Translunar Snafu

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:00:24 -0500

🪴 Do you know what nobody ever seems to talk about when talking about how gardening is such a great way to spend time? Fighting off the little bastards in the backyard. A constant battle.

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:23:40 -0500

Killed the Fediverse account on my Ghost blog. Something was seriously messed up and I don’t have the patience to mess with it. The Ghost team really needs to update that or drop it all together.

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:51:03 -0500

Excited to have purchased a Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo which will be showing up on Wednesday. The camera gets rave reviews and it can also be used for printing photos from a phone (seems like a great companion for mood.camera and Leica LUX on the iPhone). Really looking forward to carrying this around to be able to put pictures into my notebook!

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:50:38 -0500

Going to use micro.blog (and Pika, and Scribbles, and Pagecord) for short posts as well as weeklies until I have time to adjust my ghost thing to handle them properly. Maybe I’ll like it enough to just keep micro blogging as well.

2026 Week 29

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:02:44 -0500

There was a hell of a lot happening last week here in Chicagoland. First and foremost…

☁️ The weather!

🪵🔥 The Canadians were shipping the smoke from their wildfires down here. The Air Quality Index (AQI) normally maxes out at 500 for most places that show it but it doesn’t really have a max as it’s a measurement of particles in the air. We hit 919 here on one of the permanent air quality monitors in the area. Most of the Chicago area was in the 600-700 range for a couple days and it was nasty. I’d rather not experience that again.

📝 Blogging!

Got “the itch” this week and posted a bunch of stuff over at the boringly-named “Notebook”. notes.jkratz.me which is hosted on Ghost by Magic Pages. I went back to that subdomain and apparently had used it before because the Fediverse account I had used was reactivated and had a bunch of posts. Good thing too because I used that to reconstruct things I had posted from the end of last year through January.

📧 Proton Mail (well…Proton Unlimited)

Giving Proton services a try again after a long time away. Wrote about it here today.

📺 TV shows finished/started

I finished season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery and started the spinoff Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Very happy that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds starts up again on 7/23. Best show of the new ones.

📰 Published:

Contacts on macOS is broken

🛠️ Tools of the week

Brave Origin
RemNote (notes - personal)
TickTick
Capacities (notes - work)