Archive for March, 2020

Argh

Posted March 18, 2020 By Dave Thomer

OK, so here’s another difference between a journal I write by hand and a blog I maintain online. I don’t have to worry about the paper getting an update that makes me unable to actually edit my text. There’s something about the latest version of WordPress that is making it impossible for me to format […]

In My Day, Blogs Were Called Journals

Posted March 17, 2020 By Dave Thomer

OK, it’s day three of renewed blogging and I’m going super eating-my-own-tail here, but there was a post I saw on Twitter last week about keeping journals during this period of isolation so that there’s a record of what it was like to actually live through it, rather than a sepia-tinged version in memory down […]

What Am I Doing?

Posted March 16, 2020 By Dave Thomer

So this is the official Day One of the New Normal of schools being closed. I’m still feeling my way around and trying to develop a routine. I’ve decided that as long as I have any say over the matter, I am not worrying about doing anything with the expectation that it will be graded. […]

Now or Never

Posted March 15, 2020 By Dave Thomer

Well, if a global pandemic that shuts down schools and requires me to stay at home as much as possible doesn’t motivate me to start writing more, it’s time to say that my days of writing anything beyond snappy social media posts are over. So we’ll see where this goes. I’ve had a lot of […]