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Just a little note. Went up to Thompson’s Point in Portland ME last night for a super great concert by my favorite band, Dispatch. Their set was great and they even mentioned that it might be the most jammy set they’ve ever played. I loved it. I don’t know how many times its been that I’ve seen Dispatch, but it’s been quite a few. They played The General, Bang Bang, and many of the old songs while still leaving out some of their biggests hits. I was a little sad not hear to Flying Horses, but honestly I love that they were playing stuff that wasn’t just hits. There were a couple of songs that I hadn’t heard before, one of them was a cover, the other was a Brad song. ...

I’ve been collecting notebooks for a long time now, and it’s a problem. The number of paper notebooks I am currently in the middle of filling is crazy. The number of unused notebooks is also disturbing. Doing a some looking around I’ve been able to find a lot of people out there with similar interests. Here’s the deal, notebooks allow some of us to try and take control of this otherwise out of control world. There is a lot going on around us, and cateloging and remembering it for later allows us to put it out of our brain. ...

If you read this on a feed reader app you might not notice the change, but I have switched from Wordpress to Hugo, after over 15 years. The oldest posts on this blog date back to 2006, and as far as I remember they were written with Wordpress. I’ve hosted many sites with Wordpress, so why the change? In the end, it came down to complexity and control. Over the years, Wordpress has grown from a simple PHP blogging platform to a very complicated Content management system. People and companies use Wordpress to host many different types of sites. There is a complex and sometimes expensive market for themes. There is a whole ecosystem that supports the development of Wordpress and Plugins for almost anything you might want to do with the software. ...

I’m back to being busy again. I feel like the pandemic lull is over and work is finally picking back up. I’m getting serious about coaching again with Salve Regina Cheer, and I’m getting back into teaching acro. I will have some announcements on that later. I’m sewing some packs. Well I sewed one last weekend and I’m trying to get up the courage to do one this weekend as well. ...

This week is my birthday. It’s a particularly important birthday, but I’m not talking about that. To celebrate, I’m hosting a coffee shop popup in my home. While I’ll give you all the other details in this post, if you don’t know me, or know someone who really knows me, then you are sort of out of luck, as I’m only giving out the address to friends. So go meet one of my friends or reach out if you want the address. ...