Attention!

Check out my new TESTING page where I hope to continue testing new features. Also, be sure to have a look at my new HIKES site and especially some of the “highlighted” hikes that are listed in bold there.

Note that HIKES used to be a “section” here, but there are a lot of them so I made a site just for them.

Maybe Paperless NGX

Today’s income tax prep adventures has me believing that I need a new instance of Paperless, maybe Paperless-NGX this time? Now if I can just get Mackenzie to stand up and configure a new bare-metal Linux server. 🙃

Survived First Soccer Officiating

Completed my first soccer officiating assignment tonight…  STC middle school girls and boys doubleheader, plus two B-games, vs. Mt. Vernon.  2.5 hours total play, but not too bad.  I still have a LOT to learn!  

Updated Rootstalk with Landscape Orientation Message

I pushed some Rootstalk updates into production (https://Rootstalk.Grinnell.edu) this morning and am making note of that here since I don’t have this slick micropost capability on my professional blog. 🙃

Easter Nap Time

Time for an Easter Sunday post-feast nap!  Nice dinner here with me, Chris, Mackenzie, Morgan, Justin, Leonard, Barb, Deb, Doug, Mason and Michael.  

Hot Spring Spa is Gone

My old Hot Spring spa is gone! Listed it at about noon and by 4 PM I had 15 interested parties, most of them very serious. It went to a young couple who came very well prepared to haul it away… flatbed truck with a lift, and an extra set of muscles. It departed shortly after 8 PM. Well done!

Debugging This Blog with VSCode

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I’m making some significant changes to the code behind this blog today. Specifically, I’m going to move my micropost “front matter” from the post.excerpt or post.custom_excerpt field to the “body” of the post where it might look like this example (taken from this very post):

-+-+-+
location: Toledo, IA
price: $50.00
note: This is just some sample "front matter". My parser removed the "split" characters from the delimiter you see here.

I Need VSCode Debugging!

To do this effectively I really need live dev debugging in VSCode, but how can I do that?

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Moved GC Azure Billing

Took steps this morning to move billing for my GC/library Azure services to the library’s credit card.

Tornado Warning

Just came up from the basement after a Tama Co. tornado warning, and the wind is picking up again. 🌪  No visible damage outside, but I did find a puddle of pea size hail about 10 minutes after the storm.

Last weekend Mackenzie and I created a new Matomo analytics server on a DigitalOcean droplet w/ 2G of RAM. This weekend we created a new headless Ghost CMS droplet to support her portfolio site, and more. This evening I’m taking steps to begin rewriting this blog as a Ghost + 11ty reincarnation of what you see here now. The story of the underlying Ghost development and maintenance is told in Ghost Notes and its admin dashboard is available at https://ghost.summittservices.com/ghost.

Last weekend Mackenzie and I created a new Matomo analytics server on a DigitalOcean droplet w/ 2G of RAM. The story of its development and maintenance is being told in Matomo Installation Notes and its dashboard is available at https://analytics.summittservices.com.