, but I've added it to the Styleguide and will continue making improvements. This morning already I've fixed a bug with the icon sizing.\r\n\r\nI started two new blog posts on weblog, one of them about the lessons I learned working on this new heading pattern. The other is something I've been mulling for a while about how \"exclusive\" the accessibility movement is. This isn't necessarily about the people working in the community, but about the forces that have outsized power to shape it in ways perhaps a lot of the people wouldn't choose but don't have the means to fight back properly. It's difficult to think about because it is so meaningful to me.\r\n\r\nI've been up since 4am today. I thought I might fall back asleep but some time ago I made the rule that if I wake up too early and cannot fall back asleep by 5am I won't force it and instead \"reward\" myself with coffee. It has been working out okay. Coffee is definitely a reward for waking up too early. It also isn't so bad to get all those wonderfully cool and quiet morning hours to yourself once in a while.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**47**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-05T07:27:40-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/05/hello-to-everything.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/03/how-to-turn.html",
				"title": "How to turn your day around.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;d like to figure out a fool proof way to change a day. It&rsquo;s probably entirely up to me but that&rsquo;s hardly reliable. Today is one of those days. I got up at 5am which is usually not a good sign. On its own it isn&rsquo;t so bad, but the next few hours are key and could very well shoot the day.</p>\n<p>If I could choose my path today it would have been: puttering in the garden early, making coffee, perhaps puttering some more. I want to mow and edge the lawn. I want to cook or bake something. I want to experiment on the web and write a blog post. I don&rsquo;t want any of what has happened so far. None of it. Go away, please.</p>\n<p>Maybe it will get better in time. Maybe I should crawl back into bed. But I think outside forces will make that nearly impossible to be successful. What can I be successful at today? Is there anything to redeem this day? I sure hope so. I hope to find some silver lining. I hope to realize it isn&rsquo;t as bad as it seems.</p>\n<p>I hope everyone else finds a way to turn their day around if they too see if heading the wrong way. For now, I&rsquo;m going to sit quietly and sip my coffee and reflect on where the day has been, how it got there, and how I can turn it around. Surely I&rsquo;m just not trying hard enough.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>46</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I'd like to figure out a fool proof way to change a day. It's probably entirely up to me but that's hardly reliable. Today is one of those days. I got up at 5am which is usually not a good sign. On its own it isn't so bad, but the next few hours are key and could very well shoot the day.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nIf I could choose my path today it would have been: puttering in the garden early, making coffee, perhaps puttering some more. I want to mow and edge the lawn. I want to cook or bake something. I want to experiment on the web and write a blog post. I don't want any of what has happened so far. None of it. Go away, please.\n\nMaybe it will get better in time. Maybe I should crawl back into bed. But I think outside forces will make that nearly impossible to be successful. What can I be successful at today? Is there anything to redeem this day? I sure hope so. I hope to find some silver lining. I hope to realize it isn't as bad as it seems.\n\nI hope everyone else finds a way to turn their day around if they too see if heading the wrong way. For now, I'm going to sit quietly and sip my coffee and reflect on where the day has been, how it got there, and how I can turn it around. Surely I'm just not trying hard enough.\n\n--- \n\n**46**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-03T09:25:12-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/03/how-to-turn.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/02/the-last-three.html",
				"title": "The last three months have been a test.",
				"content_html": "<p>A test on my patience. A test on my resiliency. A test on my nervous system. A test on my well-being. To say that I am tired is the understatement of my life. As I&rsquo;ve mentioned elsewhere, this sustained flare and the forces upon it outside my control is second in severity only to the one I encountered last year. That one had me so unwell I lost 30 pounds due to the impacts on my health.</p>\n<p>Nobody wants to hear continually about other people&rsquo;s problems. They want to hear that there is a problem, that someone tries to find a solution, preferably technical, because humans just love to wrap up problems in a technical solution without having to lift an inconvenient human finger, and that the person with the problem joyously accepts the technical solution no matter how deeply flawed, and thanks their lucky stars and never complains again. A nice technically wrapped solution in a bow.</p>\n<p>Well, that&rsquo;s not real life. There are systemic problems that will never be fixed with your flawed technical solutions. These systemic problems can only be solved by humans looking inwardly at their biases and the effects of their choices on others and <em>making a conscious effort to change</em> however inconvenient it is for them. They may have to give up some of their privilege so that others do not suffer. They will have to forego comforts so that others do not languish and die. That is the only way out of this.</p>\n<p>The &ldquo;this&rdquo; here runs the gamut from global issues to personal issues. There is so much overlap in the simplified technical-washing (a new term I&rsquo;m trying out) for so many of these issues that could be easily avoided if humans just take it upon themselves to talk to the other humans before problems become so bad that they think the only way out is by throwing something technical at it. Many people do not like <a href=\"https://pages.mtu.edu/~asmayer/rural_sustain/governance/Hardin%201968.pdf\">Garrett Hardin&rsquo;s <em>The Tragedy of the Commons</em></a> but there is a lot of truth in the bottom line: &ldquo;The [societal] problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.&rdquo;</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>45</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "A test on my patience. A test on my resiliency. A test on my nervous system. A test on my well-being. To say that I am tired is the understatement of my life. As I've mentioned elsewhere, this sustained flare and the forces upon it outside my control is second in severity only to the one I encountered last year. That one had me so unwell I lost 30 pounds due to the impacts on my health.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nNobody wants to hear continually about other people's problems. They want to hear that there is a problem, that someone tries to find a solution, preferably technical, because humans just love to wrap up problems in a technical solution without having to lift an inconvenient human finger, and that the person with the problem joyously accepts the technical solution no matter how deeply flawed, and thanks their lucky stars and never complains again. A nice technically wrapped solution in a bow.\r\n\r\nWell, that's not real life. There are systemic problems that will never be fixed with your flawed technical solutions. These systemic problems can only be solved by humans looking inwardly at their biases and the effects of their choices on others and *making a conscious effort to change* however inconvenient it is for them. They may have to give up some of their privilege so that others do not suffer. They will have to forego comforts so that others do not languish and die. That is the only way out of this.\r\n\r\nThe \"this\" here runs the gamut from global issues to personal issues. There is so much overlap in the simplified technical-washing (a new term I'm trying out) for so many of these issues that could be easily avoided if humans just take it upon themselves to talk to the other humans before problems become so bad that they think the only way out is by throwing something technical at it. Many people do not like [Garrett Hardin's *The Tragedy of the Commons*](https://pages.mtu.edu/~asmayer/rural_sustain/governance/Hardin%201968.pdf) but there is a lot of truth in the bottom line: \"The \\[societal\\] problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.\"\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**45**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-02T10:34:44-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/02/the-last-three.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/08/01/nearly-forgot-today.html",
				"title": "Nearly forgot today.",
				"content_html": "<p>I had an appointment first thing this morning and I woke up at 5am so I&rsquo;m feeling a little off. I&rsquo;m about 2 hours ahead of where we really are: it&rsquo;s about 12pm here but it feels like about 2pm. Glad to have gotten this morning&rsquo;s task out of the way, I&rsquo;d been putting it off for a couple months. It was relatively quick and painless, though my mind had built it up to be more. Funny how that always happens.</p>\n<p>Yesterday I finally forced myself to finish the homepage + global footer nav changes on weblog. What had started out as an overly complex spreadsheet ended up being three columns that answered all my questions. Those three columns translated directly to three columns of links on my homepage. Now the global footer nav only includes things that I think really necessary to be in the footer (and on every page) and the homepage contains all other important pages, categorized under one of three headings.</p>\n<p>This also replaced most of the homepage content that I&rsquo;d never been very happy with. It was a little rambling aimlessly and I&rsquo;d cobbled more and more onto it as weblog had grown. Some blog posts that act more like standalone pages now have a shortcut redirect added to config in order to aid URL simplification. For example, you can now get to an older list of todos published last year by simply going to <code>/todos</code> instead of the fully qualified location of the blog post, which includes the year, month, and title slug.</p>\n<p>I also made some HTML improvements by way of HTML attribute IDs. I just read <a href=\"https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/forms-require-an-accessible-name/\">Stefan Judis' post about accessible form names and landmark navigation</a> via <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/@fridayfrontend/112887831364874135\">Friday Front-End on Mastodon</a> and slightly recall this coming up during a project several years ago. As I&rsquo;d just added some IDs to other elements in the &ldquo;content footer,&rdquo; that is a set of blocks including the search form that is at the bottom of the content of many types of pages on weblog, this was a complementary update.</p>\n<p>All this work led me to updating my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/roadmap\">Roadmap</a> and <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/changelog\">Changelog</a> which I am manually doing and is something I tend to forget. In fact, I just added an entry a few days ago for something I did in June. Good thing I&rsquo;m my own boss on this and nobody else cares that I backdate these things 😆</p>\n<p>Feeling pretty good about some of the weblog progress yesterday, I&rsquo;m continuing the trend today and working on a new blog post and another task. I will be breaking out my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/styleguide\">Styleguide</a> structure styles from the component CSS and creating its own stylesheet, thereby only including it on Styleguide pages. This should have been done at the same time I refactored my Styleguide to use custom templates but somehow got missed. This is also a great jump back into thinking about the CSS refactor that is yet to be completed.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>44</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I had an appointment first thing this morning and I woke up at 5am so I'm feeling a little off. I'm about 2 hours ahead of where we really are: it's about 12pm here but it feels like about 2pm. Glad to have gotten this morning's task out of the way, I'd been putting it off for a couple months. It was relatively quick and painless, though my mind had built it up to be more. Funny how that always happens.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nYesterday I finally forced myself to finish the homepage + global footer nav changes on weblog. What had started out as an overly complex spreadsheet ended up being three columns that answered all my questions. Those three columns translated directly to three columns of links on my homepage. Now the global footer nav only includes things that I think really necessary to be in the footer (and on every page) and the homepage contains all other important pages, categorized under one of three headings.\n\nThis also replaced most of the homepage content that I'd never been very happy with. It was a little rambling aimlessly and I'd cobbled more and more onto it as weblog had grown. Some blog posts that act more like standalone pages now have a shortcut redirect added to config in order to aid URL simplification. For example, you can now get to an older list of todos published last year by simply going to `/todos` instead of the fully qualified location of the blog post, which includes the year, month, and title slug.\n\nI also made some HTML improvements by way of HTML attribute IDs. I just read [Stefan Judis' post about accessible form names and landmark navigation](https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/forms-require-an-accessible-name/) via [Friday Front-End on Mastodon](https://hachyderm.io/@fridayfrontend/112887831364874135) and slightly recall this coming up during a project several years ago. As I'd just added some IDs to other elements in the \"content footer,\" that is a set of blocks including the search form that is at the bottom of the content of many types of pages on weblog, this was a complementary update.\n\nAll this work led me to updating my [Roadmap](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/roadmap) and [Changelog](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/changelog) which I am manually doing and is something I tend to forget. In fact, I just added an entry a few days ago for something I did in June. Good thing I'm my own boss on this and nobody else cares that I backdate these things 😆\n\nFeeling pretty good about some of the weblog progress yesterday, I'm continuing the trend today and working on a new blog post and another task. I will be breaking out my [Styleguide](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/styleguide) structure styles from the component CSS and creating its own stylesheet, thereby only including it on Styleguide pages. This should have been done at the same time I refactored my Styleguide to use custom templates but somehow got missed. This is also a great jump back into thinking about the CSS refactor that is yet to be completed.\n\n--- \n\n**44**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-08-01T12:01:35-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/08/01/nearly-forgot-today.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/31/where-has-the.html",
				"title": "Where has the time gone.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;ve been thinking about tackling problems or, rather, how we respond to problems. I don&rsquo;t think most people are handling them well. The world is a dumpster fire, for lack of a better term. Our brains were not formed to be able to handle a daily onslaught of problems far-flung and beyond our ability to solve. Nearly every subject of issue right now can fall under this overwhelming inability to do anything, and it results in a kind of apathy. I think that apathy is our brain&rsquo;s way of carrying on even knowing that what we do may be contributing to the problems.</p>\n<p>As with many of the posts on this blog, sometimes I just feel out thoughts and don&rsquo;t fully expand on them here. This is one I&rsquo;ve really been thinking about lately. I saw a comic yesterday that was perfect for this:</p>\n<!-- raw HTML omitted -->\n<p>I also read an <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/112877624840931405\">extensive thread on the drastic state of climate change</a> by someone I follow mainly for front-end development topics. It feels like we are at and beyond inflection points on so many fronts and the individual just cannot do what is required to make a difference. They feel helpless, guilty, scared, and defensive, and this in turn drives our other socially stressed issues around politics, capitalism, the enormous wealth gap, and many other issues.</p>\n<p>Governments around the world are strained in ways that seem to force them to barely take on what is needed in the limited time we have left. They&rsquo;re beholden to the interests that fund them, the very lobbying arms and corporate interests that <em>must take the actions needed</em> while at the same time driving the economic factors that every individual feels, from trips to the grocery store to visits to medical facilities. It is all failing and nobody is acting with the swift and timely response that is required.</p>\n<p>It is no wonder that fascism is on the rise. Promises from false gods, claims by strong man populists, may seem enticing to those stretched beyond their means, monetarily, physically, or emotionally. But they <em>are</em> false promises. We&rsquo;ve been here before, in fact, around 100 years ago. I&rsquo;m watching Hotel Portofino which is a story of an English family who moves to Italy to open a hotel directly in the path to the Great Depression and the rise of fascism in Italy. A perfect storm. Recall also that that rise followed another pandemic and wave of illness. We seem to repeat the same patterns and don&rsquo;t carry the lessons forward, but bury them in our inability to cope with our own actions and their direct effects on others.</p>\n<p>This post went in a direction much longer than I anticipated, I thought I would only touch on this topic but apparently I needed to rid my brain of it today. I will be doing some more blog work on weblog, hopefully getting my homepage and global navigation figured out so that it&rsquo;s ready by Friday. Tomorrow I have an appointment in the morning and I&rsquo;m not sure how much I&rsquo;ll get done after that. In other &ldquo;on the block&rdquo; news, a neighbor is having their roof torn off today so that will be a fun bit of noise that I wasn&rsquo;t expecting. Might have to migrate upstairs for some portion of the day if it gets too noisy in the living room.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>43</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I've been thinking about tackling problems or, rather, how we respond to problems. I don't think most people are handling them well. The world is a dumpster fire, for lack of a better term. Our brains were not formed to be able to handle a daily onslaught of problems far-flung and beyond our ability to solve. Nearly every subject of issue right now can fall under this overwhelming inability to do anything, and it results in a kind of apathy. I think that apathy is our brain's way of carrying on even knowing that what we do may be contributing to the problems.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAs with many of the posts on this blog, sometimes I just feel out thoughts and don't fully expand on them here. This is one I've really been thinking about lately. I saw a comic yesterday that was perfect for this:\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/160738/2024/problems.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"573\" alt=\"A one frame comic with a person sitting in a doctor's office with a doctor looking at a chart and the caption says 'Here's your problem—it looks like you're paying attention to what's going on.'\">\r\n\r\nI also read an [extensive thread on the drastic state of climate change](https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/112877624840931405) by someone I follow mainly for front-end development topics. It feels like we are at and beyond inflection points on so many fronts and the individual just cannot do what is required to make a difference. They feel helpless, guilty, scared, and defensive, and this in turn drives our other socially stressed issues around politics, capitalism, the enormous wealth gap, and many other issues.\r\n\r\nGovernments around the world are strained in ways that seem to force them to barely take on what is needed in the limited time we have left. They're beholden to the interests that fund them, the very lobbying arms and corporate interests that *must take the actions needed* while at the same time driving the economic factors that every individual feels, from trips to the grocery store to visits to medical facilities. It is all failing and nobody is acting with the swift and timely response that is required.\r\n\r\nIt is no wonder that fascism is on the rise. Promises from false gods, claims by strong man populists, may seem enticing to those stretched beyond their means, monetarily, physically, or emotionally. But they *are* false promises. We've been here before, in fact, around 100 years ago. I'm watching Hotel Portofino which is a story of an English family who moves to Italy to open a hotel directly in the path to the Great Depression and the rise of fascism in Italy. A perfect storm. Recall also that that rise followed another pandemic and wave of illness. We seem to repeat the same patterns and don't carry the lessons forward, but bury them in our inability to cope with our own actions and their direct effects on others.\r\n\r\nThis post went in a direction much longer than I anticipated, I thought I would only touch on this topic but apparently I needed to rid my brain of it today. I will be doing some more blog work on weblog, hopefully getting my homepage and global navigation figured out so that it's ready by Friday. Tomorrow I have an appointment in the morning and I'm not sure how much I'll get done after that. In other \"on the block\" news, a neighbor is having their roof torn off today so that will be a fun bit of noise that I wasn't expecting. Might have to migrate upstairs for some portion of the day if it gets too noisy in the living room.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**43**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-31T11:05:11-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/31/where-has-the.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/30/tracking-again.html",
				"title": "Tracking again.",
				"content_html": "<p>Feeling more like myself this morning and I tracked my day yesterday, which has felt unattainable for the last couple weeks. It wasn&rsquo;t an exhaustive day but it did seem to have lots of moving parts. We had two lovely overcast mornings in a row. Sunday eventually cleared up and got sunny, but Monday stayed overcast and rained off and on all day. Despite a mess that caused elsewhere, it was lovely and made me yearn for fall.</p>\n<p>I finished cleaning the house, vacuuming and dusting my bedroom, the office, and cleaning the bathroom shower. Even with just me in this house, it feels like vacuuming is never done and I just end up on a circular rotation with the vacuum starting in rooms on one side, ending on the other, and starting back over on the other side just a few days later. I got a new toilet bowl brush/holder (exciting!) to replace one that I thought had interchangeable/replaceable heads, which I have some of the heads for, but ended up not actually being the right heads. It was time to retire it anyway.</p>\n<p>I ordered a giant Penzey&rsquo;s spices order last week and am so excited it has shipped. I looked up the last time I did an order and it was in January, so that&rsquo;s about the right timing, every six months I need All The Things in my spice cabinet again. I have also been in contact with a landscaping company I&rsquo;ve worked with before. They do my annual irrigation startup/testing/shut-down and installed my basalt stone path in the side yard. I now need them to give me an estimate for a small retaining wall, they&rsquo;ll be out next week to discuss options, and that brings me to the mess&hellip;</p>\n<p>With the rain yesterday, of course that was the day that they folks working on the fence were along my side replacing posts, and they were not diligent with their mess at all. My neighbor didn&rsquo;t seem to see fit to clean up behind their shed so all the work had to be done <em>from</em> my side, along my garage and driveway, which was a nice clean quarter-minus strip with partial concrete and is now caked with mud and had dribbled and piled blobs of wet concrete from putting the posts in.</p>\n<p>I was admittedly pissed off and spent a good part of the evening spraying the concrete areas off. I&rsquo;ll have to deal with the quarter-minus later after the mud dries and I can either scrape or rake it off and top up the quarter-minus with more. So now that means a project <em>that is not mine, was caused by my neighbor&rsquo;s tree falling, and instigated by them</em> is costing me more money. This is just the never ending headache, and, yes, the neighbors are <em>still</em> not home so they don&rsquo;t have to deal with any of this.</p>\n<p>The only good thing about the status of the fence is that it means all that should be left is putting the panels on and any finishing top rail if that is included in the design. My neighbor did not share any details with me and it doesn&rsquo;t appear they are including any mitigation of their elevated soil along my driveway so that is what the purpose of the retaining wall will be, again, costing me money that I should not have to cover. At this point, knowing that they may be selling the house and moving, I am just holding my breath and hoping that is the case. I&rsquo;m done with them and their no-care attitude about how their property affects their neighbors.</p>\n<p>I also got an email yesterday that my interview will be coming out this Friday. So now I&rsquo;ll be scrambling in the next few days to wrap up my homepage and global navigation changes. I&rsquo;d like to have that done before that gets released. It will be good timing in case new people end up on my blog, as the reorganization should be better for aiding people to get around and learn more about me if that&rsquo;s their goal.</p>\n<p>Last night I finished watching a limited series on Netflix called &ldquo;One Day&rdquo; that is based on a book of the same name. I hadn&rsquo;t read the book and started watching the series over the weekend with only the preview to go by. Had I known what actually was going to occur I may have not started it at this time. I&rsquo;m still sort of recovering from my extended flare and I wasn&rsquo;t planning on spending a few hours ugly crying because of a TV show. I think movies and TV should have to provide warnings for death and sadness just like they do violence/language/sex/nudity.</p>\n<p>I put up a new <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/blogroll-spin-8\">blogroll spin</a> on weblog, and I love the postroll that comprises this one. As I was going through and giving details for each one, I found myself writing more than I normally do. I think each post in this spin is excellent and feels well rounded for the group. I really like when that happens, it makes the spin feel more meaningful and like the post about the spin itself is worth the time I put into it. I also added some missing roadmap/changelog edits to weblog having to do with <code>robots.txt</code> which I am now in the process of editing again.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>42</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Feeling more like myself this morning and I tracked my day yesterday, which has felt unattainable for the last couple weeks. It wasn't an exhaustive day but it did seem to have lots of moving parts. We had two lovely overcast mornings in a row. Sunday eventually cleared up and got sunny, but Monday stayed overcast and rained off and on all day. Despite a mess that caused elsewhere, it was lovely and made me yearn for fall.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI finished cleaning the house, vacuuming and dusting my bedroom, the office, and cleaning the bathroom shower. Even with just me in this house, it feels like vacuuming is never done and I just end up on a circular rotation with the vacuum starting in rooms on one side, ending on the other, and starting back over on the other side just a few days later. I got a new toilet bowl brush/holder (exciting!) to replace one that I thought had interchangeable/replaceable heads, which I have some of the heads for, but ended up not actually being the right heads. It was time to retire it anyway.\r\n\r\nI ordered a giant Penzey's spices order last week and am so excited it has shipped. I looked up the last time I did an order and it was in January, so that's about the right timing, every six months I need All The Things in my spice cabinet again. I have also been in contact with a landscaping company I've worked with before. They do my annual irrigation startup/testing/shut-down and installed my basalt stone path in the side yard. I now need them to give me an estimate for a small retaining wall, they'll be out next week to discuss options, and that brings me to the mess...\r\n\r\nWith the rain yesterday, of course that was the day that they folks working on the fence were along my side replacing posts, and they were not diligent with their mess at all. My neighbor didn't seem to see fit to clean up behind their shed so all the work had to be done *from* my side, along my garage and driveway, which was a nice clean quarter-minus strip with partial concrete and is now caked with mud and had dribbled and piled blobs of wet concrete from putting the posts in.\r\n\r\nI was admittedly pissed off and spent a good part of the evening spraying the concrete areas off. I'll have to deal with the quarter-minus later after the mud dries and I can either scrape or rake it off and top up the quarter-minus with more. So now that means a project *that is not mine, was caused by my neighbor's tree falling, and instigated by them* is costing me more money. This is just the never ending headache, and, yes, the neighbors are *still* not home so they don't have to deal with any of this.\r\n\r\nThe only good thing about the status of the fence is that it means all that should be left is putting the panels on and any finishing top rail if that is included in the design. My neighbor did not share any details with me and it doesn't appear they are including any mitigation of their elevated soil along my driveway so that is what the purpose of the retaining wall will be, again, costing me money that I should not have to cover. At this point, knowing that they may be selling the house and moving, I am just holding my breath and hoping that is the case. I'm done with them and their no-care attitude about how their property affects their neighbors.\r\n\r\nI also got an email yesterday that my interview will be coming out this Friday. So now I'll be scrambling in the next few days to wrap up my homepage and global navigation changes. I'd like to have that done before that gets released. It will be good timing in case new people end up on my blog, as the reorganization should be better for aiding people to get around and learn more about me if that's their goal.\r\n\r\nLast night I finished watching a limited series on Netflix called \"One Day\" that is based on a book of the same name. I hadn't read the book and started watching the series over the weekend with only the preview to go by. Had I known what actually was going to occur I may have not started it at this time. I'm still sort of recovering from my extended flare and I wasn't planning on spending a few hours ugly crying because of a TV show. I think movies and TV should have to provide warnings for death and sadness just like they do violence/language/sex/nudity.\r\n\r\nI put up a new [blogroll spin](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/blogroll-spin-8) on weblog, and I love the postroll that comprises this one. As I was going through and giving details for each one, I found myself writing more than I normally do. I think each post in this spin is excellent and feels well rounded for the group. I really like when that happens, it makes the spin feel more meaningful and like the post about the spin itself is worth the time I put into it. I also added some missing roadmap/changelog edits to weblog having to do with `robots.txt` which I am now in the process of editing again.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**42**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-30T08:56:45-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/30/tracking-again.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/29/monday-mode.html",
				"title": "Monday mode.",
				"content_html": "<p>How is it that Monday mornings take a similar affect on me now as they did when I was working? Well, today&rsquo;s post is especially short, as the weekend took it out of me. I was pretty successful with my task list. I even managed to get up on the ladder and clear off the patio cover before it rained today. With the ladder out I pruned the magnolia as much as I could without a pole pruner. I&rsquo;m ordering a pole pruner soon, all my trees are now large enough that I need one. Now in need of some rest and down time.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>41</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "How is it that Monday mornings take a similar affect on me now as they did when I was working? Well, today's post is especially short, as the weekend took it out of me. I was pretty successful with my task list. I even managed to get up on the ladder and clear off the patio cover before it rained today. With the ladder out I pruned the magnolia as much as I could without a pole pruner. I'm ordering a pole pruner soon, all my trees are now large enough that I need one. Now in need of some rest and down time.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n--- \n\n**41**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-29T10:47:56-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/29/monday-mode.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/27/struggle-bus.html",
				"title": "Struggle bus.",
				"content_html": "<p>Yesterday, despite my continuing energy deficit, I feel like I made some progress on small things around the house. It was a satisfying feeling. These small wins do so much to fight back despair in my inability to make progress on the big things waiting in the wings. This was the subject of <a href=\"https://3x5.pics/2024/07/be-kind-to-yourself\">yesterday&rsquo;s 3x5 card</a>.</p>\n<p>I have lofty plans for today but will rest this morning until I feel up to getting started. I&rsquo;m not feeling very peppy and looking at my list of plans skeptically. Yes, I&rsquo;m side-eyeing my todo list 😒</p>\n<p>But yesterday I was able to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>cook two meals</li>\n<li>finish cleaning part of the bathroom</li>\n<li>vacuum living room, dining room, kitchen</li>\n<li>wash dishes, empty dishwasher, put dishes away</li>\n<li>do a load of laundry</li>\n<li>putter outside, water some containers</li>\n<li>write a few blog posts</li>\n<li>check bills, pay some bills</li>\n<li>order Penzey&rsquo;s spices</li>\n<li>start a Home Depot order</li>\n<li>contact landscape company for retaining wall estimate</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I&rsquo;m tired all over again just looking at that list. None of them are giant, but all of them needed to be done and add up to make an impact.</p>\n<p>I avoided the news yesterday. I can already tell I will need to really measure my intake this election season. I&rsquo;m also really trying not to get myself back into a similar mindset as I did in 2016. I can&rsquo;t go through that heartbreak again. I think it was a contributor to my burnout and further illness in 2018 and 2019. Major stressors add up with this illness.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m glad I thought through the stuff with my garage yesterday. It really makes me feel like that is an approachable element to tackle this year. It feels like a giant hurdle, but when I break it into pieces it becomes much more attainable. I can&rsquo;t wait to get the inside cleared out, that makes me itchy just thinking about it. I love nothing more than a clean and well-organized space and my garage has been lacking in that respect for quite a while.</p>\n<p>I started Lady in the Lake last week on AppleTV+ and watched episode three last night. I&rsquo;m still holding judgement on this show, but so far it seems to be going in the right direction. A combination of mystery, light horror, the effects of racism on two classes in the US, in a historically corrupt city, all add to the intrigue of the plot. I just hope they don&rsquo;t lose it.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>40</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Yesterday, despite my continuing energy deficit, I feel like I made some progress on small things around the house. It was a satisfying feeling. These small wins do so much to fight back despair in my inability to make progress on the big things waiting in the wings. This was the subject of [yesterday's 3x5 card](https://3x5.pics/2024/07/be-kind-to-yourself).\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI have lofty plans for today but will rest this morning until I feel up to getting started. I'm not feeling very peppy and looking at my list of plans skeptically. Yes, I'm side-eyeing my todo list 😒\n\nBut yesterday I was able to:\n\n- cook two meals\n- finish cleaning part of the bathroom\n- vacuum living room, dining room, kitchen\n- wash dishes, empty dishwasher, put dishes away\n- do a load of laundry\n- putter outside, water some containers\n- write a few blog posts\n- check bills, pay some bills\n- order Penzey's spices\n- start a Home Depot order\n- contact landscape company for retaining wall estimate\n\nI'm tired all over again just looking at that list. None of them are giant, but all of them needed to be done and add up to make an impact.\n\nI avoided the news yesterday. I can already tell I will need to really measure my intake this election season. I'm also really trying not to get myself back into a similar mindset as I did in 2016. I can't go through that heartbreak again. I think it was a contributor to my burnout and further illness in 2018 and 2019. Major stressors add up with this illness.\n\nI'm glad I thought through the stuff with my garage yesterday. It really makes me feel like that is an approachable element to tackle this year. It feels like a giant hurdle, but when I break it into pieces it becomes much more attainable. I can't wait to get the inside cleared out, that makes me itchy just thinking about it. I love nothing more than a clean and well-organized space and my garage has been lacking in that respect for quite a while.\n\nI started Lady in the Lake last week on AppleTV+ and watched episode three last night. I'm still holding judgement on this show, but so far it seems to be going in the right direction. A combination of mystery, light horror, the effects of racism on two classes in the US, in a historically corrupt city, all add to the intrigue of the plot. I just hope they don't lose it.\n\n--- \n\n**40**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-27T08:02:41-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/27/struggle-bus.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/26/its-been-a.html",
				"title": "It's been a strange week.",
				"content_html": "<p>Happy Friday and thank goodness. Even I enjoy the end of a work week though I&rsquo;m not currently employed. It still seems to take the invisible pressure off a bit. Today marks one week since my neighbor told me fence demolition and construction would start. What has actually happened in the last week with the fence? Very little and I may be crafting a message for my neighbor today, who is still out of town. How nice for them.</p>\n<p>I have been in contact with the landscaping company that installed my basalt stone path three years ago and will be requesting an estimate for some sort of masonry retaining wall since my neighbor seems uninterested or caring of the elevated soil level of their yard and run-off to my side and driveway. Hopefully I can get someone out for that estimate and options next week. They&rsquo;re also coming to repair a sprinkler head and move another head that is being blocked by a small tree that is larger than it should be, a common occurrence in my yard, the land of giants.</p>\n<p>I got out to edge the lawn yesterday but didn&rsquo;t mow. I&rsquo;ll wait to mow the front lawn this weekend. The back lawn doesn&rsquo;t quite need it yet, a combination of &ldquo;high summer heat&rdquo; and probably a need for fertilizer. I&rsquo;ll also fertilize this weekend. All three of my newly planted perennials are looking great. Hopefully they&rsquo;ll put some growth on soon and bud up so I can enjoy the remaining summer with some new blooms as other early summer perennials have petered out and not flushed with new blooms yet.</p>\n<p>I wrote about my blogging blockage yesterday and how my current health status has partly led to that. I have some house cleaning to do today but plan on trying to get back into tackling my home page and global nav refactor. I know, I keep saying that and it never happens. But I&rsquo;m trying. I&rsquo;d really like to have that done before my interview goes up.</p>\n<p>Another looming task this week is cleaning out my garage. I really wanted to have the fence done before I started that, but seeing as the fence is just not progressing, I&rsquo;m not going to wait. I&rsquo;ll be getting the car out for mowing the lawn this weekend, so it is perfect timing to grab the shop vac from the basement and tackle the back of the garage shelving and things that have piled up over the years.</p>\n<p>Once the garage is cleaned out, and I&rsquo;ve started forming piles for &ldquo;donate&rdquo; and &ldquo;trash&rdquo; I will be clearing out a small shed on the back of the garage that I&rsquo;ve never used. It is still full of gardening implements and supplies from the previous owner but it is also a spider haven, hence I&rsquo;ve never been interested in using it. I think one of my neighbors or my dad might help me dismantle it. I&rsquo;ve been wanting to get this done for years. Now that the messy tree is gone and the fence will be done, it seems like perfect time to do that too. After that&rsquo;s done, the garage can be painted.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>39</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Happy Friday and thank goodness. Even I enjoy the end of a work week though I'm not currently employed. It still seems to take the invisible pressure off a bit. Today marks one week since my neighbor told me fence demolition and construction would start. What has actually happened in the last week with the fence? Very little and I may be crafting a message for my neighbor today, who is still out of town. How nice for them.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI have been in contact with the landscaping company that installed my basalt stone path three years ago and will be requesting an estimate for some sort of masonry retaining wall since my neighbor seems uninterested or caring of the elevated soil level of their yard and run-off to my side and driveway. Hopefully I can get someone out for that estimate and options next week. They're also coming to repair a sprinkler head and move another head that is being blocked by a small tree that is larger than it should be, a common occurrence in my yard, the land of giants.\n\nI got out to edge the lawn yesterday but didn't mow. I'll wait to mow the front lawn this weekend. The back lawn doesn't quite need it yet, a combination of \"high summer heat\" and probably a need for fertilizer. I'll also fertilize this weekend. All three of my newly planted perennials are looking great. Hopefully they'll put some growth on soon and bud up so I can enjoy the remaining summer with some new blooms as other early summer perennials have petered out and not flushed with new blooms yet.\n\nI wrote about my blogging blockage yesterday and how my current health status has partly led to that. I have some house cleaning to do today but plan on trying to get back into tackling my home page and global nav refactor. I know, I keep saying that and it never happens. But I'm trying. I'd really like to have that done before my interview goes up.\n\nAnother looming task this week is cleaning out my garage. I really wanted to have the fence done before I started that, but seeing as the fence is just not progressing, I'm not going to wait. I'll be getting the car out for mowing the lawn this weekend, so it is perfect timing to grab the shop vac from the basement and tackle the back of the garage shelving and things that have piled up over the years.\n\nOnce the garage is cleaned out, and I've started forming piles for \"donate\" and \"trash\" I will be clearing out a small shed on the back of the garage that I've never used. It is still full of gardening implements and supplies from the previous owner but it is also a spider haven, hence I've never been interested in using it. I think one of my neighbors or my dad might help me dismantle it. I've been wanting to get this done for years. Now that the messy tree is gone and the fence will be done, it seems like perfect time to do that too. After that's done, the garage can be painted.\n\n--- \n\n**39**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-26T10:56:34-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/26/its-been-a.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/25/i-need-to.html",
				"title": "I need to get my brain in order.",
				"content_html": "<p>One side effect of flares (and PEM in general) is that my brain turns to mush. Many people refer to this as brain fog, which is a legit medical condition. I dislike that the pandemic has now spread this term into the daily lexicon of society because it has been co-opted by the masses to describe any time someone feels like they can&rsquo;t think. But there is far more to it than that and it downplays the severity.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mentally, it comes in waves. When they crest, my thoughts are like wax objects I am sorting under a hot sun. Uncomfortable. Some stick together and I fumble to figure out what they were. Others melt into pools beyond recognition and I have to let them go.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This is genuinely one of the best descriptions of brain fog I have ever encountered, described by an athlete suffering from Long Covid. For me, brain fog combines with other undesirable symptoms of PEM, such as intense tinnitus, &ldquo;head drain&rdquo; (a symptom that I have no other phrase for and requires either laying down by choice or falling down without choice), headache, blurry vision, and more. Often it feels like something sitting on your brain.</p>\n<p>Right now I&rsquo;ve had an extended flare and with it brain fog. Every day is a struggle and it has been affecting my ability to blog as effectively as I&rsquo;d like. The types of posts I write here, where I am generally rambling or capturing a day, rather than planning something out or doing research or combining with technical skills such as experimenting with or writing CSS, come easier. But they still exhaust me.</p>\n<p>During flares, the mental exhaustion far outweighs the physical. I still get physical exhaustion but physical pain is often more bearable than mental fatigue associated with brain fog. It is a scourge and the worst part of my illness. Physical pain feels tangible, brain fog does not. It makes your own thoughts and aspirations both unwanted and unreachable. It is a terrible affliction.</p>\n<p>I am trying my hardest to get out of this flare. It is one of the most extended I&rsquo;ve experienced, second only to the one I had last year in the aftermath of many things, and after which I lost 30 pounds from the health effects of it. I want so much to put it behind me because there is so much I want and need to do and all I can do is hope that my rest is enough. Hope that I pace my days in a way that I don&rsquo;t overextend myself to move further from my baseline. And lately that baseline seems to be a foggy memory that I can barely recall.</p>\n<p>I need to get my brain back so I can blog how I want to again. So I can get out into gardens and take photos again. So I can tackle so many hard things that need to be tackled. They are starting to build up.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>38</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "One side effect of flares (and PEM in general) is that my brain turns to mush. Many people refer to this as brain fog, which is a legit medical condition. I dislike that the pandemic has now spread this term into the daily lexicon of society because it has been co-opted by the masses to describe any time someone feels like they can't think. But there is far more to it than that and it downplays the severity.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n> Mentally, it comes in waves. When they crest, my thoughts are like wax objects I am sorting under a hot sun. Uncomfortable. Some stick together and I fumble to figure out what they were. Others melt into pools beyond recognition and I have to let them go.\n\nThis is genuinely one of the best descriptions of brain fog I have ever encountered, described by an athlete suffering from Long Covid. For me, brain fog combines with other undesirable symptoms of PEM, such as intense tinnitus, \"head drain\" (a symptom that I have no other phrase for and requires either laying down by choice or falling down without choice), headache, blurry vision, and more. Often it feels like something sitting on your brain.\n\nRight now I've had an extended flare and with it brain fog. Every day is a struggle and it has been affecting my ability to blog as effectively as I'd like. The types of posts I write here, where I am generally rambling or capturing a day, rather than planning something out or doing research or combining with technical skills such as experimenting with or writing CSS, come easier. But they still exhaust me.\n\nDuring flares, the mental exhaustion far outweighs the physical. I still get physical exhaustion but physical pain is often more bearable than mental fatigue associated with brain fog. It is a scourge and the worst part of my illness. Physical pain feels tangible, brain fog does not. It makes your own thoughts and aspirations both unwanted and unreachable. It is a terrible affliction.\n\nI am trying my hardest to get out of this flare. It is one of the most extended I've experienced, second only to the one I had last year in the aftermath of many things, and after which I lost 30 pounds from the health effects of it. I want so much to put it behind me because there is so much I want and need to do and all I can do is hope that my rest is enough. Hope that I pace my days in a way that I don't overextend myself to move further from my baseline. And lately that baseline seems to be a foggy memory that I can barely recall.\n\nI need to get my brain back so I can blog how I want to again. So I can get out into gardens and take photos again. So I can tackle so many hard things that need to be tackled. They are starting to build up.\n\n--- \n\n**38**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-25T10:03:41-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/25/i-need-to.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/24/yesterday-progressed-better.html",
				"title": "Yesterday progressed better than it started.",
				"content_html": "<p>The tree trimmers across the street were fairly quick and gone before I even noticed that they left. That was a welcome relief. The demolition of the fence next door was less disruptive than I had anticipated. They seem to have mostly finished the side between my neighbor and their neighbor, kitty-corner to me, and then wrapped up early afternoon and left. I have not seen them at all today, which allowed me to get out into the garden this morning to get some things done.</p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon I worked on two of the things I mentioned in my last post. I updated my <a href=\"https://themes.lol\">themes.lol</a> todo spreadsheet and started a July 2024 updates post. I&rsquo;ll try to get that done today. I also continued working on the shortcodes page and collecting my questions for Adam on some of the shortcodes usage, where they need <code>post</code> context or not. I also went back to my weblog navigation spreadsheet and tried to get my brain wrapped back around it. In the process I reviewed some of my <a href=\"https://slashpages.net/\">Slash Pages</a> and then got distracted by tracking down more blog listings/directories to list on my weblog <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/blogroll\">Blogroll page</a>, and <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/webrings\">webrings</a> I might want to join.</p>\n<p>Shellsharks (Micheal Sass) shared <a href=\"https://shellsharks.com/indieweb\">an amazing resource</a> which led me to other linked resources and I ended up spending (wasting?) a couple hours looking at all of them. By the time I was done I did not go back to my tasks and instead made dinner, watched some of The Brokenwood Mysteries, and took an early night, heading to bed around 8pm. I really needed that and feel much perkier today. I hope this means my flare is coming to an end.</p>\n<p>This morning I transplanted a perennial from a container to the front garden where I removed an autumn sage that was fading. I&rsquo;m not entirely satisfied with the placement and may revisit it tomorrow and alter its location slightly. It was very nice outside today, fairly cool with lots of birds, and hardly any noise in the neighborhood. My immediate neighbors were not home and I felt like I had the place to myself as the kids are usually out front playing.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve spent a fair amount of time watching news this week. This is a habit I have really cut down on over the last few years. It just isn&rsquo;t healthy to consume as much news as many Americans do. With the election events, however, I have felt like I needed to. I think after tonight, and President Biden&rsquo;s public address, I will cut back again and return to my once or twice a week viewing on TV and my few podcasts.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>37</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "The tree trimmers across the street were fairly quick and gone before I even noticed that they left. That was a welcome relief. The demolition of the fence next door was less disruptive than I had anticipated. They seem to have mostly finished the side between my neighbor and their neighbor, kitty-corner to me, and then wrapped up early afternoon and left. I have not seen them at all today, which allowed me to get out into the garden this morning to get some things done.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nYesterday afternoon I worked on two of the things I mentioned in my last post. I updated my [themes.lol](https://themes.lol) todo spreadsheet and started a July 2024 updates post. I'll try to get that done today. I also continued working on the shortcodes page and collecting my questions for Adam on some of the shortcodes usage, where they need `post` context or not. I also went back to my weblog navigation spreadsheet and tried to get my brain wrapped back around it. In the process I reviewed some of my [Slash Pages](https://slashpages.net/) and then got distracted by tracking down more blog listings/directories to list on my weblog [Blogroll page](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/blogroll), and [webrings](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/webrings) I might want to join.\n\nShellsharks (Micheal Sass) shared [an amazing resource](https://shellsharks.com/indieweb) which led me to other linked resources and I ended up spending (wasting?) a couple hours looking at all of them. By the time I was done I did not go back to my tasks and instead made dinner, watched some of The Brokenwood Mysteries, and took an early night, heading to bed around 8pm. I really needed that and feel much perkier today. I hope this means my flare is coming to an end.\n\nThis morning I transplanted a perennial from a container to the front garden where I removed an autumn sage that was fading. I'm not entirely satisfied with the placement and may revisit it tomorrow and alter its location slightly. It was very nice outside today, fairly cool with lots of birds, and hardly any noise in the neighborhood. My immediate neighbors were not home and I felt like I had the place to myself as the kids are usually out front playing.\n\nI've spent a fair amount of time watching news this week. This is a habit I have really cut down on over the last few years. It just isn't healthy to consume as much news as many Americans do. With the election events, however, I have felt like I needed to. I think after tonight, and President Biden's public address, I will cut back again and return to my once or twice a week viewing on TV and my few podcasts.\n\n--- \n\n**37**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-24T13:55:18-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/24/yesterday-progressed-better.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/23/no-rest-for.html",
				"title": "No rest for the weary.",
				"content_html": "<p>Right as I was going to bed last night I got a text from my neighbor telling me the fence demolition will start today. It also appears <em>they are still not home</em> so demolition and construction of a fence that divides our property and affects me will be done while the person who hired the job is not around. I cannot see this as anything but an extremely irresponsible act and a general &ldquo;fuck you&rdquo; to a neighbor who&rsquo;s garage was damaged by your falling tree that you didn&rsquo;t offer to cover the damage for.</p>\n<p>First thing this morning a local tree-trimming company, the same one that did the work on the tree that fell on my garage, pulled up on the block to work on something across the street. So, in combination with the fence demolition, I expect today to be fairly noisy and therefore exacerbate my flare. I&rsquo;ve moved upstairs where sound is muffled and I can escape from the disruption. Also brought with me many accoutrements like earplugs, headphones, my iPad, my laptop, anything to keep me comfortable while it is noisy.</p>\n<p>Another omg.lol member shared a link to a blogging challenge that is new to me, <a href=\"https://aggronaut.com/2024/07/12/blaugust-2024-is-coming/\">Blaugust</a>, and I&rsquo;m considering taking part. As I&rsquo;m already doing <a href=\"https://100daystooffload.com/\">100 Days to Offload</a> here, I don&rsquo;t think this will be too hard. Still deciding if I want to get one of my other blogs going or just combine the challenge with my existing blogs. I&rsquo;ll just need to set up some new categories depending on what I decide to do.</p>\n<p>I guess this is a short one, as I was pretty useless yesterday due to my flare. I watched a lot of MSNBC regarding the Harris run for president, and then picked up on The Brokenwood Mysteries last night. I have a few online tasks to do today but otherwise will be taking it easy so I can do what I need to later this week. Maybe I&rsquo;ll try to get back to working on my navigation overhaul on weblog. I&rsquo;ve sort of left that in a spreadsheet that started to overwhelm me. Or I&rsquo;ll work on the shortcodes page on <a href=\"https://custom.themes.lol\">Custom</a>, or provide an overall <a href=\"https://themes.lol\">themes.lol</a> update post for the homepage (it still says May&hellip;)</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>36</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Right as I was going to bed last night I got a text from my neighbor telling me the fence demolition will start today. It also appears *they are still not home* so demolition and construction of a fence that divides our property and affects me will be done while the person who hired the job is not around. I cannot see this as anything but an extremely irresponsible act and a general \"fuck you\" to a neighbor who's garage was damaged by your falling tree that you didn't offer to cover the damage for.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nFirst thing this morning a local tree-trimming company, the same one that did the work on the tree that fell on my garage, pulled up on the block to work on something across the street. So, in combination with the fence demolition, I expect today to be fairly noisy and therefore exacerbate my flare. I've moved upstairs where sound is muffled and I can escape from the disruption. Also brought with me many accoutrements like earplugs, headphones, my iPad, my laptop, anything to keep me comfortable while it is noisy.\n\nAnother omg.lol member shared a link to a blogging challenge that is new to me, [Blaugust](https://aggronaut.com/2024/07/12/blaugust-2024-is-coming/), and I'm considering taking part. As I'm already doing [100 Days to Offload](https://100daystooffload.com/) here, I don't think this will be too hard. Still deciding if I want to get one of my other blogs going or just combine the challenge with my existing blogs. I'll just need to set up some new categories depending on what I decide to do.\n\nI guess this is a short one, as I was pretty useless yesterday due to my flare. I watched a lot of MSNBC regarding the Harris run for president, and then picked up on The Brokenwood Mysteries last night. I have a few online tasks to do today but otherwise will be taking it easy so I can do what I need to later this week. Maybe I'll try to get back to working on my navigation overhaul on weblog. I've sort of left that in a spreadsheet that started to overwhelm me. Or I'll work on the shortcodes page on [Custom](https://custom.themes.lol), or provide an overall [themes.lol](https://themes.lol) update post for the homepage (it still says May...)\n\n--- \n\n**36**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-23T09:22:30-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/23/no-rest-for.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/22/still-no-news.html",
				"title": "Still no news on that disabled train.",
				"content_html": "<p>If that title means nothing to you, I don&rsquo;t blame you. But if it does, then you too either enjoyed <em>NewsRadio</em> in the 1990s or perhaps still enjoy it today. I watched and enjoyed <em>NewsRadio</em> in the 1990s, I thought it was under appreciated at the time and now looking back think it was far more influential than pop culture gives it credit. About ten years ago, <a href=\"https://www.vox.com/2015/3/22/8272007/newsradio-best-sitcom-20\"><em>Vox</em> wrote this piece</a> about it, similarly stating its place in TV history and that it may well be the best sitcom of the 90s.</p>\n<p>The title is <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660232/quotes/?item=qt0218695&amp;ref_=ext_shr_lnk\">a line from &ldquo;The Crisis&rdquo; in which a disabled subway train in NYC is covered breathlessly</a> as is done by the media whenever there is a crisis. It pokes fun at the way the media will continue coming back to a crisis over and over all day, several times an hour, ad nauseum, even when there is no new information to be had. I have way too many <em>NewsRadio</em> quotes in my head, not so much memorized but just there to pull out whenever something happens that the quote seems apt for.</p>\n<p>Today it is apt because three days after the fence replacement crew was supposed to be here, they still are not and I&rsquo;ve heard no new information. As a chronically ill person this is the type of thing that is just destroys my existence. First, I need to be here and be prepared for a crew to be disruptive. This causes my nervous system to be on edge. This drains my already precious energy and prevents me from getting other necessary things done. Not to mention the energy and time I&rsquo;ve already expended to prepare the area for them.</p>\n<p>Of course my neighbor doesn&rsquo;t seem to care. They weren&rsquo;t even here this weekend when the project was meant to start. But I have nowhere else to go. I don&rsquo;t have the ability to leave and take a vacation. I don&rsquo;t have money to rent another place to avoid the stress for a few days. And I don&rsquo;t want to not be here in case there is a need for communication with the crew. I am really hoping that this happens this week or I at least get a timeline update because if it goes on much longer waiting, I&rsquo;m going to have to put my foot down. I have things I need to get done later in the week.</p>\n<p>In other news, Sunday was the longest day in history. In fact, I think the last two weeks may be as long as 2020 was entirely, which, of course, <a href=\"https://whatdayofmarch2020.com/\">is still happening to this day</a>. Americans found out yesterday that President Biden will not be seeking a second term, and that VP Harris will be running instead. I have surmised on reasons and we&rsquo;ve been told some of them, but I&rsquo;m not going to go into it much here.</p>\n<p>My only hope is that if this third Covid infection has anything to do with it, they will be honest about that. Because the track of &ldquo;everything is fine, there is no threat anymore&rdquo; is frankly bullshit and harming so many people. This man has every tool at his disposal, anyone who comes into contact with him must first test negative. He has the very best of medical care and onsite doctors. And even he is on his third infection. Seriously, what chance do regular Americans have? I find continuing with this head-in-the-sand narrative to be extremely irresponsible.</p>\n<p>Portland had a thunderstorm in the morning yesterday. People often throw around how unusual that is, and others like to negate those claims. But as someone who has lived within 50 miles of Portland for nearly 50 years, I assure you it is unusual. Our wet weather systems are not normally the type that coincides with a thunderstorm. However, occasionally all the right pieces do come together to produce one near the city, and that&rsquo;s what happened yesterday.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>35</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "If that title means nothing to you, I don't blame you. But if it does, then you too either enjoyed *NewsRadio* in the 1990s or perhaps still enjoy it today. I watched and enjoyed *NewsRadio* in the 1990s, I thought it was under appreciated at the time and now looking back think it was far more influential than pop culture gives it credit. About ten years ago, [*Vox* wrote this piece](https://www.vox.com/2015/3/22/8272007/newsradio-best-sitcom-20) about it, similarly stating its place in TV history and that it may well be the best sitcom of the 90s.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe title is [a line from \"The Crisis\" in which a disabled subway train in NYC is covered breathlessly](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660232/quotes/?item=qt0218695&ref_=ext_shr_lnk) as is done by the media whenever there is a crisis. It pokes fun at the way the media will continue coming back to a crisis over and over all day, several times an hour, ad nauseum, even when there is no new information to be had. I have way too many *NewsRadio* quotes in my head, not so much memorized but just there to pull out whenever something happens that the quote seems apt for.\r\n\r\nToday it is apt because three days after the fence replacement crew was supposed to be here, they still are not and I've heard no new information. As a chronically ill person this is the type of thing that is just destroys my existence. First, I need to be here and be prepared for a crew to be disruptive. This causes my nervous system to be on edge. This drains my already precious energy and prevents me from getting other necessary things done. Not to mention the energy and time I've already expended to prepare the area for them.\r\n\r\nOf course my neighbor doesn't seem to care. They weren't even here this weekend when the project was meant to start. But I have nowhere else to go. I don't have the ability to leave and take a vacation. I don't have money to rent another place to avoid the stress for a few days. And I don't want to not be here in case there is a need for communication with the crew. I am really hoping that this happens this week or I at least get a timeline update because if it goes on much longer waiting, I'm going to have to put my foot down. I have things I need to get done later in the week.\r\n\r\nIn other news, Sunday was the longest day in history. In fact, I think the last two weeks may be as long as 2020 was entirely, which, of course, [is still happening to this day](https://whatdayofmarch2020.com/). Americans found out yesterday that President Biden will not be seeking a second term, and that VP Harris will be running instead. I have surmised on reasons and we've been told some of them, but I'm not going to go into it much here.\r\n\r\nMy only hope is that if this third Covid infection has anything to do with it, they will be honest about that. Because the track of \"everything is fine, there is no threat anymore\" is frankly bullshit and harming so many people. This man has every tool at his disposal, anyone who comes into contact with him must first test negative. He has the very best of medical care and onsite doctors. And even he is on his third infection. Seriously, what chance do regular Americans have? I find continuing with this head-in-the-sand narrative to be extremely irresponsible.\r\n\r\nPortland had a thunderstorm in the morning yesterday. People often throw around how unusual that is, and others like to negate those claims. But as someone who has lived within 50 miles of Portland for nearly 50 years, I assure you it is unusual. Our wet weather systems are not normally the type that coincides with a thunderstorm. However, occasionally all the right pieces do come together to produce one near the city, and that's what happened yesterday.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**35**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-22T11:43:41-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/22/still-no-news.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/20/not-so-fast.html",
				"title": "Not so fast.",
				"content_html": "<p>My dream of the neighbor-tree-fence saga ending this weekend has been shattered and frankly I am crushed. That&rsquo;s what I deserve for getting my hopes up and assuming something that has so far not been easy at all would end in any easy manner. All that so say: the fence people are not here today as planned. They may be here tomorrow. They may be here Monday. Who knows.</p>\n<p>I did my part, though. Yesterday I headed out on an already warm morning and dismantled a masonry retaining wall that I constructed from blocks on my property when I bought this place. It wasn&rsquo;t professionally done, but it had done it&rsquo;s job pretty well for the last 10 years or so since I constructed it. This was done to mitigate the elevating soil level on my neighbor&rsquo;s abutting property along a fence with my driveway when trees had been planted and mitigation was not taken to prevent run off. In fact, they ended up burying about a foot of their fence in soil. It was not ideal.</p>\n<p>It took me far longer to dismantle it than anticipated. I had forgotten just how many layers and how many blocks there were nested together to make up the wall. When I finished I got to the last course which was turned on its side and lengthwise in order to prevent the wall of soil from collapsing onto my side. Seriously, the level has raised in the years since I constructed it and is now nearly two feet higher than my driveway at one end. What a mess. Needless to say, I could not remove that last course or I&rsquo;d have an avalanche from their side end up on my driveway.</p>\n<p>My neighbor was walking her dog past my driveway right as I was finishing and I asked her if she wanted to see my side. She told me she&rsquo;d finish her walk, take the dog home, and come over. I never heard back from her until later that evening when I was told the fence people would not be here today, and that she didn&rsquo;t even know what day they would be here. This thing is never ending.</p>\n<p>I took pictures from my side and sent them to her and explained the elevation difference and that whatever they were going to do would have to resolve that. Apparently, they are going out of town today! And were not even planning on being around while the fence was constructed! I do not understand some people. How can you not be around for construction of a fence that affects your neighbor&rsquo;s property?! You are responsible for this as well and to not be around is rather inconsiderate and irresponsible. So, now I truly don&rsquo;t know what is to happen or when.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>34</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "My dream of the neighbor-tree-fence saga ending this weekend has been shattered and frankly I am crushed. That's what I deserve for getting my hopes up and assuming something that has so far not been easy at all would end in any easy manner. All that so say: the fence people are not here today as planned. They may be here tomorrow. They may be here Monday. Who knows.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI did my part, though. Yesterday I headed out on an already warm morning and dismantled a masonry retaining wall that I constructed from blocks on my property when I bought this place. It wasn't professionally done, but it had done it's job pretty well for the last 10 years or so since I constructed it. This was done to mitigate the elevating soil level on my neighbor's abutting property along a fence with my driveway when trees had been planted and mitigation was not taken to prevent run off. In fact, they ended up burying about a foot of their fence in soil. It was not ideal.\r\n\r\nIt took me far longer to dismantle it than anticipated. I had forgotten just how many layers and how many blocks there were nested together to make up the wall. When I finished I got to the last course which was turned on its side and lengthwise in order to prevent the wall of soil from collapsing onto my side. Seriously, the level has raised in the years since I constructed it and is now nearly two feet higher than my driveway at one end. What a mess. Needless to say, I could not remove that last course or I'd have an avalanche from their side end up on my driveway.\r\n\r\nMy neighbor was walking her dog past my driveway right as I was finishing and I asked her if she wanted to see my side. She told me she'd finish her walk, take the dog home, and come over. I never heard back from her until later that evening when I was told the fence people would not be here today, and that she didn't even know what day they would be here. This thing is never ending.\r\n\r\nI took pictures from my side and sent them to her and explained the elevation difference and that whatever they were going to do would have to resolve that. Apparently, they are going out of town today! And were not even planning on being around while the fence was constructed! I do not understand some people. How can you not be around for construction of a fence that affects your neighbor's property?! You are responsible for this as well and to not be around is rather inconsiderate and irresponsible. So, now I truly don't know what is to happen or when.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**34**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-20T12:38:11-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/20/not-so-fast.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/19/a-pretty-progressive.html",
				"title": "A pretty progressive day.",
				"content_html": "<p>I got out early again yesterday. I am always thankful for the days I manage to do that. It&rsquo;s still heating up quite a bit throughout the day so getting out early is the key to getting anything done outside. I managed to get quite a bit done: prep for the fence construction, plants in the ground, more mulch moved.</p>\n<p>If you recall, I planted the three succulents earlier in the week, two in the ground, one in a pot. That left me with three remaining herbaceous perennials from that plant order. I already knew where they needed to go it was just a matter of wanting to get out to do it in a place that gets sun all day long, the back sun perennial border. It bakes.</p>\n<p>The two agastache, a variety called &lsquo;Ambrosia&rsquo; and another, &lsquo;Heronswood Mist,&rsquo; which was introduced by Dan Hinkley, a renowned NW plantsman of Puget Sound and his gardens and nurseries. This includes the agastache namesake: Hersonwood, <a href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/heronswood-is-better-than-ever/\">a garden and nursery that has quite a story</a>. I&rsquo;ve been to Heronswood and to Dan&rsquo;s other gardens in the area and they are all fantastic and enchanting in their own way.</p>\n<p>Since the plants were delivered on a Friday in the middle of a heatwave, they&rsquo;ve been sitting in a shady protected location for most of the time during the last two weeks. The succulents were just barely starting to etiolate, where they stretch a little more than they should, and lose some of their vibrancy. The digitalis has pushed four new leaves, and didn&rsquo;t appear to be suffering much. As an edge-of-the-forest plant, it was probably the happiest on the patio. The &lsquo;Ambrosia&rsquo; agastache hadn&rsquo;t done much, it came out of the shipping box with buds and those buds appeared nearly unchanged while it sat on the patio. &lsquo;Heronswood&rsquo; on the other hand had jumped in size, doubling or nearly tripling since it arrived. Though it has no buds yet it definitely showed that it was a variety for the PNW&rsquo;s climate.</p>\n<p>Once I got the plants in the ground I did some watering, puttering, and deadheading. My final task was to move the remaining mulch pile off the driveway in preparation for the fence construction this weekend. Luckily this mulch pile is shaded until nearly midday so I had time to get moving. About halfway through I decided that spreading it was not in the cards, both energywise for me but also because I wanted to finish up outside before everything on the driveway was in the sun. So I moved as much as needed into the garden beds, leaving little piles that I can spread next week, and filled the wheelbarrow with the rest that is unused for now, then washed off the driveway and moved everything back into the garage.</p>\n<p>The last thing left for me to do is dismantle a masonry block &ldquo;wall&rdquo; next to my driveway that may very well be holding up my neighbor&rsquo;s fence. I really hope it doesn&rsquo;t fall down after I move the blocks. But I guess its good it is going to be replaced anyway. I definitely overdid it yesterday but I was so happy to get all of that done. I crashed pretty hard last night only to be woken up around 11:30pm by my phone starting to play music via Pandora on the Home app for no apparent reason. A little freaked out, I rebooted all my network devices and changed some passwords. Then went online to see if I could find anything, only to discover that there was a massive CrowdStrike outage and I can only assume that something related to that caused the unprovoked music, otherwise I have literally no clue.</p>\n<p>Today&rsquo;s post marks 1/3 or 33% completion of the writing challenge!</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>33</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I got out early again yesterday. I am always thankful for the days I manage to do that. It's still heating up quite a bit throughout the day so getting out early is the key to getting anything done outside. I managed to get quite a bit done: prep for the fence construction, plants in the ground, more mulch moved.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you recall, I planted the three succulents earlier in the week, two in the ground, one in a pot. That left me with three remaining herbaceous perennials from that plant order. I already knew where they needed to go it was just a matter of wanting to get out to do it in a place that gets sun all day long, the back sun perennial border. It bakes.\r\n\r\nThe two agastache, a variety called 'Ambrosia' and another, 'Heronswood Mist,' which was introduced by Dan Hinkley, a renowned NW plantsman of Puget Sound and his gardens and nurseries. This includes the agastache namesake: Hersonwood, [a garden and nursery that has quite a story](https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/heronswood-is-better-than-ever/). I've been to Heronswood and to Dan's other gardens in the area and they are all fantastic and enchanting in their own way.\r\n\r\nSince the plants were delivered on a Friday in the middle of a heatwave, they've been sitting in a shady protected location for most of the time during the last two weeks. The succulents were just barely starting to etiolate, where they stretch a little more than they should, and lose some of their vibrancy. The digitalis has pushed four new leaves, and didn't appear to be suffering much. As an edge-of-the-forest plant, it was probably the happiest on the patio. The 'Ambrosia' agastache hadn't done much, it came out of the shipping box with buds and those buds appeared nearly unchanged while it sat on the patio. 'Heronswood' on the other hand had jumped in size, doubling or nearly tripling since it arrived. Though it has no buds yet it definitely showed that it was a variety for the PNW's climate.\r\n\r\nOnce I got the plants in the ground I did some watering, puttering, and deadheading. My final task was to move the remaining mulch pile off the driveway in preparation for the fence construction this weekend. Luckily this mulch pile is shaded until nearly midday so I had time to get moving. About halfway through I decided that spreading it was not in the cards, both energywise for me but also because I wanted to finish up outside before everything on the driveway was in the sun. So I moved as much as needed into the garden beds, leaving little piles that I can spread next week, and filled the wheelbarrow with the rest that is unused for now, then washed off the driveway and moved everything back into the garage.\r\n\r\nThe last thing left for me to do is dismantle a masonry block \"wall\" next to my driveway that may very well be holding up my neighbor's fence. I really hope it doesn't fall down after I move the blocks. But I guess its good it is going to be replaced anyway. I definitely overdid it yesterday but I was so happy to get all of that done. I crashed pretty hard last night only to be woken up around 11:30pm by my phone starting to play music via Pandora on the Home app for no apparent reason. A little freaked out, I rebooted all my network devices and changed some passwords. Then went online to see if I could find anything, only to discover that there was a massive CrowdStrike outage and I can only assume that something related to that caused the unprovoked music, otherwise I have literally no clue.\r\n\r\nToday's post marks 1/3 or 33% completion of the writing challenge!\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**33**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-19T09:21:09-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/19/a-pretty-progressive.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/18/i-got-into.html",
				"title": "I got into it.",
				"content_html": "<p>The last couple days I&rsquo;ve been posting about a lot of personal stuff that has been related to a community event and how I&rsquo;ve been processing and dealing with it. Yesterday was no different. Though yesterday I made a decision that I needed to find a way to move on from it. That was either going to be figuring out a way to stay, or figuring out if I needed to leave.</p>\n<p>I posted about how I was feeling bad about my own feelings, and about how I feel I&rsquo;ve been led there by certain events, both now and in the past. This emotional invalidation is a nasty business and it seems to be prolific lately. People are so caught up in themselves they can&rsquo;t see beyond their own interests and recognize that how they act affects others. I know this, I&rsquo;ve apologized; I still have not gotten an apology, a real apology, from the one person that matters in this, but I don&rsquo;t think I will and I just have to accept that.</p>\n<p>After starting a blog post yesterday for weblog on blogging about vulnerability following this series of posts where I reveal a lot more of myself than I have before, the crying hit me again. This had been happening since Sunday, not straight, but intermittently I would just get really down about the whole situation. Most specifically that there were people who said they were made to feel uncomfortable by me. That makes me so uneasy, and it makes me feel very self-conscious that they don&rsquo;t even feel like they can say it to me when whatever the thing was that happened to make them uncomfortable happened.</p>\n<p>So, I abandoned the vulnerability post and wrote a letter to the community coughing up all these feelings and that I was actually considering leaving because I was now feeling welcome due to all these circumstances. If we could not get past this, not just the event on Sunday, but moreover whatever issues were already bothering people, then I wasn&rsquo;t comfortable to hang around. It was a wrenching post to write, at the time I had literal tears streaming down my face.</p>\n<p>Soon after publishing it I got some responses, as I had asked for in the post. And there was a marked uptick in traffic to the post so I went to lurk on Discord. I found quite the discussion, which at first seemed like the answer to my quandary, that folks didn&rsquo;t seem to want me there and were ready to tell me to &ldquo;get over it&rdquo; in not so many words. I&rsquo;m still not sure entirely what I &ldquo;walked&rdquo; into but as the discussion progressed with me now involved, I feel like there was some progress and I&rsquo;m feeling better about the situation today.</p>\n<p>Communication is hard. It is hard even when people know each other and see each other every day. This world we&rsquo;ve created online with systems that throw a stream of text at us are not what we evolved for. I have always been more comfortable taking time with data and information. Reading it, re-reading it, and re-visiting it later when I&rsquo;m in a different headspace. It&rsquo;s like we don&rsquo;t take the time for that deep thought anymore. We all hate email because it is such a spamfest and we can&rsquo;t even keep up with the legit emails we get, so now we have these terrible in-real-time chats that you either never keep up with or only catch a partial snippet of info from and it hurts my brain. I state my preference by saying &ldquo;I was the person communicating via Jira and not Slack&rdquo; to exemplify my communication style.</p>\n<p>Maybe that is why I like blogging. Blogging is slow, intentional communication.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>32</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "The last couple days I've been posting about a lot of personal stuff that has been related to a community event and how I've been processing and dealing with it. Yesterday was no different. Though yesterday I made a decision that I needed to find a way to move on from it. That was either going to be figuring out a way to stay, or figuring out if I needed to leave.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI posted about how I was feeling bad about my own feelings, and about how I feel I've been led there by certain events, both now and in the past. This emotional invalidation is a nasty business and it seems to be prolific lately. People are so caught up in themselves they can't see beyond their own interests and recognize that how they act affects others. I know this, I've apologized; I still have not gotten an apology, a real apology, from the one person that matters in this, but I don't think I will and I just have to accept that.\n\nAfter starting a blog post yesterday for weblog on blogging about vulnerability following this series of posts where I reveal a lot more of myself than I have before, the crying hit me again. This had been happening since Sunday, not straight, but intermittently I would just get really down about the whole situation. Most specifically that there were people who said they were made to feel uncomfortable by me. That makes me so uneasy, and it makes me feel very self-conscious that they don't even feel like they can say it to me when whatever the thing was that happened to make them uncomfortable happened.\n\nSo, I abandoned the vulnerability post and wrote a letter to the community coughing up all these feelings and that I was actually considering leaving because I was now feeling welcome due to all these circumstances. If we could not get past this, not just the event on Sunday, but moreover whatever issues were already bothering people, then I wasn't comfortable to hang around. It was a wrenching post to write, at the time I had literal tears streaming down my face.\n\nSoon after publishing it I got some responses, as I had asked for in the post. And there was a marked uptick in traffic to the post so I went to lurk on Discord. I found quite the discussion, which at first seemed like the answer to my quandary, that folks didn't seem to want me there and were ready to tell me to \"get over it\" in not so many words. I'm still not sure entirely what I \"walked\" into but as the discussion progressed with me now involved, I feel like there was some progress and I'm feeling better about the situation today.\n\nCommunication is hard. It is hard even when people know each other and see each other every day. This world we've created online with systems that throw a stream of text at us are not what we evolved for. I have always been more comfortable taking time with data and information. Reading it, re-reading it, and re-visiting it later when I'm in a different headspace. It's like we don't take the time for that deep thought anymore. We all hate email because it is such a spamfest and we can't even keep up with the legit emails we get, so now we have these terrible in-real-time chats that you either never keep up with or only catch a partial snippet of info from and it hurts my brain. I state my preference by saying \"I was the person communicating via Jira and not Slack\" to exemplify my communication style.\n\nMaybe that is why I like blogging. Blogging is slow, intentional communication.\n\n--- \n\n**32**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-18T14:34:26-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/18/i-got-into.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/17/yesterday-was-a.html",
				"title": "Yesterday was a rollercoaster.",
				"content_html": "<p>I started the day out in fairly good spirits. I still had a lot on my mind but I was able to get a lot of it out in my 100 Days of Blog post yesterday. I then set out into the garden, very glad to get back to that habit of morning garden strolls and puttering. This time I actually got something done!</p>\n<p>I shared the <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/16/garden-status.html\">garden adventure in a post on my main microblog</a>, adding it as a Garden Status post. I was glad to finally make use of that orange container, which had sort of floated around the patio for several years, never actually becoming a permanent home for anything. I took a few photos for the post, nothing ground breaking.</p>\n<p>I spent the middle of the day running errands and that wore me out. When I got home it was too warm outside and I was hungry. I tried to remember the last time I drove somewhere prior to yesterday and I&rsquo;m pretty sure it was more than a month ago. No wonder it soured my mood. Nobody knows how to drive anymore, or they don&rsquo;t care, or their blood vessels and brain have been so damaged by repeat Covid infections they&rsquo;re now a danger, even more than most people were before Covid. In case you don&rsquo;t keep up with the research like I do, Covid is a vascular disease and many studies have found permanent changes to the brain even with mild infections. Changes that alter distance and spacial perception, definitely not good for driving.</p>\n<p>I made lunch and rested in the afternoon, catching up on some TV shows. By the early evening the drama and emotional upset from Sunday was taking its toll on me. My illness&rsquo;s hallmark symptom, which I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;ve mentioned before, is called Post-exertional malaise (PEM) and can be triggered by any activity, be it physical, mental, or emotional. It often occurs 24+ hours after the triggering event and can lead to crashes.</p>\n<p>I think I staved off the crash but my PEM is usually initially coupled with a &ldquo;wired&rdquo; feeling, termed &ldquo;tired but wired&rdquo; where you are dog-tired and fatigued but you feel anxious + strung out + perhaps a little buzzy (I sometimes get an internal buzz and this often coincides with increased tinnitus). For me it also means my brain won&rsquo;t shut up. This was the number one reason I used to smoke pot. It allowed me to <em>rest</em> when I needed to, it relaxed all my functions and nervous system so that I could actually convalesce. I don&rsquo;t smoke pot anymore, but I may pick it up again some day because it really helps me with my PEM symptoms.</p>\n<p>Since my brain would not shut up I started to go over the Sunday incident again, and the subsequent communication via email, and I started to feel like shit about the entire thing. I used to go through this when I&rsquo;d get sick and have to miss work, I&rsquo;d legitimately loathe myself sometimes for having needs that others would not accept. It&rsquo;s really hard to find therapists sympathetic to this who understand chronic illness and the gaslighting we go through and how that damages us in so many ways. I&rsquo;m positive I have trust issues that crop up in places you wouldn&rsquo;t expect. I still don&rsquo;t trust doctors and this distrust has only been reinforced during the Covid pandemic.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>31</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I started the day out in fairly good spirits. I still had a lot on my mind but I was able to get a lot of it out in my 100 Days of Blog post yesterday. I then set out into the garden, very glad to get back to that habit of morning garden strolls and puttering. This time I actually got something done!\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI shared the [garden adventure in a post on my main microblog](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/16/garden-status.html), adding it as a Garden Status post. I was glad to finally make use of that orange container, which had sort of floated around the patio for several years, never actually becoming a permanent home for anything. I took a few photos for the post, nothing ground breaking.\n\nI spent the middle of the day running errands and that wore me out. When I got home it was too warm outside and I was hungry. I tried to remember the last time I drove somewhere prior to yesterday and I'm pretty sure it was more than a month ago. No wonder it soured my mood. Nobody knows how to drive anymore, or they don't care, or their blood vessels and brain have been so damaged by repeat Covid infections they're now a danger, even more than most people were before Covid. In case you don't keep up with the research like I do, Covid is a vascular disease and many studies have found permanent changes to the brain even with mild infections. Changes that alter distance and spacial perception, definitely not good for driving.\n\nI made lunch and rested in the afternoon, catching up on some TV shows. By the early evening the drama and emotional upset from Sunday was taking its toll on me. My illness's hallmark symptom, which I'm sure I've mentioned before, is called Post-exertional malaise (PEM) and can be triggered by any activity, be it physical, mental, or emotional. It often occurs 24+ hours after the triggering event and can lead to crashes.\n\nI think I staved off the crash but my PEM is usually initially coupled with a \"wired\" feeling, termed \"tired but wired\" where you are dog-tired and fatigued but you feel anxious + strung out + perhaps a little buzzy (I sometimes get an internal buzz and this often coincides with increased tinnitus). For me it also means my brain won't shut up. This was the number one reason I used to smoke pot. It allowed me to *rest* when I needed to, it relaxed all my functions and nervous system so that I could actually convalesce. I don't smoke pot anymore, but I may pick it up again some day because it really helps me with my PEM symptoms.\n\nSince my brain would not shut up I started to go over the Sunday incident again, and the subsequent communication via email, and I started to feel like shit about the entire thing. I used to go through this when I'd get sick and have to miss work, I'd legitimately loathe myself sometimes for having needs that others would not accept. It's really hard to find therapists sympathetic to this who understand chronic illness and the gaslighting we go through and how that damages us in so many ways. I'm positive I have trust issues that crop up in places you wouldn't expect. I still don't trust doctors and this distrust has only been reinforced during the Covid pandemic.\n\n--- \n\n**31**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-17T10:53:17-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/17/yesterday-was-a.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/16/im-back-to.html",
				"title": "I'm back to community thoughts.",
				"content_html": "<p>A while back I wrote some <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/02/a-community-of.html\">posts</a> about <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/05/a-community-of-concerns\">community</a>: what it means to me, what I look for, and what makes me feel part of a community. At the time I was watching a fissure between two supposed communities I am part of due to the actions, reactions, and lack of accountability for them, between some people from each community, and another person who was attacked by an angry mob trying to back one of them up. What followed was a falling out from each community, where some people left the services of one, and others left the services of the other. In the end, nobody won, nobody seems to have learned anything, and no accountability was had.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sorry to say that this weekend another incident occurred in one of my communities. It was not the same but it brought up some of the same feelings that last one did and it has me back looking at my community non-negotiables:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>A shared piece of oneself, something in common.</li>\n<li>Willingness to listen before judging or offering advice or criticism.</li>\n<li><strong>Humbleness and concessions when proven wrong or hurtful.</strong></li>\n<li>Realism, positive or negative; both must be allowed.</li>\n<li><strong>Acceptance of boundaries; infractions must require steps to resolve.</strong></li>\n<li>Belief in each other&rsquo;s self, as identified.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Emphasis on numbers three and five, mine, obviously, and they&rsquo;re the ones I&rsquo;m concerned with right now. At this point I do not feel like these were achieved at what can only be described as &ldquo;the end&rdquo; of this incident. I feel like it is the end because I&rsquo;ve left the platform where it occurred, don&rsquo;t have immediate plans to return, and the person in charge has ceased responding to the chain of emails they initiated to work through what happened. That&rsquo;s fine, perhaps it didn&rsquo;t need to continue, but it does signal the end to me.</p>\n<p>The person who I felt &ldquo;wronged&rdquo; or &ldquo;hurt&rdquo; by has seen no repercussions for their actions (though I am not entirely sure what that would look like in this case); I&rsquo;ve not had an actual apology though I was forced to apologize for claiming my own boundaries; and I&rsquo;m the one on the outs. This is a scenario played out across the ages of time and space for women in places made up of and mainly controlled by men. In fact, the only person who had any words of support or encouragement (after the fact) was another woman, who is in a different time zone and came back the following day and read through the thread of comments. She had these words to say that I greatly appreciated:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I often put my foot in it, often with no idea quite how - but it&rsquo;s not up to me to tell someone else how I made them feel. They felt that way and that&rsquo;s the end of it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>And that is the point I&rsquo;m here to make, this is the sticking point for me. I kept being told that nobody else could see anything wrong with what the other person did. But it isn&rsquo;t up to other people to determine my boundaries or how I should react to them. All they are required to do is respect my boundaries. The worse they can do is invalidate the feelings that someone has or throw derogatory language around.</p>\n<p>I know nothing about this website, I have no idea if it is a bitcoin miner or full of malware, but I found some content on <a href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/micro.blog/bookmarks/2024/07/15/psychcentral.com/1cdd6690bde12e8e6601db6940e099b0\">one of the entries</a> helpful when I was thinking through my own reactions to the incident. I have bookmarked this entry so the link provided is the archived version.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Validation tells someone that their emotions are respected. It makes space for another person’s emotions to exist.</p>\n<p>Through validation, we can confirm that others have their own emotional experiences and that those experiences are real, valued, and important.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Recognizing language that perpetuates invalidation is hard, here&rsquo;s a handy list of common phrases that invalidate.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Emotional invalidation statements</p>\n<ul>\n<li>It could be worse</li>\n<li>You’re too sensitive</li>\n<li>You’re overreacting</li>\n<li>You shouldn’t feel that way</li>\n<li>I know exactly how you feel</li>\n<li>Just let it go</li>\n<li>You take everything so personally</li>\n<li>You make a big deal out of everything</li>\n<li>I don’t see the problem</li>\n<li>You shouldn’t be so [any feeling the person has expressed]</li>\n<li>How do you think that makes me feel?</li>\n<li>I don’t want to have this conversation</li>\n<li>Stop making things up</li>\n<li>That didn’t happen</li>\n</ul>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I think part of the problem with this incident may be that the other person is not aware of how the timing of their comments can affect others, situational awareness. I have been guilty of this myself. Often stepping back and looking at what was said through someone else&rsquo;s lens can highlight where things could have been handled differently. When you are told that something you did hurt someone else, it isn&rsquo;t for you to judge that. It isn&rsquo;t for you to throw other accusations to the person. It is for you to accept that hurt and apologize. Period.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>30</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "A while back I wrote some [posts](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/02/a-community-of.html) about [community](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/05/a-community-of-concerns): what it means to me, what I look for, and what makes me feel part of a community. At the time I was watching a fissure between two supposed communities I am part of due to the actions, reactions, and lack of accountability for them, between some people from each community, and another person who was attacked by an angry mob trying to back one of them up. What followed was a falling out from each community, where some people left the services of one, and others left the services of the other. In the end, nobody won, nobody seems to have learned anything, and no accountability was had.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI'm sorry to say that this weekend another incident occurred in one of my communities. It was not the same but it brought up some of the same feelings that last one did and it has me back looking at my community non-negotiables:\n\n1. A shared piece of oneself, something in common.\n2. Willingness to listen before judging or offering advice or criticism.\n3. **Humbleness and concessions when proven wrong or hurtful.**\n4. Realism, positive or negative; both must be allowed.\n5. **Acceptance of boundaries; infractions must require steps to resolve.**\n6. Belief in each other's self, as identified.\n\nEmphasis on numbers three and five, mine, obviously, and they're the ones I'm concerned with right now. At this point I do not feel like these were achieved at what can only be described as \"the end\" of this incident. I feel like it is the end because I've left the platform where it occurred, don't have immediate plans to return, and the person in charge has ceased responding to the chain of emails they initiated to work through what happened. That's fine, perhaps it didn't need to continue, but it does signal the end to me.\n\nThe person who I felt \"wronged\" or \"hurt\" by has seen no repercussions for their actions (though I am not entirely sure what that would look like in this case); I've not had an actual apology though I was forced to apologize for claiming my own boundaries; and I'm the one on the outs. This is a scenario played out across the ages of time and space for women in places made up of and mainly controlled by men. In fact, the only person who had any words of support or encouragement (after the fact) was another woman, who is in a different time zone and came back the following day and read through the thread of comments. She had these words to say that I greatly appreciated:\n\n> I often put my foot in it, often with no idea quite how - but it's not up to me to tell someone else how I made them feel. They felt that way and that's the end of it.\n\nAnd that is the point I'm here to make, this is the sticking point for me. I kept being told that nobody else could see anything wrong with what the other person did. But it isn't up to other people to determine my boundaries or how I should react to them. All they are required to do is respect my boundaries. The worse they can do is invalidate the feelings that someone has or throw derogatory language around.\n\nI know nothing about this website, I have no idea if it is a bitcoin miner or full of malware, but I found some content on [one of the entries](https://s3.amazonaws.com/micro.blog/bookmarks/2024/07/15/psychcentral.com/1cdd6690bde12e8e6601db6940e099b0) helpful when I was thinking through my own reactions to the incident. I have bookmarked this entry so the link provided is the archived version.\n\n> Validation tells someone that their emotions are respected. It makes space for another person’s emotions to exist.\n> \n> Through validation, we can confirm that others have their own emotional experiences and that those experiences are real, valued, and important.\n\nRecognizing language that perpetuates invalidation is hard, here's a handy list of common phrases that invalidate.\n\n> Emotional invalidation statements\n> \n> - It could be worse\n> - You’re too sensitive\n> - You’re overreacting\n> - You shouldn’t feel that way\n> - I know exactly how you feel\n> - Just let it go\n> - You take everything so personally\n> - You make a big deal out of everything\n> - I don’t see the problem\n> - You shouldn’t be so \\[any feeling the person has expressed\\]\n> - How do you think that makes me feel?\n> - I don’t want to have this conversation\n> - Stop making things up\n> - That didn’t happen\n\nI think part of the problem with this incident may be that the other person is not aware of how the timing of their comments can affect others, situational awareness. I have been guilty of this myself. Often stepping back and looking at what was said through someone else's lens can highlight where things could have been handled differently. When you are told that something you did hurt someone else, it isn't for you to judge that. It isn't for you to throw other accusations to the person. It is for you to accept that hurt and apologize. Period.\n\n--- \n\n**30**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-16T10:18:22-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/16/im-back-to.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/15/the-weekend-was.html",
				"title": "The weekend was derailed.",
				"content_html": "<p>As I noted on Saturday I was unable to get done in the garden what I wished to get done. I swore to then get it done Sunday, but that was tempered as well. Partly due to my nervous system petering out after completing one task and partly due to some community kerfuffle. I&rsquo;m honestly hurt by this one, which directly includes me. I don&rsquo;t want to be upset anymore by it today, so I am putting it into a box until I can think about how I want to move forward.</p>\n<p>However, it has me thinking about PHP development again, because if I ever move any of my blogs I may want to do something with PHP. Coupled with some posts by another omg.lol member on Mastodon, I got to thinking about wiping this machine and doing a fresh install, and then &ldquo;returning to my roots&rdquo; in PHP and Twig. I&rsquo;m not sure I want or need to get anything Drupal running, but I would absolutely adore returning to Grav and doing more with it.</p>\n<p>My only encounter with Grav was during a Drupal platform development where the platform had one site running Grav instead of Drupal. I primarily concentrated on the design system within Pattern Lab, but my Twig templates fed both into Drupal <em>and</em> Grav. Grav&rsquo;s documentation is lovely and even if I only mess around locally, which is another benefit of the Grav docs, they go into local development set-ups quite extensively, I&rsquo;d actually love to find out that I might want to build a new site with it some day.</p>\n<p>Yesterday I worked on some small utility styling on <a href=\"https://themes.lol\">themes.lol</a> specifically for in-page anchors. Weblog&rsquo;s Markdown provides an extension for automatic heading anchors, so I will need to augment what I came up with to work with that if I want to provide it with my Styles. The utility I crafted requires wrapping the title in the anchor, not simply providing the anchor inside the title, as the extension provides.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not sure what is on the agenda for today. I had more grand plans to work in the garden after failing to do much yesterday, but my heart just isn&rsquo;t in it due to the community issues. I&rsquo;m a little down today and I feel like I need to pamper myself in other ways. I might work more on the utility styling, I might start working on some blog posts that I&rsquo;ve been considering, I might do some cooking or baking, I might work on configuration and setup of some of my other sites. The day is up in the air.</p>\n<p>Oh, I almost forgot to mention that something I had been banging my head against here on Micro.blog, adding HTML comments into templates, <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/14/you-have-got.html\">I finally figured out a workaround for</a>. I can&rsquo;t believe this is such an issue! I found several Hugo help forum topics where many responses were hand-waving at the fact that comments were for developers and it doesn&rsquo;t matter if they get retained in the HTML source! <em>WHAT?I</em></p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>29</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "As I noted on Saturday I was unable to get done in the garden what I wished to get done. I swore to then get it done Sunday, but that was tempered as well. Partly due to my nervous system petering out after completing one task and partly due to some community kerfuffle. I'm honestly hurt by this one, which directly includes me. I don't want to be upset anymore by it today, so I am putting it into a box until I can think about how I want to move forward.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nHowever, it has me thinking about PHP development again, because if I ever move any of my blogs I may want to do something with PHP. Coupled with some posts by another omg.lol member on Mastodon, I got to thinking about wiping this machine and doing a fresh install, and then \"returning to my roots\" in PHP and Twig. I'm not sure I want or need to get anything Drupal running, but I would absolutely adore returning to Grav and doing more with it.\n\nMy only encounter with Grav was during a Drupal platform development where the platform had one site running Grav instead of Drupal. I primarily concentrated on the design system within Pattern Lab, but my Twig templates fed both into Drupal *and* Grav. Grav's documentation is lovely and even if I only mess around locally, which is another benefit of the Grav docs, they go into local development set-ups quite extensively, I'd actually love to find out that I might want to build a new site with it some day.\n\nYesterday I worked on some small utility styling on [themes.lol](https://themes.lol) specifically for in-page anchors. Weblog's Markdown provides an extension for automatic heading anchors, so I will need to augment what I came up with to work with that if I want to provide it with my Styles. The utility I crafted requires wrapping the title in the anchor, not simply providing the anchor inside the title, as the extension provides.\n\nI'm not sure what is on the agenda for today. I had more grand plans to work in the garden after failing to do much yesterday, but my heart just isn't in it due to the community issues. I'm a little down today and I feel like I need to pamper myself in other ways. I might work more on the utility styling, I might start working on some blog posts that I've been considering, I might do some cooking or baking, I might work on configuration and setup of some of my other sites. The day is up in the air.\n\nOh, I almost forgot to mention that something I had been banging my head against here on Micro.blog, adding HTML comments into templates, [I finally figured out a workaround for](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/14/you-have-got.html). I can't believe this is such an issue! I found several Hugo help forum topics where many responses were hand-waving at the fact that comments were for developers and it doesn't matter if they get retained in the HTML source! *WHAT?I*\n\n--- \n\n**29**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-15T11:36:01-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/15/the-weekend-was.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/13/garden-or-bust.html",
				"title": "Garden or bust.",
				"content_html": "<p>Yesterday passed without fanfare. I hate to admit I don&rsquo;t recall much, but I don&rsquo;t. Another &ldquo;lost&rdquo; day. I&rsquo;ve been in a prolonged flare for a few weeks and it is really taking its toll. I finally had a good night of sleep last night, partially because I took something for inflammation before I went to bed and then I only woke up once (that I can remember). This gave me enough of a boost this morning that I mowed the back lawn first thing, before the sun was shining on it, before I&rsquo;d even had coffee.</p>\n<p>It will be hot again today, but I am planning on gardening tomorrow, the weather be damned. I wanted to get the lawn mowed early enough that I have the entire day today to rest and stay cool so that tomorrow can be a day spent planting several plants. I also want to remove two things in the front, which I mentioned previously, and replace them with a couple things I&rsquo;ve had in containers for a few years that want out and in the ground.</p>\n<p>I plan on getting all three succulents in the side yard, and the digitalis in the back corner of the back yard where I think it is the perfect exposure for an &ldquo;edge of the forest&rdquo; type of plant. I looked up some photos I took last year of the forest around my parent&rsquo;s house and the foxglove was blooming its head off in early July, so there may still be a chance I get a bloom this year, but I&rsquo;m fine if not I just want to get it situated. The poor things have been in their 4-inch nursery pots for over a week through a heatwave. The digitalis has pushed four new leaves!</p>\n<p>The remaining two plants can wait until some day this week. They will go in the back border of sun perennials and I want to do them at the same time I freshen the mulch back there. Sometime in the next week or two the fences between three properties surrounding me will be replaced all at the same time and I need to finish moving my mulch pile before then so it isn&rsquo;t in the way. I also need to work on moving some masonry blocks since one of the fences will need a short retaining wall where my neighbor raised the soil level of part of their back yard without mitigating run off and it drains onto my driveway. Not ideal and it has to get fixed.</p>\n<p>I can&rsquo;t wait for this saga to end. It has been two and a half months since the tree fell on my garage and all this activity is a result of that. We&rsquo;ve had trees removed, trees trimmed, roofs fixed, and now fences replaced. My nervous system has never been so frail for so long&hellip;well, maybe that isn&rsquo;t true. Last winter/spring there was a string of activity on my block for six months straight that had me so fried I lost nearly 30 pounds and was very unwell. I&rsquo;m not yet that bad, but if it carries on much longer I could see myself degrading further.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>28</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Yesterday passed without fanfare. I hate to admit I don't recall much, but I don't. Another \"lost\" day. I've been in a prolonged flare for a few weeks and it is really taking its toll. I finally had a good night of sleep last night, partially because I took something for inflammation before I went to bed and then I only woke up once (that I can remember). This gave me enough of a boost this morning that I mowed the back lawn first thing, before the sun was shining on it, before I'd even had coffee.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nIt will be hot again today, but I am planning on gardening tomorrow, the weather be damned. I wanted to get the lawn mowed early enough that I have the entire day today to rest and stay cool so that tomorrow can be a day spent planting several plants. I also want to remove two things in the front, which I mentioned previously, and replace them with a couple things I've had in containers for a few years that want out and in the ground.\r\n\r\nI plan on getting all three succulents in the side yard, and the digitalis in the back corner of the back yard where I think it is the perfect exposure for an \"edge of the forest\" type of plant. I looked up some photos I took last year of the forest around my parent's house and the foxglove was blooming its head off in early July, so there may still be a chance I get a bloom this year, but I'm fine if not I just want to get it situated. The poor things have been in their 4-inch nursery pots for over a week through a heatwave. The digitalis has pushed four new leaves!\r\n\r\nThe remaining two plants can wait until some day this week. They will go in the back border of sun perennials and I want to do them at the same time I freshen the mulch back there. Sometime in the next week or two the fences between three properties surrounding me will be replaced all at the same time and I need to finish moving my mulch pile before then so it isn't in the way. I also need to work on moving some masonry blocks since one of the fences will need a short retaining wall where my neighbor raised the soil level of part of their back yard without mitigating run off and it drains onto my driveway. Not ideal and it has to get fixed.\r\n\r\nI can't wait for this saga to end. It has been two and a half months since the tree fell on my garage and all this activity is a result of that. We've had trees removed, trees trimmed, roofs fixed, and now fences replaced. My nervous system has never been so frail for so long...well, maybe that isn't true. Last winter/spring there was a string of activity on my block for six months straight that had me so fried I lost nearly 30 pounds and was very unwell. I'm not yet that bad, but if it carries on much longer I could see myself degrading further.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**28**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-13T12:07:10-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/13/garden-or-bust.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/12/how-to-mark.html",
				"title": "How to mark a day.",
				"content_html": "<p>I can&rsquo;t say I can mark yesterday very well. I floated in and out of activity. I did manage to muster energy to get outside and work in the garden for a few hours in the mid-morning. I dead-headed a few perennials and mowed just the front lawn as that was all I had the ability to finish.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been watching All Creatures Great &amp; Small for the last week so I got in a few episodes over lunch. I remember watching the older version of this series as a kid with my parents. There&rsquo;s only a slight nostalgia as I don&rsquo;t recall much of it. It is a little bit of escapism, regardless, traveling back in time and place. I am finding meaning in unexpected places, though. When James battles the farmers for TB testing on their animals to avoid spreading to humans I feel traces of our modern viral plight.</p>\n<p>After lunch I compiled a <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/11/some-day-notes.html\">Some Day Note</a> (finally). When I&rsquo;ve let too much time go by these take me a long time, longer than I&rsquo;d like to admit. They turn into a log of blog posts and related activity more than anything. With my out-of-control number of blogs recently, tracking all this is quite a task. In the past, I&rsquo;d simply compile links and info chronologically for the time period since the last note, but starting with this note, I&rsquo;m breaking the content into sections by blog.</p>\n<p>If you asked me what else I did in the afternoon yesterday I&rsquo;m not sure I could tell you. That part of the day appears to have escaped me. I&rsquo;m sure I mostly rested and that had been the plan all along, so my garden tasks in the morning were against my original intentions. I know last night I stayed up too late watching a series on AppleTV+ that I just started and have nearly finished, <em>The Last Thing He Told Me</em>.</p>\n<p>There are several topics brewing in my head that I&rsquo;d like to blog about. Both of them have to do with disability and ableism. The first one is concerned with accessibility in practice but not in life. That&rsquo;s a tough thing to phrase right, but I hope it will be clearer once I get things &ldquo;down on paper.&rdquo; The second one is about framing this push to see Biden step down in terms of ableism. I&rsquo;m quite disgusted by this one and may get a little ranty when I finally blog about it.</p>\n<p>Today I have no plans and that&rsquo;s just fine by me.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>27</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I can't say I can mark yesterday very well. I floated in and out of activity. I did manage to muster energy to get outside and work in the garden for a few hours in the mid-morning. I dead-headed a few perennials and mowed just the front lawn as that was all I had the ability to finish.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI've been watching All Creatures Great & Small for the last week so I got in a few episodes over lunch. I remember watching the older version of this series as a kid with my parents. There's only a slight nostalgia as I don't recall much of it. It is a little bit of escapism, regardless, traveling back in time and place. I am finding meaning in unexpected places, though. When James battles the farmers for TB testing on their animals to avoid spreading to humans I feel traces of our modern viral plight.\n\nAfter lunch I compiled a [Some Day Note](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/07/11/some-day-notes.html) (finally). When I've let too much time go by these take me a long time, longer than I'd like to admit. They turn into a log of blog posts and related activity more than anything. With my out-of-control number of blogs recently, tracking all this is quite a task. In the past, I'd simply compile links and info chronologically for the time period since the last note, but starting with this note, I'm breaking the content into sections by blog.\n\nIf you asked me what else I did in the afternoon yesterday I'm not sure I could tell you. That part of the day appears to have escaped me. I'm sure I mostly rested and that had been the plan all along, so my garden tasks in the morning were against my original intentions. I know last night I stayed up too late watching a series on AppleTV+ that I just started and have nearly finished, *The Last Thing He Told Me*.\n\nThere are several topics brewing in my head that I'd like to blog about. Both of them have to do with disability and ableism. The first one is concerned with accessibility in practice but not in life. That's a tough thing to phrase right, but I hope it will be clearer once I get things \"down on paper.\" The second one is about framing this push to see Biden step down in terms of ableism. I'm quite disgusted by this one and may get a little ranty when I finally blog about it.\n\nToday I have no plans and that's just fine by me.\n\n--- \n\n**27**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-12T09:46:11-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/12/how-to-mark.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/11/the-relief-was.html",
				"title": "The relief was not as sweet.",
				"content_html": "<p>The expected respite from the heat yesterday was not as sweet as it could have been. The morning was rough, I lost internet for a couple hours, and then I went outside at the wrong time of day and got a little warmer than I would have liked to. It still ended up in the low 90s, the rest of day felt like a struggle, and then I didn&rsquo;t sleep very well last night. All this to say my plans for today may have to be withheld until the weekend.</p>\n<p>On the bright side, I accomplished quite a bit on <a href=\"https://themes.lol\">themes.lol</a>. I completed the <a href=\"https://custom.themes.lol/definitions\">Definitions page on Custom</a>, which lists out every single weblog template and config setting along with their default value (if any), an explanation of functionality, and other templates and settings an item may work with. After I published that I returned to a Custom post about customizing a homepage, I should wrap that up today if my brain allows.</p>\n<p>I also started a new page for shortcodes (tags) on weblog, going from a list Adam shared a while back that I&rsquo;ve had open in a tab. Similar to the definitions, this will list all shortcodes and what the expected output will be, the defaults, and an explanation of functionality. I will link to relevant config items on the Definitions page.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m anxious to get back to working on my weblog homepage and global navigation changes, but every time over the past week that I open up my spreadsheet my head starts to hurt. I&rsquo;m just not in the mind space right now. I did manage to also post a <a href=\"https://3x5.pics\">3x5 note</a>, a microblog post about my current frustrations, and, of course, a post for yesterday here. So the day was not completely lost even if I felt lost in my head. I also really need to get a Some Day Note done on my microblog, it has been more than a month since the last one. Some day&hellip;</p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s going to be hard to be lazy today because there is so much I need to get done. This act of holding back activity is call &ldquo;pacing&rdquo; and is the main tool for managing ME/CFS and post-extertional malaise (PEM). I&rsquo;m an experienced pacer and yet I hate it, I fight it, and I sometimes completely ignore what is best for me. The toughest part of pacing for me is that life continues to happen whether or not you can handle it, often throwing my well-planned pacing out the window, so sometimes I&rsquo;m just in a &ldquo;fuck it&rdquo; mood and I pay the price dearly.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>26</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "The expected respite from the heat yesterday was not as sweet as it could have been. The morning was rough, I lost internet for a couple hours, and then I went outside at the wrong time of day and got a little warmer than I would have liked to. It still ended up in the low 90s, the rest of day felt like a struggle, and then I didn't sleep very well last night. All this to say my plans for today may have to be withheld until the weekend.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nOn the bright side, I accomplished quite a bit on [themes.lol](https://themes.lol). I completed the [Definitions page on Custom](https://custom.themes.lol/definitions), which lists out every single weblog template and config setting along with their default value (if any), an explanation of functionality, and other templates and settings an item may work with. After I published that I returned to a Custom post about customizing a homepage, I should wrap that up today if my brain allows.\n\nI also started a new page for shortcodes (tags) on weblog, going from a list Adam shared a while back that I've had open in a tab. Similar to the definitions, this will list all shortcodes and what the expected output will be, the defaults, and an explanation of functionality. I will link to relevant config items on the Definitions page.\n\nI'm anxious to get back to working on my weblog homepage and global navigation changes, but every time over the past week that I open up my spreadsheet my head starts to hurt. I'm just not in the mind space right now. I did manage to also post a [3x5 note](https://3x5.pics), a microblog post about my current frustrations, and, of course, a post for yesterday here. So the day was not completely lost even if I felt lost in my head. I also really need to get a Some Day Note done on my microblog, it has been more than a month since the last one. Some day...\n\nIt's going to be hard to be lazy today because there is so much I need to get done. This act of holding back activity is call \"pacing\" and is the main tool for managing ME/CFS and post-extertional malaise (PEM). I'm an experienced pacer and yet I hate it, I fight it, and I sometimes completely ignore what is best for me. The toughest part of pacing for me is that life continues to happen whether or not you can handle it, often throwing my well-planned pacing out the window, so sometimes I'm just in a \"fuck it\" mood and I pay the price dearly.\n\n--- \n\n**26**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-11T09:17:46-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/11/the-relief-was.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/10/off-a-cliff.html",
				"title": "Off a cliff.",
				"content_html": "<p>Yesterday was 102°F, after five days at or near 100°F. Today we will reach 91°F and it feels like I&rsquo;ve jumped off a cliff. To say 91° will feel like bliss comparatively is only something I say out of desperation. I&rsquo;ve been unable to be outside or in my garden for a week and it hurts. I scurry out in the early morning to water where needed, cover a few things from scorching, and quickly retreat back inside. It isn&rsquo;t really living, even in my fairly sheltered existence.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m low on food again. This is more out of heat avoidance than anything, and what I do have to make requires using the stove or oven. Not ideal in a heatwave. So I made an &ldquo;odd&rdquo; soup yesterday that ended up being surprisingly delicious. As is my habit, I augmented a recipe with what I had available. Three of the ingredients have left my kitchen smelling wonderful even this morning when I came in to make coffee: red pepper, garlic, and oregano. Who knew they played so well together? Well, obviously someone.</p>\n<p>I hope to get outside at some point today to survey the garden. I know I&rsquo;ll need to deadhead quite a few perennials. I&rsquo;m considering removing two plants entirely in the front yard, they&rsquo;ve just petered out. Both have been in the garden for nearly ten years, and many perennials have a limited life. One of them is a day lily, I have a nepeta I may put in its place. The other is an autumn sage (salvia) that is a favorite of the hummingbirds, so I&rsquo;ll need to replace it with another salvia or they&rsquo;ll be unhappy with me.</p>\n<p>I also have six plants that came last Friday from Annie&rsquo;s Annuals and Perennials that I put in before I knew we were going to have a heatwave. They&rsquo;ve been camping out on the patio in a protected location. Hopefully I can get them in the ground this weekend. Three of them are succulents and I expect they&rsquo;ll do fine. Two are agastache and may also fair well. But one of them is a digitalis and I am concerned it may wilt completely even in 80-90° weather before either bouncing back or growing fresh from the base. I guess we&rsquo;ll find out.</p>\n<p>This post marks 1/4 completion of <a href=\"https://100daystooffload.com/\">100 Days to Offload</a> challenge!</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>25</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Yesterday was 102°F, after five days at or near 100°F. Today we will reach 91°F and it feels like I've jumped off a cliff. To say 91° will feel like bliss comparatively is only something I say out of desperation. I've been unable to be outside or in my garden for a week and it hurts. I scurry out in the early morning to water where needed, cover a few things from scorching, and quickly retreat back inside. It isn't really living, even in my fairly sheltered existence.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI'm low on food again. This is more out of heat avoidance than anything, and what I do have to make requires using the stove or oven. Not ideal in a heatwave. So I made an \"odd\" soup yesterday that ended up being surprisingly delicious. As is my habit, I augmented a recipe with what I had available. Three of the ingredients have left my kitchen smelling wonderful even this morning when I came in to make coffee: red pepper, garlic, and oregano. Who knew they played so well together? Well, obviously someone.\n\nI hope to get outside at some point today to survey the garden. I know I'll need to deadhead quite a few perennials. I'm considering removing two plants entirely in the front yard, they've just petered out. Both have been in the garden for nearly ten years, and many perennials have a limited life. One of them is a day lily, I have a nepeta I may put in its place. The other is an autumn sage (salvia) that is a favorite of the hummingbirds, so I'll need to replace it with another salvia or they'll be unhappy with me.\n\nI also have six plants that came last Friday from Annie's Annuals and Perennials that I put in before I knew we were going to have a heatwave. They've been camping out on the patio in a protected location. Hopefully I can get them in the ground this weekend. Three of them are succulents and I expect they'll do fine. Two are agastache and may also fair well. But one of them is a digitalis and I am concerned it may wilt completely even in 80-90° weather before either bouncing back or growing fresh from the base. I guess we'll find out.\n\nThis post marks 1/4 completion of [100 Days to Offload](https://100daystooffload.com/) challenge!\n\n--- \n\n**25**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-10T08:11:01-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/10/off-a-cliff.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/09/i-need-a.html",
				"title": "I need a break.",
				"content_html": "<p>The last couple months have been too much. Since around the end of April when the neighbor&rsquo;s tree fell on my garage, it has been a steady beat of incidents and events. I can hardly keep up, on top of trying to maintain my blogs, which is what I <em>really</em> want to be spending my concentration and energy on.</p>\n<p>I would love for some smooth sailing for a while. My health is just hanging by a thread right now. I don&rsquo;t feel like I&rsquo;ve had a full refreshing night&rsquo;s sleep for several weeks. This is a combination of many things weighing on me plus PEM interruptions. I never sleep well when I&rsquo;m at my worst, an unfortunate outcome since good sleep is what I need to have a chance of feeling better.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been thinking about my &ldquo;new&rdquo; projects, rather, the ones I&rsquo;ve intended to start and haven&rsquo;t yet: tableforone.cafe, blogsand.coffee, and even getting on with the updates to themes.lol and my weblog homepage and global nav. But I can&rsquo;t make much progress on any of them with the stuff weighing on me right now.</p>\n<p>Summer just started and I already want it to be over. The heat and endless days of sun are just not my friend. They make already hard times even harder. What I wouldn&rsquo;t give for a drizzly overcast day in the mid-50s. Oh, man, that sounds like heaven. November can&rsquo;t come soon enough.</p>\n<p>Today is the last of the hottest days of the heatwave, but there is a lot of summer left so I don&rsquo;t expect it to be the last. We&rsquo;ll drop ~10°F tomorrow and be in the low 90s and I can&rsquo;t wait. My garden is feeling this heatwave in just the week it has been around. Many things are looking tired and ready for cooler temps in order to flush more blooms. I&rsquo;ve cut back the coreopsis, which should rebound shortly. I need to deadhead several perennials, which may or may not bloom again. And soon the later summer bloomers will begin.</p>\n<p>Any day now fire season will rear its head. We&rsquo;re already hearing warnings of how bad this season could be, with the heatwave contributing to the situation. Wildfire season is treacherous. It makes summer near impossible to survive, when days are hot and nights are cool, yet windows can&rsquo;t be opened because the air is choked with smoke. Years when the season of smoke lingers on for weeks are nightmares. I hope we can be spared.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>24</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "The last couple months have been too much. Since around the end of April when the neighbor's tree fell on my garage, it has been a steady beat of incidents and events. I can hardly keep up, on top of trying to maintain my blogs, which is what I *really* want to be spending my concentration and energy on.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI would love for some smooth sailing for a while. My health is just hanging by a thread right now. I don't feel like I've had a full refreshing night's sleep for several weeks. This is a combination of many things weighing on me plus PEM interruptions. I never sleep well when I'm at my worst, an unfortunate outcome since good sleep is what I need to have a chance of feeling better.\r\n\r\nI've been thinking about my \"new\" projects, rather, the ones I've intended to start and haven't yet: tableforone.cafe, blogsand.coffee, and even getting on with the updates to themes.lol and my weblog homepage and global nav. But I can't make much progress on any of them with the stuff weighing on me right now.\r\n\r\nSummer just started and I already want it to be over. The heat and endless days of sun are just not my friend. They make already hard times even harder. What I wouldn't give for a drizzly overcast day in the mid-50s. Oh, man, that sounds like heaven. November can't come soon enough.\r\n\r\nToday is the last of the hottest days of the heatwave, but there is a lot of summer left so I don't expect it to be the last. We'll drop ~10°F tomorrow and be in the low 90s and I can't wait. My garden is feeling this heatwave in just the week it has been around. Many things are looking tired and ready for cooler temps in order to flush more blooms. I've cut back the coreopsis, which should rebound shortly. I need to deadhead several perennials, which may or may not bloom again. And soon the later summer bloomers will begin.\r\n\r\nAny day now fire season will rear its head. We're already hearing warnings of how bad this season could be, with the heatwave contributing to the situation. Wildfire season is treacherous. It makes summer near impossible to survive, when days are hot and nights are cool, yet windows can't be opened because the air is choked with smoke. Years when the season of smoke lingers on for weeks are nightmares. I hope we can be spared.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**24**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-09T09:23:17-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/09/i-need-a.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/08/the-heatwave-continues.html",
				"title": "The heatwave continues.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;m exhausted. Obviously I&rsquo;m in worse shape than the last heatwave a few years ago, because this one is killing me. Yesterday I determined I would be dead if not for the central air in my house. The hottest two days are today and tomorrow. I just have to make it two more days.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve spent most of the last two days in bed. I&rsquo;m in a bad flare. I say that, but really this is just my reality. I could spend nearly 100% of my life in bed if I didn&rsquo;t have tasks necessary to exist in life. All the tasks do is take away my ability to stay in bed and manage my chronic illness.</p>\n<p>This illness makes life nearly impossible to live. It has been underfunded and ignored for so long that it took a pandemic likely causing nearly the same illness for anyone to care to do anything about it. And the only reason they&rsquo;re doing anything is because millions of people becoming chronically ill translates to a lot of money for drugs developed for &ldquo;treatment.&rdquo; There are currently no approved treatments for an illness I&rsquo;ve had for nearly my entire life.</p>\n<p>You can avoid this illness by curbing viral spread. Things like indoor air quality regulations, respirators, mandated (and paid) sick leave, more effective vaccinations, would all contribute to all sorts of viruses spread via the air to be shut down. If you&rsquo;ll recall, the first year of the Covid 19 pandemic all but had no flu season. But that isn&rsquo;t what is happening. There&rsquo;s no money in that. The money is in throwing dollars at pharmaceuticals to make drugs <em>after-the-fact</em>.</p>\n<p>Honestly, I don&rsquo;t want to take treatments. I want to be accepted for who I am in all my flaws. I want living with a chronic illness and disability to <em>be allowed</em>. I want space made for me to live how is necessary with my limitations without the economy and productivity being the only measures of worth. I want people to care about each other and <em>not want to spread a virus</em> to other people. There is no economy or freedom in mass disability, I guarantee you. This is a short term illusion.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>23</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I'm exhausted. Obviously I'm in worse shape than the last heatwave a few years ago, because this one is killing me. Yesterday I determined I would be dead if not for the central air in my house. The hottest two days are today and tomorrow. I just have to make it two more days.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI've spent most of the last two days in bed. I'm in a bad flare. I say that, but really this is just my reality. I could spend nearly 100% of my life in bed if I didn't have tasks necessary to exist in life. All the tasks do is take away my ability to stay in bed and manage my chronic illness.\n\nThis illness makes life nearly impossible to live. It has been underfunded and ignored for so long that it took a pandemic likely causing nearly the same illness for anyone to care to do anything about it. And the only reason they're doing anything is because millions of people becoming chronically ill translates to a lot of money for drugs developed for \"treatment.\" There are currently no approved treatments for an illness I've had for nearly my entire life.\n\nYou can avoid this illness by curbing viral spread. Things like indoor air quality regulations, respirators, mandated (and paid) sick leave, more effective vaccinations, would all contribute to all sorts of viruses spread via the air to be shut down. If you'll recall, the first year of the Covid 19 pandemic all but had no flu season. But that isn't what is happening. There's no money in that. The money is in throwing dollars at pharmaceuticals to make drugs *after-the-fact*.\n\nHonestly, I don't want to take treatments. I want to be accepted for who I am in all my flaws. I want living with a chronic illness and disability to *be allowed*. I want space made for me to live how is necessary with my limitations without the economy and productivity being the only measures of worth. I want people to care about each other and *not want to spread a virus* to other people. There is no economy or freedom in mass disability, I guarantee you. This is a short term illusion.\n\n--- \n\n**23**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-08T07:26:44-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/08/the-heatwave-continues.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/06/i-skipped-yesterday.html",
				"title": "I skipped yesterday.",
				"content_html": "<p>As it was following July 4th and I felt I had little to say on the matter. If you have nothing positive to say, don&rsquo;t say anything at all? I&rsquo;ve had little positive to say this past week. I have many things broiling in my brain on disparate subjects which all seem to be coalescing right now. How do I—how do <em>we</em>—find ourselves amongst such seemingly different struggles that my brain seems to all see as one?</p>\n<p>Putting all this into coherent words right now is beyond my spoon capacity. I&rsquo;m spending all my spoons on simply surviving day-to-day. I do hope to get the words out soon though. I need to get through this heatwave and that&rsquo;s taking a lot out of me. Climate change is an economic issue. It affects those who are already marginalized the most. I have central air conditioning but I also have a chronic illness that makes me feel the effects of the heatwave regardless. I&rsquo;m lucky I have central air.</p>\n<p>The city of Portland is providing air conditioners to low income folks. This is important but at the same time we are being harangued by utility providers to cut down on our energy usage because they&rsquo;ve done little to upgrade their infrastructure for climate change resilience. For-profit  power companies are beholden to stakeholders' profits above and beyond customer satisfaction and needs. Somehow this dynamic is representative of everything that is wrong right now.</p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve just passed the hottest day so far, Friday. Today, Saturday, is going to be even hotter. Then Sunday, then Monday, then Tuesday. There&rsquo;s little relief on its way. Already this morning there was a power cut. It was barely 7:30am, I was washing dishes and making coffee and the power went out for about five minutes. We aren&rsquo;t even hot yet. Even if we have the means in our own homes to protect our health, we&rsquo;re still at risk from a money-hungry corporation. This system is broken.</p>\n<p>This thing rolling around in my head goes something like: our struggles today look a little like the past, but the players are different. Powerful nation states have been replaced with powerful corporations who hold the strings of our society and can pull them and unravel them at will, in whatever manner best benefits them, not us. Yes, there are those nation states still trying to hold onto the old order of power, such at Putin and Russia. But more and more, it is billionaire players and their corporate games that will tear things apart, using the levers of government and the military to do their bidding.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>22</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "As it was following July 4th and I felt I had little to say on the matter. If you have nothing positive to say, don't say anything at all? I've had little positive to say this past week. I have many things broiling in my brain on disparate subjects which all seem to be coalescing right now. How do I—how do *we*—find ourselves amongst such seemingly different struggles that my brain seems to all see as one?\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nPutting all this into coherent words right now is beyond my spoon capacity. I'm spending all my spoons on simply surviving day-to-day. I do hope to get the words out soon though. I need to get through this heatwave and that's taking a lot out of me. Climate change is an economic issue. It affects those who are already marginalized the most. I have central air conditioning but I also have a chronic illness that makes me feel the effects of the heatwave regardless. I'm lucky I have central air.\r\n\r\nThe city of Portland is providing air conditioners to low income folks. This is important but at the same time we are being harangued by utility providers to cut down on our energy usage because they've done little to upgrade their infrastructure for climate change resilience. For-profit  power companies are beholden to stakeholders' profits above and beyond customer satisfaction and needs. Somehow this dynamic is representative of everything that is wrong right now.\r\n\r\nWe've just passed the hottest day so far, Friday. Today, Saturday, is going to be even hotter. Then Sunday, then Monday, then Tuesday. There's little relief on its way. Already this morning there was a power cut. It was barely 7:30am, I was washing dishes and making coffee and the power went out for about five minutes. We aren't even hot yet. Even if we have the means in our own homes to protect our health, we're still at risk from a money-hungry corporation. This system is broken.\r\n\r\nThis thing rolling around in my head goes something like: our struggles today look a little like the past, but the players are different. Powerful nation states have been replaced with powerful corporations who hold the strings of our society and can pull them and unravel them at will, in whatever manner best benefits them, not us. Yes, there are those nation states still trying to hold onto the old order of power, such at Putin and Russia. But more and more, it is billionaire players and their corporate games that will tear things apart, using the levers of government and the military to do their bidding.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**22**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-06T10:27:34-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/06/i-skipped-yesterday.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/04/up-before-the.html",
				"title": "Up before the birds.",
				"content_html": "<p>For the last two nights I went to bed early but woke up around 2am. I couldn&rsquo;t fall back asleep but forced it the first night. Tonight I just got up. I made coffee, did some laundry, ironed sheets, and enjoyed the cool and quiet night air while listening to some podcasts.</p>\n<p>Today is the first day of the heatwave so now I&rsquo;m pondering this pattern for the next five days and whether I could pull it off. It sure would make existing easier: get up during the night while it is cool and get all my tasks done, then go outside at first light to do what is needed out there, come back inside, shut everything up and hunker down until it gets hot, then go to bed, repeat.</p>\n<p>The CR-Z is sold, I had a minor meltdown. Now that the driveway is empty—I moved the HR-V into the garage—I took the leaf blower to it while ugly crying with sunglasses on. No one heard me or could really see me, my driveway is pretty private, along two fences of my neighbors' back yards and garage and the side of my house. That was a nice cathartic meltdown.</p>\n<p>After that I sat on the patio for a couple hours and decompressed, watching and listening to birds. There were so many birds yesterday. I think they know there&rsquo;s a heatwave coming and I&rsquo;m thinking about how they know. Can they sense something? Are there early warnings for them? I&rsquo;m not sure, but I saw several Anna&rsquo;s hummingbirds, American Robins, a nuthatch, some song sparrows, so many goldfinches it was wild, and some bushtits. Oh, and, of course, my family of American Crows.</p>\n<p>Other than that I didn&rsquo;t do much yesterday. It was an emotional day and I was drained so I headed to bed early and now we&rsquo;ve come full circle to the beginning of this post, where we find me writing this at 4:30 in the morning and I&rsquo;ve been awake for 2.5 hours.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>21</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "For the last two nights I went to bed early but woke up around 2am. I couldn't fall back asleep but forced it the first night. Tonight I just got up. I made coffee, did some laundry, ironed sheets, and enjoyed the cool and quiet night air while listening to some podcasts.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nToday is the first day of the heatwave so now I'm pondering this pattern for the next five days and whether I could pull it off. It sure would make existing easier: get up during the night while it is cool and get all my tasks done, then go outside at first light to do what is needed out there, come back inside, shut everything up and hunker down until it gets hot, then go to bed, repeat.\n\nThe CR-Z is sold, I had a minor meltdown. Now that the driveway is empty—I moved the HR-V into the garage—I took the leaf blower to it while ugly crying with sunglasses on. No one heard me or could really see me, my driveway is pretty private, along two fences of my neighbors' back yards and garage and the side of my house. That was a nice cathartic meltdown.\n\nAfter that I sat on the patio for a couple hours and decompressed, watching and listening to birds. There were so many birds yesterday. I think they know there's a heatwave coming and I'm thinking about how they know. Can they sense something? Are there early warnings for them? I'm not sure, but I saw several Anna's hummingbirds, American Robins, a nuthatch, some song sparrows, so many goldfinches it was wild, and some bushtits. Oh, and, of course, my family of American Crows.\n\nOther than that I didn't do much yesterday. It was an emotional day and I was drained so I headed to bed early and now we've come full circle to the beginning of this post, where we find me writing this at 4:30 in the morning and I've been awake for 2.5 hours.\n\n--- \n\n**21**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-04T04:30:11-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/04/up-before-the.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/03/funktastic.html",
				"title": "Funktastic.",
				"content_html": "<p>I wonder how long I can stay in this funk. It&rsquo;s been a long-time coming and the last week has pretty much cemented my place in it. I&rsquo;m not interested in many things right now. I don&rsquo;t even feel like tinkering on my weblog, that&rsquo;s really not a good sign.</p>\n<p>I washed the HR-V yesterday. I&rsquo;m going to detail the interior after this heatwave passes. I&rsquo;ve moved it into the garage for now. I readied the CR-Z for selling today. They came and picked it up and gave me a check. I couldn&rsquo;t sleep last night. I woke up intermittently crying. I&rsquo;ve been crying now for the past hour since they left.</p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not so much the car, but what it represents. Everything we knew is gone. Everything I&rsquo;ve done I&rsquo;ve nearly lost. I don&rsquo;t know what more I have to say about this right now. I&rsquo;m just not feeling great about anything.</p>\n<p>The only non-depressing thing I did yesterday was to add a new <code>&lt;meta&gt;</code> tag to weblog, my main microblog, and this microblog. This is apparently <a href=\"https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/\">something being rolled out on Mastodon.social</a> but hopefully more places on the Fediverse will support it soon.</p>\n<p>This post marks 1/5th completion of <a href=\"https://100daystooffload.com/\">100 Days to Offload</a>. I guess that&rsquo;s it for now. Back to the funk.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>20</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I wonder how long I can stay in this funk. It's been a long-time coming and the last week has pretty much cemented my place in it. I'm not interested in many things right now. I don't even feel like tinkering on my weblog, that's really not a good sign.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI washed the HR-V yesterday. I'm going to detail the interior after this heatwave passes. I've moved it into the garage for now. I readied the CR-Z for selling today. They came and picked it up and gave me a check. I couldn't sleep last night. I woke up intermittently crying. I've been crying now for the past hour since they left.\r\n\r\nIt's not so much the car, but what it represents. Everything we knew is gone. Everything I've done I've nearly lost. I don't know what more I have to say about this right now. I'm just not feeling great about anything.\r\n\r\nThe only non-depressing thing I did yesterday was to add a new `<meta>` tag to weblog, my main microblog, and this microblog. This is apparently [something being rolled out on Mastodon.social](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/) but hopefully more places on the Fediverse will support it soon.\r\n\r\nThis post marks 1/5th completion of [100 Days to Offload](https://100daystooffload.com/). I guess that's it for now. Back to the funk.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**20**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-03T12:38:44-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/03/funktastic.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/02/what-a-week.html",
				"title": "What a week.",
				"content_html": "<p>We&rsquo;ve capped off one hell of a week here in the USA. I&rsquo;m not sure we could have crafted a more sinister and general &ldquo;fuck you&rdquo; to the American people in the days leading up to our Independence Day. I&rsquo;m having a hard time processing and feeling a mild numbness. Perhaps that&rsquo;s because I&rsquo;ve been living in our fascist reality ever since rampant Covid was shoved down our throats as normal. This was already the path we were on and after last week&rsquo;s decisions, I expected this to come from this SCOTUS. They&rsquo;ve fully shown us who they are, and everyone warning you in the aftermath of Dobbs, when you told us we were overreacting, well shame on you. Maybe you&rsquo;ll learn something about listening to marginalized groups, or maybe not.</p>\n<p>Of course now we are seeing a new wave of folks, mostly privileged, able-bodied, white, middle class, cis males, crying about leaving. We saw this after the 2016 election too. I have so many feelings about this. I&rsquo;ve tried to capture them before, I may have done the best job of it last night on the omg.lol Discord:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was just explaining to someone today, who keeps saying &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t believe one guy managed to ruin this country&rdquo;, it isn&rsquo;t one man. It is a lifetime, my lifetime, worth of people like the Heritage Foundation working diligently to put all this in place. People like Mitch McConnell who refused a hearing for a Supreme Court justice a year out from the end of Obama&rsquo;s term. Millions of tiny papercuts all leading to a frothing narcissist who would do anything for himself and being president and having unlimited power satiates some vacuous hole in him.</p>\n<p>As terrifying as it all is, every time I see or hear someone claiming they&rsquo;re just going to leave the country, it&rsquo;s everything that is wrong here. It&rsquo;s just like an entitled American so comfortable that they see running away as some right. As if any other country wants you.</p>\n<p>We need the ones who want to stay and change what is happening, so if you want to run away, go.</p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not very American otherwise.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>In more positive news, I got a message from Martin Field on Mastodon a couple days ago that a photo from my garden on my microblog was being mentioned on the <a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/3x2-photocast-episode-03/id1740025690?i=1000660282203\">3x2 photocast</a>. I thought I might listen to the episode this week while driving up for July 4th but I listened yesterday while doing housework and it was very humbling to be mentioned among so many talented photographers with their amazing photos and gear. Martin surmised he wasn&rsquo;t sure if I had just shot the garden with my phone, and, yes, just my ancient little iPhone. I do have a couple Canon cameras, including a Digital Rebel with a couple nice lenses, but it needs to be sent it for some maintenance. I do occasionally shoot with my little PowerShot but the iPhone is so convenient, it&rsquo;s often what I whip out on a whim in the garden.</p>\n<p>Yesterday I finally pulled the plug on selling my Honda CR-Z. I am admittedly crushed by this reality, but I need the funds. I&rsquo;ve already had to pull money from my retirement for expenses and I&rsquo;d like to avoid doing that again (at least for a while&hellip;) I don&rsquo;t need two cars, and as much as I love this little car, it isn&rsquo;t practical anymore. There&rsquo;s very little support system in this country for chronically ill people and with the landscape looking the way it does right now in my chosen industry, I am dismayed at my prospects of ever gainfully working again with my necessary accommodations. I don&rsquo;t know what this means long-term, and long-term thinking is unfortunately something I&rsquo;ve been unable to do since the start of the pandemic. It has been one of the hardest things to get used to. I am a planner, I think things out, I consider ramifications, and being unable to reliably do that in my own life just tears me up.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m in a pretty good spot with the Definitions page on <a href=\"https://themes.lol\">themes.lol</a>. I have four undefined config items that I requested information from Adam. He got back to me right away, but two of them seem to be broken or not functioning as expected. I&rsquo;ll be going through the page again and refining, cleaning up, and catching typos or other issues before publishing the page this week, even without the four items I&rsquo;m missing information for. I&rsquo;ll note them as &ldquo;TBD&rdquo; and get them updated when I can.</p>\n<p>Today is the last cool day for at least a week. We have a giant heatwave coming. I perfectly timed this (not) by ordering some plants from Annie&rsquo;s Annuals in the Bay Area about a week ago and they&rsquo;re about to ship. The heatwave starts today in the Bay Area, so these plants are going to get loaded onto a truck and travel up Interstate-5 sweltering all the way to another heatwave. I&rsquo;m considering calling them and requesting a delay, but it&rsquo;s possible I can protect them better in my yard than at that nursery. I sure hope they survive either way.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>19</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "We've capped off one hell of a week here in the USA. I'm not sure we could have crafted a more sinister and general \"fuck you\" to the American people in the days leading up to our Independence Day. I'm having a hard time processing and feeling a mild numbness. Perhaps that's because I've been living in our fascist reality ever since rampant Covid was shoved down our throats as normal. This was already the path we were on and after last week's decisions, I expected this to come from this SCOTUS. They've fully shown us who they are, and everyone warning you in the aftermath of Dobbs, when you told us we were overreacting, well shame on you. Maybe you'll learn something about listening to marginalized groups, or maybe not.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nOf course now we are seeing a new wave of folks, mostly privileged, able-bodied, white, middle class, cis males, crying about leaving. We saw this after the 2016 election too. I have so many feelings about this. I've tried to capture them before, I may have done the best job of it last night on the omg.lol Discord:\n\n> I was just explaining to someone today, who keeps saying \"I can't believe one guy managed to ruin this country\", it isn't one man. It is a lifetime, my lifetime, worth of people like the Heritage Foundation working diligently to put all this in place. People like Mitch McConnell who refused a hearing for a Supreme Court justice a year out from the end of Obama's term. Millions of tiny papercuts all leading to a frothing narcissist who would do anything for himself and being president and having unlimited power satiates some vacuous hole in him.\n> \n> As terrifying as it all is, every time I see or hear someone claiming they're just going to leave the country, it's everything that is wrong here. It's just like an entitled American so comfortable that they see running away as some right. As if any other country wants you.\n> \n> We need the ones who want to stay and change what is happening, so if you want to run away, go.\n> \n> It's not very American otherwise.\n\nIn more positive news, I got a message from Martin Field on Mastodon a couple days ago that a photo from my garden on my microblog was being mentioned on the [3x2 photocast](https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/3x2-photocast-episode-03/id1740025690?i=1000660282203). I thought I might listen to the episode this week while driving up for July 4th but I listened yesterday while doing housework and it was very humbling to be mentioned among so many talented photographers with their amazing photos and gear. Martin surmised he wasn't sure if I had just shot the garden with my phone, and, yes, just my ancient little iPhone. I do have a couple Canon cameras, including a Digital Rebel with a couple nice lenses, but it needs to be sent it for some maintenance. I do occasionally shoot with my little PowerShot but the iPhone is so convenient, it's often what I whip out on a whim in the garden.\n\nYesterday I finally pulled the plug on selling my Honda CR-Z. I am admittedly crushed by this reality, but I need the funds. I've already had to pull money from my retirement for expenses and I'd like to avoid doing that again (at least for a while...) I don't need two cars, and as much as I love this little car, it isn't practical anymore. There's very little support system in this country for chronically ill people and with the landscape looking the way it does right now in my chosen industry, I am dismayed at my prospects of ever gainfully working again with my necessary accommodations. I don't know what this means long-term, and long-term thinking is unfortunately something I've been unable to do since the start of the pandemic. It has been one of the hardest things to get used to. I am a planner, I think things out, I consider ramifications, and being unable to reliably do that in my own life just tears me up.\n\nI'm in a pretty good spot with the Definitions page on [themes.lol](https://themes.lol). I have four undefined config items that I requested information from Adam. He got back to me right away, but two of them seem to be broken or not functioning as expected. I'll be going through the page again and refining, cleaning up, and catching typos or other issues before publishing the page this week, even without the four items I'm missing information for. I'll note them as \"TBD\" and get them updated when I can.\n\nToday is the last cool day for at least a week. We have a giant heatwave coming. I perfectly timed this (not) by ordering some plants from Annie's Annuals in the Bay Area about a week ago and they're about to ship. The heatwave starts today in the Bay Area, so these plants are going to get loaded onto a truck and travel up Interstate-5 sweltering all the way to another heatwave. I'm considering calling them and requesting a delay, but it's possible I can protect them better in my yard than at that nursery. I sure hope they survive either way.\n\n--- \n\n**19**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-02T08:27:40-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/02/what-a-week.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/07/01/slow-moving.html",
				"title": "Slow moving.",
				"content_html": "<p>I did not post on Saturday this weekend. I decided to take the whole weekend off. I mostly stayed off social media and just consumed as small a footprint as I possibly could because the news and stuff going on I just cannot handle. I&rsquo;m already fighting for my life, I&rsquo;m nearly on the verge of a massive meltdown, so I&rsquo;m protecting myself. I just can&rsquo;t do it, you all gotta fight it for those of us who can&rsquo;t. I&rsquo;m so tired.</p>\n<p>Friday I was back on my coffee and blogging bullshit. I wrote or updated three posts in the morning. Then I resumed work on <a href=\"https://themes.lol\">themes.lol</a>, specifically working on Definitions right now. This page includes all templates that weblog expects, excluding any custom templates you might create, as well as all configuration settings, what the default values are (if any) and what they control and how to use them if not obvious.</p>\n<p>Saturday I pretty much stayed offline. I&rsquo;m still in a fragile state from my crash last week, and as mentioned above I could not risk overwhelming myself with the news right now. I mowed the lawn and continued work on Definitions. I binged a re-watch of season two of The Bear and started season three. I baked a strata, just a riff on an &ldquo;anything goes&rdquo; recipe I have that basically gives you some measurements and suggestions but what you actually use is up to what you have or want to use. This one had: six strips of thick cut applewood smoked bacon, broccoli, onion, mozzarella and cheddar cheese, sourdough bread, and then of course the custard was eggs and milk. I used salt, pepper, chili powder, and nutmeg for seasoning. Turned out great.</p>\n<p>On Sunday I had family visit in the morning. We walked around the garden and sat on the patio for a few hours chatting. They left around noon and I immediately crashed. I ended up back in my comfy chair later in the afternoon and finished season three of The Bear and my preliminary completion of Definitions on <a href=\"https://themes.lol\">themes.lol</a>. I&rsquo;ll be going back through the list today to refine and then I have four items I have no definition for because I&rsquo;ve never used the settings and I have no idea what they do. I&rsquo;ll have to ping Adam about them at some point.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>18</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I did not post on Saturday this weekend. I decided to take the whole weekend off. I mostly stayed off social media and just consumed as small a footprint as I possibly could because the news and stuff going on I just cannot handle. I'm already fighting for my life, I'm nearly on the verge of a massive meltdown, so I'm protecting myself. I just can't do it, you all gotta fight it for those of us who can't. I'm so tired.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nFriday I was back on my coffee and blogging bullshit. I wrote or updated three posts in the morning. Then I resumed work on [themes.lol](https://themes.lol), specifically working on Definitions right now. This page includes all templates that weblog expects, excluding any custom templates you might create, as well as all configuration settings, what the default values are (if any) and what they control and how to use them if not obvious.\n\nSaturday I pretty much stayed offline. I'm still in a fragile state from my crash last week, and as mentioned above I could not risk overwhelming myself with the news right now. I mowed the lawn and continued work on Definitions. I binged a re-watch of season two of The Bear and started season three. I baked a strata, just a riff on an \"anything goes\" recipe I have that basically gives you some measurements and suggestions but what you actually use is up to what you have or want to use. This one had: six strips of thick cut applewood smoked bacon, broccoli, onion, mozzarella and cheddar cheese, sourdough bread, and then of course the custard was eggs and milk. I used salt, pepper, chili powder, and nutmeg for seasoning. Turned out great.\n\nOn Sunday I had family visit in the morning. We walked around the garden and sat on the patio for a few hours chatting. They left around noon and I immediately crashed. I ended up back in my comfy chair later in the afternoon and finished season three of The Bear and my preliminary completion of Definitions on [themes.lol](https://themes.lol). I'll be going back through the list today to refine and then I have four items I have no definition for because I've never used the settings and I have no idea what they do. I'll have to ping Adam about them at some point.\n\n--- \n\n**18**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-07-01T09:00:20-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/07/01/slow-moving.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/28/a-notasplanned-day.html",
				"title": "A not-as-planned day.",
				"content_html": "<p>I had good intentions in the morning yesterday to rest up and hopefully get outside to mow the lawn, but that was dashed away. Some sort of electrical service activity happened on the block and all of a sudden, me still in my &ldquo;lounge around the house&rdquo; clothes, was faced with three guys in high visibility gear trying to get into one of my yard gates. What in the world.</p>\n<p>This is a terrible trend here. Both NW Natural, the gas supplier, and Portland General Electric, do a terrible job of notifying homeowners of pending activity and needs to access your property. It&rsquo;s a problem. First of all, because I need to have notice of these things to be ready or it trashes my nervous system (which it did). Secondly, there is no guarantee that folks will be home on a work day. Here we are fighting employers' return-to-office mandates and utility workers just think folks are home at 10am on a Thursday?</p>\n<p>After that hassle, I decided not to mow the lawn. I&rsquo;ll do it on Saturday, it&rsquo;ll be quite long by then but I was sort of put off by the activity outside anyway. Instead I continued my &ldquo;crash course&rdquo; of resting and I do feel a bit better today. I cooked some food, watched some streaming television, and by the evening had enough energy and desire to get mucking in some Hugo templates on this blog.</p>\n<p>I had noticed that Alpine seems to only show full blog posts on the homepage and that the number of posts was getting quite long. I wasn&rsquo;t sure what the default setting for pagination was, but I would look into it as soon as I got <code>&lt;!--more--&gt;</code> truncations working. So, I set about duplicating the necessary templates to override and checked out how some other themes were accomplishing the truncation and put the code in place. I rearranged the markup a little bit and I&rsquo;m pretty happy that I now have truncated posts on the homepage of this blog.</p>\n<p>Next I looked into the default <code>config.json</code> at all the params. I noticed a couple in the list template that seemed to indicate a boolean for enabling pagination on the homepage and category pages. I also looked for the setting that gave a count. I found both. So I created a fresh <code>config.json</code> for my overrides, set <code>pagination_home</code> under <code>params</code> to true and <code>paginate</code> to 10 from 25. Boom! The homepage on this blog now paginates at ten posts and is truncated. Lovely.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>17</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I had good intentions in the morning yesterday to rest up and hopefully get outside to mow the lawn, but that was dashed away. Some sort of electrical service activity happened on the block and all of a sudden, me still in my \"lounge around the house\" clothes, was faced with three guys in high visibility gear trying to get into one of my yard gates. What in the world.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is a terrible trend here. Both NW Natural, the gas supplier, and Portland General Electric, do a terrible job of notifying homeowners of pending activity and needs to access your property. It's a problem. First of all, because I need to have notice of these things to be ready or it trashes my nervous system (which it did). Secondly, there is no guarantee that folks will be home on a work day. Here we are fighting employers' return-to-office mandates and utility workers just think folks are home at 10am on a Thursday?\r\n\r\nAfter that hassle, I decided not to mow the lawn. I'll do it on Saturday, it'll be quite long by then but I was sort of put off by the activity outside anyway. Instead I continued my \"crash course\" of resting and I do feel a bit better today. I cooked some food, watched some streaming television, and by the evening had enough energy and desire to get mucking in some Hugo templates on this blog.\r\n\r\nI had noticed that Alpine seems to only show full blog posts on the homepage and that the number of posts was getting quite long. I wasn't sure what the default setting for pagination was, but I would look into it as soon as I got `<!--more-->` truncations working. So, I set about duplicating the necessary templates to override and checked out how some other themes were accomplishing the truncation and put the code in place. I rearranged the markup a little bit and I'm pretty happy that I now have truncated posts on the homepage of this blog.\r\n\r\nNext I looked into the default `config.json` at all the params. I noticed a couple in the list template that seemed to indicate a boolean for enabling pagination on the homepage and category pages. I also looked for the setting that gave a count. I found both. So I created a fresh `config.json` for my overrides, set `pagination_home` under `params` to true and `paginate` to 10 from 25. Boom! The homepage on this blog now paginates at ten posts and is truncated. Lovely.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**17**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-28T10:18:00-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/28/a-notasplanned-day.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/27/crashing-today.html",
				"title": "Crashing today.",
				"content_html": "<p>And yesterday, so I don&rsquo;t expect to get much accomplished. I did manage to make some site updates to add an AI &ldquo;poison pill&rdquo; to all my blogs after reading <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/junited-2024#day-27\">today&rsquo;s Junited entry</a>. Someone followed up on Mastodon saying it didn&rsquo;t do anything. And perhaps it didn&rsquo;t, but giving up is not an option. Giving up is what the AI fascists want.</p>\n<p>A lot of people are throwing around words like &ldquo;open&rdquo; and &ldquo;access&rdquo; in regard to taking steps to protect our copyrighted works. I guarantee you most of them are not living their lives to make things more open and accessible to immunocompromised people like me that just want to breathe in filtered air. It&rsquo;s a lot of posturing with very little real world meaning. I have a blog post cooking on this subject and it won&rsquo;t make a lot of folks very happy.</p>\n<p>Yesterday saw at least two atrocious decisions in this country. First, SCOTUS gutted a law preventing our politicians from fully jumping into pay-to-play politics. This will only further our demise and the corruption we already see today. Second, North Carolina&rsquo;s governor vetoed the mask ban bill and that was overridden by the NC House. So now it is a felony to wear a mask in North Carolina. People like me can no longer safely access needs in the public and can be forced to take off their mask by anyone.</p>\n<p>I ended up on the omg.lol Discord for a few hours and helped someone debug an issue with Recent Posts. This got me to thinking about <a href=\"https://themes.lol\">themes.lol</a> again. I haven&rsquo;t posted anything there for a while because I&rsquo;ve been waiting to see what happens with Neato. I&rsquo;m still not sure what to expect or how long to wait, so in the meantime I have started two new posts: a customized homepage post, reflecting what the other omg.lol user was trying to accomplish; and a &ldquo;definitions&rdquo; page since weblog.lol has some defaults and terminology that sometimes confuse people.</p>\n<p>I got some take-out last night and settled in to my comfy chair for a nice long binge of Wildfire, which has turned out to be pretty good. The storyline does not follow Heartland nearly as much as the first few episodes made me think. It&rsquo;s far more about race horses and the young folks and their families. Some interesting teaching lessons as is expected with an ABC Family produced show. I&rsquo;m on season two now and the accident with Picaro just happened and really upset me. Worst of all, Kris keeps having bad dreams and flashbacks and they replay the scene and I really can&rsquo;t stand it. I don&rsquo;t want to watch that horse fall over and over. Ugh. So I&rsquo;ll be watching more of this today as I&rsquo;m still in crash mode, though I&rsquo;m hoping to get the lawn mowed because it is cool and overcast today. We&rsquo;ll see.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>16</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "And yesterday, so I don't expect to get much accomplished. I did manage to make some site updates to add an AI \"poison pill\" to all my blogs after reading [today's Junited entry](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/junited-2024#day-27). Someone followed up on Mastodon saying it didn't do anything. And perhaps it didn't, but giving up is not an option. Giving up is what the AI fascists want.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nA lot of people are throwing around words like \"open\" and \"access\" in regard to taking steps to protect our copyrighted works. I guarantee you most of them are not living their lives to make things more open and accessible to immunocompromised people like me that just want to breathe in filtered air. It's a lot of posturing with very little real world meaning. I have a blog post cooking on this subject and it won't make a lot of folks very happy.\n\nYesterday saw at least two atrocious decisions in this country. First, SCOTUS gutted a law preventing our politicians from fully jumping into pay-to-play politics. This will only further our demise and the corruption we already see today. Second, North Carolina's governor vetoed the mask ban bill and that was overridden by the NC House. So now it is a felony to wear a mask in North Carolina. People like me can no longer safely access needs in the public and can be forced to take off their mask by anyone.\n\nI ended up on the omg.lol Discord for a few hours and helped someone debug an issue with Recent Posts. This got me to thinking about [themes.lol](https://themes.lol) again. I haven't posted anything there for a while because I've been waiting to see what happens with Neato. I'm still not sure what to expect or how long to wait, so in the meantime I have started two new posts: a customized homepage post, reflecting what the other omg.lol user was trying to accomplish; and a \"definitions\" page since weblog.lol has some defaults and terminology that sometimes confuse people.\n\nI got some take-out last night and settled in to my comfy chair for a nice long binge of Wildfire, which has turned out to be pretty good. The storyline does not follow Heartland nearly as much as the first few episodes made me think. It's far more about race horses and the young folks and their families. Some interesting teaching lessons as is expected with an ABC Family produced show. I'm on season two now and the accident with Picaro just happened and really upset me. Worst of all, Kris keeps having bad dreams and flashbacks and they replay the scene and I really can't stand it. I don't want to watch that horse fall over and over. Ugh. So I'll be watching more of this today as I'm still in crash mode, though I'm hoping to get the lawn mowed because it is cool and overcast today. We'll see.\n\n--- \n\n**16**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-27T09:51:29-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/27/crashing-today.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/26/low-on-spoons.html",
				"title": "Low on spoons.",
				"content_html": "<p>Quite tired several days in a row this week, partly due to my nervous system responding poorly to the heat wave, and probably also me just simultaneously overdoing it because the crash hadn&rsquo;t hit yet. Timing these things is still tricky even after 30 years of dealing with this illness. This morning I sat on my bed and cried.</p>\n<p>Two nights ago I couldn&rsquo;t open the windows up to air out the house before I went to bed due to someone in the neighborhood having a fire in their firepit (I assume). I couldn&rsquo;t visually locate it but that&rsquo;s what it smelled like. It didn&rsquo;t smell like wildfire, though it is the season for that. So I woke up between 4-4:30am yesterday and opened up the windows and considered just staying awake, but instead opened the back door and crawled back under the sheets for the best 2.5 hours of sleep I&rsquo;ve had in a while.</p>\n<p>I tried to take it easy yesterday. I watered the patio containers, took some yard pics, puttered a little bit in the garden before it got hot. And it did get fairly hot, it was 88°F for the high. I have some patio shades on the west side of the patio that I pull over on hot days to protect some containers and shade plants on the warmest of days. I have a silly system of tying one of them down to avoid wind gusts blowing it into the patio. It didn&rsquo;t used to be an issue, so I&rsquo;m not sure what changed, but earlier this year it blew in and hit my bonsai Japanese maple tree on the patio table and snapped two branches off, so I&rsquo;m trying to avoid that happening again.</p>\n<p>I set up a new system with large binder clips yesterday, that I lash to the supports and through the &ldquo;eyes&rdquo; of the clips, which then clip to the bottom of the shades. I think this should work, and if it doesn&rsquo;t it will just come unclipped. Time to wait for a windy or gusty day to see what happens. In the meantime I&rsquo;m pulling a patio chair over so that if the clip system fails the shade will hit the chair before it gets near the table. Is there anything you <em>can&rsquo;t</em> do with a binder clip? I find them indispensable.</p>\n<p>The rest of the day was spent doing some indoor tasks. I did two loads of laundry and made sourdough bread pizza and sun tea (forgot to do this several days in a row). Though my brain felt like mush most of the day I did manage to finish a blogroll spin and accompanying post. I still need to update my recommendations list on microblog to include the new set of blogs. I can do that today, along with some new bits that I won&rsquo;t mention until tomorrow&rsquo;s post.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>15</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Quite tired several days in a row this week, partly due to my nervous system responding poorly to the heat wave, and probably also me just simultaneously overdoing it because the crash hadn't hit yet. Timing these things is still tricky even after 30 years of dealing with this illness. This morning I sat on my bed and cried.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nTwo nights ago I couldn't open the windows up to air out the house before I went to bed due to someone in the neighborhood having a fire in their firepit (I assume). I couldn't visually locate it but that's what it smelled like. It didn't smell like wildfire, though it is the season for that. So I woke up between 4-4:30am yesterday and opened up the windows and considered just staying awake, but instead opened the back door and crawled back under the sheets for the best 2.5 hours of sleep I've had in a while.\n\nI tried to take it easy yesterday. I watered the patio containers, took some yard pics, puttered a little bit in the garden before it got hot. And it did get fairly hot, it was 88°F for the high. I have some patio shades on the west side of the patio that I pull over on hot days to protect some containers and shade plants on the warmest of days. I have a silly system of tying one of them down to avoid wind gusts blowing it into the patio. It didn't used to be an issue, so I'm not sure what changed, but earlier this year it blew in and hit my bonsai Japanese maple tree on the patio table and snapped two branches off, so I'm trying to avoid that happening again.\n\nI set up a new system with large binder clips yesterday, that I lash to the supports and through the \"eyes\" of the clips, which then clip to the bottom of the shades. I think this should work, and if it doesn't it will just come unclipped. Time to wait for a windy or gusty day to see what happens. In the meantime I'm pulling a patio chair over so that if the clip system fails the shade will hit the chair before it gets near the table. Is there anything you *can't* do with a binder clip? I find them indispensable.\n\nThe rest of the day was spent doing some indoor tasks. I did two loads of laundry and made sourdough bread pizza and sun tea (forgot to do this several days in a row). Though my brain felt like mush most of the day I did manage to finish a blogroll spin and accompanying post. I still need to update my recommendations list on microblog to include the new set of blogs. I can do that today, along with some new bits that I won't mention until tomorrow's post.\n\n--- \n\n**15**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-26T13:18:03-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/26/low-on-spoons.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/25/this-will-be.html",
				"title": "This will be short.",
				"content_html": "<p>In the morning I puttered in the garden and dead-headed some things. I lashed up the pillar barberries near the front porch and didn&rsquo;t get <em>too</em> injured. I wear rose gloves to deal with barberries because they are covered in thorns. If you were to look up this barberry it would say that it grows 4-to-5 feet tall, but in my garden it grows eight feet tall. Why? Because I live in the land of giants.</p>\n<p>This pocket of inner SE Portland is sometimes referred to as the banana belt. I also have southern exposure for most of my garden, except the area immediately off the back patio on the north side of the house. Something about the climate, soil, and exposure here makes nearly everything in my yard grow double the size of the estimates.</p>\n<p>My neighbor who&rsquo;s tree fell on my garage had the tree service out to do more trimming on their other trees, so I spent a little time cleaning up small twigs and leaves after they were done. We are replacing the fence between our yards some time next month and I&rsquo;m going to need to get my landscape company back out to estimate a small retaining wall where the level of their yard was raised but not mitigated and it ended up burying about a foot of their fence, prematurely rotting it and causing runoff onto my driveway. Not ideal and I&rsquo;ve tried to remember back over the last twelve years as to who did that, if it was them or the people who lived there before, but I can&rsquo;t remember. In the interim years I stacked some masonry blocks that I had on my property there and it has worked well enough but now that the fence will be replaced I&rsquo;d like some sort of stacked rock wall that matches the style of my basalt stepping stone paths, steps, and rockery.</p>\n<p>Not sure what I did the remainder of the day, honestly, I&rsquo;m stressed out by a bunch of stuff happening this week and next month and the day sort of just flew by. I know I wrote some blog posts, read some blog posts, cooked some food, ordered some things, ran an errand, took a shower, did some vacuuming, but in what order I could not tell you. So, that&rsquo;s it for now.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>14</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "In the morning I puttered in the garden and dead-headed some things. I lashed up the pillar barberries near the front porch and didn't get *too* injured. I wear rose gloves to deal with barberries because they are covered in thorns. If you were to look up this barberry it would say that it grows 4-to-5 feet tall, but in my garden it grows eight feet tall. Why? Because I live in the land of giants.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nThis pocket of inner SE Portland is sometimes referred to as the banana belt. I also have southern exposure for most of my garden, except the area immediately off the back patio on the north side of the house. Something about the climate, soil, and exposure here makes nearly everything in my yard grow double the size of the estimates.\n\nMy neighbor who's tree fell on my garage had the tree service out to do more trimming on their other trees, so I spent a little time cleaning up small twigs and leaves after they were done. We are replacing the fence between our yards some time next month and I'm going to need to get my landscape company back out to estimate a small retaining wall where the level of their yard was raised but not mitigated and it ended up burying about a foot of their fence, prematurely rotting it and causing runoff onto my driveway. Not ideal and I've tried to remember back over the last twelve years as to who did that, if it was them or the people who lived there before, but I can't remember. In the interim years I stacked some masonry blocks that I had on my property there and it has worked well enough but now that the fence will be replaced I'd like some sort of stacked rock wall that matches the style of my basalt stepping stone paths, steps, and rockery.\n\nNot sure what I did the remainder of the day, honestly, I'm stressed out by a bunch of stuff happening this week and next month and the day sort of just flew by. I know I wrote some blog posts, read some blog posts, cooked some food, ordered some things, ran an errand, took a shower, did some vacuuming, but in what order I could not tell you. So, that's it for now.\n\n--- \n\n**14**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-25T09:17:00-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/25/this-will-be.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/24/catching-up-from.html",
				"title": "Catching up from the weekend.",
				"content_html": "<p>I had a pretty nice weekend. We had one hot day and one cool day, though Saturday started off pretty cool, it did eventually warm up. I went out early and watered containers, that&rsquo;s my favorite summer pastime, getting outside really early when it is still cool and no one else is around except the birds. That&rsquo;s also often the best light in the garden.</p>\n<p>I bought a new domain! Because who doesn&rsquo;t need another domain when you still have unused ones&hellip; 🫠 I was writing Saturday&rsquo;s post and realized that nearly every day starts the same so I decided to do something about it. I got <code>blogsand.coffee</code> and I have ideas though nothing solid yet. I thought I&rsquo;d give it a little time but then yesterday I looked up the ☕️ omg.lol emoji address and it was available so I nabbed that as well. I now have two of the best emoji addresses on omg.lol IMO: the brown beverage cup and the green apple.</p>\n<p>On Saturday I ordered some plants from <a href=\"https://www.anniesannuals.com/\">Annie&rsquo;s Annuals</a>, one of the only mail order suppliers I will order from outside of the PNW. They&rsquo;re located in the Bay Area but are absolute pros at shipping plants throughout the US and everything they sell is quality and already hardened off and ready for the zone they are shipping to.</p>\n<p>I ordered two agastache that are pollinator magnets, one digitalis, which seems silly living in an area where digitalis is easy to come by along the edge of forests, roadsides, and in meadows, but I&rsquo;m impatient and I&rsquo;d be waiting until they go to seed and then waiting another whole year before it would bloom, due to them being biennials; and finally, three succulents, two sedums and an echeveria called &lsquo;Mexican snowball&rsquo; that will be sort of a test of Portland&rsquo;s new USDA hardiness zone. I don&rsquo;t have much hope of it surviving long-term unless I can provide it the winter wet + cold protection it will require, otherwise it will rot.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m fairly busy with some things over the next week (busy in terms of energy usage) so I&rsquo;m rationing groceries until I can get to the store next week. That means I&rsquo;ve made a meal plan in order to make the most use of what I have on hand. I hardly ever do this but it&rsquo;s sort of necessary at least for the next week right now. It&rsquo;s not that I don&rsquo;t have food, but I need to combine things wisely to stretch what I have as far as possible.</p>\n<p>I rounded out Saturday catching up on podcasts and working on web projects. I continued with this on Sunday, listening to one of my favorite podcasts though on a less than fortunate subject: the prosecution of our ex-President. Most of the web work I did on Sunday was to catch up on my <code>robots.txt</code>, add a Creative Commons license to my web properties, and update a few posts on weblog and microblog that refer to my <code>robots.txt</code>.</p>\n<p>Sunday was an A- grade day in Portland, which is to say, very lovely. It was in the mid-70s and sort of overcast so a slight reprieve from the blasting sun and warm days we&rsquo;ve had for the past week. I enjoyed it a lot. Today will hopefully be a similar day, though perhaps a little sunnier.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>13</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I had a pretty nice weekend. We had one hot day and one cool day, though Saturday started off pretty cool, it did eventually warm up. I went out early and watered containers, that's my favorite summer pastime, getting outside really early when it is still cool and no one else is around except the birds. That's also often the best light in the garden.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI bought a new domain! Because who doesn't need another domain when you still have unused ones... 🫠 I was writing Saturday's post and realized that nearly every day starts the same so I decided to do something about it. I got `blogsand.coffee` and I have ideas though nothing solid yet. I thought I'd give it a little time but then yesterday I looked up the ☕️ omg.lol emoji address and it was available so I nabbed that as well. I now have two of the best emoji addresses on omg.lol IMO: the brown beverage cup and the green apple.\n\nOn Saturday I ordered some plants from [Annie's Annuals](https://www.anniesannuals.com/), one of the only mail order suppliers I will order from outside of the PNW. They're located in the Bay Area but are absolute pros at shipping plants throughout the US and everything they sell is quality and already hardened off and ready for the zone they are shipping to.\n\nI ordered two agastache that are pollinator magnets, one digitalis, which seems silly living in an area where digitalis is easy to come by along the edge of forests, roadsides, and in meadows, but I'm impatient and I'd be waiting until they go to seed and then waiting another whole year before it would bloom, due to them being biennials; and finally, three succulents, two sedums and an echeveria called 'Mexican snowball' that will be sort of a test of Portland's new USDA hardiness zone. I don't have much hope of it surviving long-term unless I can provide it the winter wet + cold protection it will require, otherwise it will rot.\n\nI'm fairly busy with some things over the next week (busy in terms of energy usage) so I'm rationing groceries until I can get to the store next week. That means I've made a meal plan in order to make the most use of what I have on hand. I hardly ever do this but it's sort of necessary at least for the next week right now. It's not that I don't have food, but I need to combine things wisely to stretch what I have as far as possible.\n\nI rounded out Saturday catching up on podcasts and working on web projects. I continued with this on Sunday, listening to one of my favorite podcasts though on a less than fortunate subject: the prosecution of our ex-President. Most of the web work I did on Sunday was to catch up on my `robots.txt`, add a Creative Commons license to my web properties, and update a few posts on weblog and microblog that refer to my `robots.txt`.\n\nSunday was an A- grade day in Portland, which is to say, very lovely. It was in the mid-70s and sort of overcast so a slight reprieve from the blasting sun and warm days we've had for the past week. I enjoyed it a lot. Today will hopefully be a similar day, though perhaps a little sunnier.\n\n--- \n\n**13**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-24T13:19:04-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/24/catching-up-from.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/22/yesterday-was-quiet.html",
				"title": "Yesterday was quiet.",
				"content_html": "<p>The way I start nearly every day&rsquo;s note: coffee + blogs. Maybe I need to start a site or newsletter called Coffee + Blogs. We have People and Blogs. We have Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Is there already a Coffee + Blogs <em>thing</em>? I don&rsquo;t think there is and now of course I am looking at domains&hellip;hmm 🤔</p>\n<p>I enabled automatic Github backups for both my main microblog and 100 Days of Blog. I&rsquo;ll need this if I end up moving anywhere in the future and I had already been doing some stuff on Github so figured I&rsquo;d get a repo for each created while I was at it. The <code>readme.md</code> files for each leave something to be desired but I don&rsquo;t care about that right now. Low priority, however it leaves me uneasy that I am required to have these in public repos that anyone could clone and use as they wish. Not a very great feeling in that respect.</p>\n<p>I spent three hours in the morning yesterday trying to track down a <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> on my main microblog. I had recently updated Tiny Theme after Matt made some changes following discussion about <code>rel=&quot;author&quot;</code> and <code>humans.txt</code> so I first started looking at the diffs on Github to see if something may have come through there. It didn&rsquo;t appear it did. Then I went through all my Tiny Theme template overrides to check if I was missing a closing tag somewhere. Also couldn&rsquo;t find the cause of the issue.</p>\n<p>So I filed the issue on Micro.blog&rsquo;s help center since what I was finding seems to be related to having &ldquo;Include conversation on post page&rdquo; enabled for your blog. If you disable that, the issue goes away. This functionality includes replies to your post on the &ldquo;single&rdquo; page view of your post by way of <code>conversation.js</code> and there&rsquo;s no way to template that or alter the markup that I can tell. What is happening is that the expected structure of the HTML breaks, in a way, placing the <code>&lt;footer class=&quot;site-footer&quot;&gt;</code> inside of the <code>&lt;div class=&quot;page-content&quot;&gt;</code> when that is enabled. Some folks may not notice this if their blog&rsquo;s styles do not make it apparent, but in the case of Apple Annie&rsquo;s Microblog, the page content has a different background color than the header and footer so it was very apparent that this was happening visually. There is a missing opening or closing <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> somewhere.</p>\n<p>I went back to Discord for a couple days and I felt like trash afterwards. This was partially why I had a quiet day yesterday. I really do think I have to limit my time there, it uses up brain cycles and adds just a general overhead I don&rsquo;t need. This is similarly why I don&rsquo;t have notifications enabled on any of my devices. I don&rsquo;t need extra things to check in on. I have enough to do. I might check in a couple times a week, but that might be silly, as the way theses products work make it nearly impossible for intermittent participation to be meaningful. That&rsquo;s why they are such terrible products for knowledge work or documentation or even help. You can say something 10,000 times and the same issue or question will come up again because the information gets lost in the flow, buried by time and more content. It is a poor human tool if you think about it and it makes it more work for those who provide that help or documentation.</p>\n<p>I started watching another series on Netflix that is about a ranch, horses, and a family and young people. As I was getting into it I couldn&rsquo;t help but notice the storyline similarities to Heartland. This series takes place in California, whereas Heartland is in Calgary, but they appear to overlap in terms of when the series were started. Heartland, of course, continues to this day, and this series, called Wildfire, ended in 2008. Where Heartland focuses on the daughters and troubled boy, this series focuses on sons and a troubled girl. Very interesting mirroring. There&rsquo;s even a grandfather in the main character lineup. No opinions yet on whether I&rsquo;ll continue with all four seasons, I&rsquo;m only on episode three. But I recall having a hard time getting into Heartland at first too, so I&rsquo;ll give this one a little time. I&rsquo;m really only watching it to pass the time when I&rsquo;m feeling poorly, so I can handle some less than stellar acting or cheesiness.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>12</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "The way I start nearly every day's note: coffee + blogs. Maybe I need to start a site or newsletter called Coffee + Blogs. We have People and Blogs. We have Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Is there already a Coffee + Blogs *thing*? I don't think there is and now of course I am looking at domains...hmm 🤔\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI enabled automatic Github backups for both my main microblog and 100 Days of Blog. I'll need this if I end up moving anywhere in the future and I had already been doing some stuff on Github so figured I'd get a repo for each created while I was at it. The `readme.md` files for each leave something to be desired but I don't care about that right now. Low priority, however it leaves me uneasy that I am required to have these in public repos that anyone could clone and use as they wish. Not a very great feeling in that respect.\n\nI spent three hours in the morning yesterday trying to track down a `<div>` on my main microblog. I had recently updated Tiny Theme after Matt made some changes following discussion about `rel=\"author\"` and `humans.txt` so I first started looking at the diffs on Github to see if something may have come through there. It didn't appear it did. Then I went through all my Tiny Theme template overrides to check if I was missing a closing tag somewhere. Also couldn't find the cause of the issue.\n\nSo I filed the issue on Micro.blog's help center since what I was finding seems to be related to having \"Include conversation on post page\" enabled for your blog. If you disable that, the issue goes away. This functionality includes replies to your post on the \"single\" page view of your post by way of `conversation.js` and there's no way to template that or alter the markup that I can tell. What is happening is that the expected structure of the HTML breaks, in a way, placing the `<footer class=\"site-footer\">` inside of the `<div class=\"page-content\">` when that is enabled. Some folks may not notice this if their blog's styles do not make it apparent, but in the case of Apple Annie's Microblog, the page content has a different background color than the header and footer so it was very apparent that this was happening visually. There is a missing opening or closing `<div>` somewhere.\n\nI went back to Discord for a couple days and I felt like trash afterwards. This was partially why I had a quiet day yesterday. I really do think I have to limit my time there, it uses up brain cycles and adds just a general overhead I don't need. This is similarly why I don't have notifications enabled on any of my devices. I don't need extra things to check in on. I have enough to do. I might check in a couple times a week, but that might be silly, as the way theses products work make it nearly impossible for intermittent participation to be meaningful. That's why they are such terrible products for knowledge work or documentation or even help. You can say something 10,000 times and the same issue or question will come up again because the information gets lost in the flow, buried by time and more content. It is a poor human tool if you think about it and it makes it more work for those who provide that help or documentation.\n\nI started watching another series on Netflix that is about a ranch, horses, and a family and young people. As I was getting into it I couldn't help but notice the storyline similarities to Heartland. This series takes place in California, whereas Heartland is in Calgary, but they appear to overlap in terms of when the series were started. Heartland, of course, continues to this day, and this series, called Wildfire, ended in 2008. Where Heartland focuses on the daughters and troubled boy, this series focuses on sons and a troubled girl. Very interesting mirroring. There's even a grandfather in the main character lineup. No opinions yet on whether I'll continue with all four seasons, I'm only on episode three. But I recall having a hard time getting into Heartland at first too, so I'll give this one a little time. I'm really only watching it to pass the time when I'm feeling poorly, so I can handle some less than stellar acting or cheesiness.\n\n--- \n\n**12**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-22T09:40:14-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/22/yesterday-was-quiet.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/21/what-did-i.html",
				"title": "What did I do yesterday?",
				"content_html": "<p>What <em>did</em> I do yesterday, that is a great question—I don&rsquo;t know! You ever have days like that? I try not to, time is too precious for me, but yesterday appears to have slipped by mostly unnoticed by my memory. So I guess today might be a short one.</p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s what my daily note says, not very useful:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>06/20/2024</p>\n<ul>\n<li>summer solstice and hot</li>\n</ul>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I know it was the summer solstice and I know it was hot. I got some watering done early in the morning. I know I had a pot of coffee. I know I took a shower, did some ironing, put fresh bedding on my bed. I took garden photos in the morning and garden photos in the evening. I wrote some blog posts. I read some blog posts.</p>\n<p>I worked more on my interview questions, which at this point seem to be taking way longer than I ever anticipated. I really think I am overthinking my answers. Part of the concern is: a) how personal do I want to get? people I don&rsquo;t know from Jack will be reading this and I am sort of a private person, despite what my blogs may indicate; and b) I can ramble on for great lengths and that seems to be a bad trend for a set of interview questions intended for a newsletter. Anyway, I really want to finish them today.</p>\n<p>I also continued refactoring my homepage and global footer nav, another task taking far too long. My concentration was definitely fractured yesterday. I&rsquo;m still feeling weird about my indieweb communities and even interactions with various people. I&rsquo;ve reached out to two different folks in the last couple of days and had mixed feelings about the responses to both. I also have a bunch on my mind related to personal functions that need to happen relatively quickly in the next month and, ugh, none of them are fun. So just a lot on my mind.</p>\n<p>It&rsquo;ll be hot again today but then we&rsquo;ll have a couple days of reprieve before another heat up next week. I&rsquo;d like to get a car washed and vacuumed, which has been on my todo list for a couple weeks. The issue with getting it done is I either need to get out there very early or later in the day to do it because my driveway aligns north to south and you don&rsquo;t want to wash a car in the blazing sun or the water just evaporates before you can finish washing or while washing it leaves spots before you can chamois it off. Better to start early before the sun is strong in the sky, or when the sun has moved to the other side of the house and my driveway is in the shade. Well I just can&rsquo;t get my schedule to align with those requirements.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>11</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "What *did* I do yesterday, that is a great question—I don't know! You ever have days like that? I try not to, time is too precious for me, but yesterday appears to have slipped by mostly unnoticed by my memory. So I guess today might be a short one.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nHere's what my daily note says, not very useful:\r\n\r\n> 06/20/2024\r\n> \r\n> - summer solstice and hot\r\n\r\nI know it was the summer solstice and I know it was hot. I got some watering done early in the morning. I know I had a pot of coffee. I know I took a shower, did some ironing, put fresh bedding on my bed. I took garden photos in the morning and garden photos in the evening. I wrote some blog posts. I read some blog posts.\r\n\r\nI worked more on my interview questions, which at this point seem to be taking way longer than I ever anticipated. I really think I am overthinking my answers. Part of the concern is: a) how personal do I want to get? people I don't know from Jack will be reading this and I am sort of a private person, despite what my blogs may indicate; and b) I can ramble on for great lengths and that seems to be a bad trend for a set of interview questions intended for a newsletter. Anyway, I really want to finish them today.\r\n\r\nI also continued refactoring my homepage and global footer nav, another task taking far too long. My concentration was definitely fractured yesterday. I'm still feeling weird about my indieweb communities and even interactions with various people. I've reached out to two different folks in the last couple of days and had mixed feelings about the responses to both. I also have a bunch on my mind related to personal functions that need to happen relatively quickly in the next month and, ugh, none of them are fun. So just a lot on my mind.\r\n\r\nIt'll be hot again today but then we'll have a couple days of reprieve before another heat up next week. I'd like to get a car washed and vacuumed, which has been on my todo list for a couple weeks. The issue with getting it done is I either need to get out there very early or later in the day to do it because my driveway aligns north to south and you don't want to wash a car in the blazing sun or the water just evaporates before you can finish washing or while washing it leaves spots before you can chamois it off. Better to start early before the sun is strong in the sky, or when the sun has moved to the other side of the house and my driveway is in the shade. Well I just can't get my schedule to align with those requirements.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**11**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-21T08:00:09-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/21/what-did-i.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/20/yesterday-was-alright.html",
				"title": "Yesterday was alright.",
				"content_html": "<p>I started the day in the usual fashion: coffee + blogging and then a putter around the garden while watering some containers. It is pretty gorgeous in the garden right now, but I find the intensity of the sun problematic for taking many pictures unless I get out there super early or later in the day. My schedule isn&rsquo;t always aligned with that. But yesterday I was able to soak in the beauty from the patio for a bit and snap some pics. I&rsquo;ll likely do another <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/15/garden-status.html\">garden status</a> post on my main microblog soon.</p>\n<p>After customizing my new Letterbird contact form, adding a <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/contact\">Contact page on weblog</a>, and writing a post about one of the bugs I dealt with related to <code>color-scheme</code> I decided to duplicate the effort here on my microblog. Now my footer Contact link goes to that page instead of linking a <code>mailto:</code> and the <code>mailto:</code> is now at the top of the page above the form. While finishing this I discovered a workaround to the <code>color-scheme</code> issue and updated my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/a-contact-page-with-a-customized-letterbird-form\">weblog post</a>.</p>\n<p>Doing this on microblog also forced me to create a custom <code>head.html</code> in my Tiny Theme overrides so I could add the <code>color-scheme</code> meta tag with <code>content=&quot;light dark&quot;</code> and in the process <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/19/i-hope-i.html\">discovered another tag</a> that I am still rather questionable of in the context of providing a module for use on someone else&rsquo;s blog. For now, I know about it, and I can override it but it still doesn&rsquo;t sit well with me that anyone else using Tiny Theme has this without possibly knowing about it. Maybe they don&rsquo;t care, but you can&rsquo;t care about something that you don&rsquo;t know about. It&rsquo;s entirely possible I am overreacting so I&rsquo;m leaving it be after contacting the developer and at least voicing my concerns.</p>\n<p>I mowed the lawn yesterday to get it done before we really heated up. I was not the only one, I think nearly everyone on my block mowed their lawn yesterday. I always seem to time this badly for the time-of-day and end up out there when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, I need to invest in a good garden hat. I remembered that I had a collapsible opaque canvas visor in the back of my car for wearing on hikes or walks around gardens so I pulled that out. I haven&rsquo;t used it for quite some time since I haven&rsquo;t been able to do much of that activity in the past few years. I was thankful to at least save my forehead, nose, ears, and back of my neck while mowing and edging.</p>\n<p>I continued my work reorganizing my weblog homepage and global footer navigation. I&rsquo;m making a flowchart, of course, starting with a spreadsheet and then mapping out like things with like things. I&rsquo;m pretty sure this will end up being put into a new layout, retaining some of the navigational prose that exists, but also pulling some of it into a little sidebar or callout. What seems to be hardest for me is deciding what remains or belongs in the global footer, it seems to be coming down to what is &ldquo;personal&rdquo; vs &ldquo;utilitarian.&rdquo;</p>\n<p>Something interesting about blogging a lot: someone said they unsubscribed from someone&rsquo;s blog feed that blogged a lot because they ended up having so many unread items that it made them stress out about not reading them! I&rsquo;ve also seen people I follow on Mastodon convey similar sentiments! I blog for me! If it is good for you too, great! I don&rsquo;t mean to blog a lot to stress anyone out and I hope you don&rsquo;t unsubscribe from my feed(s) because of it. Anyway, this is just a little side note and train of thought I was having yesterday while I was finishing up my People and Blogs interview questions.</p>\n<p>And this is blog post is number ten! I&rsquo;m 1/10th of the way done with 100 Days to Offload!</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>10</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I started the day in the usual fashion: coffee + blogging and then a putter around the garden while watering some containers. It is pretty gorgeous in the garden right now, but I find the intensity of the sun problematic for taking many pictures unless I get out there super early or later in the day. My schedule isn't always aligned with that. But yesterday I was able to soak in the beauty from the patio for a bit and snap some pics. I'll likely do another [garden status](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/15/garden-status.html) post on my main microblog soon.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nAfter customizing my new Letterbird contact form, adding a [Contact page on weblog](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/contact), and writing a post about one of the bugs I dealt with related to `color-scheme` I decided to duplicate the effort here on my microblog. Now my footer Contact link goes to that page instead of linking a `mailto:` and the `mailto:` is now at the top of the page above the form. While finishing this I discovered a workaround to the `color-scheme` issue and updated my [weblog post](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/a-contact-page-with-a-customized-letterbird-form).\n\nDoing this on microblog also forced me to create a custom `head.html` in my Tiny Theme overrides so I could add the `color-scheme` meta tag with `content=\"light dark\"` and in the process [discovered another tag](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/19/i-hope-i.html) that I am still rather questionable of in the context of providing a module for use on someone else's blog. For now, I know about it, and I can override it but it still doesn't sit well with me that anyone else using Tiny Theme has this without possibly knowing about it. Maybe they don't care, but you can't care about something that you don't know about. It's entirely possible I am overreacting so I'm leaving it be after contacting the developer and at least voicing my concerns.\n\nI mowed the lawn yesterday to get it done before we really heated up. I was not the only one, I think nearly everyone on my block mowed their lawn yesterday. I always seem to time this badly for the time-of-day and end up out there when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, I need to invest in a good garden hat. I remembered that I had a collapsible opaque canvas visor in the back of my car for wearing on hikes or walks around gardens so I pulled that out. I haven't used it for quite some time since I haven't been able to do much of that activity in the past few years. I was thankful to at least save my forehead, nose, ears, and back of my neck while mowing and edging.\n\nI continued my work reorganizing my weblog homepage and global footer navigation. I'm making a flowchart, of course, starting with a spreadsheet and then mapping out like things with like things. I'm pretty sure this will end up being put into a new layout, retaining some of the navigational prose that exists, but also pulling some of it into a little sidebar or callout. What seems to be hardest for me is deciding what remains or belongs in the global footer, it seems to be coming down to what is \"personal\" vs \"utilitarian.\"\n\nSomething interesting about blogging a lot: someone said they unsubscribed from someone's blog feed that blogged a lot because they ended up having so many unread items that it made them stress out about not reading them! I've also seen people I follow on Mastodon convey similar sentiments! I blog for me! If it is good for you too, great! I don't mean to blog a lot to stress anyone out and I hope you don't unsubscribe from my feed(s) because of it. Anyway, this is just a little side note and train of thought I was having yesterday while I was finishing up my People and Blogs interview questions.\n\nAnd this is blog post is number ten! I'm 1/10th of the way done with 100 Days to Offload!\n\n--- \n\n**10**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-20T08:44:47-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/20/yesterday-was-alright.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/19/first-day-of.html",
				"title": "First day of the heatwave.",
				"content_html": "<p>It will be hot here today, well, hotter than it has been, but not as hot as other places in the country, and not as humid. The &ldquo;it rains a lot in ___&rdquo; stereotype for PNW cities isn&rsquo;t necessarily correct. It does rain a fair amount here, and there are pockets of temperate rainforest that receive rainfall averages that can rival tropical rainforests. The Hoh Rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington averages about 130 inches per year, or even the source of Portland&rsquo;s municipal water, the Bullrun Watershed, averages 135 inches per year, with some places in the watershed measuring up to 170 inches of precipitation.</p>\n<p>But for the most part, Portland, and the rest of the valleys here are more Mediterranean in climate. Portland only averages about 36 inches of precipitation a year. The Koppen climate classification system places us in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate#Warm-summer_Mediterranean_climate\">Warm-summer Mediterranean climate</a> which is warm and dry during the summer, and mild and temperate the rest of the year. In fact, Portland averages less rainfall than most cities on the east coast, including inland cities like Louisville, KY, and during the summer Portland receives less rainfall than Phoenix, AZ.</p>\n<p>All this to say that when we are hot here in the summer, it is pretty dry, and this contributes to the threat of forest fires (among other causes). The &ldquo;fuel&rdquo; in our forests is very dry during the summer. Those otherwise wet and temperate rainforests become kindling. So even when we reach the 90s or exceed 100°F or more, it is not humid and therefore is less severe in that respect.</p>\n<p>Yesterday I was made aware of a continued interaction between two of my IndieWeb communities and at this point, weeks after the drama started, I&rsquo;m pretty tired of it. For someone completely separate from the infraction and subsequent request for accountability, to choose to insert themself into it now weeks later has left a bad feeling with me. Coupled with the other concerns I was already having with some of the directions this person is taking this very platform, I am on the verge of finding a new home for my &ldquo;micro&rdquo; blog. Weblog will still remain my home, and Neato, the successor when it is finished. But I cannot stay here longterm if these trends continue, financially or morally.</p>\n<p>I will continue to post here while I investigate my options. I also plan to finish the 100 Days to Offload challenge on this blog, so it won&rsquo;t be immediate that I make a move, but it is something I feel I have to do in light of so many things that are bothering me here.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>9</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "It will be hot here today, well, hotter than it has been, but not as hot as other places in the country, and not as humid. The \"it rains a lot in ___\" stereotype for PNW cities isn't necessarily correct. It does rain a fair amount here, and there are pockets of temperate rainforest that receive rainfall averages that can rival tropical rainforests. The Hoh Rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington averages about 130 inches per year, or even the source of Portland's municipal water, the Bullrun Watershed, averages 135 inches per year, with some places in the watershed measuring up to 170 inches of precipitation.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nBut for the most part, Portland, and the rest of the valleys here are more Mediterranean in climate. Portland only averages about 36 inches of precipitation a year. The Koppen climate classification system places us in [Warm-summer Mediterranean climate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate#Warm-summer_Mediterranean_climate) which is warm and dry during the summer, and mild and temperate the rest of the year. In fact, Portland averages less rainfall than most cities on the east coast, including inland cities like Louisville, KY, and during the summer Portland receives less rainfall than Phoenix, AZ.\n\nAll this to say that when we are hot here in the summer, it is pretty dry, and this contributes to the threat of forest fires (among other causes). The \"fuel\" in our forests is very dry during the summer. Those otherwise wet and temperate rainforests become kindling. So even when we reach the 90s or exceed 100°F or more, it is not humid and therefore is less severe in that respect.\n\nYesterday I was made aware of a continued interaction between two of my IndieWeb communities and at this point, weeks after the drama started, I'm pretty tired of it. For someone completely separate from the infraction and subsequent request for accountability, to choose to insert themself into it now weeks later has left a bad feeling with me. Coupled with the other concerns I was already having with some of the directions this person is taking this very platform, I am on the verge of finding a new home for my \"micro\" blog. Weblog will still remain my home, and Neato, the successor when it is finished. But I cannot stay here longterm if these trends continue, financially or morally.\n\nI will continue to post here while I investigate my options. I also plan to finish the 100 Days to Offload challenge on this blog, so it won't be immediate that I make a move, but it is something I feel I have to do in light of so many things that are bothering me here.\n\n--- \n\n**9**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-19T10:13:03-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/19/first-day-of.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/18/i-forgot-to.html",
				"title": "I forgot to take notes yesterday.",
				"content_html": "<p>So I am now scrambling to remember a day that feels like a blur in my mind.</p>\n<p>I spent the morning yesterday getting some household tasks done and by about 11am I was prepping my driveway for the roofer to come and finally fix my garage roof from the damage my neighbor&rsquo;s tree caused at the end of April when it fell onto my garage. We had unexpected rain and the poor guy was out there during quite a downpour. He still finished the patch job in under an hour and treated that side of the roof that used to be under the tree with a moss remover. Glad to finally have that done.</p>\n<p>I watched a limited series adaptation of <em>North &amp; South</em> on BritBox. I seem to recall trying to start this series in the past and not getting very far, though I can&rsquo;t remember why. This adaption, based on Elizabeth Gaskell&rsquo;s novel <em>North and South</em>, was adapted for television and took some liberties surrounding the time period of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Wikipedia page notes:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sandy Welch started adapting Elizabeth Gaskell&rsquo;s 1855 <em>North and South</em> in 2001, making a few changes to emphasise the industrial landscape of the story. Welch&rsquo;s story, for example, begins and ends with the main character Margaret Hale travelling by train, which is not the starting and ending point of the novel (although Gaskell describes the Hales travelling from the South to the North by train). Welch also made the main characters visit the Great Exhibition of 1851. These are changes Welch believed Gaskell would have done &ldquo;if she&rsquo;d had the time&rdquo;, since Gaskell had complained of being under pressure to complete the novel by her editor Charles Dickens.</p>\n<p>— <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_%26_South_(TV_serial)#Origins\"><em>North &amp; South</em> (TV serial)</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I had no idea Gaskell&rsquo;s editor was DIckens! I read the book in high school and hardly recalled much of it before watching this adaption and jogging my memory. It ended up being well done, with many British actors I recognized and who have had prominent roles in other movies and series I&rsquo;ve watched. I&rsquo;m still a bit mystified by the popularity of Richard Armitage, but he wasn&rsquo;t as offensive in this role as I have found him in other more recent roles.</p>\n<p>Beyond that, I mostly worked on some in-progress blog posts, answering more of the <em>People and Blogs</em> interview questions, which I absolutely need to finish in the next few days, and with organizing and reworking the weblog homepage and global footer navigation items. This is ongoing so I will continue with these tasks today as well.</p>\n<p>It seems most of the continental US is dealing with a heatwave or heatdome in some manner this week. We have started out the week rather cool here in Portland, so cool that I just read that Timberline Lodge at Mt Hood had received seven inches of new snow on Sunday, and another two inches on Monday, and was 34°F. <em>In the middle of June.</em> The summer solstice is in two days and it is still a winter wonderland up on the mountain. Just goes to show you how volatile our wild spaces can be here in Oregon. We are looking at heating up by the end of the week. The high temperature between today, Tuesday, and tomorrow, Wednesday, will jump ten degrees (F). These types of swings are what causes havoc with my nervous system.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>8</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "So I am now scrambling to remember a day that feels like a blur in my mind.\n\nI spent the morning yesterday getting some household tasks done and by about 11am I was prepping my driveway for the roofer to come and finally fix my garage roof from the damage my neighbor's tree caused at the end of April when it fell onto my garage. We had unexpected rain and the poor guy was out there during quite a downpour. He still finished the patch job in under an hour and treated that side of the roof that used to be under the tree with a moss remover. Glad to finally have that done.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI watched a limited series adaptation of *North & South* on BritBox. I seem to recall trying to start this series in the past and not getting very far, though I can't remember why. This adaption, based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel *North and South*, was adapted for television and took some liberties surrounding the time period of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Wikipedia page notes:\n\n> Sandy Welch started adapting Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 *North and South* in 2001, making a few changes to emphasise the industrial landscape of the story. Welch's story, for example, begins and ends with the main character Margaret Hale travelling by train, which is not the starting and ending point of the novel (although Gaskell describes the Hales travelling from the South to the North by train). Welch also made the main characters visit the Great Exhibition of 1851. These are changes Welch believed Gaskell would have done \"if she'd had the time\", since Gaskell had complained of being under pressure to complete the novel by her editor Charles Dickens.\n>\n> — [*North & South* (TV serial)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_%26_South_(TV_serial)#Origins)\n\nI had no idea Gaskell's editor was DIckens! I read the book in high school and hardly recalled much of it before watching this adaption and jogging my memory. It ended up being well done, with many British actors I recognized and who have had prominent roles in other movies and series I've watched. I'm still a bit mystified by the popularity of Richard Armitage, but he wasn't as offensive in this role as I have found him in other more recent roles.\n\nBeyond that, I mostly worked on some in-progress blog posts, answering more of the *People and Blogs* interview questions, which I absolutely need to finish in the next few days, and with organizing and reworking the weblog homepage and global footer navigation items. This is ongoing so I will continue with these tasks today as well.\n\nIt seems most of the continental US is dealing with a heatwave or heatdome in some manner this week. We have started out the week rather cool here in Portland, so cool that I just read that Timberline Lodge at Mt Hood had received seven inches of new snow on Sunday, and another two inches on Monday, and was 34°F. *In the middle of June.* The summer solstice is in two days and it is still a winter wonderland up on the mountain. Just goes to show you how volatile our wild spaces can be here in Oregon. We are looking at heating up by the end of the week. The high temperature between today, Tuesday, and tomorrow, Wednesday, will jump ten degrees (F). These types of swings are what causes havoc with my nervous system.\n\n--- \n\n**8**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-18T11:22:06-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/18/i-forgot-to.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/17/taking-sundays-off.html",
				"title": "Taking Sundays off.",
				"content_html": "<p>Yesterday I didn&rsquo;t post to this blog and that was planned. I now have an idea of how I&rsquo;d like to keep up this posting streak and attain my goal for 100 Days to Offload challenge. I will post Monday thru Saturday about the prior day(s), take Sunday off and resume on the Monday to cover Saturday + Sunday. I think this should give me enough of a breather that I don&rsquo;t tire of this type of posting schedule.</p>\n<p>The weather was cool and wet at times this weekend. It rained on Saturday and I made a vegetable tortellini soup, a big batch. It is a really good soup, I should write it up with my additions on my weblog. I&rsquo;ve been in the mood for Jane Austen recently, honestly, when am I not in the mood for Jane Austen, so I watched a new-to-me Netflix adaptation of <em>Persuasion</em> released in 2022. It was an interesting take, I&rsquo;m trying to recall the other adaptations of <em>Persuasion</em> I&rsquo;ve watched before and failing, so now, of course, I&rsquo;ll need to go back and find them.</p>\n<p>I also worked on more blogging on Saturday and that is when I cemented my course explained above about taking Sundays off. I created a <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/feeds\">Feeds</a> page on weblog, which has been on my list since I started down the <a href=\"https://slashpages.net/\">slash pages</a> path. I also worked on setting up some &ldquo;shortcuts&rdquo; as redirects on weblog for posts that I want accessible at a more &ldquo;slash page&rdquo; like URL. This includes things like: Works in Progress, My Switchboard, etc.</p>\n<p>I continued with weblog tasks on Sunday, starting with re-organizing my global footer links. This led me to realize that any updates there would require some overhaul of the home page, since the home page acts very much like a navigation in prose, and I&rsquo;d like to structure them together. So now this is a larger task and I will be working on it today and this week.</p>\n<p>I also signed up for Letterbird on Sunday and worked on styling a contact form page and embed for a new <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/contact\">Contact</a> page on weblog. For now this is only embedded on weblog, but I may eventually make it a domain-level page that all subdomains link to. I am still considering this and how I want to structure it, so it is on the back burner for now.</p>\n<p>Adam of omg.lol <a href=\"https://omglol.news/2024/06/16/blocking-bad-bots\">announced a bot blocking change</a> to omg.lol&rsquo;s infrastructure and that got me wanting to create a <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/robots\">Robots</a> page on weblog (there really is no end to slash pages&hellip;) to explain the handling of bots and crawlers for the site and related sites. I&rsquo;m still relying on an additional layer with my <code>robots.txt</code> and keeping it in-sync across my sites, but this is just a first defense. He followed up in <a href=\"https://notes.neatnik.net/2024/06/gotta-block-em-all\">another post last night</a> really admitting we&rsquo;re playing a game of whack-a-mole with these AI crawlers, and my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/junited-2024#day-17\">Junited post</a> for today also touches on our collective need to do something more.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>7</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "Yesterday I didn't post to this blog and that was planned. I now have an idea of how I'd like to keep up this posting streak and attain my goal for 100 Days to Offload challenge. I will post Monday thru Saturday about the prior day(s), take Sunday off and resume on the Monday to cover Saturday + Sunday. I think this should give me enough of a breather that I don't tire of this type of posting schedule.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nThe weather was cool and wet at times this weekend. It rained on Saturday and I made a vegetable tortellini soup, a big batch. It is a really good soup, I should write it up with my additions on my weblog. I've been in the mood for Jane Austen recently, honestly, when am I not in the mood for Jane Austen, so I watched a new-to-me Netflix adaptation of *Persuasion* released in 2022. It was an interesting take, I'm trying to recall the other adaptations of *Persuasion* I've watched before and failing, so now, of course, I'll need to go back and find them.\n\nI also worked on more blogging on Saturday and that is when I cemented my course explained above about taking Sundays off. I created a [Feeds](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/feeds) page on weblog, which has been on my list since I started down the [slash pages](https://slashpages.net/) path. I also worked on setting up some \"shortcuts\" as redirects on weblog for posts that I want accessible at a more \"slash page\" like URL. This includes things like: Works in Progress, My Switchboard, etc.\n\nI continued with weblog tasks on Sunday, starting with re-organizing my global footer links. This led me to realize that any updates there would require some overhaul of the home page, since the home page acts very much like a navigation in prose, and I'd like to structure them together. So now this is a larger task and I will be working on it today and this week.\n\nI also signed up for Letterbird on Sunday and worked on styling a contact form page and embed for a new [Contact](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/contact) page on weblog. For now this is only embedded on weblog, but I may eventually make it a domain-level page that all subdomains link to. I am still considering this and how I want to structure it, so it is on the back burner for now.\n\nAdam of omg.lol [announced a bot blocking change](https://omglol.news/2024/06/16/blocking-bad-bots) to omg.lol's infrastructure and that got me wanting to create a [Robots](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/robots) page on weblog (there really is no end to slash pages...) to explain the handling of bots and crawlers for the site and related sites. I'm still relying on an additional layer with my `robots.txt` and keeping it in-sync across my sites, but this is just a first defense. He followed up in [another post last night](https://notes.neatnik.net/2024/06/gotta-block-em-all) really admitting we're playing a game of whack-a-mole with these AI crawlers, and my [Junited post](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/junited-2024#day-17) for today also touches on our collective need to do something more.\n\n--- \n\n**7**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-17T10:54:42-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/17/taking-sundays-off.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/15/i-had-a.html",
				"title": "I had a late start to the day again yesterday.",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;ve really been trying to be soft on myself because I absolutely need the sleep I&rsquo;m getting when I get it and there&rsquo;s no point in being hard on myself about it. Due to my illness, there will never be enough, so when I <em>can</em> sleep, I do sleep. If it sounds like my entire life is dictated by the whims of my illness, you are not wrong.</p>\n<p>I worked on blog posts over coffee in the morning. After a fairly wrenching post yesterday, I read a <a href=\"https://reactormag.com/furiosa-and-the-disability-wasteland/\">review of <em>Furiosa</em></a> and was not prepared for how much it made me cry, but I wasn&rsquo;t surprised either. Navigating the world over the last five years has shocked my understanding of humans and how we care, or do not care, for each other.</p>\n<p>One of the blog posts I worked on was a long-time coming about the modern CSS I&rsquo;m learning and planning to learn in order to get and keep my skills up-to-date from being out of full-time work. This is something I am keeping tabs on for several reasons: I want to track it for my own organizational needs, I want to mark what I&rsquo;ve accomplished on my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/brag\">Brag</a> page, and I want to tie into experiments on an upcoming project called &ldquo;Tiny Pages.&rdquo; This post is cleverly (in my opinion) titled to play off a phrase from a series of 1990s automobile commercials: <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/this-is-not-your-fathers-css\"><em>This is not your father&rsquo;s CSS.</em></a></p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been catching up on the CSSDay videos and after watching Matthias Ott&rsquo;s session decided it was time to get my list published. In the session he has a slide that states &ldquo;CSS is now the most powerful design tool for the Web,&rdquo; a concept I have long believed. I touch on this in my multi-part series <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2023/11/working-for-a-living-when-your-living-isnt-working-part-i\"><em>Working for a Living When Your Living isn&rsquo;t Working</em></a>. I think it is due to the same factors that drive the industry to downplay the importance of front-end. We&rsquo;ve compressed the role into &ldquo;a stack of skills&rdquo; and eschewed expertise so much that we&rsquo;ve lost an entire specialty: &ldquo;web design.&rdquo;</p>\n<p>I made sourdough bread pizza using a different pizza sauce than I normally do, I am out of tomato paste so I used a marinara that I got in my grocery delivery earlier in the week and it worked out alright. I still think my pizza sauce is better but I&rsquo;m flexible and willing to modify recipes for ingredients on hand. I think I&rsquo;m pretty talented at doing this, since I rarely have everything I need for a recipe unless I specifically plan for it.</p>\n<p>I finished watching the mind-numbing Netflix series &ldquo;Geek Girl&rdquo; which I had started watching in order to avoid the world and the upsetting things that were occurring this week. Little did I realize that it would also bring up feelings when the main character realizes that the parts of her that make her unique and special are the very things that others want to point out and deride. Again, humans being shit to other humans.</p>\n<p>I heard back from one of the six state and federal representatives that I emailed about the mask ban trends taking hold on the east coast of the US. The winner is my state representative, Rob Nosse, who replies with the following:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You as well as every Oregonian deserve to feel safe and have a right to exist in society. As the chair of the behavioral health and healthcare committee, I would not let legislation that bans masks get hearings or move very far. I’m disappointed to see that Democrats elsewhere in the country are expressing support for this kind of legislation. I am not aware of any movement in Oregon to move towards mask bans, but if you’ve heard about anything happening in Oregon, please let me know.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>It is so easy not to be a dick and to make your fellow human feel seen and heard in their concerns.</p>\n<p>Finally, last night, after it was far too late to do so, I binged the last four episodes of season three of Bridgerton that had finally come out. It was an acceptable end to the season and followed the path that I had predicted fairly closely. I will say that Colin Bridgerton has become a sort of unrealistic man figure in the Bridgerton arc, not only due his good looks, but also his caring and understanding nature. I really came to love his and Penelope&rsquo;s bond by the end of the season, so much so that I was reminded of something from that Jane Austen movie I watched the other day and <a href=\"https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/15/just-like-jane.html\">amended a quote with my own last night</a>.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>6</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I've really been trying to be soft on myself because I absolutely need the sleep I'm getting when I get it and there's no point in being hard on myself about it. Due to my illness, there will never be enough, so when I *can* sleep, I do sleep. If it sounds like my entire life is dictated by the whims of my illness, you are not wrong.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI worked on blog posts over coffee in the morning. After a fairly wrenching post yesterday, I read a [review of *Furiosa*](https://reactormag.com/furiosa-and-the-disability-wasteland/) and was not prepared for how much it made me cry, but I wasn't surprised either. Navigating the world over the last five years has shocked my understanding of humans and how we care, or do not care, for each other.\n\nOne of the blog posts I worked on was a long-time coming about the modern CSS I'm learning and planning to learn in order to get and keep my skills up-to-date from being out of full-time work. This is something I am keeping tabs on for several reasons: I want to track it for my own organizational needs, I want to mark what I've accomplished on my [Brag](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/brag) page, and I want to tie into experiments on an upcoming project called \"Tiny Pages.\" This post is cleverly (in my opinion) titled to play off a phrase from a series of 1990s automobile commercials: [*This is not your father's CSS.*](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/this-is-not-your-fathers-css)\n\nI've been catching up on the CSSDay videos and after watching Matthias Ott's session decided it was time to get my list published. In the session he has a slide that states \"CSS is now the most powerful design tool for the Web,\" a concept I have long believed. I touch on this in my multi-part series [*Working for a Living When Your Living isn't Working*](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2023/11/working-for-a-living-when-your-living-isnt-working-part-i). I think it is due to the same factors that drive the industry to downplay the importance of front-end. We've compressed the role into \"a stack of skills\" and eschewed expertise so much that we've lost an entire specialty: \"web design.\"\n\nI made sourdough bread pizza using a different pizza sauce than I normally do, I am out of tomato paste so I used a marinara that I got in my grocery delivery earlier in the week and it worked out alright. I still think my pizza sauce is better but I'm flexible and willing to modify recipes for ingredients on hand. I think I'm pretty talented at doing this, since I rarely have everything I need for a recipe unless I specifically plan for it.\n\nI finished watching the mind-numbing Netflix series \"Geek Girl\" which I had started watching in order to avoid the world and the upsetting things that were occurring this week. Little did I realize that it would also bring up feelings when the main character realizes that the parts of her that make her unique and special are the very things that others want to point out and deride. Again, humans being shit to other humans.\n\nI heard back from one of the six state and federal representatives that I emailed about the mask ban trends taking hold on the east coast of the US. The winner is my state representative, Rob Nosse, who replies with the following:\n\n>  You as well as every Oregonian deserve to feel safe and have a right to exist in society. As the chair of the behavioral health and healthcare committee, I would not let legislation that bans masks get hearings or move very far. I’m disappointed to see that Democrats elsewhere in the country are expressing support for this kind of legislation. I am not aware of any movement in Oregon to move towards mask bans, but if you’ve heard about anything happening in Oregon, please let me know.\n\nIt is so easy not to be a dick and to make your fellow human feel seen and heard in their concerns.\n\nFinally, last night, after it was far too late to do so, I binged the last four episodes of season three of Bridgerton that had finally come out. It was an acceptable end to the season and followed the path that I had predicted fairly closely. I will say that Colin Bridgerton has become a sort of unrealistic man figure in the Bridgerton arc, not only due his good looks, but also his caring and understanding nature. I really came to love his and Penelope's bond by the end of the season, so much so that I was reminded of something from that Jane Austen movie I watched the other day and [amended a quote with my own last night](https://micro.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/15/just-like-jane.html).\n\n--- \n\n**6**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-15T11:45:06-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/15/i-had-a.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/14/not-to-be.html",
				"title": "Not to be a downer, but it wasn't a great day yesterday.",
				"content_html": "<p>The day started rather slowly, I didn&rsquo;t want to get out of bed, and that&rsquo;s never a good sign for my energy levels or general outlook for the tasks ahead. I attempted to pull out of the funk with coffee + gardening videos, one of my favorite pastimes. That worked for a while, as I was then energized to get the lawn mowed and spend a little time puttering in the garden, which is starting to get that early summer vibe with many things coming into bloom on the back perennial border.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately I read some more bad news in regards to state mask bans. It was bad enough when a Republican-leaning state began this nonsense, but now the Democratic governor of NY state is also suggesting some type of mask ban. I was so upset and angry I emailed six of my federal and state representatives outlining how something like this in Oregon would greatly affect my life and liberty. I then spent a good part of the afternoon crying.</p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s really hard to convey what the last five years have done to my life, but something like a mask ban, even if stated that exemptions would be made for medical usage, would essentially make people like me targets for harassment, more than we already are. You know how police forces act, there&rsquo;s no benefit of the doubt, we would be targeted for interrogation and only after being forced to remove our masks and prove we needed them would we be allowed to wear them. It&rsquo;s 100% a &ldquo;show me your papers&rdquo; scenario. This is fascism.</p>\n<p>Needless to say my day had not gotten better by the late afternoon. I got an email from someone that had been looking for local area Portland web and front-end development groups and/or meetups, which I had not been involved with or attended since 2019. I immediately thought about one of my managers from my last job and started looking him up, hoping to find something useful. This led me to discover that both he and my previous manager before him co-founded and work at a design systems company that has venture capital funding, is working with some popular and leading folks in the industry, and to integrate design systems with AI. Well, this news absolutely pushed me over the edge and I was a mess for the remainder of the day.</p>\n<p>How this affected me was due to several things. I used to consider myself a peer of both of these guys, on par with technical design systems knowledge and abilities, and since 2019 I feel like I&rsquo;ve lost so much. I moved to Portland to attend college, I graduated and found a career I worked hard to keep. I bought a house and made a life here. And I may lose all of that, I&rsquo;ve already lost most of it. Once my student loan is discharged, my college already doesn&rsquo;t exist anymore, my illness keeps me from working, and I might have to sell my house, I will have nothing left from nineteen years of progress. I am beyond sunken in a funk about all this.</p>\n<p>The other part of this that upsets me is that what they&rsquo;re doing represents everything I hate about this industry right now: venture capital funding, integrations with the already large behemoth companies, and jumping into AI with a system that affects the front-end on the web. I hate it all. So I didn&rsquo;t find any groups or meetup info and I abandon the internet for the rest of the day and started binging a silly and mind-numbing show on Netflix. Here&rsquo;s hoping today is a little better and I can be gentler on myself.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>5</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "The day started rather slowly, I didn't want to get out of bed, and that's never a good sign for my energy levels or general outlook for the tasks ahead. I attempted to pull out of the funk with coffee + gardening videos, one of my favorite pastimes. That worked for a while, as I was then energized to get the lawn mowed and spend a little time puttering in the garden, which is starting to get that early summer vibe with many things coming into bloom on the back perennial border.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nUnfortunately I read some more bad news in regards to state mask bans. It was bad enough when a Republican-leaning state began this nonsense, but now the Democratic governor of NY state is also suggesting some type of mask ban. I was so upset and angry I emailed six of my federal and state representatives outlining how something like this in Oregon would greatly affect my life and liberty. I then spent a good part of the afternoon crying.\n\nIt's really hard to convey what the last five years have done to my life, but something like a mask ban, even if stated that exemptions would be made for medical usage, would essentially make people like me targets for harassment, more than we already are. You know how police forces act, there's no benefit of the doubt, we would be targeted for interrogation and only after being forced to remove our masks and prove we needed them would we be allowed to wear them. It's 100% a \"show me your papers\" scenario. This is fascism.\n\nNeedless to say my day had not gotten better by the late afternoon. I got an email from someone that had been looking for local area Portland web and front-end development groups and/or meetups, which I had not been involved with or attended since 2019. I immediately thought about one of my managers from my last job and started looking him up, hoping to find something useful. This led me to discover that both he and my previous manager before him co-founded and work at a design systems company that has venture capital funding, is working with some popular and leading folks in the industry, and to integrate design systems with AI. Well, this news absolutely pushed me over the edge and I was a mess for the remainder of the day.\n\nHow this affected me was due to several things. I used to consider myself a peer of both of these guys, on par with technical design systems knowledge and abilities, and since 2019 I feel like I've lost so much. I moved to Portland to attend college, I graduated and found a career I worked hard to keep. I bought a house and made a life here. And I may lose all of that, I've already lost most of it. Once my student loan is discharged, my college already doesn't exist anymore, my illness keeps me from working, and I might have to sell my house, I will have nothing left from nineteen years of progress. I am beyond sunken in a funk about all this.\n\nThe other part of this that upsets me is that what they're doing represents everything I hate about this industry right now: venture capital funding, integrations with the already large behemoth companies, and jumping into AI with a system that affects the front-end on the web. I hate it all. So I didn't find any groups or meetup info and I abandon the internet for the rest of the day and started binging a silly and mind-numbing show on Netflix. Here's hoping today is a little better and I can be gentler on myself.\n\n--- \n\n**5**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-14T11:27:31-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/14/not-to-be.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/13/do-i-need.html",
				"title": "Do I need to title each of these?",
				"content_html": "<p>That&rsquo;s a &ldquo;think out loud&rdquo; title for today&rsquo;s post. I was just thinking that perhaps titles don&rsquo;t make sense for these as there is no cohesive through-line for the posts other than they represent a day-in-the-posting for this challenge. I sort of like coming up with titles, though. I really like when I&rsquo;m able to make it funny or nod to something from the past. I have one of those coming up on weblog soon.</p>\n<p>Yesterday morning I spent in the garden again, watering, puttering, visiting the birds. I did some yard work and blew off all the hard surfaces. Everyone hates a leaf blower, but unfortunately they are necessary for me, my driveway is nearly the length of my city lot as the garage is positioned at the back corner, and I have street trees so I regularly blow the sidewalk and off the curb to keep the street gutter clear of debris for rainfall. My parking strips are river rock so I also sprayed some weeds. Since one of my neighbors no longer does anything with their yard, weeds in the parking strip have become a problem and I&rsquo;d rather not battle giant weeds so I keep up on them when they are small.</p>\n<p>I had a grocery delivery and now have some mushroom ravioli that I plan on having with an Alfredo sauce. I considered this for dinner last night but ended up making quesadillas, which were quick and apparently just what I needed because they were really good. I have found my Breville convection toaster oven to be perfect for quesadillas. I actually end up using that toaster oven more than my regular oven during the summer as I can avoid the heat the oven produces.</p>\n<p>I caught up on some gardening videos over my morning coffee, which was a French press yesterday. I have gotten into a spice routine with my French press that I don&rsquo;t even need to measure now: turmeric, ground clove, cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, ground cardamom, and ground allspice. It might sound like a lot, but it is less than an 1/8 teaspoon of each and combined it gives my coffee an absolutely new level of deliciousness. Even after washing my press the following day I can still smell the spice mix. It is lovely.</p>\n<p>Yesterday actually flew by. It was nearly 3pm when I looked up from my computer and realized most of the day was already gone and I was only halfway through my todo list. I started the month in a good spot for <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/junited-2024\">Junited</a> with the first two weeks already prepared with posts to share. I&rsquo;m now coming up on that threshold and need to get busy curating more. I&rsquo;m also realizing I&rsquo;m due for another blogroll spin on weblog, and that has me considering mixing in spins of existing blogs on my blogroll. Why not? Perhaps as new blog posts get published or catch my interest, I&rsquo;ll pull those blogs out of the list again and put them in the spin with the new post of interest.</p>\n<p>I worked on a new set of todos for weblog, which I&rsquo;ll get added to my <a href=\"https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/roadmap\">weblog todo list</a> today. One of these todos is to work on some post redirects. That is when I had originally posted something as a blog post on weblog but would like it to act as a slash page or use an otherwise more simple URL without the preceding date of the post. I can think of at least two of these off the top of my head, but I&rsquo;d like to review more and make a list to take action on.</p>\n<p>I finally got started on vacuuming and got all the rugs on the main floor cleaned. I also got started on the high dusting and wood floors by starting in my bedroom. The next room is the office and it is far more fussy with all the desk and equipment that need to get cleaned and moved to dust on and around. It is always such a task to clean the office. I think the easiest rooms to clean, and the ones I keep up on the most, are the kitchen and bathroom. Not sure why that is, maybe because they have more floor space and less area rug. The bathroom, of course, only has a small mat in front of the shower and sink, but the kitchen has a carpet tile runner on the &ldquo;work&rdquo; side of the island. That is easy to take apart and move for cleaning.</p>\n<p>Last night I watched the latest episode of Acapulco and I think the duet singers performed my favorite song of the series yet, &ldquo;Somebody&rsquo;s Watching Me.&rdquo; I&rsquo;ve said this before, they may be one of the best parts of this show/series. I&rsquo;d absolutely buy an album of their covers if Apple ever decides to sell one.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>4</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "That's a \"think out loud\" title for today's post. I was just thinking that perhaps titles don't make sense for these as there is no cohesive through-line for the posts other than they represent a day-in-the-posting for this challenge. I sort of like coming up with titles, though. I really like when I'm able to make it funny or nod to something from the past. I have one of those coming up on weblog soon.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nYesterday morning I spent in the garden again, watering, puttering, visiting the birds. I did some yard work and blew off all the hard surfaces. Everyone hates a leaf blower, but unfortunately they are necessary for me, my driveway is nearly the length of my city lot as the garage is positioned at the back corner, and I have street trees so I regularly blow the sidewalk and off the curb to keep the street gutter clear of debris for rainfall. My parking strips are river rock so I also sprayed some weeds. Since one of my neighbors no longer does anything with their yard, weeds in the parking strip have become a problem and I'd rather not battle giant weeds so I keep up on them when they are small.\n\nI had a grocery delivery and now have some mushroom ravioli that I plan on having with an Alfredo sauce. I considered this for dinner last night but ended up making quesadillas, which were quick and apparently just what I needed because they were really good. I have found my Breville convection toaster oven to be perfect for quesadillas. I actually end up using that toaster oven more than my regular oven during the summer as I can avoid the heat the oven produces.\n\nI caught up on some gardening videos over my morning coffee, which was a French press yesterday. I have gotten into a spice routine with my French press that I don't even need to measure now: turmeric, ground clove, cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, ground cardamom, and ground allspice. It might sound like a lot, but it is less than an 1/8 teaspoon of each and combined it gives my coffee an absolutely new level of deliciousness. Even after washing my press the following day I can still smell the spice mix. It is lovely.\n\nYesterday actually flew by. It was nearly 3pm when I looked up from my computer and realized most of the day was already gone and I was only halfway through my todo list. I started the month in a good spot for [Junited](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/06/junited-2024) with the first two weeks already prepared with posts to share. I'm now coming up on that threshold and need to get busy curating more. I'm also realizing I'm due for another blogroll spin on weblog, and that has me considering mixing in spins of existing blogs on my blogroll. Why not? Perhaps as new blog posts get published or catch my interest, I'll pull those blogs out of the list again and put them in the spin with the new post of interest.\n\nI worked on a new set of todos for weblog, which I'll get added to my [weblog todo list](https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/roadmap) today. One of these todos is to work on some post redirects. That is when I had originally posted something as a blog post on weblog but would like it to act as a slash page or use an otherwise more simple URL without the preceding date of the post. I can think of at least two of these off the top of my head, but I'd like to review more and make a list to take action on.\n\nI finally got started on vacuuming and got all the rugs on the main floor cleaned. I also got started on the high dusting and wood floors by starting in my bedroom. The next room is the office and it is far more fussy with all the desk and equipment that need to get cleaned and moved to dust on and around. It is always such a task to clean the office. I think the easiest rooms to clean, and the ones I keep up on the most, are the kitchen and bathroom. Not sure why that is, maybe because they have more floor space and less area rug. The bathroom, of course, only has a small mat in front of the shower and sink, but the kitchen has a carpet tile runner on the \"work\" side of the island. That is easy to take apart and move for cleaning.\n\nLast night I watched the latest episode of Acapulco and I think the duet singers performed my favorite song of the series yet, \"Somebody's Watching Me.\" I've said this before, they may be one of the best parts of this show/series. I'd absolutely buy an album of their covers if Apple ever decides to sell one.\n\n--- \n\n**4**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-13T09:38:34-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/13/do-i-need.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/12/day-all-charms.html",
				"title": "Day 3, all charms?",
				"content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;ve come up with a term for being met by a hummingbird in very close quarters: alighted, as in &ldquo;I was alighted by a hummingbird.&rdquo; I swapped the hummingbird feeder yesterday morning and while up on a patio chair to reach it under the patio cover was alighted by a hummingbird very intent on seeing what I was doing or just making sure I wasn&rsquo;t taking it away completely. As I had already swapped it, the old one in my hand, I stood still on the chair and pointed at the fresh feeder and the hummingbird landed on it just a few inches from my head. We exchanged looks, me absolutely smitten, while she was probably just glad I wasn&rsquo;t moving.</p>\n<p>I have noticed the females are not very bothered by me and tolerate my presence in the garden pretty well. They will buzz my head sometimes but I think that is due to nestlings or fledglings nearby, as that seems to be the case this year. I am almost positive there is a fledgling hummingbird in the backyard somewhere right now. I hear its ethereal squeaking and this morning while I was out there heard it squeaking with alarm at a crow that landed in the grass. I&rsquo;ve yet to locate its position and I just hope it isn&rsquo;t somewhere that I end up nearly trampling it.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been watching <em>Pompeii: The New Dig</em> on PBS. This particular dig concentrates on the extraction of what is believed to be a wealthy residence taking up a large portion of a main avenue block. Early on they discover the remains of three humans, two females and a child, but do not much comment on who they think they were. One of the experts on human remains does mention the adult females are undersized for their ages. The cause of death is determined to be from the ceiling of the structure collapsing on them due to the weight of the ash and pumice falling from the sky.</p>\n<p>As they continue to extract more and more from the residence they discover the front of the buildings are in fact two businesses owned by this wealthy family, with the home in the rear. They are a bakery and a fullery, the ancient Roman version of a dry cleaner. Both of these businesses would result in great wealth. They also would mean that many slaves would by working in them. By episode three it is made pretty apparent that working in the bakery was a miserable existence. There was only one door into that part of the structure and it was most likely always kept shut as it opened directly onto the main atrium where the owner&rsquo;s office was located. The bakery was very hot from the giant oven and filled with the dust of grinding flour. It had a single window with bars on it. It&rsquo;s now obvious the human remains found in a room in the bakery were slaves that could not escape because of the locked door and a window with bars.</p>\n<p>I keep thinking about this. For a long time it was thought that Pompeii was only a city of several thousand, but with some of the latest research it is now thought to have been at least 30,000 people. Yet, only 1200 or so human remains have been found. People had to have escaped. They have found very little signs of wagons and horses or donkeys, so they too were taken with the refugees escaping the eruption. I think it is fair to say the human remains that have been found were mostly slaves, forced to stay behind, locked into buildings and unable to escape, or simply too poor, sick, or otherwise unable to get out. Nothing has changed in nearly 2000 years. Humans have become no more ethical or less barbaric in their treatment of each other. I&rsquo;m rather sad.</p>\n<p>I set up my new HomeKit accessory yesterday, a motion sensor for the bathroom lights. I still need to find a good spot on a wall to attach it, for now I&rsquo;m moving it around and trying to see where it has the best range of motion detection. I also need to figure out if I can add a delay to it turning off when no motion is detected, otherwise it will turn off fairly soon after entering if I barely move. That&rsquo;s not ideal.</p>\n<p>Last night I watched <em>Miss Austen Regrets</em>, a sort of biographical historical fiction drama about the last years of Jane Austen&rsquo;s life when we see the struggles that she and her single elder sister and mother feel at them having never married and having to rely on their brothers who both have financial struggles of their own. Both brothers are widows and it seems the lot of a woman&rsquo;s life in that time was: get married and have too many children and die in childbirth OR stay single and live until you die from some disease and in poverty because the life of a single woman is a poor one. Again, times have hardly changed. The poorest people in America are elderly single women with no children and no husband.</p>\n<p>I had a minor crash in the middle of the day yesterday. This time of year is hard, the days are so long and it is too warm and bright for my comfort. I like the early mornings a lot because it is still cool and dim outside and that&rsquo;s my preferable environment. So I took a three hour nap in the middle of the day. When I got up I was only partially revived. The news out of North Carolina regarding a mask ban also left my feeling like crap. It&rsquo;s hard to convey the terror this mask ban instills in me. My life is already so sheltered due to no remaining health precautions for folks who are immunocompromised or otherwise at risk from a Covid infection. My only protection is to remain in my home, which I do for the most part, I don&rsquo;t get out much anymore, or to be able to wear a high quality respirator when I have no choice but to enter society for essentials. I can&rsquo;t even rely on healthcare, dental, or vision needs to be safe for me, and now we have a state passing a bill that will make masks nearly illegal to wear in public or on private property where someone can force you to remove it.</p>\n<p>My tap water was discolored yesterday. For several hours I didn&rsquo;t see anything about it but there was apparently a pressure issue in a nearby neighborhood that caused sediment present in the lines to become mixed up with the flow of water. This <a href=\"https://www.portland.gov/water/news/2024/6/11/seeing-discolored-water-southeast-portland-we-are-working-fix-it\">page</a> was kept updated and mentioned that by Wednesday morning all should be clear. As far as I can tell everything is fine today, but I&rsquo;ll need to refill several containers of emergency water that I had to draw from yesterday. Funny not funny the bottom of that linked page posits &ldquo;is the water safe to drink&rdquo; and the water bureau hedges a response and does not give a yes or no.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve decided I am not heading back to Discord any time soon. I&rsquo;ve been off of it for four days and I&rsquo;m not missing the added overhead. It&rsquo;s a similar relief I felt after I stopped using Slack. And after I turned off all notifications on my phone. And on my iPad. And yes on my MBP. Perhaps it is an age thing, or a neurodivergent thing. Or a person-with-an-energy-limiting-illness thing. But I don&rsquo;t need to be told when I should look at or do something. I need to be in control of that and anything that gets in the way of me performing the things I need to perform on the time and schedule I want to needs to get tossed. My <a href=\"https://3x5.pics/2024/06/stepping-back-is-moving-forward\">3x5 today</a> was a nod to this.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>3</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I've come up with a term for being met by a hummingbird in very close quarters: alighted, as in \"I was alighted by a hummingbird.\" I swapped the hummingbird feeder yesterday morning and while up on a patio chair to reach it under the patio cover was alighted by a hummingbird very intent on seeing what I was doing or just making sure I wasn't taking it away completely. As I had already swapped it, the old one in my hand, I stood still on the chair and pointed at the fresh feeder and the hummingbird landed on it just a few inches from my head. We exchanged looks, me absolutely smitten, while she was probably just glad I wasn't moving.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI have noticed the females are not very bothered by me and tolerate my presence in the garden pretty well. They will buzz my head sometimes but I think that is due to nestlings or fledglings nearby, as that seems to be the case this year. I am almost positive there is a fledgling hummingbird in the backyard somewhere right now. I hear its ethereal squeaking and this morning while I was out there heard it squeaking with alarm at a crow that landed in the grass. I've yet to locate its position and I just hope it isn't somewhere that I end up nearly trampling it.\n\nI've been watching *Pompeii: The New Dig* on PBS. This particular dig concentrates on the extraction of what is believed to be a wealthy residence taking up a large portion of a main avenue block. Early on they discover the remains of three humans, two females and a child, but do not much comment on who they think they were. One of the experts on human remains does mention the adult females are undersized for their ages. The cause of death is determined to be from the ceiling of the structure collapsing on them due to the weight of the ash and pumice falling from the sky.\n\nAs they continue to extract more and more from the residence they discover the front of the buildings are in fact two businesses owned by this wealthy family, with the home in the rear. They are a bakery and a fullery, the ancient Roman version of a dry cleaner. Both of these businesses would result in great wealth. They also would mean that many slaves would by working in them. By episode three it is made pretty apparent that working in the bakery was a miserable existence. There was only one door into that part of the structure and it was most likely always kept shut as it opened directly onto the main atrium where the owner's office was located. The bakery was very hot from the giant oven and filled with the dust of grinding flour. It had a single window with bars on it. It's now obvious the human remains found in a room in the bakery were slaves that could not escape because of the locked door and a window with bars.\n\nI keep thinking about this. For a long time it was thought that Pompeii was only a city of several thousand, but with some of the latest research it is now thought to have been at least 30,000 people. Yet, only 1200 or so human remains have been found. People had to have escaped. They have found very little signs of wagons and horses or donkeys, so they too were taken with the refugees escaping the eruption. I think it is fair to say the human remains that have been found were mostly slaves, forced to stay behind, locked into buildings and unable to escape, or simply too poor, sick, or otherwise unable to get out. Nothing has changed in nearly 2000 years. Humans have become no more ethical or less barbaric in their treatment of each other. I'm rather sad.\n\nI set up my new HomeKit accessory yesterday, a motion sensor for the bathroom lights. I still need to find a good spot on a wall to attach it, for now I'm moving it around and trying to see where it has the best range of motion detection. I also need to figure out if I can add a delay to it turning off when no motion is detected, otherwise it will turn off fairly soon after entering if I barely move. That's not ideal.\n\nLast night I watched *Miss Austen Regrets*, a sort of biographical historical fiction drama about the last years of Jane Austen's life when we see the struggles that she and her single elder sister and mother feel at them having never married and having to rely on their brothers who both have financial struggles of their own. Both brothers are widows and it seems the lot of a woman's life in that time was: get married and have too many children and die in childbirth OR stay single and live until you die from some disease and in poverty because the life of a single woman is a poor one. Again, times have hardly changed. The poorest people in America are elderly single women with no children and no husband.\n\nI had a minor crash in the middle of the day yesterday. This time of year is hard, the days are so long and it is too warm and bright for my comfort. I like the early mornings a lot because it is still cool and dim outside and that's my preferable environment. So I took a three hour nap in the middle of the day. When I got up I was only partially revived. The news out of North Carolina regarding a mask ban also left my feeling like crap. It's hard to convey the terror this mask ban instills in me. My life is already so sheltered due to no remaining health precautions for folks who are immunocompromised or otherwise at risk from a Covid infection. My only protection is to remain in my home, which I do for the most part, I don't get out much anymore, or to be able to wear a high quality respirator when I have no choice but to enter society for essentials. I can't even rely on healthcare, dental, or vision needs to be safe for me, and now we have a state passing a bill that will make masks nearly illegal to wear in public or on private property where someone can force you to remove it.\n\nMy tap water was discolored yesterday. For several hours I didn't see anything about it but there was apparently a pressure issue in a nearby neighborhood that caused sediment present in the lines to become mixed up with the flow of water. This [page](https://www.portland.gov/water/news/2024/6/11/seeing-discolored-water-southeast-portland-we-are-working-fix-it) was kept updated and mentioned that by Wednesday morning all should be clear. As far as I can tell everything is fine today, but I'll need to refill several containers of emergency water that I had to draw from yesterday. Funny not funny the bottom of that linked page posits \"is the water safe to drink\" and the water bureau hedges a response and does not give a yes or no.\n\nI've decided I am not heading back to Discord any time soon. I've been off of it for four days and I'm not missing the added overhead. It's a similar relief I felt after I stopped using Slack. And after I turned off all notifications on my phone. And on my iPad. And yes on my MBP. Perhaps it is an age thing, or a neurodivergent thing. Or a person-with-an-energy-limiting-illness thing. But I don't need to be told when I should look at or do something. I need to be in control of that and anything that gets in the way of me performing the things I need to perform on the time and schedule I want to needs to get tossed. My [3x5 today](https://3x5.pics/2024/06/stepping-back-is-moving-forward) was a nod to this.\n\n--- \n\n**3**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-12T10:44:52-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/12/day-all-charms.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/11/yesterday-was-slightly.html",
				"title": "Yesterday was slightly mundane.",
				"content_html": "<p>A good 75% of days are mundane, in my experience. I was in partial recovery mode from the weekend energy expenditures so I didn&rsquo;t end up doing much. In the morning I watered patio containers and puttered in the garden for a little while. I was visited by the song sparrow and a hummingbird.</p>\n<p>As is my usual routine I settled in with coffee over some gardening videos. This got me started on posting for 100 Days to Offload with my <a href=\"https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/10/the-inaugural-challenge.html\">inaugural post</a>. While consuming my morning coffee, my brain wakes up and I can start to think about things, this often leads to a blog post of some sort.</p>\n<p>Instead of completing the couple of tasks I anticipated I ended up finishing the latest season of Heartland that appeared on Netflix over the weekend. Yep, I finished an entire season in just a few days, and that didn&rsquo;t include Saturday when I was tied up traveling out of town. I really am a pro streaming binger. I don&rsquo;t mess around.</p>\n<p>Of course I was forced to consume news from the WWDC yesterday and was pretty dismayed and disgusted by most of it. There were absolutely some good things to come out of the news but most of that was shadowed by the nauseating hype of generative AI. I read <a href=\"https://joe-steel.com/2024-06-10-WWDC-2024-Keynote.html\">this post</a> this morning and it sums up how I feel pretty well. I didn&rsquo;t even watch the event, I only experienced it through the fallout.</p>\n<p>Sadly missing from most of the discussions is the massive waste of energy and increase in demand caused by every new introduction of AI into places it isn&rsquo;t really necessary. If I wasn&rsquo;t already holding onto older hardware out of financial necessity and ethical considerations, these things would have me doing it now. It just isn&rsquo;t sustainable for life on this planet to continue the churn of hardware for shiny and silly software updates, even when they are coupled with good things.</p>\n<p>Despite my original intentions, I ended up installing another theme on this microblog. Very similar to the default Marfa theme, Alpine shrinks the header a bit, which I felt necessary. I also reworked some of the navigation and tweaked some CSS. During the process I discovered that both Marfa and Alpine themes are relying on HTML <code>id</code>s for styling and reusing them within the same document. This is a bug as HTML does not allow that. I tried to file a bug on Github for the Alpine theme, but issues don&rsquo;t appear to be enabled there, so I filed it on the Micro.blog help site.</p>\n<p>I had forgotten that I ordered a new HomeKit accessory last week and the delivery came really late last night, so that&rsquo;ll probably be what I get started on next today. It&rsquo;s an EveHome motion detector that I plan to put in my bathroom so that the sconce lights come on only when I&rsquo;m in there. I have one of these outside on my patio too, but I&rsquo;ve yet to use one for an interior room, so it will be interesting to see how sensitive and responsive the sensor and lights will be.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>2</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "A good 75% of days are mundane, in my experience. I was in partial recovery mode from the weekend energy expenditures so I didn't end up doing much. In the morning I watered patio containers and puttered in the garden for a little while. I was visited by the song sparrow and a hummingbird.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAs is my usual routine I settled in with coffee over some gardening videos. This got me started on posting for 100 Days to Offload with my [inaugural post](https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/10/the-inaugural-challenge.html). While consuming my morning coffee, my brain wakes up and I can start to think about things, this often leads to a blog post of some sort.\r\n\r\nInstead of completing the couple of tasks I anticipated I ended up finishing the latest season of Heartland that appeared on Netflix over the weekend. Yep, I finished an entire season in just a few days, and that didn't include Saturday when I was tied up traveling out of town. I really am a pro streaming binger. I don't mess around.\r\n\r\nOf course I was forced to consume news from the WWDC yesterday and was pretty dismayed and disgusted by most of it. There were absolutely some good things to come out of the news but most of that was shadowed by the nauseating hype of generative AI. I read [this post](https://joe-steel.com/2024-06-10-WWDC-2024-Keynote.html) this morning and it sums up how I feel pretty well. I didn't even watch the event, I only experienced it through the fallout.\r\n\r\nSadly missing from most of the discussions is the massive waste of energy and increase in demand caused by every new introduction of AI into places it isn't really necessary. If I wasn't already holding onto older hardware out of financial necessity and ethical considerations, these things would have me doing it now. It just isn't sustainable for life on this planet to continue the churn of hardware for shiny and silly software updates, even when they are coupled with good things.\r\n\r\nDespite my original intentions, I ended up installing another theme on this microblog. Very similar to the default Marfa theme, Alpine shrinks the header a bit, which I felt necessary. I also reworked some of the navigation and tweaked some CSS. During the process I discovered that both Marfa and Alpine themes are relying on HTML `id`s for styling and reusing them within the same document. This is a bug as HTML does not allow that. I tried to file a bug on Github for the Alpine theme, but issues don't appear to be enabled there, so I filed it on the Micro.blog help site.\r\n\r\nI had forgotten that I ordered a new HomeKit accessory last week and the delivery came really late last night, so that'll probably be what I get started on next today. It's an EveHome motion detector that I plan to put in my bathroom so that the sconce lights come on only when I'm in there. I have one of these outside on my patio too, but I've yet to use one for an interior room, so it will be interesting to see how sensitive and responsive the sensor and lights will be.\r\n\r\n--- \r\n\r\n**2**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-11T09:18:09-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/11/yesterday-was-slightly.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/06/10/the-inaugural-challenge.html",
				"title": "The inaugural challenge post.",
				"content_html": "<p>I considered timing this with the solstice and then posting every day until the winter solstice, but no better day than a Monday to start a challenge, so here we are. I do not have a guiding topic or principle for this challenge, I&rsquo;m simply trying to complete the <a href=\"https://100daystooffload.com/\">100DaystoOffload</a> challenge in as short a time as possible. Why short? If I can avoid it, I don&rsquo;t want to have to renew this domain after the first year.</p>\n<p>I think the cadence may be every day but it might be every few days and will mostly be observational posts. Between July 1st and December 31st are 184 days, so I&rsquo;ve got plenty of time to get this done. I&rsquo;m going to try to keep tally of daily &ldquo;happenings&rdquo; and then pick and choose from them to curate these posts, so if a day is rather boring perhaps the post will likewise be boring.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m set on not creating a theme for this blog since I don&rsquo;t want to think about that. I don&rsquo;t want to read posts that I&rsquo;m writing to complete this challenge and start thinking about tweaking CSS, which I inevitably always do, it&rsquo;s just a thing with me. I had posited a question to the MB community for contributed theme suggestions but I took the post down because I remembered that I don&rsquo;t get much interaction here, it&rsquo;s sort of not a &ldquo;community&rdquo; to me. Many people find that here, but I just haven&rsquo;t. So I&rsquo;m sticking with the MB default theme at this time. Maybe I&rsquo;ll find a different one I like at some point, but since this blog is all about the posting challenge, I really don&rsquo;t care.</p>\n<p>So, it&rsquo;s Monday, June 10, 2024. I don&rsquo;t have much planned today. It&rsquo;s supposed to be about 80°F here in Portland. I might wash a car, I might vacuum the house, I might not do either thing. I need to finish my interview questions for People &amp; Blogs, which I started working on last weekend and was doing really well until some events occurred across both of my online communities that not only wiped me out mentally but made me quite sad and not in the right headspace for writing interesting things about myself and my blog(s).</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m taking a little breather from some places right now in order to save some brain space. I have not only my interview questions to complete, but next week my garage roof will be worked on and between now and the end of the month I need to sell a car, do some heavy shopping, arrange some other household maintenance appointments, and work on my newest web project, currently code named Tiny Pages. So I need to cut down on the inputs for a little while. I&rsquo;m also really excited to catch up on the CSSDay videos on YouTube, which I&rsquo;m very thankful to have signed up as a supporter last year so I can watch them as soon as I am able to.</p>\n<p>So that&rsquo;s it, that is the inaugural challenge post. Exciting, right?</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>1</strong>/100</p>",
				"content_text": "I considered timing this with the solstice and then posting every day until the winter solstice, but no better day than a Monday to start a challenge, so here we are. I do not have a guiding topic or principle for this challenge, I'm simply trying to complete the [100DaystoOffload](https://100daystooffload.com/) challenge in as short a time as possible. Why short? If I can avoid it, I don't want to have to renew this domain after the first year.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI think the cadence may be every day but it might be every few days and will mostly be observational posts. Between July 1st and December 31st are 184 days, so I've got plenty of time to get this done. I'm going to try to keep tally of daily \"happenings\" and then pick and choose from them to curate these posts, so if a day is rather boring perhaps the post will likewise be boring.\n\nI'm set on not creating a theme for this blog since I don't want to think about that. I don't want to read posts that I'm writing to complete this challenge and start thinking about tweaking CSS, which I inevitably always do, it's just a thing with me. I had posited a question to the MB community for contributed theme suggestions but I took the post down because I remembered that I don't get much interaction here, it's sort of not a \"community\" to me. Many people find that here, but I just haven't. So I'm sticking with the MB default theme at this time. Maybe I'll find a different one I like at some point, but since this blog is all about the posting challenge, I really don't care.\n\nSo, it's Monday, June 10, 2024. I don't have much planned today. It's supposed to be about 80°F here in Portland. I might wash a car, I might vacuum the house, I might not do either thing. I need to finish my interview questions for People & Blogs, which I started working on last weekend and was doing really well until some events occurred across both of my online communities that not only wiped me out mentally but made me quite sad and not in the right headspace for writing interesting things about myself and my blog(s).\n\nI'm taking a little breather from some places right now in order to save some brain space. I have not only my interview questions to complete, but next week my garage roof will be worked on and between now and the end of the month I need to sell a car, do some heavy shopping, arrange some other household maintenance appointments, and work on my newest web project, currently code named Tiny Pages. So I need to cut down on the inputs for a little while. I'm also really excited to catch up on the CSSDay videos on YouTube, which I'm very thankful to have signed up as a supporter last year so I can watch them as soon as I am able to.\n\nSo that's it, that is the inaugural challenge post. Exciting, right?\n\n--- \n\n**1**/100\n",
				"date_published": "2024-06-10T07:19:51-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/06/10/the-inaugural-challenge.html",
				"tags": ["100DaysToOffload","timeline"]
			},
			{
				"id": "http://100daysofblog.micro.blog/2024/04/10/hello-thank-you.html",
				
				"content_html": "<p>Hello! Thank you for your interest in 100daysof.blog.</p>\n<p>This site is in a holding pattern while I wrap up other projects. Check in again soon!</p>\n",
				"content_text": "Hello! Thank you for your interest in 100daysof.blog.\r\n\r\nThis site is in a holding pattern while I wrap up other projects. Check in again soon!\n",
				"date_published": "2024-04-10T11:45:47-07:00",
				"url": "https://100daysof.blog/2024/04/10/hello-thank-you.html"
			}
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