kareina

This morning was the first day I could take the spark to the bus stop this year. Yay! No heavy backpack on my shoulders. The conditions were perfect, the snow was white and lovely everywhere, but on the street it was perfectly compacted, and no gravel had been spread on the road, so that the spark glided smoothly. Ideal early winter weather. If only it could have lasted. But no, it warmed up to +4° C. So even though I got to take the early bus home, by the time it arrived at 16:00 the roads were wet slush, combined with gravel that the city council had put out as they like it when people aren't crashing their cars, or falling over. Luckily, Keldor also finished work at a reasonable time, and got to Lövånger only one minute after me, so we put my spark in the back of the van, and I got a ride home. 

 

The housekeeper was there working magic, so to keep out of the way, we took the extra wheelbarrow (that Keldor had sold on FB marketplace weeks ago, and left out in the driveway for them to come pick up, but they never did, despite several reminders) over to Bryan's house, tucked it into the garden shed there, and shovelled and swept the slush off his stairs, driveway, and walkway, so it doesn't freeze later. One might think it doesn't matter, since Bryan won't be moving in till August, when the snow and ice will have long been melted. However, we may need to sleep there when the plumbers are installing our new toilets, and perhaps we may have enough people staying here for New Years that we need to borrow it for overflow crash space. One never knows.

 

In other news, I am learning how to use GitHub to make a blog from an Obsidian vault. Not long after I started using Obsidian I created a vault for my blog posts, and set up far more metadata (properties) for each note than are possible here. At that point, I started doing my composition there, and copying them to Dreamwidth. Sometimes. Many of them didn't get copied here, even though I had at least bullet points of some things that had happened that day. I also started putting in lots of images, as it is super easy to put images into Obsidian (a direct contrast to Dreamwidth), which meant that the ones I did post here I usually skipped the photos, unless I felt extra full of energy to go to the bother of posting the photos first somewhere else, and then using the url to put it here.

 

I have also started working my way back through my various Dreamwidth posts, and copying them, one at a time, into Obsidian. While one could write a script to just go harvest them, it has been kind of interesting to look at what I posted as I do. As a result, I have only managed to pull in everything from this year, and I have been using Dreamwidth, and Livejournal before then, decades longer than that.

 

I have been dreaming about taking my Obsidian vault, and making a blog from it, especially as then I could still echo them to Dreamwidth, but now the photos would exist, and I could, in theory, also put them in Dreamwidth. Yesterday, I finally got around to testing a free Obsidian to Github to blog option, and it worked. It will take time and learning to convert it into something I am truly happy with, but it will do, and my blog is backed up, at least this year. The rest can follow.

 

But, if anyone reading this wants more to read, or to see the photos that didn't come with the posts I have done this year, feel free to go have a look at my blog: https://riiac.github.io/Kareinas-blog/ 

But, of course, before sitting down with the computer and drawing program to confirm that it would work, I did my morning pilates, as I like not waking up in the night with sore hips, and the best way to keep doing this is enough of the right sort of movement.

I did try playing with the drawing program after, but it mostly convinced me that the chunk of blue really is a little too small for this morning's idea, and I will probably go with the plan I came up with last time I had the program open.

Since we don't start till noon today, we even had time to run to the local store before work, so now I have frozen berries and a few other things I wanted.

Today's temperature was much nicer than yesterday, and it even rained occasionally. 

Therefore I made some progress on the pot. I am fixing the problem with the outside curve. When I removed the rim and grove just under the rim, so we will be able to rivit on the handel, the sides became somewhat pumpkin like in their curvature. Now I am trying to straighten out the upper walls of the pot, so it looks like the surviving artefacts  in part because trying to make the inside curve to make the walls uniformly 1 cm thick sounds harder if I don't. 

Rod, the other Blacksmith arrived today. It is good to see him again. We will join him and his travelling companion for dinner tomorrow after work. I will just need to try not to eat during the second half of the day, to make it possible to be hungry thst late. Sleeping in may also help, which, given our work schedule here, is doable.

As we were driving home today we saw one of our colleagues walking down the street carrying a big bag of empty cans and bottles to return to the store for their deposits, so we gave her a ride. It is a couple blocks out of the way, but I wouldn't have wanted to carry that bag that far.

 

In other news, I am really loving the program Obsidian. I fell for it for the graph showing connections between notes, and I love that it is open-source, but the "daily note" feature has really made a difference in my posting regularly. Especially as I added a template with properties, so I can open the note in the morning, set the property "published" = "not yet", and add to it here and there during the day, then post later in the day, changing its published status to "yes".

Now I want to find an easy way to download all of my old Dreamwidth posts, and import them into Obsidian, preferably with tags and timestamps intact.