Matthew Lang

Lots of family adjustments are being made this week.

Ethan’s been going through his inductions, student orientation, meeting team mates, and getting to know his way around campus this week. I’m glad to see he’s settling in nicely at McKendree. He’s got a spot of volunteering today. Classes begin on Monday, the gym opens on Tuesday, and the golf team start preparations and work on Thursday.

The hardest part for Ethan has been the lack of golf this week. He’s only played one round this week, but there’ll be plenty of golf ahead when the fall competition schedule begins.

At home, we’re slowly getting used to Ethan not being around, and I’m glad his brother is still optimistic about the whole situation. Drew has been kept busy with his golf and going back to school.

He’s also looking into a potential new hobby in the form of Warhammer. That may spill over to me as well. I am curious about it. I played D&D during high school, but I haven’t played it since. This might be a nice way back into some elements of D&D, but without having to endure a long-running campaign.

Said our goodbyes to Ethan this morning as he heads to McKendree University in Illinois to play as part of their golf team.

It’s been a weekend of ups and downs but mostly tears as our close family of four deals with the prospect of Ethan living abroad for most of the year.

The good thing is he’s back for Christmas for a few weeks and then he’s back in April / May for the start of the golf season.

It’s going to be a great opportunity for him and I’m sure he’ll be a better person and golfer for it once he finishes his four years.

Go Bearcats! 😄

The idea of a three-column theme for a Micro.blog is growing on me.

Bothy was a nice starter for learning about how themes work in Hugo and Micro.blog, but I would like to do more with a theme.

Here are just a few ideas I thought of for a new theme

• Show a header image - I like the idea of a header image for your website. I love the simplicity of text, but having a more visual theme is something that I think is missing from the current collection of Micro.blog themes.
• Show a micro update using emojis or just one word - A little bit of extra meta to let people know what you are up to.
• Show the latest image(s) from a category - Showing images from a particular category would add another visual element to the page.
• Show recent posts - A staple of many a WordPress blog back in the day. Time for this to make a comeback!

With such a larger number of elements for this theme, I might start off with a blank HTML page and start outlining what I need using Tailwind CSS to get a quick prototype up and running. I can then iterate on that for a while, working out the finer points. Once I am happy with it, I can then start building the theme using the finished prototype.