Many milestones that have come and gone in the last couple of years:
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We had to move back to Texas
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I had to go back to work
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We had to move to Austin
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I vested in my pension
One future milestone is when my wife officially retires (legally, as in receives a pension -- not just stops working, which actually happened in 2011). But mostly I have just been counting down the days. Last year. Last month.
And today I officially started my last pay period. The last day of this two-week period will be my last day at work. If all goes as planned, it will be my last wage-earning W2 type of job, ever!
It's starting to feel real now.
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Giving up on IndieWeb - Again!
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I have a long, tortured history with the IndieWeb. It's like social media - each time I think I'm over it I rage-quit and then I later return. I forget all the bad things and remember only the good and I tell myself this time it will be different. In other words, I never...READ MORE
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Reconnected with micro.blog
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Finished with the basic migration to eleventy and adding Indieweb microformats and webmentions. I think I have all this working now. Time to connect back to micro.blog and test it out!READ MORE
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Built with Eleventy
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Netlify
I'll write up the details later, but this site is now being created/parsed/compiled, etc. using Eleventy. I'm still pushing it to GitHub, and Netlify is grabbing it and serving it. That part's the same. Just different under the hood. Also a new design/theme, and redoing...READ MORE
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