Research
At this moment, I'm taking a break to restore my mental health. It's been "a morning" at work all day...
I did some research last night for one of my epilepsy essays; it was a recent, unpublished essay I wrote about language & memory. I found out some interesting stuff, things that - unfortunately - will not and did not show up on my EEG.
It's interesting stuff, and I found that it described almost exactly the things I've been experiencing in the last couple of years. I have it all scrawled on a loose piece of paper in my essay binder, so at some point I will incorporate it into the essay proper. I would like to post something about it here, but right now it's all in a jumble and I can't keep it straight in my head unless I'm looking at the piece of paper.
Over the weekend I did some more cool things with my website. I actually undid some of image markdown CSS stuff I set up so that I could play with global data files. Essentially what I did was put all of my book information into a single JSON file, and put this code onto my "Now" page:
<!-- Book covers -->
<ul class="booknav">
{%- for book in books %}
<li class="book-item"><a href="{{ book.url }}"><img class="book" src="{{ book.cover }}" alt="{{ book.title }} cover" title="{{ book.title}} by {{ book.author }}"></a></li>
{% endfor%}
</ul>
<!-- Book list -->
<ul>
{%- for book in books %}
<li><a href="{{ book.url }}">{{ book.title }}</a> by {{ book.author }} </li>
{% endfor%}
</ul>
So, now - when I want to update my list of books I only need to do that in the JSON file. I don't need to touch the Now page. I also set up something so I can easily change the current projects I'm working on. The only thing - the "edit" date doesn't change if I do that...hmm...
Oh, for the uninitiated, that code basically creates a loop that reads all of the entries in the "books.json" file I created and pastes them in bullet list. {{ book.title }} is an attribute, which Bear also uses. For example, if you type {{ post_title }} in your post, you get your post title! See? Research
I don't have this fancy set up on my now page here, but that's okay because it's only a temporary page anyway. It'll disappear once my website is fully online with a domain name.
I don't remember if I blogged about joining a gym. I know I talked about it in my 2024 goals, but I don't recall if I ever said anything about. So, now I am anyway. We joined a gym.
We also decided to sign up for personal training. All of this is a bit expensive, for sure; but my wife and I both feel that we'll get more out of the gym with a personal trainer helping us reach our goals. But because we are members of the gym, we can also go and have our own sessions outside of our 1-hour training sessions. Win-win.
I think that's all I have today. This little break was helpful. Back to the grind.
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