• Happy New Year! I spent New Years Eve like I usually do, going to bed early and waking up before the sun, as per usual. It was great. We went to the local shrine around 10am on new year's day. We were planning to skip the visit or wait until after the holidays, but while walking past the shrine Leo wanted to see the koi and since there was hardly anybody there then we decided to just do it. I'm glad we did because there was a long line an hour later. One thing of note is that because of covid19 they took down the rope with the noise maker at the top that you shake when pray.


• Leo started riding his bicycle (the type without pedals/cranks, so he can practice balancing) a lot this week. He rode it to the grocery store and riding the bicycle was easier than walking, which surprised me. Without the bicycle he likes to run the entire way, but since he doesn't look for cars (despite warning him to stop etc..), I end up having to run/walk with him. With the bicycle his pace is consistent and he is more cautious, but he doesn't want to stop riding so we end up making 3 trips to-and-back from the store.


• Last week I talked about a blogging system. This week I managed to get a base version of it built: 🏔Tanzawa.

My goal with Tanzawa is to make it easy to have an energy efficient home on the internet. It will be the place to store your statuses, your blogs posts, your runs, your checkins, your links, whatever you want. And since it's your home you should have easy access to your data that's stored in a clear and logical manner. It won't be for everyone, but I hope that people will find it useful.

Right now it only supports posting of text statuses. Next up is adding support for images. Once that's finished I plan to start on syndication to Twitter and webmentions before finally moving on to posts, checkins, and other types.

Really excited to have the first instance of 🏔Tanzawa built and running on a server. Named after the mountain range I see everyday out my window.