Captured a good picture of a Snowberry Clearwing.
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. 🌞
Trump has lost his mind
In his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that “home-growns are next” and that El Salvador would “need to be build about five more places” to hold American citizens.
So the president of the United States proposes, on camera, to deport Americans to foreign concentration camps.
We’re approaching a time when violence is going to be the only way to defeat this fascists regime. Constitutional crisis? The Constitution is on fire and his Orangeness is defying the Supreme Court. Law and order are gone, out the window.
If ever there’s been a time to storm D.C, now is it.
Violence is coming.
Did you know that Paolo Pasco, the winner of both the 2024 and 2025 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, uses MY APP, Black Ink?
That is so cool! I’d be thrilled to hear from dedicated Stream or RxCalc users!
Gracie is enjoying all the sniffs and Kolby is chillin on the front door mat. It’s a gorgeous day here, suns out, blue sky.
Sitting out on the deck this afternoon with the pups enjoying a beautiful day.
Introducing Microsoft Rob!
I mentioned on Mastodon I’d had a dream I went back to work at Microsoft so Thomas Brand made this for me.
I love it! ❤️
Spring hasn’t sprung yet but is sure is a beautiful morning!
Old Man Rob
More snowfall today. ❄️
Thinking about Death and Dying
As I’ve gotten older I’ve been thinking more and more about my mortality. There are some things I’d like to keep but after discussing it with my wife I realized I need to rethink things.
I wanted to keep all of my main domains; fahrni.me, crabapples.net, and hayseed.co. There’s also curmudgeon.cafe, which I’d like to have around for the folks who remain on it. That one I will be able to hand off to someone on the instance. The other three I need to do something else with.
I was talking to Kim about keeping them, but that takes money and time to maintain them. I’m now thinking I can just pull everything into my github account, leave my github credentials with Kim and just let everything else go. Rot off the vine so to speak. I won’t be alive to worry about it any longer, no need to put that stress on someone else.
To that end I think I’m going to stop using Carrd for maintaining fahrni.me, hayseed.co, and all of hayseed.co’s sub domains with plain text files, so they’re completely static and easy to move around.
Under fahrni.me I have iam.fahrni.me which is my old WordPress blog. I’ve pull all of it down as HTML, CSS, and any images it had. I can do iam.fahrni.me now. I’m no longer using it.
Most of the data under crabapples.net is completely static with the exception of my blog, rob.crabapples.net. That is maintained at Micro.blog, which I really like.
I’ve been thinking about moving rob.crabapples.net out of Micro.blog and to a manually maintained weblog. Completely static. I was inspired by Louie Mantia’s website. He manages everything manually. How can you not love that? 😃
Of course, like a knucklehead I want to put together some tools to take care of that. I’m thinking I can put everything on github and write something to help me generate my blog’s main page and publish each post as static HTML.
I’m sure as I lay dying I won’t really think about this, but I am now. 😄
The snow is still falling and it is absolutely beautiful.
Here it comes! ❄️
I do love it!
More Winter
Tuesday looks like fun. We had snow on the ground for most of January. Had a week without it. And it looks like we’re gonna get some more.
This time it’s not gonna be deep freeze city afterward. The rain that follows on Thursday and through the weekend should clean it up.
I guess Punxsutawney Phil did say six more weeks of winter. 🐿️
Random Stuff
We expected rain with a chance of sleet or snow overnight and this morning.
We have an active thunderstorm passing through. That wasn’t in the forecast. I’ve never experienced a thunderstorm with snow, not that it’s happening now, but I’d imagine it could happen? ⛈️
Speaking of under the weather. I’m still feeling terrible. Clogged sinuses and it just won’t go away. I’m also exhausted. Why can’t I shake this? 🤒
Today, expected high of 69F, nice and sunny, just a perfect day. 🕶️
Tomorrow, high of 37F, chance of snow. ❄️
It just cracks me up. The East is a weird place. 😆
It’s a real shame Substack loves Nazis so much. I thought it was a great platform up to that point.
Their iOS app is really quite nice and the styling of the website and app are fantastic. It gets out of the way and lets you do what you’re there for, reading.
Cotton Bureau Sales! 🥳
Got my first sales report from Cotton Bureau and was super excited to see how many t-shirts and cases I’d sold! 😃
One. I sold one phone case and zero t-shirts. Oh, and that one case was sold to me, so it doesn’t count. 😳🤣
If you like the Stream icon head over to Cotton Bureau and buy a t-shirt or phone case!
FIRE! 🔥
Kim got me some chili made with Ghost and Reaper chilis and I decided it would be a good idea to eat it for lunch today.
HOLY COW! My eyes are watering, nose running, my tongue is actively melting in my mouth, my gums hurt, and my throat is swelling. The milk isn’t helping. 🥵
Man-oh-man is that hot.
Ms. Gracie cuddling with her toy hoard. 🥹
She’s falling asleep like that.
Another cold morning here in the Charlottesville area. 🥶
On the bright side we’re going to hit a high of 37! That’s 15 degrees warmer than yesterday’s high!
I mean, can Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Zuck, and whoever else gave money to Marmalade Messiah give me $1MM each, or heck, $1MM total between all of them? I’d be ok with that. I promise I would use it wisely and wouldn’t use it for corrupt reasons.
As Big Tech scrambles to placate Donald Trump before he reassumes office, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that his company would replace their fact-checkers with user-generated Community Notes, beginning in the United States and then rolling out globally.
Now, more than ever, is time to start your own weblog. Zuck and Musk don’t own the internet. It’s open to all.
Dump Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Space Karen’s X.
Go social on the open web with the likes of Micro.blog, Mastodon, or Bluesky.
A tail of two dogs
See what I did with that title? I’m here all week.
It’s been snowing overnight and when we got up this morning Kolby was like “Oh, it’s that cold white stuff. Guess I’d better do my business so I can go back inside.” That’s just what he did. No sniffing about. Get ‘er done.
Gracie on the other hand was like “OMG! I love this stuff it’s cold and fluffy and I should lick it! Now I should lose my brain and do zoomies around the yard for the next five minutes!”
Keep in mind that Ms. Gracie is a 110 pound Great Pyrenees. She doesn’t usually move that much or that fast.
She did her zoomies, tried to coax brother into playing, then decided to take a break in the snow by lying down.
She loves it so much. 🐶
Now they’re both passed out in the floor. Busy morning.