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"Brave" by Sara Bareilles

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Share a song that captures the feeling of being brave.

My family was listening to this repeatedly for months. So this is the first song that comes to mind.

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"Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai

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What song makes you want to dance alone in your room?

You know this boogie is for real!

Jamiroquai has so many great songs. I don't know why I haven't been keeping up with what they have been doing.

Maybe it's because I'm too busy dancing to what they already made.

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• ✨ Wins: What good or great things happened this week?

  • I got good news from a friend that I haven’t heard from in a while
  • Finished most of my work tasks

• 📌 Progress Check: How did things go with your goals from Monday?

  1. I did 10 out of the 50 pushups
  2. I stressed out about having “the right” journal
  3. I’m going to set up the same goals for next week

• 🤔 Challenges: What obstacles did you encounter, and what can you learn from them?

  • I need to post the goals somewhere so that I don’t forget and this.

• 🔄 Adjustments: Anything you’ll do differently next week? Set reminders on my phone in the hopes of keeping myself accountable.

"All Night Long" by Mary Jane Girls

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What song makes you want to stay up all night?

I'm actually not a fan of staying up late. Maybe because I'm an early riser or just getting old(er).

This song is a classic song written by Rick James. The bass riff is amazing and rocks you into slow groove.

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"Arco Arena (Instrumental)" by CAKE

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What's a song you associate with your hometown?

Cake is a band from where I'm from -- don't be creepy -- and this song is about a building that no longer exists. But, it really gets me hyped and ready to do something. I thought about having it as my morning alarm, but I don't want to wind up hating it.

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I've been thinking about this article by Jim Mitchell on using Phosphor Icons for Micro.blog navigation but haven't finished implementing it with my preferred icon font, tabler.

I was researching what would happen if someone was to read the site and the font is not available – for example, RSS – when I came across a post talking about descent-override.

While font metrics are baked into a typeface’s definition, there are various CSS properties that allow stylesheet authors to override those metrics. Among them, the three most important ones that we’re interested in are size-adjust, ascent-override, and descent-override.

I’ve currently have a small selection of fonts being referenced, to verify for myself that the font isn’t downloaded when not used. I want to make this a two step rollout as I redo my page navigation and change the spacing in the articles.

Be sure to check out Jim’s blog for lots of great content!

"So Anxious" by Ginuwine

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Share a song that perfectly captures anticipation.

Yes, Ginuwine has more than just Pony in his list of songs! Funny enough, I didn't know what exactly this song was about when it came out.

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"Change the World" by Babyface & Eric Clapton

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What's your favorite song about change?

This song has beautiful instrumentation and wonderful energy.

Depending on the version, you can get the extra kick at the end!

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It is a mixed blessing to have a unique name. One of the perks is that I usually get to have my name on social networks without having to do an add a bunch of numbers to is like bob1978 or LikesBikes98. The only exception is when I had some trouble with my Apple GameCenter name having me change it to MrMandaris because of some account issues and now I’ve got to sit and watch my name sit there dormant.

I recently went through my blog settings and saw that I was still linking to my twitter account that I had shutdown more than a year ago as of this writing. I thought I would see if the account had been claimed.

I don’t know what I was hoping for…

It really felt like seeing your ex-significant other and knowing that they have not been doing well since you’ve separated.

I've been thinking about footnotes and whether they should be included in my writing. It started after reading this article from Kitty Giraudel about accessible footnotes, and I explored using popover as an alternative.

I was reading the Piccalilli newsletter and saw that Jake Archibald recently wrote an article about footnotes and has some suggestions on what to use instead.

I hate footnotes1, and hopefully by the end of this, you will too. Let's get down to it…

One of the points that stuck out for me was how footnotes can lead to context switching which can interrupt the flow of reading.

I’m still using footnotes in my writing, but I’ve (hopefully) reduced the usage to references.