Resurrected Post 4

This is the post I wrote last night, on the 1st, saved outside of the blog because the blog pooped in it's pampers. I didn't edit it, here it is.

I am writing this one from my phone, because I turned off my computer for the night before I remembered to write my daily post. I was originally going to just write the post, but I couldn't log in from my phone, so I went to look and somehow the changes I made yesterday were undone, as if I had never even made them. It was a 5-minute fix, nothing I couldn't do, but the fact I had to is making me wary of the blog, which will apparently decide to undo changes I made to the config file at whenever it wants. I'll check in the morning, and if it does this again, I'll find another way to host this blog altogether. Something about the setup is cursed, and there are likely better ways to do what I'm doing anyway.

I had a decently good day, though I ate shit on the way to work in a way that made me very glad to have my pads. I scraped my hip, and my shoulder is sore from the impact, but the wristguards and elbow pads did their job, and I'm much better off for having worn them.

I'm realizing that without the larger context of knowing me and what I get up to that doesn't make much sense, so let me elaborate and provide background. I skate to work on a longboard I bought 2 and a half weeks ago now, having never skated in my life. I took a transit adventure to the Fairfax Skate Shop, where I bought pads and tools, an then ordered a helmet (skate shop didn't have my size). My mother (Hi Mom!!) has always been very safety-concious, shall we say, so I was urged to buy all of said protective gear (and probably would have anyway, we are very much similar people), but once I began skating I was glad to have it.

I've been getting progressively better on the board since I got it, the 15-20 minute commute to work is a really good way to learn how to skate, after a couple of initial sessions just getting familiar with the board and the mechanics of it all. It is some of the most fun I've had in a long while, and it's very freeing to just be gliding through parking lots and across sidewalks, in a way that a bike doesn't quite capture. It's definitely a hobby that I'll stick with, if I make it through the summer without damaging myself in a major way I'll either buy or attempt to build an electric board, because the speed and convenience that can be acheived there is unmatched.

I was going to start working on the portfolio side of this blog I'm going to make, but I just worked on my flying medieval town in Minecraft this evening, but soon!! A portfolio is one of the few genuinely useful things I plan to do with this website, besides just yapping about my day and showing off a little.

I guess no image today, I tried to add one, but it's throwing a new error about the database being unreachable. Some serious chicanery evidently went down in my server, but that's a problem for tomorrow me, it's getting late. It better save the absolute essay I just wrote, or I'll be a wee bit upset.

It won't let me post it. I'm going to copy the entire text to a safe place, and then this'll end up getting posted tomorrow, which is too bad. I'm not counting it as a dig on my streak, it's interference by a ghost (ha) in the machine, not a problem on my end.