Month: March 2022

Thursday, March 24th 2022… Learn something new, every day…

So, I’ve wanted to do some creative stuff with my blog and websites and have been stymied by things in WordPress that don’t integrate well together. It’s really starting to piss me off. Almost as much as getting my site hacked by people that have nothing better to do. I’ve had this plugin that is supposed to help migrate a site by doing an export. Sounds simple in theory, but it’s been only going so far and then dying. I’ve also wanted to use Elementor and for some reason, it also crashes my site. So the other day, I got a brainstorm and decided to do a parallel site that I really don’t care about, just to experiment. I’m using Bluehost as a provider and domain ratpuke7.net as another site – kind of a developmental site. We shall see…

-Rat

Sunday, March 20th 2022… A beautiful day…

And i didn’t get the bike out! Instead I made soup, went and washed the car, washed the mats and shampooed some spots, and took Anne to Walmart. Came home, had soup and played Rummikub. It was gorgeous out today – a balmy 61 degrees, clear sky and lots of sun.

Which got me thinking about “Daylight Savings Time” that occurred last weekend. Would I rather have it CDT year round, or CST year round? I hate the yearly time changes, but would I want to change? Probably not. I’ve been railing on this for a while now. But now that it’s a possibility, i really hope it doesn’t go. Lets look at the extremes, what would sunrise look on the Winter Solstice day? Currently with things the way they are, sunrise would be at 7:15am CST. If it was CDT, it would be 8:15am. That would kind of suck if I got up early – its cold and dark. On the plus side, that day (the shortest day of the year), the sun sets at 4:24pm CST, would now set at 5:24pm . Not a huge bonus, but id rather have sunrise earlier. Looking at the summer solstice (the longest day of the year) with the same optics, sunrise which is currently at 5:17am CDT, but CST would put it at 4:17am. Sunset which is 8:29pm CDT would now be 7:29pm. The day seems really long if you get up early. Hmm, the jury is out on this…

At least I didn’t have to work today – it’s a good day.

-Rat

Saturday, March 5th 2022…Bikin’ it…

We got bikes out today. I rode my hybrid and Vikash rode his road bike. I had put 2 new sensors on. One broke (cadence) in the first 10min forcing me to go back to find it on the street. We carried on though and finished the standard trail (Tinley Creek North) in about an hour and a half. Our normal time is around an hour. There was still a bit of snow in places – not on the trail. Although it hit 72, the water in the ponds and lakes was still frozen over. It was awesome to get out today.

Tinley Creek North
Arrowhead Lake
Arrowhead Lake – still frozen

-Rat

Tuesday or “March First”, 03-01-2022… A blast from the past…

Ah, it’s “Fat Tuesday” better known as “Paczki Day” in my Polish household. I almost ran into Ana Balaval this morning from “Channel 9” at the Orland Bakery. She was parked in the car beside me waiting for her segment time. I missed it by about 10min, but I had to get to work. Speaking of work, this celebrates my March First tie to all those “divine” friends I had who were “Xqsite”. You know who you are. What is it, 20 years or so?

Seems to be getting nicer outside and I’m tempted to bust out the hybrid. A much better prospect than riding in the basement. Tomorrow is a high of 54F at 4:00pm.

This is my first post of the new year and I have art class tonight (watercolor with John). Maybe I can enlist him in a leisurely ride tomorrow afternoon.

This Gutenberg editor is what I have been using all along or at least for the past year. Doesn’t seem like much of a change for WordPress. Ill have to dig into my WordPress classes to review the differences. Truth to tell, I don’t remember.

For the first time in over a year, I finally feel like I’m catching up at work. Just in time for audit to knock me down a peg or two. Its been a long, strange, trip. 2 Data Center moves, splitting the AS400 up, upgrading JDE – wow.

My thoughts feel fragmented this afternoon.

-Rat