I am certain that I am looking forward to the Wednesday Walk that I take with an old friend. There’s always so much to talk about when you meet every week. It’s a strange comparison to chatting with someone I only see once a year, where I find there’s not all that much to say.
Goodness, consensus is a difficult word to fit into a short micro.post and I suspect we can come to a consensus about that.
I’m so confused about what time it is!!!!! Of course, I have insight into why that is the case since we switched to Standard Time yesterday. It’s interesting how tied to the clock I am, and that I think I know what time it is. Then I check and today, I’m an hour off.
Finished reading: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez 📚I quite enjoyed this non-fiction book that is a history of science/engineering around specific inventions that have shaped our modern world. I think this was a recommendation from @pratik.
I’ve been having some trouble with 1Password’s one-time password generator. The problem was that my computer’s time was a bit off. I went into the Mac System Settings and asked it to resync with the Apple clock. Now, 1Password is providing correct one-time passwords.
Sometimes at night, we hear so many owls hooting that it seems that we must be hearing an echo but no, it’s really multiple owls talking to each other.
I think I’ve figured out that I can do whatever I need to do with Mastodon from here at Micro.blog. There are only a few people I want to follow from Mastodon, such as my brother. I was able to find him with his full Mastodon name through the MB discover page. Nice!
I am not exempt from the lure of a beautiful cafe drink, in this case, matcha latte.
Who has my admiration today? People of good heart and mind who choose to run for office in this big, crazy country.
I guess with all my certifications, I have a license to do project management. Good thing, because I’m teaching a free workshop for a group of local entrepreneurs later today!
We had our first contra dance in two years this past Monday. It was a feast for the senses, with music, movement, and many people I hadn’t seen in ages. We all had masks on and that felt like the right thing to do when partaking of this super spreader activity.
I had a moment this morning to think and figure out retirement, again, always a popular topic as one heads into the deeper 60s in age. Found this site FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator and found it surprisingly reassuring. #mbnov
Deactivated my Twitter account. Seems like the right time to finally do it.
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work
Finished reading: A Dead Djinn in Cairo: A Tor.Com Original by P. Djèlà Clark 📚Turns out this was more of a short story than a full novel. Fun fantasy, set in a 19th century Cairo with magic.
I want to share some grep pride and also write things down for when I need it next time.
I have a new gig where I’m teaching online project management courses for another company. They give me the slides and a delivery guide, but I’m on my own for figuring out what I want to say. I’ve already delivered 3 classes and thus have figured out what I want, which includes displaying the slides in my notes.
I’m working on a new course which has 214 slides. I wanted to save some typing by setting up the structure in advance.
First step, Excel. I typed “Slide 1” and “Slide 2” in adjacent cells and then let Excel do the rest of the numbering out to “Slide 214.”
Thence to BBEdit. I did a couple of greps but the best one saved the Slide number pattern and then pasted it back in with the Obsidian markdown link pattern to transclude an image.
Here’s the match:
Slide ([0-9]+)
And here’s the replacement instruction:
Slide \1\n\!\[\[Slide\1MCAF.jpeg\]\]\n
Abracadabra!
The last step was going to Powerpoint and using their export goodness to get a resized JPEG for each slide, luckily this functionality is built into Powerpoint. I copied the resulting 214 correctly named JPEG files into the directory I use for Obsidian attachments, then pasted the text from BBEdit into my note, and voila, 214 placeholders in Obsidian including the correct slide image. I feel brilliant.
I can’t also show you the cute little slide pictures in Obsidian because the content is proprietary.
Currently reading: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig 📚
Currently reading: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚
Currently reading: A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlà Clark 📚
My step-son is visiting from the Netherlands! Happy days in our home.
Finished reading: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor 📚Third in a trilogy. It’s fun fantasy fiction set in Nigeria, I’ve enjoyed this series.
What are you doing with your eggs? Good advice from my favorite blog, On The Mend
Finished reading: Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane 📚A beautiful book. I want to read every book mentioned (such as The Peregrine and Waterlog) as well as everything Macfarlane ever writes.
Woke up to a power outage #adayinthelife
It’s such a gloomy grey day here, it’s hard to find a good photo topic! I’m still looking.