Finally!
It's funny how the last time I put up a blog post was a little over a year ago, lamenting a lack of focus. Where I thought I'd never get that elusive Wiki Hero badge -- the one where you make an edit 365 days in a row?
I made it. It can be done. After so many years of messing up in the 200s, I finally got all the way across the finish line.
I might be playing Habitica less, but I set aside time every day for a year to check through the latest changes, and if there wasn't anything to edit, I picked on a random page to poke at. It's been interesting stumbling across stuff I wouldn't have seen otherwise, and noticing how not-so-random the random page browser is.
I had a lot more just plain old checkins than I would have liked; but the Wiki is s…
A Distinct Lack of Focus
I've been here editing the blog since 2014. You would think that by this time, six years later and change, I'd be able to put together a coherent streak of one year worth of edits.
But I've missed my daily edit -twice- this week. There's a LOT going on my life right now, and when that happens, even an alarm doesn't help. It's not even the Demon of Procrastination -- just that momentary lapse of 'hang on, interruption, gotta respond to this email from the flood coming in that day'.
I think the older I get the more prone I am to being distracted and nonfocused, and perhaps this is a sign of not being as sharp as I used to be. Or low blood sugar being a factor. Or not enough sleep.
There are many things that it could be, and stubbornness d…
Hmmm... new format...
Okay, it looks like we've been migrated over. The good news is that blog posts got pulled over as well as the notes that went with them. The (bad?) news is that things have changed.... so it doesn't hurt to go poking around to see what might look different than it did before. One of those things is a new visual editor, which also has a Source Editor if you use the dropdown at the top.
I foresee interesting times ahead.
...that's a lot of archiving work to do...
If I'm reading the migration info right, blogs as we know them are going away when the Wiki gets converted to the new format. I see complaints about them vanishing with their notes without a trace.
I have blogs going back to 2014, 15 pages worth, to archive and save, apparently....
The best way to save your blog posts is to Print them as PDFs -- you won't get all the banner bits and the navigation bits, but you will lose all your comments. Those may need to be copy-pasted into a file manually.
If anyone has a script that can archive blog posts, I'd love to know...
One Year Out
It's been a year since I moved out of the place I called home for sixteen years. I moved out from under the auspices of someone who I'd lived with for longer than that, and into a smaller place that was sadly more expensive (amazing how much rents have gone up since before the Great Recession...).
My routines changed. My habits changed. I haven't been using Habitica much at all, but I'm still supporting the site and the Wikia to some degree, because some habits are worth keeping, and this is one of them. Surprisingly? It's gotten easier to keep up with the housework, mostly because... I have help.
Trying to track when the dishes need to be done as a daily doesn't work near as well when sometimes the dishes are done before you get to them…