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.
Buzzard Billy's
Trying breakfast at Buzzard Billy’s before “Ain’t Too Proud” this afternoon.
A Close Call Indeed
Driving home from a few days at Univ. of South Dakota in Vermillion last evening and stopped at Justin’s house in M-town to meet his parents and grandmother, plus Deb & Doug. We left there about 8:30 or so and I took the old Lincoln Highway into town to avoid deer along the road on the shorter rural route.
We nearly got hit by an impaired driver (?) when turning on to Center Street just south of the Hy-Vee / Taco John’s intersection. Fortunately for us, a large SUV (Suburban?) took the force of the impact while vehicles and debris flew all around us. Nobody was injured and there’s not a scratch (that we can see) on the new Kia, but we didn’t get home until a little after 10 PM.
Fire Alarm 2 AM
Do we get extra IHG (Holiday Inn) bonus points for living through the 2 AM false fire alarm last night? NOT FUN. Hope I can drive home this afternoon without falling asleep.
Greetings from Vermillion
Arrived in Vermillion, South Dakota, last evening about 6:30 PM and went straight to dinner at the “Old Lumber Company” downtown. Checked in to our hotel adjacent to the Univ. of South Dakota campus at about 7:15 PM and went to find the music department building (the fine arts center) where Christine will be taking classes for the rest of the week.
While she’s in class I’ll be working from my hotel room here, or maybe from the USD library.
This afternoon I’m adding https://digital.grinnell.edu (site ID is 17) to my own Matomo instance and I’m prompted to upgrade PHP on that Matomo droplet (DigitalOcean). I did so quite easily following Upgrade PHP from 7.2 to 7.4 on CentOS 8 and Apache. I’ve also updated my Drupal version, and some modules, in https://digital.grinnell.edu along with adding the matomo module, but that module is now reporting:
The validation of "http://analytics.summittservices.com/matomo.php" failed with error "Error opening socket ssl://analytics.summittservices.com:443" (HTTP code 0).
The validation of "https://analytics.summittservices.com/matomo.php" failed with error "Error opening socket ssl://analytics.summittservices.com:443" (HTTP code 0).
Arrived at Fisherman’s Corner campground in Hampton, IL, on Thursday evening and went on my first Iowa.LandShark geo-bike ride yesterday. Somewhere between 18-22 miles of geocaching along the Mississippi River from Moline to Davenport and Rock Island. Open my track log to see where Gossamar and I went.
This morning I started an experiment… clipping leaves (“lobes” might be a better term for these things) from a healthy, indoor Sempervivum tectorum. What’s that, you ask? The common name is Hens and Chicks.
A couple of weeks ago I bought an on-sale strawberry pot full of Sempervivum tectorum and I have it growing on a little table on the front porch. It’s doing QUITE WELL there! A couple of days ago I uprooted a 3 foot square patch of Snow on the Mountain from a spot in my front flower beds (outside out southeast bedroom window), and that left a big bare patch of soil to be dealt with.
Now I’m going to try and get the component Simple_CRuD_Blog_App_with_Streamlit working locally as a proof-of-concept. Since I can’t “clone” the single project repo, and a “sparse checkout” seems wasteful since I’ll never push back to the original project, I’m going to git init an entirely new local named simple-CRuD-blog-app-with-streamlit and just copy/paste the contents.
Just the other day I got an updated copy of the Wieting Theatre’s volunteer roster and assignment schedule. As I’m trying to post them to the theatre’s management website (it’s password protected) I keep having issues with npm and dependencies that won’t compile. The fix, thus far has included a local command stream like this:
cd wieting-guild-pages
git pull
code .
npm run build
npm run start
--> failed
npm update
npm audit fix
npm run build
npm run start
--> failed
npm audit fix --force
npm run build
--> failed
npm install axios
npm run build
--> failed
npm update
npm run build
I’ve got Mackenzie looking at Streamlit as a means of building a mobile-friendly app that I can use to create posts like this one. That app will need to allow me to edit a TITLE and Markdown BODY fields, capture location and time, and post all of that information to my personal blog… preferably from my cell phone. I’ve captured some possible resources and guidance in https://www.one-tab.com/page/71iaDADxT-eLEOx15qeVnQ.