Well, we came home from our Christmas trip to Houston today (December 27). Day 4 of fucking sinus infection. The good news? No fever. The bad news? Snot and lots of it.

The first two days of this bullshit I was in the “I feel so bad I can’t complain, I just want to lay in bed and quietly suffer” phase. Yesterday I went to the clinic, got a couple of shots and started a prescription of antibiotics – 2 weeks worth. The fever is gone, but the snot drip drip dripping lazily down my throat is getting old, as is the feeling of gagging when I wake up and that shit is all up in there.

So what I’m saying is that I’ve officially graduated to the “I feel good enough and angry enough to complain” phase. FUCK THIS SHIT.

However, my good friend Brian Neverwas has started a new series of blog posts called Spot Death, in which he writes about the pivotal skateboarding spots of his youth. Here is the first post. This makes me super happy because Brian is a good writer, a good skater, and a GOOD THINKER. And it reads super nicely on my new iPad Mini (as well as any other device except maybe @coldKennels old gaming device – we’ll see!)

Also in the Good News column about being home. I am no longer in an old person’s house that is excessively warm and dry, so perhaps my sinuses will stop feeling like beef jerky.

Totally unrelated to this stuff. I LOVE MARKDOWN. I’m writing this post in IA Writer, which I purchased a week for two ago. A one time cost - not a fucking subscription. It knows Markdown natively (that’s good computer talk, right?), and it’s just so clean.

For editing actual existing HTML and CSS I’ve gone back to the classic BBEdit. Why? Because I know it, and it’s one time cost.

Anyway, I’m composing this in a page generated by my Jekyll static site generator, opened in IA Write, and written with Markdown. Jekyll will take this and transform it into an HTML file, which I’ll post on my test Jekyll site called test.concretelunch.info but this original file will persist in the _posts folder, and I’ll copy it into a new micro.blog post and WAH-LAA two posts for the price of one.

Hey, I know I’m not a real “coder” and I have no desire to be, but fiddling around with all this stuff again after years of laziness is making me feel like Gandalf.