frozen octopus

Listened to these two albums today.

ハッピーホリデー!

昨日はおとといほど楽しくなかった。長い休みが来てから仕事だけした。

ハワイのニックネームはrainbow stateです。それは誇張ではない。毎日オアフに虹を見たと思う。

A saw someone mention on Twitter that if something comes to mind that you wish you'd know at the beginning of a journey, you should mention it for someone else who is just starting the journey now.

Code folding came to mind. I really wish I'd started using code folding from the start.

If you are just starting out doing web design and are working with CSS, check if your Text Editor has code folding. If it does, start using it right away.

Basically, you collapse all the code in your stylesheet so only see the class or ID. So when you start in on a project, you see this...

.stuff {}
.other-stuff {}
.things {}

Which is a little easier on the brain than starting with this...

.stuff {
 font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
line-height: 1.5;
}
.other-stuff {
 padding-right: 2rem;
padding-left: 2rem;
border-radius: 2px 2px 0 0;
}
.things {
 display: inline-block;
margin: 0;
font-size: 2.027rem;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

Took walk to find gymnasium where we are getting the vaccine on Wednesday. The streets and stores were eerily empty. Got home and figured out Japan is playing Mexico in Olympic soccer right now. Don't know if there is any connection but I'm just going to go with that.

139.796548°, 35.796377°

All the sunset photos from MN friends today have a Mars vibe due to all the smoke from the forest fires in the US right now.

139.796491°, 35.796129°

I ordered a new apple watch band that is reflective. On a long walk I was on the other day, it made me realize that I am too invisible to people driving. I'm not going to wear bright green clothes but I am adding reflective bits to things like the eco-bag and my watch. Any little bit helps and reflective stuff does look kinda cool.

139.796435°, 35.796275°

My mother-in-law got her first vaccine shot today. She said it was quick and painless. Having someone you know get a shot makes it seem nearer then before.

They also announced two large vaccine shot centers in Tokyo and Osaka being ready to go. It looks like things are starting to move quicker here.

I've had some songs by Margo Guryan album Take A Picture stuck in my head for a week or two now. If I had to describe it, I'd say it's kind of like bummed-out sunshine pop.

Besides the amazing songwriting, I am a huge fan of the drum sound on this album. It's nice and roomy but kind of dry and thumpy at the same time. The drummer, Buddy Saltzman played on some pretty big hits from the 1960s.

I was very surprised to find out this album was recorded in 1968 for some reason. I think the combination of an aggressive drummer on a twee sounding album is something I associate with indie rock from the last couple decades and not the 1960s.

I am really into the Apple Pencil gesture of scribbling to erase text. Beside converting handwriting into text, scribble erasing is the magic of the pencil. I can probably type a little faster on a keyboard but I can delete things so much faster with the pencil.

I am really into the Apple Pencil gesture of scribbling to erase text. Beside converting handwriting into text, scribble erasing is the magic of the pencil. I can probably type a little faster on a keyboard but I can delete things so much faster with the pencil.

On 11/11, l joining a bowling team called Ladybird Johnson. Ladybird Johnson bowls to help Kill Kancer. Cancer and bowling pins tremble before us. We are unstoppable!

Please be the 10th member of Ladybird Johnson and help us help Kill Kancer get the word out about preventable cancers. Even just $1 makes you 3 hero. $2 makes you a double hero. $4 makes you a quadruple hero. $8 makes you an octo-hero and so on.

✨ [Be a hero](https://killkancerbowlathon.org/teams/ladybird-johnson/) ✨

🎳 [Info about Kill Kancer](https://killkancerbowlathon.org/) 🎳
 

Backings up a shared text file was looking for a way to backup a shared text file each time someone edited it using (https://www.noodlesoft.com/). I found the answer on how to do it in a [12 year old forum post](https://www.noodlesoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4013) in the Noodlesoft forums.

You need to set up a condition on the folder to watch as...

Date Last Modified > is after ＞ Date Last Matched

Then on the other folder set up to copy to whatever folder with the option set to
replace the file.

If someone edits and saves the text file, it'll backup that file automatically. There are a
lot of issues with this method. I just use it as a lo-rent backup system. The text file might burst into flames if two people work on it at the same time.
 

Every year I remember too late that the National Novel Writing Month has started. For some reason, 2018 has given me a Halloween miracle and I've remembered it before it's started this year.

The November National Novel Writing Month challenge is to write 50,000 words. That
is 1612.903225806451613 words per day. A lot of words per day even if you round
down.

I'm inspired by anyone who takes the challenge. If you're doing it, you rule. Don't give
up. It's gonna be a slog.

For me, I skew non-fiction so that's going to be my angle for the 50,000 word typee-typee November challenge.
 

I had a dream last night that I couldn't find where I parked my car. You'd think your
own brain could serve up some cool dream instead of something SO mundane. My
brain could have had me traveling in foreign Lands or talking to Einstein or Buddha or
someone.

Nope...my brain had me walking forever looking for a parking spot.

When l woke up， my first reaction was to write a Workflow workflow to remember the
spot you need to remember.

It is nothing fancy but it does the job. It gets your current location, adds the address to
a new note in the Notes app, and then save the location to a file in Dropbox as a back
up if you accidental delete the note.

(http://workflow.is/workflows/c20dbe0993584239b0132a6249402e6c)

It's the day after thanksgiving. I practiced some CSS grid, ate shio ramen at Ramen Kazama, and went to a punk show at the Eagles Club. The perfect day after Thanksgiving.

: Love footnotes. The bands were Joust, Zero, Kitten Forever, and Color TV