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February 2021 Check-in

Yeah, so February is supposed to be a fun month, at least for me. My birthday happened (Happy Birthday to me!). Valentine’s day was very low-key due to the Plague. And then, we had the Polar Vortex come calling the day after Valentine’s day.

I wrote a bit about it already, so I am not going to rehash that now.

I also wrote about upgrading my theme.

Things are going well with the ${JOB}, so I cannot complain there.

I forgot to keep track of how many books I managed to read in my down-time, or the number of YouTube videos I watched. I suspect I will be pleasantly surprised about the first, and scared at the second.

New look, again

So, the CMS/static site generator I use, Hugo had a new release which normally is a good thing. But, this time it broke the theme I was using, so it is time for a new look.

This may or may not be the final look for the site for a while, as I still need to check some things out. I will look to make sure that there are no new edge cases with sharp edges.

I also have been looking at two other CMS/site generators. One is a true CMS and was written from scratch has a Hugo replacement, then other is a very fast and lean static generator. I would need to play with that one more to get a look I was happy with. More as I have time.

Well, that was fun

As if a global plague was not enough. No, we had to get snow in Houston. Not just snow, but over 48 hours with the outside temps below 0C/32F!

This is a ’time-lapse’ of the view out the front window this week:

Snow in Front

We lost power for parts of it, just like most of the state due to the power generation stations going off-line. All sorts of fun. The kids got the week off due to the power issues, and I got a day off when we had no power.

I did putz around with some small projects on the computer when I could, but nothing worth showing yet. The wireguard network is starting to come together, however!