## Thursday, April 30
- Listening to: [JNBO & Friends](https://music.apple.com/us/album/friends/1866029519) : instrumental, filed under R&B/Soul. Nice groove and will be sliding into my rotation for sure.
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- This week's staycation (burning off some PTO that's about to expire) has taught me something about myself. *I was made for retirement.* If I never had to go to work again: I'd be fine. Hard to believe, but true.
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## Tuesday, April 28
- **Current status** is locked, loaded, and waiting on the M5 Mini to be announced.
- [Quartz](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/): static site generator for obsidian (and others). I probably would've gone with this if I'd found it before pre-paying a year of Publish. Pros: lots more flexible. Cons: lots more fiddly. End of the day, I think I'm happier with less fiddly, at least for the sake of what I'm trying to accomplish here.
- Listening to the [Vergecast on the newest Framework Laptop](https://youtu.be/xWCq5pYmBu4?si=RTk9Y87IT-6AWYi0). I love the concept, but at the end of the day I'd be spending way more than a MacBook Air for a laptop I didn't like as much.
- [XTEink X3 eReader](https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x3) also something that I could get into. Maybe. IDK if my old eyeballs would be up to something that small. But I do love the idea of a reader that could go literally everywhere with me. [Very good rundown](https://youtu.be/6JuoVWgqnk8?si=4QIozjF-UkK4vGnd) of the X3 by eReader savant Kit Betts-Masters.
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## Monday, April 27
*First Post!*
- Spent some time thinking about how to organize this space. It isn't a *blog,* per se. I need to get myself out of that blog-brained way of thinking. However, I think it'll take me a bit to figure out what that's going to look like.
- For a start, I'm going to do monthly pages, one page per month, plain ol' reverse chronological.
- I'm thinking I'll do the reviews, topical entries, etc (anything longer than a microblog hit) as standalone pages and link them from the rev-chron pages, and ultimately make some kind of landing page or something like that.
- I do (right now on day 1, at least) love the idea of everything being hand-edited, including whatever clunky nav I can cook up under the constraints of this platform.
- There's an obsidian plugin [Obsidian Microblog](https://github.com/otaviocc/obsidian-microblog|github) , but I think using that would go against the whole aesthetic I'm reaching for here: handmade like it's 1999 all over again.
[[About]] - seemed clever this morning.
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