The PolyBlog

3×30: Day 22-23 of 30 days of change – TV, vaccine passports, and appointments for Jacob

September 24 2021

Item 22.1 on Wednesday was some more fall TV premiere planning. Mostly getting my “tracker” set up so I know when shows are on, if I want to watch something live.

Item 22.2 was going out for dinner with Andrea for her birthday followed by dessert afterwards.

Item 22.3 was figuring out the stupid passport-on-my-phone links. I do not know what is going on with my iPhone as there are two things lately that SHOULD be working one way but when I try to access those menus, it throws up its hands at me as if it has never heard of those options.… Read the rest

3×30: Day 20-21 of 30 days of change – Exercising, TV and staying home

September 22 2021

I ran out of time on Monday and Tuesday to blog this week, partly as I’ve been under the weather. I took yesterday and today off work, and I don’t really feel like I’m whole again yet.

Item 20.1 was a bit of fall TV premiere planning. Every fall, like a fantasy football league or something, I look at all the new shows coming out and predict whether or not I think they’ll make it to S02. I hadn’t had a chance to really go through them for 2021/22 yet, but I went through 27 of them for a quick review.… Read the rest

3×30: Day 19 of 30 days of change – Websites, TV watching, and Minecraft

September 19 2021

Sunday, a time for light reflection and spending time with your PC. I mean, family. But when your son would like to kick you to the curb in favour of Minecraft servers, well, you roll with it for the day.

Item 19.1 was a bit more tweaking of my website. There are two things that annoy me a little with my setup and plugins. The first is really small…when I post a new article/post, my site sends an email copy out immediately as a newsletter to subscribers. For this site, there are only a couple of people; for PolyWogg, it barely cracks double digits.… Read the rest

3×30: Day 18 of 30 days of change – Websites, workouts and apps

September 19 2021

Saturday dawned seemingly early this morning. I was hoping to sleep in longer, but alas, that was not to be.

Item 18.1 was a bit about tweaking my website graphics. I was doing a posting about something, tweaked my sidebar, and realized that one of the images was not showing quite right. I checked in another place, and it too showed it slightly cropped. Odd. I had fixed ALL of that about 18-20 months ago. I resized ALL of the images to a specific size, they should be all showing perfectly. Weird. So I checked it out in WordPress. I thought it was 150×150 px to match the default thumbnail size for theme layouts.… Read the rest

Changing my body – Stretching, workouts and walking

September 19 2021

So I went a bit overboard today on my planning function for my workouts. For Stretching, I took the 16 low-difficulty exercises, figured out which order to do them in that makes sense, and prepared a simple 4×4 table in Word that shows the pretty pics and names of the exercises. And then I used it today for the first time. It worked perfectly.

I wasn’t surprised I liked the layout, I had pretty much already done the same thing for the Bowflex routine (9 exercises in the 20 minute full body workout).

I used it for the second time today, and it also worked well.… Read the rest