Done Since 2021-12-26

It was a long month last week. And not a particularly good month, either.

On the plus side, I was busy getting the Going Sideways travel blog ready to roll out. Which it did, on schedule, yesterday. The experience confirmed my loathing for WordPress and my deep distrust of so-called web designers. It still isn't quite right, especially with regard to accessibility, but it'll do -- go take a look. Or see the previous post for details.

The bad side of that is that everything else got sidelined, including $writing-gig-6. Oops!

I went up to Whidbey on Wednesday rather than my usual Saturday, because I wanted to get back down to Seattle in time for New Year's Eve. That didn't go as planned either: it snowed. Getting stuck was my own damned fault for not putting Molly up on the street after she was charged (although there was already enough snow on the ground that that might not have worked either). Finally got out yesterday afternoon, and even then it was dicey, but road conditions were better than they had been on Thursday. So it sort of worked out. (Getting parked in Seattle, on a hill on a narrow side street was another kind of adventure. About all that can be said about that is that it didn't make me late for dinner; it was definitely nasty and uncomfortable.)

On the gripping hand, the amount of aerobic exercise I got shoveling snow was enough to rule out heart problems and COVID. It also confirmed that I don't get enough exercise, but I already knew that. By the way, the correct tool for clearing that last layer of compacted snow and ice under footprints and tire tracks is not a snow shovel; it's a hoe.

The fact that Tuesday was Mom's birthday -- it would have been her 101st -- didn't help anything either. And speaking of grief, my right temporomandibular joint has been been giving me a lot of it lately. Do. Not. Like.

( Notes & links, as usual )