General

On Daylight Saving Time (2025 edition)

All I’ll say is the one-hour switch is not a huge thing for me to deal with. It’s only 60 minutes!

But, it would be nice if the BC government simply made it permanent instead of waiting for the now erratic, unreliable, ignorant, racist and untenable US government to take action first.

Things I didn’t really plan on in 2025

  • Visiting and bookmarking this website: https://madeinca.ca/
  • Discovering Steve Boots, a funny, amiable socialist and teacher who does Canadian political analysis on YouTube.
  • Entertaining the possibility that we might actually dodge electing a Conservative government in this year’s federal election

This has been an unplanned somewhat political post, thanks to tariffs and other actions and comments from some increasingly senile old white guy who wears a lot of orange makeup because he is a clown, and we are all part of the circus now.

To compensate, I give you this acrobatic cat:

The nice thing about trees

Trees don’t make you feel anxious or full of existential dread.

I mean, unless it’s stormy and one looks like it’s going to fall on you, which has admittedly happened to me.

But in general, trees don’t do that and I like that about them.

THIS POST IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO CURRENT WORLD EVENTS1Haha, naw. It’s totally related to it. But I am actually doing fine, here with my trees and nature and such..

I’m feeling weird about fonts lately

I have tweaked some of the fonts on the site again (but not all of them, so there is a bit of a crazy quilt effect going on here).

Specifically:

Body font: JetBrains Mono

Heading 2 font (used for post titles): Ubuntu Mono

As an added bonus for me, because WP doesn’t “see” JetBrains Mono in the editor, it is using Bold Segoe UI at 17px instead.

I’m all about the monospaced fonts. For now. For today. We’ll see what happens tomorrow.

EDIT: I have already changed the Header font to Barlow Semi Condensed, mere minutes later.

EDIT 2: I've now changed the sidebar to JetBrains Mono and also made the background colour of the site blue, and the sidebar a greenish-yellow. Or a yellowish-green.

EDIT 3: I've updated the blue in the logo to make it a bit lighter and it seems WP just needed to cache the fonts, as the editor now shows JetBrains Mono, as nature intended. More tweaking undoubtedly to come.

Buy your candy now

It’s the day after Valentine’s Day, it’s cheap!

I really want some marshmallow hearts or something, but I was down this morning (in weight, not mood), so I will steer clear.

Instead, here is a Valentine’s cat. I’m not actually sure where the cat is supposed to be, but, you know, hearts and stuff!

7-11’s Big Gulf

An interweb pal suggested the perfectly stupid name 7-11’s Big Gulf as a substitute for the real life and even more stupid renaming (for Americans) of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Because I am easily amused, I created this as it might look in the web version of Apple Maps:

Thank you and good night.