Archive of posts from 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve even looked at this server, much less done an update. 2025 did not start out as the best year for me. I went to the emergency room with what turned out to be a kidney stone that I had to have surgery on in May. The only positive outcome of this is that I lost 20 pounds in the process.
Apr 19, 2025 Fountain Pen Ink IssuesI’ve been journaling for years and have pretty much always used my favorite pen. That would be the Uni Signo UM-151 (DX). I used to be able to get a set of colors that included blue-black, green-black, brown-black, bordeaux-black and purple-black. That was great, except that I couldn’t get refills in those colors. The refills only came in blue, black and red. I liked having a bit of color. So after some years of using these pens (which I still use at work and in other places), I’ve started using a fountain pen. I bought a Twisbi ECO. It took me a while to get used to it, but it’s grown on me. The drawback is I don’t have the variety of colors. I have Robert Oster Direct Sun ink in my pen and I like it, but I miss changing colors each day. Last week, I decided to buy another fountain pen (another Twisbi ECO). I spent a bit of time thinking about colors and decided that I wanted a nice brown. I thought that might be a nice contrast with the red I had been using. I bought DeAtramentis Document Ink - Brown. I may have fallen for marketing, but I thought that this would be good for writing in a journal. The journal I use is a Leuchtturm 1917 Hardcover. I got the pen and ink today. I loaded it up and tried it out. The results in my journal were really bad, see the picture.
Jan 29, 2025 Train to NYCAfter my very enjoyable trip to Boston-Cape Breton last summer, of which I have posted no pictures because I’m lazy, I’m spending some time in New York. I’m going to a wedding in Connecticut and thought I’d enjoy a couple extra days off.
Jan 26, 2025 Need to Relearn RailsI’ve spent a bit of time at work rewriting a rails app. Stupidly, now I’ve started watching some of the videos about Rails 8. Lots of things have changed from the last time I did any real rails programming. The good news is that in watching some of the videos, I was NOT completely lost. I basically understood the ideas of what they were talking about. I also know enough to know that when I start to try some of this new stuff out that I’m going to have a much harder time than the demos. But it’s funny. I’ve basically just finished updating two apps, but I haven’t made them public yet. I probably will have to deploy one of them. But I may rewrite them using some of the things I’ve just learned.
Jan 1, 2025 Hello 2025!I started a year in review post a few days ago, but never got around to finishing it. So I’ll just start a new post for the new year. This is going to be short because I just don’t feel like spending much time on it.