Around the web, a few people are saying that April went by super quick. Not for me. Nor dragging either. Just felt like an ordinary month in which I did some extraordinary things, most notably spending time with a great friend from grad-student days first in Rome, then by train to Venice, then by train to Vienna. Glorious.
Steps way up, because tourism. Cycling ditto. Can't decide what (fiction) to read next. Weight coming down again, slowly.
Seems like I didn't do any paid work this month, which is nice.
The big effort was a new theme and some new static content at ETP, prompted by a very reasonable question from a putative guest: Who are you? That led to the revelation that the sidebars and footers, unnoticed, had gone missing at some date in the past. The result is reasonably pleasing, and made me realise yet again that the average WordPress theme is much, much more complicated than I need. Of course, to be popular a theme needs to be all things to all people, but that does mean that adjustment of anything beyond what the theme offers is fraught with complexity. That goes especially for indiewebifying. Not for the first time, I embarked on a theme from scratch. We'll see how that goes.
Previous years are on an archive page.
Only six posts this month.
Part of me thinks I should have been recording my travels in the moment. The rest disagrees. No clear winner. Next trip I am travelling even lighter, but maybe socials?
Life is good. I keep saying that, and it keeps being true.
Month | Total | Daily | Admin % | ETP % | Writing % | Other % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
04 | 81.2 | 2.71 | 43 | 44 | 13 | 0 |
03 | 133.6 | 4.75 | 34 | 39 | 18 | 9 |
02 | 64.7 | 4.7 | 53 | 29 | 10 | 5 |
2024-01 | 56.75 | 4.0 | 65 | 21 | 11 | 3 |
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