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  • First and only peppermint mocha of the holiday season, from the “big” coffee chain. β˜•οΈπŸ“·

    Paper coffee cup, with a Starbucks heat-sleeve, on a table, with ceramic pumpkins in the background and a wireless charging puck.
  • πŸ“· Two Thanksgivings down…I’m honestly not sure how many more to go at this point… 😭🀣

    Various Thanksgiving food (stuffing / dressing, salad, potatoes, cranberry sauce, roll) on a paper plate, with a fork.
  • Brunch for two this morning, my breakfast companion was rather hungry 🀣 (only the one of those plates are for me). πŸ³πŸ“·

    Four plates full of breakfast food, with an omlet, hashbrows, biscuits / gravey, french toast, two servings of tots, and toast...along with two glasses of water and a cup of coffee in a paper cup.
  • Finished reading: Loremaster by M.E. Robinson πŸ“š

    Another one in the LitRPG genre, I was pleasantly surprised by this book; it started off slow but I became very invested in the story relatively fast. The class / magic system isn’t as well defined as other books but it’s a very good read. πŸ‘πŸ»

    Book cover for Loremaster
  • Yes, finally got an @atpfm@mastodon.social pint glass! Quest completed! πŸ€“

  • Finished reading: Rune Seeker by J.M. Clarke & C.J. Thompson πŸ“š

    Stumbled upon this book and started/finished it in two days. If you’re a ga(y)mer or enjoy LitRPG as a genre, you’ll love this book. The magic system is fascinating, as is the backstory/history of the world in the book. πŸ‘πŸ»

    Book cover for Rune Seeker
  • I realize I have an old Kindle (it’s the first version of the Paperwhite) but would it really be so hard for Amazon to auto-sync the time on the device like every other network connected device in the modern age? 🀣

  • My various UPS’s (uninterrupted power supply) weren’t cheap, especially the giant one powering my server rack, but every time my street has an outage, I’m very happy I have them. πŸ”‹πŸ”ŒπŸ˜

  • Random Thought: Does anyone know how fast new books will show up in Bookshelves feature of Micro.Blog after they’re added into Open Library? πŸ“š

  • Micro.blog September Challenge - Summary

    I very much enjoyed the September 2023 Photo-blogging Challenge at Micro.blog, it gave me a lovely opportunity to look back at all the photos I’ve taken over the years; as I’ve been taking photos since December of 2004, it’s a lot of media to look through (at the time of this post, … read more

  • Slowly starting the process of moving my domains away from Google. 🀞🏻

  • ⌚️ Apple Watch Update: After it crashed at breakfast, I just got a “you’re almost out of battery” notification…and it’s only been three hours since I put it on. 🀬πŸͺ« I’m still paying for this piece of junk… πŸ˜±πŸ˜–

  • Another day, another issue with watchOS 10.1 on the Apple Watch Ultra v1. I have never been this disappointed in an Apple product before. ⌚️😱 Two hardware resets and the issues still persist.

  • New Plugin: Simple Image Generation

    So I did a thing: I wrote my first Micro.Blog plugin. πŸ₯³ It’s nothing fancy, just another image generator but, as I was in the process of migrating the content from my old blog to here, I realized I had already created one in my Hugo instance…all I needed to do was port it over to GitHub … read more

  • 🎡 Yes, I know it’s too early for holiday music but it’s been a rough year…and it’s Cher, so the rules don’t apply. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

    Artwork for Cher's Christmas albumn.

    Bring on the holiday music! πŸŽ„