Archive of posts from 2025
I’ve been journaling for years and have pretty much always used my favorite pen. That would be the Uni Signo UM-151 (DX). I used to be able to get a set of colors that included blue-black, green-black, brown-black, bordeaux-black and purple-black. That was great, except that I couldn’t get refills in those colors. The refills only came in blue, black and red. I liked having a bit of color. So after some years of using these pens (which I still use at work and in other places), I’ve started using a fountain pen. I bought a Twisbi ECO. It took me a while to get used to it, but it’s grown on me. The drawback is I don’t have the variety of colors. I have Robert Oster Direct Sun ink in my pen and I like it, but I miss changing colors each day. Last week, I decided to buy another fountain pen (another Twisbi ECO). I spent a bit of time thinking about colors and decided that I wanted a nice brown. I thought that might be a nice contrast with the red I had been using. I bought DeAtramentis Document Ink - Brown. I may have fallen for marketing, but I thought that this would be good for writing in a journal. The journal I use is a Leuchtturm 1917 Hardcover. I got the pen and ink today. I loaded it up and tried it out. The results in my journal were really bad, see the picture.
Jan 29, 2025 Train to NYCAfter my very enjoyable trip to Boston-Cape Breton last summer, of which I have posted no pictures because I’m lazy, I’m spending some time in New York. I’m going to a wedding in Connecticut and thought I’d enjoy a couple extra days off.
Jan 26, 2025 Need to Relearn RailsI’ve spent a bit of time at work rewriting a rails app. Stupidly, now I’ve started watching some of the videos about Rails 8. Lots of things have changed from the last time I did any real rails programming. The good news is that in watching some of the videos, I was NOT completely lost. I basically understood the ideas of what they were talking about. I also know enough to know that when I start to try some of this new stuff out that I’m going to have a much harder time than the demos. But it’s funny. I’ve basically just finished updating two apps, but I haven’t made them public yet. I probably will have to deploy one of them. But I may rewrite them using some of the things I’ve just learned.
Jan 1, 2025 Hello 2025!I started a year in review post a few days ago, but never got around to finishing it. So I’ll just start a new post for the new year. This is going to be short because I just don’t feel like spending much time on it.