death posts

R.I.P Uncle Tom. Continue reading post "RIP Uncle Tom"

RIP Indy the dog. He was a mostly good dog. He was my former roommate and fri…

R.I.P., Uncle Al. Continue reading post "RIP Uncle Al"

Had a weird bird incident the other day. I was going around a turn on a residen…

Sad to hear of Bram Moolenaar's recent death. RIP. He was the creator and mai…

RIP Uncle Art. Continue reading post "RIP Uncle Art"

RIP Jack the dog. He was a good dog. Continue reading post "RIP Jack"

This past weekend, I started playing with GitHub Pages for the first time. It took a while to figure out, but was somewhat fun. I've been interested in it for a while, but was unsure of how to do what I wanted, such as building with PHP, Sass, and Rollup. Turns out it was fairly easy with GitHub Actions to do most any sort of build steps I want. It is very interesting for free static site web-hosting.

R.I.P. Chester. Jamie and Tiffany's dog got lymphoma and it grew quickly. Continue reading post "RIP Chester"

RIP Aunt Jan. Continue reading post "RIP Aunt Jan"

We had a service of sorts today for my Uncle Joe, who died a couple months back. Continue reading post "#2409"

R.I.P., Uncle Joe.

My friend's dad and my coworker's step-mom both died this week. Continue reading post "#2023"

I hear Dolores O'Riordan died. Listened to some Cranberries in memory. Continue reading post "#1752"

Today, I ran over and killed some sort of mammal with my car. It darted out fro…

Today (yesterday), I spent around three hours getting a bird detached from a tree in the back yard. It was just hanging there from its leg, and it was hard to tell how it was attached. It was pretty high up and not reachable with any pole-like implements we had available from my ladder. My roommate helped for a while, but had to leave for work. I eventually succeeded in getting the bird down using two ropes, one put in place by throwing with a Kong dog toy on the end, the other raised with a garden tool tied to a stick. The ladder wasn't entirely stable with the long combined pole, and the rope-throwing took many tries. I used the rope to break the branch, causing the bird and branch to fall. The branch was still alive, so the operation took a while even after I got both ropes in place. I set up some yard-waste bags and a towel below the bird to soften its landing.