I write these entries in Day One and then copy them to the blog as Markdown, which WordPress happily reads. It’s a straightforward process unless I have a photo, which requires a bit more effort to get to both platforms.

Today, I discovered that Day One offers templates to help you journal more effectively. I decided to try the “Daily Self” template, which is divided into five sections:

Clearly, they designed the template before COVID-19.

When I tried copying the templated entry to the blog, all of the pretty headers turned into plain text, and I can’t find any way to change the headers. So I’m back to starting with a blank screen.

I spent a large part of the day working on the AlarmDecoder – not the hardware, fortunately! There is a bug in the software and it gets confused if you have lots of opened windows (and with the better weather over the last couple of days, we’ve been able to open windows instead of relying on air conditioning); I finally got around to reporting it and have been generating logs for the developer to use. He thinks he’s got a fix and will be shipping it for testing in a day or so; the same fix will need to be ported to the Indigo Plugin.

I deleted four very random photos from early 2008; I will consider that sufficient to keep my streak of daily photo editing alive.

Shabbat Shalom!

I’ve finished two years of photo editing in the last couple of days – 2006 and 2007. I’m almost shocked by how few photos I took during those two years.

In 2006, I took business trips to Helsinki and Banff, my mother died, we cleaned out Diane’s father’s house after he moved to Tucson, we went to DC, Richmond, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Tucson, and the World Science Fiction Convention. With all of that happening, I only took 393 photos (and kept 137).

In 2007, we went to Tucson and Tombstone, looked at colleges in Oregon. and took a trip to Richmond, went on a Bay Cruise here, attended the North American Science Fiction Convention and I only took 126 photos (and kept 36).

Of course, one reason I have so few photos from that period is that I put many of them on Flickr and then let that account lapse without backing it up – my blog has many unresolved photo references, including one of Jeff as an IRS agent for Halloween. I wonder what he looked like….