For the past several weeks, I’ve been getting messages in the WordPress dashboard about my site’s PHP version being beyond security updates, and that I should switch to a newer one. No sweat the host has this easily accessible and lists numerous versions I can switch to. Only, the moment I do, any of them, the blog site goes down.
This is generally an indication that something on the
Today marked another opportunity to capture a transit, and this time, we had clear skies and I kept the timing straight in my head and everything. The target was the Tiangong space station, China’s own entry into low-Earth-orbit experiments and observations, and the waning crescent moon. I checked everything,
Out last night trying (and succeeding) to find a new Estate Find, I came back to the outside door to Walkabout Studios and saw a distinctive pattern, right alongside the steps: an eastern kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula) emerging from a burrow about as close to my door as it could be. The day after World Snake Day as well, when I spent so much time trying to locate any.
Actually, it’s hard to believe that, in over sixteen years of posting, I haven’t used that title before…
So early this morning, the ISS was supposed to pass in front of the moon again, at least in my location, and I was all prepared to go out after it again. I didn’t have visibility here at Walkabout Estates Plus, so I packed my gear down to a spot just off the waterfront,
Yet another holiday has approached and nearly passed now, and it wasn’t clear if I was going to be able to celebrate it or not. This is going to take some setting up, so bear with me (he says, to all the nonexistent readers.)
Some time back, I was reaching for something that had fallen on the floor and fell out of my chair, mostly because the floor in Walkabout Studios is tile and the chair
… of the host, because I didn’t do it.
If you came here in the past day and didn’t find anything, it’s because my website host switched their content to a new server, which I had plenty of notice was going to happen. And the main site went fine, but the blog disappeared entirely. I left it for a few hours, figuring that it was DNS woes of some kind (even though the main site,
I went out today knowing that it was a holiday, which I could have avoided, but that would be shirking my bloggy duty, and I figured I’d just get it over with. For today is Lock Teasers Day, which is not half as much fun as the other kind.
What, exactly, is Lock Teasers Day, you ask? Which is stupid, because it’s right there in the name: it’s the day for photo subjects
It’s now been sixteen years since the first post right here on the ol’ Walkabout Blogoblob, and that means it’s time for the annual podcast! [This is unfortunately accurate, for the past few years at least, but I’m intending to change that at least a little.] So let’s get right into it, shall we?
Walkabout podcast – 16 Years
I’m running late, partially due
Several years ago during the trip to South Carolina, I was putting one of the kayaks on the roof rack of the car and, being incautious, ran into the side mirror of the car while maneuvering the straps around. This pulled a muscle in the side of my lower back rather seriously, and left me a bit tender for a while. Worse, it’s the kind of muscle that you use for a lot of things, and
This is part two of the sordid mess part one can be found here.
So with the design of the deck largely locked down, we had two main challenges, which don’t seem like they should be hard: creating games for the deck, and finding a name for it. Dan Palmer already had a few games past the conceptual stage and started play-testing a couple, but such things need refinement to find
