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I’ve been looking at the scale lately and I haven’t liked what I’ve seen. I think it’s time for me to cut back on my food intake and do better at what I eat.

I didn't always get along with my parents. I very often thought they were too strict and were getting in my way of having fun. Now, 20+ years later from my teenage years, I guess maturity has a way of making you rethink things and count your blessings.

I'm not sure whether its because it's the first week back from vacation or maybe the change in the weather, but over the last several days I've just been feeling restless and aimless.

Windows 10 reached the end of its life this week. This means that Microsoft will no longer be providing support for Windows 10 machines. No bug fixes, no security updates, nothing. For a multitude of reasons, this sucks.

What do you call it when you can't seem to stick to a single application for its given purpose. I feel like that's where I am with my notes and writing apps, as well as web browser. I stick with one for a little while only to then decide to switch to something else.

Tracking software different websites use to track your movement around the web is insidious and should be stopped. Thankfully there are tools like uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger can help. Switching away from Chrome should also be a good first step. But with these tools, come some unfortunate side effects.

September was a busy month. One of my teams' hockey season started back up, went to some concerts and generally stayed active.

In the last month, I've been transitioning to work on a new (to me) project at work as the work load for the project I've been working on has been slowing. This last month has in some cases made me feel like I changed jobs with the completely different code base and project. It's made me think about how disruptive it sometimes feels and how the familiar can feel so safe.

I'm a huge fan of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast. He provides long in-depth episodes on a multitude of historical eras and events. But one discussion he had somewhere along the lines makes me see modern day comparisons.

Last week I posted about how I built my new archives page. After releasing the post and getting back to my redesign, I realized that I overcomplicated one bit of code and figured I'd add an addendum to the post showing the simplification.

At the beginning of the year, I wanted to really make a concerted effort this year to try to improve my ability to focus on whatever the task at hand might be. Be it a task at work, writing, or a side project. I'd been realizing that my ability to focus on the task at hand was not as strong as I would've liked it to be.

One of the things I'm doing with my redesign is changing my archives page. Right now if you go to my archives page, it's a bunch of links to pages for year or month and year. The new page is going to just be everything broken up by year.