toroidalcore

It's Halloween 2026, or at least nearly the end of it here in EST. Today was a beautiful fall day and a perfect night for trick-or-treaters, not that there were many out in my…

This year, I managed to grow a medium-sized pumpkin. It is a nice pumpkin, except that it was attacked by squirrels. The markings have sort of healed, and it's not rotting, but…

Summer has a couple weeks left as far as I configure – here in the northern hemisphere, Fall begins on the 22nd of September this year. Today, Labor Day Weekend, it is beautiful…

Phone tethering works well. 5G is available in a lot of places, and it's handy and fast. I was paying for it anyway. Back in the day, I used this is my only internet connection…

It's cool out. Each summer for the past half-decade or so, it seems like we've gotten at least a few heat waves. We may still get one, but now it's cooler. It's windy, not too…

I'll be honest, I'm pretty happy with how the internet is these days, at a low level. I don't recall how fast my family's first cable modem was, but I do remember how much of a…

We're around the mid-point of summer. Another one. Heat Waves We had one or two heat waves recently, depending on how you look at it. Those aren't too unusual. The temperature…

It occurred to me today that it might be interesting to do some sort of digital detox. That is, go someplace, maybe camping, away from screens. No laptop, phone stays off (but…

Tim, my Irish Wolfhound, will bark if I let him out into the backyard at night. I try to get him out before we go to bed for a last bathroom check, and then he gets confined to…

Trying out 0.16 of Writefreely now. I don't usually write here, but it is kind of nice to have. Find me at @ toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town