๐Ÿ“ธ Another year, another Nevermore Film Festival here in Durham! ๐Ÿ‘ป๐Ÿ’€โ˜ ๏ธ

Iโ€™ve been attending this horror film festival for well over a decade and itโ€™s been a pleasure supporting it over the years at the beautiful Carolina Theatre. 20 years! Just amazing!

It is POURING here tonight ๐ŸŒงโ›ˆ

One of the things that freaks me out about our new-ish home is the fact that it needs a sump pump in the crawl space underneath for when it pours and the water table gets too high. Iโ€™m glad itโ€™s there of course, but Iโ€™m also really paranoid when I donโ€™t hear it switch on during a HUGE downpour that rips through the Triangle. So far it always turns on faithfully when needed. But the minute our electricity goes out. Weโ€™re screwed.

I know, I know, get a generator - but we are often out of town so, we are super reliant on the grid which, thankfully, has been pretty solid over the years. ๐Ÿ˜…

๐Ÿ“ธ Got some thoroughly needed time away in the woods with this one. ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ๐ŸŒฒ

These little breaks away from Durham have been so, so good for us and our individual wellbeing.

Weโ€™ve been trying to make more space for times like these, and each time we do, it consistently gives back tenfold. โค๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ซ

It never ceases to amaze me...

I witness, in my day to day, a lot of people who dismiss podcasts as a nonsensical medium that, more than ever, is filled with amateurish drivel, not worthy of consuming.

I swear…. in the last year alone, Iโ€™ve discovered more incredible, lovely, awe-inspiring humans via podcasts than I ever would have via television, movies, commercial radio, etc….

I am so damn grateful for it!

Tips: *Re-REvisiting* My Workflow (again) for Launching .scriv Files in Marked and Scrivener Simultaneously

Hey y’all, a friendly Tweep ( @ckrueger99 ) on my feed let me know that this age-old Alfred workflow has, once again, stopped working. I’m absolutely bogged down in contract work at the moment, but I am making this a fun diversion in my down time to try and figure out what came unplugged. Stay tuned!

Was out for a walk this afternoon...

When I stepped out the door it was in the low 70โ€™s. When I got back to the house 2 hours later, it was in the high 50โ€™s. CRAAAAAAAZY temperature swings here in the Piedmont region of NC.

Itโ€™s really odd having it be so warm in early February, so while I was caught off guard wearing a T-shirt during my walk, at least itโ€™s getting back down to more seasonable weather this evening.

On Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

I never do this but, Iโ€™ve been checking daily to see if/when #spiderverse went on pre-sale (iTunes).

Finally noticed it today. So many things are proclaimed no-brainers. This is a literal one. Didnโ€™t even think. Just clicked the โ€œbuyโ€ button. Itโ€™s that good.

Snag it y’all

๐Ÿ“ธBack home after a LONG road trip...

… filled with hours of unexpected construction delays from my homeland (New England, NH & VT). Decompression and reflection necessitates much needed time with ๐Ÿต in front of the ๐Ÿ”ฅ back at the ๐Ÿ  …

๐Ÿ“ธ Da BubbinSpoonful keeps getting biggoh!!๐Ÿถ

My brother’s doggo, Ginger, is officially full grown. I am glad I can still hold her!

๐Ÿ“ธIts nice to have a reminder of how beautiful the winters can be up north.

Itโ€™s one thing where my memory has intentionally run short after moving south. ๐Ÿ˜Œ

๐Ÿ“ธThatโ€™s some beautiful evening-walk-home light you got going on there Durham โค๏ธ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚

Been making slow but sure progress on theme tweaks for this site.

I decided to go with a “dark-mode” motif (yeah, I know, it’s trendy) and prefer it a lot more to the eye-shredding brightness of the orignal theme.

There’s always more, but I think it’s getting there.

Does anyone know off hand if itโ€™s possible to auto format posts that come in from OwnYourGram.com? I often find myself editing each of them afterwards, moving the first sentence into the heading of the m.b post. Is there a way, for instance, to add markdown to the first sentence of each Instagram post that gets added to my micro.blog site?

๐Ÿ“ธWhat a gift to be amongst friends watching friends playing the sweetest music for friends. โค๏ธ

๐Ÿ“ธTo date, I have no earthly idea about how my head is wired.

But, walking quickly by this razor thin alleyway, all I could see was this childโ€™s lost playground ball.

๐Ÿ“ธProduct placement in everyday life is key!

#vote #justvote

๐Ÿ“ธLooking mighty fire-y Durham. ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ

If your iCloud.com (or, in my case, me.com) email isnโ€™t sending...

…and is stuck in outbox purgatory, you are not alone.

I reached out to Apple support this evening and they confirmed there is a current outage for โ€œsome usersโ€ and that engineers are on it.

So if you are getting the same error (eventually, it can take a while), rest assured, the right people are looking into it.

Hopefully.

Because man, do I hate to crack open my secondary Gmail account.

TFW people complain about skim milk not making it into their pumpkin spice latte...

…while a single, seemingly innocuous cut on my finger tip, reduces my daily productivity by 40%… ish. ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜

Time to take the garbage out! Get on out yโ€™all! #VOTE