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.

Timeline

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  1. Public
  2. 2022 US Mid-Term Election
    Another pivotal US election.
  3. COVID-19 Pandemic
    An event we can ALL relate to. I marked the “unofficial” end of the pandemic as April 30, 2021, about 10 days after my second COVID-19 vaccination. That’s when I felt it was “safe” to get back out in the world.
  4. 2020 US Election
    The pivotal US election of 2020.
  5. The Derecho
    A horrible day for Eastern Iowa.
  1. Personal
  2. Added this Timeline Feature
    See https://github.com/SummittDweller/hugo-timeline for the code.
  3. Another COVID-19 Booster Vaccination
    Got another COVID-19 booster vaccination (Pfizer) from Grinnell Hy-Vee pharmacy compliments of their mobile clinic on campus at Grinnell College.
  4. Second COVID-19 Booster Vaccination
    Got another COVID-19 booster vaccination (Moderna) at Hy-Vee pharmacy in Toledo.
  5. COVID-19 Booster Vaccination
    Got my COVID-19 booster vaccination (Moderna) at Hy-Vee pharmacy in Toledo.
  6. Second COVID-19 Vaccination
    Got my second COVID-19 vaccination (Moderna) at Hy-Vee pharmacy in Toledo.
  7. First COVID-19 Vaccination
    Got my first COVID-19 vaccination (Moderna) at Hy-Vee pharmacy in Toledo.
  8. Sully Passed
    A very sad day here… Sully, our male tuxedo kitty who was only about 8 years old has passed.
  1. Posts
  2. How MY Web Works
    My latest post, an effort to document how MY web sites are orgianized.
  3. Norway - June 2019
    My first blog post on this platform, a chronicle and photos from an epic vacation in Norway.

Web Nirvana? It dawned on me this morning that both VSCode and Azure are Microsoft things. So, there should be some handy Azure extensions for VSCode, right? Yes, yes indeed there are! I’m installing them now!

Reset Python environment on my Mac Mini using: https://dev.to/aditya005/right-way-to-uninstall-clean-python-on-a-mac-4jfo

Need to remember this address: https://garmin3.bbbike.org/

The Derecho: Consolidated Posts and Microposts: August 10 thru September 6, 2020

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The following is a chronological consolidation of posts and microposts from August 10, commonly known in east and central Iowa as “The Day of the Derecho”, through September 6, 2020.

The derecho hit my home in Toledo, Iowa, at about 11:30 AM on Monday, August 10, 2020. Straight-line winds were clocked at nearly 140 miles per hour, and sustained for more than 20 minutes across a path almost 40 miles wide.

The power is still out here, almost 10 days after the derecho knocked it out. So many power restoration predictions have come and gone, I’ve lost count. Still I’m told that what we need is a one-man, 15-minute fix. Perhaps in the morning I’ll stretch our broken power line across the street and pitch a tent next door until an Alliant truck stops and gets this done. I know they are busy, but 15 minutes of one lineman’s time a week ago, when it was first “promised”, would have been so nice. I fixed my own Mediacom connection more than a week ago, and there’s evidence tonight that their service has been restored. So, if I had power, I think we would also have TV and internet. IF.

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August 2022 - Geocaching's 20th Anniversary Celebration Event

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The following is a chronological consolidation of posts and microposts from August 6 through August 25, 2022.

Waiting for my ride to Johnston.

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Proper Python

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What follows is the README.md file from my GitHub repo where https://blog.summittdweller.com is built. It outlines how to “properly” add Python to a project such that we can create an easily reproducible “virtual environment” without storing the necessary Python libraries in GitHub.

From the README.md…

# blogs-SummittDweller

The Python portions of this repo were gleaned from https://github.com/SummittDweller/hikes. This is the repo for my https://blog.SummittDweller.com/ static website.

Latest Python Improvements

Using guidance at https://predictivehacks.com/how-to-work-with-vs-code-and-virtual-environments-in-python/ I successfully created a new .venv virtual environment. The commands I used to do this were…

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