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I had previously been using the wonderful Ubud theme I purchased from Aspire Themes here but I’m going to give Ghost’s “Source” theme a try for a bit. Given that nobody should be following this blog as of yet there shouldn’t be any RSS issues 😂 Planning on
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Wrapping up the long weekend with a slow version of grilling: I've got the Breeo X19 firepit along with the Breeo Searplate Griddle. Have to leave plenty of prep time for this one. It takes about an hour for the fire to get to a good state of
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I decided to give Readwise/Readwise Reader a spin again. Craft had a deal with them for 60 days of free usage. I have tried Readwise twice in the past and both times stopped my subscription. It is not a cheap subscription and both times that I tried I had
I have yet to learn an important lesson: do “mind work” first. I always put off stuff like planning in favor of tasks that have to be done physically, thinking I’ll tackle them at night when it’s not feasible to do most of the physical tasks I have
One of the things I always read when reading about people using plain text files and something like Markdown (or other similar markup languages) is that they’re “future proofing” against some time when nothing can be read but ASCII files. Today I ran across Beorg, a plain text-based time
With two kids in college last school year my wife and I got really used to the empty nest life. We live in a small house so only having two adults was an absolute blessing. Now one kid is done with college and has six months before her jobs starts
It’s been a long week that really started last Thursday. Two days of driving first to pick up my son from college, then to get to New York City for my daughter’s college graduation. Saturday was the graduation. Sunday was some time in Manhattan and getting my daughter’
coffee
I went on a bit of a coffee bender on our recent trip to New York City. I’m a sucker for Starbucks Reserve coffee and their Roastery in Manhattan had some exclusives plus a sale. How about a mug to throw in? While on the trip I also received
I’m back. Again.
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First thoughts When I started getting into David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology I timed it perfectly with the release of OmniFocus by the OmniGroup which was designed specifically with the GTD methodology in mind. I used OmniFocus for almost a decade. My needs significantly changed