A New Keyboard Welcomes My First True Linux Annoyance
January 5, 2026 → I ordered myself a new keyboard this morning! A purple Wobkey Crush 80 Reboot Pro, which I decided that I would like to connect it to my computer with Bluetooth. This would allow me to switch between...
Odds & Ends & Chilly Winter Sundays
January 4, 2026 → Since the weather continued its bright-and-frigid ways, our Sunday was spent mostly indoors in full hobby-and-chores mode. The Gremlins of Doubt Dropped By Having been over six weeks since I last deve...
Perhaps a Little Bad Brain for the Lady?
January 3, 2026 → This morning caught me off-guard. I was creating a new separate website for me to share older digital photos in a blog format (like I do film at lottiephoto.ca) and, as I was editing some photos, a fa...
January 2, 2026 → ...Well, maybe. I haven't been sleeping as well lately, and I know that it's because I haven't been getting out enough. It's always a bit more challenging at this time of year: it's not only colder an...
January 1, 2026 → ~I opened a new account on Mastodon yesterday, ending 60 days without a texty-type social media account.~ Update 2026/03/14: And now I've closed it. Nothing to do with much, but I just have more in co...
December 31, 2025 → In addition to two main Capital-R Resolutions, I have a few more things that I want to do (or do more of) in 2026 that don't rise to the level of a Resolution, but are still worth thinking about. And...
December 30, 2025 → I don't think I was really paying enough attention when I scheduled these appointments. It only occurred to me when I woke up this morning that by booking these two face-related appointments on the sa...
December 28, 2025 → I've never been one to make New Year's resolutions. There really should not by anything motivating about the calendar turning to another month. And yet, as we approach the turn from 2025 to 2026 and I...
December 27, 2025 → I don't yet know when it is supposed to happen, but some time in 2026, I will be heading to Montréal for surgery. The good and welcome kind. Outside of normal fears about surgery, I am very excited fo...
December 26, 2025 → No, I don't mean any kind of sale. We just had a lovely visit with one of my oldest friends and his partner today. What began as meeting for coffee turned into two hours at coffee and a nice lupper so...