A local ice cream shop in Roanoke sold me an ice cream cone with Cheez Its sprinkled on-top. It was too weird to not try. Salty + sweet almost always works, and this is no exception.
-
-
Alex Standiford
Woke up this morning to a lot of wind outside. Turns out, a tiny sand bar off the coast of North Carolina is quite windy this time of year. Yet another moment where this area reminds me of our visit to Elephant Butte, New Mexico, even though it is way on the other end of the country.
https://casualweirdness.life/articles/travelogue/elephant-butte-new-mexico
-
Alex Standiford
I think my favorite thing about OBX is that it’s all one road lol. Directions are super easy, and I’m directionally challenged ????
-
Alex Standiford
We have made it to the outer banks, where for the next two weeks we will call home. The campsite takes up about 2/3rds of the total width of the island where we’re parked(!)
There’s so, so much history in this region of the US, and I’m so excited to dig in!
-
Alex Standiford
Today’s a travel day. We’re leaving Virginia Beach and going south again for a bit. We discovered that our seasonal in Vermont wasn’t going to be available for another month so we decided to buy some time on the outer banks ????.
-
Alex Standiford
Finally got around to watching the WordPress 6.2 preview, and whoa, it is looking really good.
REALLY excited about the distraction free mode.
https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/your-wordpress-6-2-preview/
-
Alex Standiford
Silly me. I’ve been manually typing the hashtags in these microposts. I even conceptualized this parser that automatically converts hashtags into WP tags and turns them into links.
I dropped this, and instead just automatically append all of the tags on this post as a hashtag on the site. So much easier.
-
Alex Standiford
I’ve been cross posting my personally published content on both Twitter, and Mastodon for the last week, mostly to see how interactions with what I post varies now that I have about 1/3rd of the followers on Mastodon. My conclusion? At least for me and my circle, Twitter is dead. ????????
-
Alex Standiford
I’ve been spending time backfilling content on my site. A lot of stories I share were once linked to a Twitter feed (ick) so I’m converting that content to a blog post and backdating as I go.
This is one of my favorite RV stories, where we had an unexpected visitor that scared the daylights out of me.
-
Alex Standiford
Jamming to Diablo Swing Orchestra today. I think they really came into full swing in this last album. They’re a little more approach-able in this album, but still have all of that super awesome swing sound, unique instrumentation, and some real bangers.
https://open.spotify.com/album/73YgGTPKJux9DVDr3Jv7k7?si=iNGcclvbSq2Cr5ouqceQpA
Also, “COME INTO FULL SWING” LOL
