Brad Enslen

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Finally. I got my car plate renewals in today’s mail. My plates expire in 2 days. I sent my check in on April 1st. Yes, I was beginning to worry. Yes I still renew by mail. #nocountryforoldmen #wavescane

When I test a search engine my first test keyword I search with is “webrings” to see the results. The topic webrings, has become obscure enough today. There should be a mixture of old legacy pages combined with some new pages since the topic is not dead yet.

All you people whinging about Covid vaccination passports: where were you when the government imposed Real ID on Americans? Real ID is a real internal travel passport. It might seem harmless now but it’s a tool to restrict travel and access in the future.

Interesting. I’m now following fictional characters from the urban fantasy series: “The Dreden Files” by Jim Butcher on Twitter. I’ve stepped into a reality distortion field. Even so, I’m still more grounded in reality than most big shot Republicans.

I took my mother in for her second vaccine jab yesterday. Fortunately, the hospital had wheelchairs because there was a lot of walking. Fortunately the wheelchair put us in the handicapped line. No waiting, wheel in, get shot, wait a bit and done. Other lines were long.

I don’t like Spring that much anymore. Real estate taxes, income taxes, vehicle registrations, vehicle insurance, homeowners insurance other property insurance all come due in the Spring on top of all the regular monthly bills.

Once upon a time, back when toaster waffles were invented, some company came out with toaster corn bread sold frozen just like waffles. Bring that back.

I just had my second covid vaccination shot. Feels good to get that behind me. I’d love to have a Scotch to celebrate but I’ll wait until this jab takes full effect.

A red letter day. I managed to hire someone to do landscaping around my house. This means I don’t have to do it. happydance Now I just have to figure out what I want him to do.

Coffee. French Roast. Black. Now.

I ran across this: nomoregoogle.com

It’s crowd sources so I added Micro.blog and Mojeek.com to the appropriate categories because I was feeling crowdy. :-)

“Battle Ground” by Jim Butcher, #17 in the Dresden Files, has a fan made video trailer. The production values are amazingly high. I understand the dedication, the books are fantastic reads.

www.youtube.com/watch

I did an OTA system update of my /e/ OS phone for the first time. I had my fingers crossed because my experience with other OS’s has been that updates can be times when Things Go Wrong. However, the update all went very well, very smooth. Very happy.

I just activated the Search plugin on my Micro.blog blog. Was easy, and works like a treat and I didn’t break the Internet as I am prone to do. Site search on a blog is a required core function IMO. Thanks to @manton and crew for providing the site search function.

When I get an idea for a new blog, it always sparks off an internal debate: 1. should it just be a new category on my personal blog, 2 should I start a new blog and if so, where and using what platform? And this goes round and round in my head. My strategy is to out wait it and maybe it will go away.

One thing I like on Mastodon is “Tech News Bot” which gives a nice stream of breaking tech news in my Masto timelines.

Now that there are grownups in the White House and I’m no longer doom scrolling, my Twitter feed seems empty. I’m not complaining but I’ve added a couple of Mastodon instances back into my routine just to try and keep occupied. Heh.

I caught Googlebot and Applebot on my directory both at the same time. Crossing the streams? I wonder if they nod to each other if the meet in the corridor?

I’m back to syndicating to Mastodon instances. I can’t remember why I stopped.

ramblinggit.com to matodon.social

indieseek.xyz to indieweb.social

Supper was burritos with canned chili poured over the top.

#burritodefenses

Siteground has done away with C-Panel. Their new in house “panel” has only 1/10th the website scripts C-Panel had. Worse they left scripts I’m using orphaned now with no automated version upgrades. Not happy. Also, I’m seeing reports my site is hosted on Google now. ?

I joined a Discord channel thing. I survived. I think it’s kinda like a cross between forums and the old instant messengers (YIM, AIM, etc) and Slack dancing at the edge of the Abyss. Nice people tho, but young so I only understand about half of what is said.

Bookmarked: Here is a good rundown of search engines that have their own index, including some new ones to me. seirdy.one/2021/03/1…