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Matthew Lang

Family guy and web developer

I added PageFind to my blog last night, but I am still trying to get it working with the light and dark scheme. Once this is resolved, I’ll see about then integrating it into the Bothy theme.

I finished reading The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey. Not quite what I was expecting from the authors of The Expanse novels. Certainly a unique story, but it wasn’t much of a page turner for me. 📚

We watched Superman tonight. It’s been a while since we really enjoyed a superhero movie. I hope there are more movies to come from DC.🍿

We put the Christmas tree up this weekend, as next weekend was going to be a bit busy. Outdoor lights go up tomorrow.

A glass angel ornament hangs on a Christmas tree decorated with red baubles, green branches, and twinkling lights.

I caved and bought Marked 2 to preview my Markdown files as I write them in my text editor. It feels like 2015 again.

Using the daily plan bar again

For the last few weeks, I’ve been using Mike Rohde’s daily plan bar for my work notebook.

Initially, I started using a weekly plan bar over a year ago. Still, in the last few weeks, I’ve needed to tie my notes to that same day, so I’ve started using the daily plan bar again.

Auto-generated description: A dotted notebook shows a vertical timeline numbered from 8 to 1 on the left side in orange ink.

Nothing fancy, just a bar representing my day, split into 15-minute segments going from my usual hours of 8 to 5. If I am starting earlier in the day, it can go from 7 to 4 instead.

My daily plan bar is always on the left-hand side of the left-hand page of my notebook. The rest of the two-page spread is for notes and anything else that comes up that day.

It’s been a good change moving to the daily plan bar. Scoping out my day is much easier, and adding last-minute meetings and changes is easy.

In the future, I may reduce the bar to just eight hours and use the extra space for a single goal for the day.

A good range session tonight for Drew. The driver is still looking good despite not playing much golf. Hopefully the weather stays dry enough for some golf at the weekend.

Jen and I finished season 3 of The Diplomat last night. Seasons 1 and 2 were great, but it definitely tailed off for us in season 3.