Another Miscellany

In no particular order:

• It appears mas.to was down last night.
  • I have no clue why the Mastodon instance was down.
  • I could shift to another instance.
    • There are plenty out there
    • It is already hard to choose where to be
  • I lack the patience to attempt to self-host at this time.
    • The efforts by Alan Pope show that it takes quite a bit of work.
    • Having a static site weblog is more my speed right now
• Thursday was road trip day to Erie
  • Got some background check work done
  • Got some Christmas shopping done
    • Everybody is getting books this year
    • I bought fiction for family
  • The food was good at the Chinese buffet on Peach Street near the junction with Interstate Route 90
• I can tell I have been writing too much LaTeX coding when I get nervous about typing an ampersand or dollar sign. Escaping special characters is not really necessary in Markdown but is in other markup languages potentially.
• Our hospitalization numbers in Ashtabula County for COVID-19 are starting to trend upwards. That’s not good.
• The press release about Christmas Eve services at Geneva Church of Christ should go out Friday at some point.
• No, my sermon for Sunday morning is still not written.
• I had almost forgotten I had participated in the SantaThing event of the LibraryThing community. There may be one or more books on their way to me.
• I need to figure out what is wrong with the Flutter install on my MacBook Pro M1.
• Even though the candidate requirements guide has been posted by the Secretary of State I do not think I will try running. The only things that are up this time are school board seats, the at-large seats on Ashtabula City Council, and township offices.