James has really cool mascot for his website, The James’ Coffee Blog.

I have been playing around with the idea of getting one.

May is Mental Health Month

Every month should be Mental Health Month.

Period.

But, just like Christmas, Halloween, and Valentines, it’s good to do a little bit more as we Get into the Spirit.

I drew the picture attached to this post because I find myself doing this when I’m stressed. It makes me happy. I also like to do large multiplication problems and then checking my answer with a calculator, but some people find that stressful to look at. :upside_down_face:

Here are some good resources that are promoting mental health awareness.

Mental Health America: They have a nice toolkit filled with ideas, posters, and resources.
SAMHSA: I like this site because it has a lot of things that you can share on different social media platforms and it’s broken down week to week. I feel this could be better in gives you more reasons to come back to the site.
NAMI: I like fact that they point you to the national HelpLine on the page.
San Francisco Warm Line: I really like the idea of a Warm Line. Sometimes we just need someone to talk to. Sometimes we wait until we’re almost at the breaking point. This might just the thing you need.
CalHOPE: Targeted towards people where I live. Hopefully there are other resources closer to you as well.

I’m planning on posting about Mental Health all this month and talking a little bit about how I’m going to be picking up new habits. I hope that you take a moment to review the resources and share it with others.

📺 The Umbrella Academy (Season 3) - ★★☆☆☆

The show started off on a high and my mind was filled with different possibilities that they could do with the different characters. What does it look like for a hero to be upstaged by a questionably better version of themselves? How do you adjust to a timeline that isn't your own? Could they fit in another dance number into the season?

I didn’t get a lot of those things.

I’m not docking them points because they didn’t do the fan fiction that I had put together in my mind.

I am docking them for … well … being kind of boring and mean.

I get it. They had a horrible childhood and are still hurting from that.

Unfortunately, this season does not give them time to grow as characters. In fact, you could say that some of them are worse and could be quantified as villains this time around.

As they say, “Hurt people hurt people” and you only hurt the ones you love.

That’s not to say it’s all bad, they have a lot of fun bits sprinkled in there, but felt myself feeling a little bit relieved when the season was over.

Back at the Academy, the Umbrellas clash with a new squad of Hargreeves siblings as a mysterious force begins to wreak havoc on the city.
Description of Season 3 from The Movie Database

The forth and final season of this show will be airing in August this year. It’s going to be six (6) episodes compared to this one being ten (10).

A good image tells a good story

I've been writing a little bit about accessibility and images this last week and it feel like this article came out at just the write time.

The right visual can attract people’s attention and explain complex matters at one sight. Yet, just as a misplaced joke can ruin a comedy set, boring or inappropriate images can derail and devalue your presentation. So, how do we choose the right ones?
A good image tells a good story

I do enjoy writing for the internet and sometimes feel that an image would really help make an article demonstrate an idea or an opinion quicker than reading what I wrote.

I don’t normally have an image because I’m not very confident in my drawings and the friction of creating it, resizing it, posting it, and then putting it on the post saps a little bit of the joy for a post that may only be a couple sentences long.

I’ve also looked into using clip art or images found on the internet, but I’ve stopped because I’m not always sure about the licensing rights and attributions. I played around with the idea of using AI generated images, but it’s a nonstarter at this point.

Apple Annie’s Weblog · WeblogPoMo 2024

If you are looking for inspiration to write more on your personal blog, then I would like to point you to this upcoming event put together by Apple Annie.

What is it? Weblog Posting Month, 2024! If you use weblog.lol, or otherwise have a personal blog, you should absolutely participate in this month-long blog posting extravaganza!
Apple Annie’s Weblog

I am hoping to have a theme of Making it Happen in May, where Ill write something about self-improvement or promoting Mental Health Month.

Discovered via Robb Knight on Mastodon.

It’s lunchtime here and people are microwaving fish 🎣

Things I am grateful for

Getting up this morning and not dreading the day
Opportunities to make myself into who I want to be
Letting go of negative emotions and thoughts (this is always a work in progress)
Spending some time just going through my projects and realizing that I can’t and don’t need to do everything at once or at all
Spending time with the people who truly care to be with me

I don't have to be grumpy

I’ve been feeling pretty agitated all day. It feels like there was a little bit of me that wanted to just yell at the world to stop being so stupid. That kind of thinking/feeling isn’t going to make things better. I’m just going to acknowledge that I’m feeling this way, realize that it’s just a feeling and if I’m not going to do anything with a feeling that I should let it go until I know where it’s coming from and how I plan to change it.

At one point , this was The material possessions that I wanted the most. The last couple months have been me using it because it’s part of a habit and/or potential that I hope is still there.

Apple Watch having trouble connecting to the internet.

I saw something on the internet and really wanted to comment. I took a second to compose my thoughts and how I wanted to respond. Thankfully someone else did it in a good way and I’ll be taking that feeling with me.