Thursday, while mowing the lawn, I got stung three times by some yellow-jackets, my first multi-sting event. There’s apparently a nest in my front lawn. I’ll need to get rid of that soon. I’m still feeling the stings, mostly just itchy now.
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I found a tick biting me on Tuesday. This seems to have become an annual occurrence the last several years.
Continue reading post "#4085"Went to a Guardians game today with my dad. They lost.
Continue reading post "#4083"RIP Uncle Art
RIP Uncle Art.
Continue reading post "RIP Uncle Art"I went to another Guardian’s game with my brother. They lost badly, but it was still a nice night.
Continue reading post "#4067"Inline emoji favicon
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On a simple one-page site, I wanted as much as possible to be inline in the single document request. I didn’t have a favicon, and I didn’t want browsers to make that extra request. I considered just adding an empty file, as I’ve done sometimes in the past, but that would still be an extra request. So I looked up if it could be inlined. It can be done, with a data URL. And using an SVG format, an emoji can be used for a cheap actual icon.
Continue reading post "Inline emoji favicon"Welcome, redbud tree
This past weekend, I bought and installed a tree in my back yard, an eastern redbud, after years of wanting some kind of redbud. I had been thinking of getting the smaller weeping variety, but this year I finally decided I’d be willing to get the native tree variety.
Continue reading post "Welcome, redbud tree"Finally got some rain after several weeks without. We really needed it. It had been getting to borderline drought conditions.
Continue reading post "#4045"I got stuck in quite a traffic jam on Route 8 north yesterday. Took me over an hour to get to my parents’ when normally it takes 20-some minutes.
Continue reading post "#4039"Today, I learned that raccoons can be predators. I saw one catch a chipmunk or small squirrel.
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