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I think at this point, my plan is to rebuild my blog with Eleventy. Playing around with it I feel like it’s the simplest tool to do what I need. I still have a lot to learn with it, but I’m hoping that it will be the platform everything I’ve read says it is.

I set a goal this year of picking back up guitar and learning to play 10 songs. I can safely say that learning 10 songs is probably not going to happen. But I have picked up the guitar again and am trying to teach myself and practice.

We always seem to be concerned with China & TikTok, yet completely ignore what’s going on in our backyard. The US can ban TikTok tomorrow, but if China wants data, it’s not hard for them to just go out and buy the data.

I’ve toyed with the idea over the last year about possibly moving away from using Next.js for my website. A recent post on Mastodon from Zach Leatherman gave me a little bit more of a push.

I can’t believe Thanksgiving has come and gone and that we’re already into December. November was a good month, after a 2 week vacation I had to come back to the real world and back to work, but I still had some good breaks during the month.

Yesterday I had my first brew day in almost 2 years. I ended up brewing a Harpoon Winter Warmer clone.

On each one of my reading logs, I add a YouTube video for “A Song to Leave You With”. It uses a React component to render the embedded YouTube video. Thanks to Dave Rupert, I’ve been able to improve it.

I’ve seen several people posting the default apps they use for various tasks so I figured I’d join in.

I was listening to a Make Me Smart podcast episode on my walk earlier this week and they were talking about some of the threats currently facing America, not from without, but from within. And something Kai Ryssdal said really struck home to me.

October was a good month. I spent the latter half of it in Aruba and had a great time. But outside Aruba, the month was mostly quiet.

I really need more time in the day. I have so many things I want to do. I want to write more, I want to finish a side project, practice guitar, and more. But after work and cooking dinner, the hours in the day aren’t quite there.

My wife and I recently returned from a 12 day, 11 night stay in Aruba for our 10 year anniversary. We decided to splurge a bit since it’s such a special occasion and it was worth it.