2024 Three hundred and thirty-three posts

I have posted 333 times in 2024 using WordPress. 164 of those came from Instagram —about a third— Total word count for 2024 is 71,833 words with approximately 310 images and approximately 241 external links I have posted 103 swimming posts so far this year I have made 7 headers so far this year

25-Aug-2024

Post-XOXO Ramble on Websites and Freedom: Everybody Comes To Ricks I am writing this from IndieWeb Camp 2024 Portland. It’s the day after the 2024 XOXO Festival. It was the last XOXO. In 2023, the boy billionaire Musk purchased Twitter, on credit. The enthusiasm for moving to Mastodon (started 2016) took off. Right now there’s a zeal to join Blue Sky. People are desperate for...

24-Aug-2024

Joe CRAWFORD @artlung · webmaster · indieweb · comics · #xoxofest (what a great event this has been. Many creative ideas brewed and renewing. Such great, specific, vulnerable, brilliant, wonderful people so willing to offer their experiences and expertise. The best.

1

21-Aug-2024

The Pillar of Signatude at Powell’s Books, which has a layer of plexiglass over it lest someone deface it, includes two signatures of writers without whose work I would be an entirely different human being. Thank you, William Gibson and Douglas Adams (RIP) for documenting what is absurd, essential, and eternal about the world. Plus rayguns and robots.

1

19-Aug-2024

11:25 @ Scripps

1

18-Aug-2024

Spent 3-1/2 hours in the water today. Felt like 2.

1

17-Aug-2024

That’s Peyton behind me. She and her friend Margaret wanted someone “who knows what they’re doing in the water” to be with them so they could swim out to the end of Crystal Pier (872 feet long). I followed along. They swam great. I told them so. Last year I had a surfer tell me he thought I was a sea lion. Today I was an emotional support dog. But truly? The lifeguards were on duty. I will write more about this and my other water adventures soon.

1

16-Aug-2024

Gwen and Kelly came along with me tonight

1

16-Aug-2024

Email of the day: Mogl dot com shutdown I don’t remember what app was. I apparently joined it in 2012 and got mails about related restaurants for a few years. Hello, The Mogl dining rewards program will permanently end operations on December 3rd, 2024. You are receiving this email because you are enrolled in the program. After December 3rd, 2024, you will no...

15-Aug-2024

Ride waves.

1

15-Aug-2024

Wherein an ancient poem prompts me to reflect on failure and learning While there’s a lot of things I’ve had and lost over the years. Some artifacts I’ve kept but never really looked at. Here’s a poem (with corrected spelling): While raccoons run up trees Spider webs are being made While pigs roll in mud Otters swim in the sea That’s from a very yellowed piece of...