I watched the 4 Nations Faceoff finale game last night between the US and Canada. It was an exciting game that Canada won in overtime 3-2!#

The sports world got some sad news last night. Mike Lange, who was the long-time voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins, passed away at the age of 76. His sayings were one of the best things about the broadcast, besides his incredible knowledge about hockey. He retired in 2021 and will be missed by all of us fans. "Elvis has just left the building!"#

Still very cold, but no new snow!#

Another bitter cold rest of the week!#

Heading back home to Pittsburgh this afternoon after a fun weekend with the Maryland grandkids!#

Rainy Sunday morning down in Maryland.#

Down in Maryland for the weekend, helping my son and his family get organized. My wife is so great at organizing!#

Heading down to Maryland this afternoon to see my son, his family, and my grandkids. 😊#

Very rainy morning.#

I see my cardiologist today for my annual checkup and hopefully a new prescription to replace VASCEPA. It was bad enough when this medication cost $100 a month, but with my new Medicare Advantage update, it is now $348 a month, which is incredible and unaffordable.#

Got some running around to do early this morning, then I have a Zoom meeting at 11:00.#

An interesting problem arose on my daughter's Etsy site. She was trying to issue a refund, but there was a bug in their code that was showing a transparent sign-out layer over the top of the div that contained the refund actions, so anytime she tried to click the refund popup menu, she got signed out. By using the inspector in Safari, I was able to hide the sign-out layer, thus allowing me to successfully issue the refund. I miss playing with HTML! 😃#

What a great win for the Philadelphia Eagles in last night's Super Bowl! Their defense smothered the Chiefs' offense with 6 sacks and 2 interceptions. No three-peat for the Chiefs!#

It's Super Bowl Sunday! I truly hope the Philadelphia Eagles win, thwarting the Kansas City Chiefs' three-peat!#

Show day! My daughter is part of the I Made It! Mine at The Block Northway event today! She's one of over 120 vendors selling all types of wares. It runs from 10:00 to 3:00 today, so stop by! 😀 #

I've been reluctant for whatever reason to use ChatGPT to write Python code for me. For some reason, my stubborn old-fashioned programmer's way of thinking kept telling me to write my own code so I would learn from my mistakes. But today I thought I would give ChatGPT a try on creating a command-line app for me, and whoa! I was really impressed! Maybe an old dog can still learn some new tricks! 😎#

Show prep day. Lots of running around to do!#

Rainy and cold this morning, but at least it isn't ice, like they thought might happen.#

Doing some running around this morning, then looking into using DeepSeek R1 for a RAG implementation I am currently working on for a client.#

I have to quit doom scrolling. What's going on in D.C. is horrible and depressing. If they do something to Social Security and Medicare, they are going to hurt 70 million seniors, some of whom surely voted these bastards into office! Someone has to do something about Musk.#

A much cooler day today compared to yesterday!#

Today is going to be a busy day between running errands and doing some soul searching about the current state of my affairs.#

My next hurdle is figuring out how to do subheads in my Drummer script that publishes to my micro.blog site. Right now, it doesn't work at all. ☹️#

I'm actually growing used to having my blogroll on its own page on my micro.blog site here.#

The more I learn about the micro.blog platform, the more I like it.#

I've been working on my Micro.blog site garywthompson.dev today to see how I can change the theme and add features. It's been a bit confusing, but I'm starting to understand the platform a little better. I've made a new page for a blogroll, but I really want to show it on my home page. I need to learn how the short codes work on the platform.#

It's Groundhog's Day! Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow this morning, so 6 more weeks of winter! I wonder how many times he's actually been correct? 🙄#

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit! IYKYK.#

It's January 31st, and believe it or not, there is rolling thunder and rain happening outside my window.#

I have a micro.blog site that I had stopped pushing my content to, but now I'm thinking that I want to start using the site again. I need to learn how to change the theme/style to make it look a bit less open.#

I want to become a better writer, especially when it comes to my blog. I am currently using Drummer as my writing tool, but may switch to WordLand once Dave Winer releases it.#

Warm up today with rain that will hopefully wash away all of the dirty snow and salt residue.#

A very sad night with the plane crash in Washington, DC.#

It's time to focus on the present and not the past. Positivity and creativity are the goals. Peace of mind will follow.#

The news about the "mass immigration deporting" is so disturbing.#

The Super Bowl is set with the Chiefs vs. Eagles rematch from 2 years ago. I think the Eagles can win this time because of Saquon Barkley. I'm really tired of the Chiefs!#