Introducing myself
This week in Blaugust has the theme of Introducing yourself. I haven’t really done that this year, so here goes.
Throwback: Big Beaver Homecoming- 2003
I came across this post from the 2003 Big Beaver homecoming event back in 2003 after chatting with my brothers Ron and Colin and sister Connie on the topic. I had vague recollections of the homecoming, but thankfully I had taken enough pictures to give me a few good memories.
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Getting back into book reading: changing perspective
I stumbled upon a post by Ghastlymirror over on their blog about the challenges they faced acquiring physical books that meet their standards for reading material. This triggered some different yet related thoughts of my own, notably pertaining to my recent return to regular book reading.
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Smoke in the Valley
The smoke has settled across our valleys here in Castlegar. Exactly where the air pollution originates is a hard question to answer: there are wildfires in nearly every direction within a few hundred kilometres. But the outcome is obvious.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl- a newcomer’s perspective
I recently started reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl LitRPG series by Matt Dinniman. A little over a month ago I had never heard of these books, and now I’m nearly finished the fourth book from the series. They are definitely worth reading for people with interests that overlap with mine. Speaking of people who have overlapping interests: apparently the series is so popular that it has had an impact on the latest Comic Con and even got featured in a Variety post.
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Automatic updates
I like to consider myself constructively lazy. I’ll put in a lot of work so I can do less work in the future, particularly if that work is boring and repetitive. Sometimes I’ll put in far too much effort for the possible future savings, but I still do it anyway just because I hate the repetitive stuff.
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Tummy troubles
My state of health has been a bit rough for the past twelve months or so. I had severe sciatic pain, then a mental breakdown, and following that some nearly crippling anxiety. But it is all good: I’m living a good life, just struggling a bit.
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Retirement: what I miss about work
Roger (Mr. Peril) over on Contains Moderate Peril wrote about the things he misses in retirement from his work experience. Much of what Roger had to say felt consistent with my own feelings, but I also feel like I have a few words of my own on the topic. I strongly encourage you to read Roger’s post before reading mine.
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Debugging comments: Nope, its Dam Spam
I previously wrote about some adventures I was having with visitors to my site being blocked while attempting to post comments. I had a hypothesis at the time that the problem was related to a Cloudflare feature called Browser integrity check (BIC). However, I believe I’ve now disproven that as the (primary) cause: the real culprit appears to be a plug-in for WordPress called Dam Spam.
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