I enjoy the stat emails Audible occasionally sends me. I should probably start to cycle in some harder non-fiction reads now that life is calming down. I tend to escape into easy sci-fi when I’m stressed out.

@hutaffe Yeah, the concept of the Fairphone sold me when my old phone, a Surface Duo 2, was on the fritz. Plus I don't mind non-polished tech when I know it's open source from a small team. Which probably means I'm a good candidate for using this phone 😆 I'll probably have a better sense of what annoys me in a couple of weeks. So far the only hiccup that I've really noticed is when I took a phone call while running the maps app it stopped navigating.

@rom I've used mobile banking for years. So far I've only needed to use the mobile app for check cashing (which I seldom do). Everything else can be done on the website. I just downloaded the app to test it out and everything looks fine 😄

I’m a few days in using my new Fairphone4 running the deGoogled e/os. I had no problem getting it to run on USMobile’s 5G. There are three pre-installed apps I’m not using, Mail, Tasks, and Calendar. It was also easy to install a couple of apps I needed. So far I find it charming 😄

@spacenerdmo Welcome 😀

@anarchyinc Welcome 😀

@Skarjune I'll have to take a look at Service Model, I'm on the hunt for another book 😄. Kitty Cat Kill Sat had me laughing throughout. I found the cat protagonist pretty relatable and enjoyed how the author portrayed very human emotions during it. But not so much that it felt heavy or depressing.

@matthiasott I change up my website design somewhat often, but I come back to this iteration of
https://heyloura.com/ because it makes me smile which in turn makes me more likely to keep adding content to it.

@DaveyCraney Yeah the packaging was really nice and so far the phone is as easy to take apart as they say. Plus the deGoogled e/os is neat, I have everything I need installed and didn't need to sign into a Google account at all 😆

@maique I hope they get to the bottom of it and she feels better soon

@dave_caolo Welcome

I got my new phone today. Now I need to resist filling it up with apps. I want to keep it under 24 (one screen) 😂

@joshuapsteele I hope everyone feels better soon and that you avoid it.

@Mantisking Ack! I haven't. This is something I must rectify 😂

@mxbck @SaraSoueidan I've used the disappearing iframe trick a few times. Even built out a little hobby project (calendar + to-do list) as a proof of concept with it.

@Kalena Such a great picture 😊

@joshuapsteele Animal Crossing New Horizons

How I spend my time in waiting rooms ☺️

@KimberlyHirsh Thanks for writing this up. I've been curious about how it works.

@Claudia Congrats!

Website change-log

• Sidebar now collapses on mobile
• Categories now show last updated
• Font tweak
• Category pages: pulls in images and bookshelf, bookmarks (by tag), and single page if they have the same name.
• Blogger stats tweaked (label and order)
• Addded surprise-me plugin

Finished Reading 2024: Kitty Cat Kill Sat by Argus 📚

This book was an enjoyable read. It was pretty slow in the middle which suited my frame of mind just fine.

Homeschool prep for this coming school year has begun! 😄 I love getting new books and curriculum in the mail.

I’m really not a fan of going to the dentist 😔

I pulled out my old e-ink tablet and I’ve been having a lot of fun using it. I’ve even used it somewhat successfully as a monitor while coding on visual studio. Also, Lillihub isn’t half bad black and white. P. S. Applying screen protectors isn’t my strong suit 😂

Currently reading: Smart but Scattered by Peg Dawson 📚

Looks like this year I’ll be back to homeschooling two kids. 9th and 7th grade here I come ☺️

Currently reading: Do I Know You? by Sadie Dingfelder 📚

This stuff fascinates me. I’m about a third of the way through the book nodding along in agreement. Some of what she writes matches my experience of being deficient at recognizing people, stereoblind, and no visual mind (aphantasia).

@mandaris @larissaking Thanks! Things are looking up, she's sleeping better and has a whole toolbox of tips and tricks now to use when she needs it ☺️

Four weeks at Boston Children’s are done. Two more weeks to go.

@sergio_101 Thanks :)

I did create my own micro.blog theme on top of the default template. Once you get used to Hugo, it's all just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. My code is a mess (be warned) but it's up on github if you'd like a look.

@sergio_101 I've had some fun making a custom theme for my micro.blog site

@sarahshotts Welcome!

It’s just me and my son tonight. So pizza, ice cream, and some MTG battles it is. He already beat my bird and cat deck. Let’s see if this commander battle goes any differently 😂

Things I spotted in my yard today:

• Pink foxglove with wild strawberries
• white peonies
• A cute garden snake

Sometimes I can’t help myself. I overhauled an old desktop blog theme I had. I’m not quite finished and it is possible I went overboard this time around 😆

@otaviocc My sister and I did the same thing. Jumping back and forth and watering all the flowers. 🌷We would also make huge rainbow flower fields. But I think that was like six restarts ago 😆

@otaviocc Yep, this is going to take awhile 😂 I'm dreading re-breeding the blue roses

@dwalbert Lovely!

@alexink I also think Solomon's Seal, I have some growing in my yard.

I restarted my animal crossing new horizons island a few days ago. This time I’m not going to unlock the terraforming tools. I feel like I have the best intentions with them, then it all becomes a mess until I’m so irritated that I delete my save file. 🏝️

@larissaking This is in reply to my last blog post. Micro.blog is having a little trouble with posting it 😆. So hopefully this one goes through:

Thank you. I really appreciate it. I'm also very hopeful my daughter can kick this into remission. This program at Boston Children's is wonderful. The space is fantastic and everyone cares so much. Every week they have a kid or two graduating that they do a quick ceremony for. Not a dry eye in the place.

They also have great outcomes. Using mindfulness, learning the role pain plays in the body, ample coping strategies, doctors, psychologists, lots and lots of PT, OT and art/music therapy. The paper I read had about 88% functional and pain-free at the 1 year mark, and about 35% reached that outcome at the 1 month mark after the program. Even those that weren't pain free typically had a marked reduction in pain and functionality gains. The long term 5+ year study still backs that up.

Also, thanks for the resource links you left on my last post. I did look into them 😊

I also read "When Your Child Hurts" by Rachael Coakley and I'm using lots of those strategies. Apparently a lot of things that parents do by default for acute pain is actually detrimental to chronic pain. So a learning curve there for sure.

I needed some Tai Chi pictures so my sister helped me out with a little photo shoot. This is one of my favorites.

I treated my daughter to a showing of her favorite podcast. It was a really nice to spend a little time relaxing and laughing 😊

New update:

• Use first blog when writing a post if default is not found
• Fix page breaking when no author avatar found
• Better message when “user not found” returned by Micro.blog

Still working on:

• Auth cookie expiring/being removed in some browsers
• Intermittent cross-posting issues

It’s been just over two weeks since I updated 🐸 Lillihub. The analytics so far:

Which is good, since a few more people are using it. I’m keeping an eye on the free tier limits. Based on the logs, the CPU time per request limit was hit a few times. Probably large image uploads.

Finally, tomorrow is the magical day that all schedules align and we can actually continue playing our dungeon crawl classics game. I know what I’m prepping for the rest of the evening ⚔️🐉

Caturday 🐈

Fuzzyboots steals my chair any chance he gets.

Finally a nice weekend to get some yard work done.