Messed up my virtual environment for Nikola Static blog generator. I decided to create a small script to automate some of the process.

Also, the doit process that Nikola uses keep tracks using gdbm. Gdbm does not work well with Microsofts one drive. I changed the dependency file DB backend of gdbm to sqlite3 in the file: nikola/lib/python3.7/site-packages/doit/cmd_base.py

or

--- nikola/lib/python3.7/site-packages/doit/cmd_base.py 2018-09-08 12:00:32.217679190 -0700
+++ cmd_base.py 2018-09-08 12:00:01.618008492 -0700
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
         'short':'',
         'long': 'backend',
         'type': str,
-    'default': "sqlite3",
+    'default': "dbm",
         'help': ("Select dependency file backend. [default: %(default)s]")
 }

Just testing different table types in RST from exmaples (and a definition sneak in)

csv-table

List Table

And a definition:

definition

the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear

Today's my double nickel. I saw this quote the other day on Pinterest. A little course, crude. Did not need the f-bomb to get the point across. However, I like it. I might be getting older, does not make me over the hill. A birthday poem for me...

Act my age?

What the fuck is that, “act my age?”

What do I care how old I am?

The Ocean is old as fuck. It will still drown your ass with vigor.

—King Stimie

Last year a neighbor caught me finishing running. He asked me why. My answer was health, the need to be active, plus I have some physical bucket lists: 5k, triathlon, sailing, etc. His answer was time and gravity as in the fight against it. I like the phrase. Going to be my new category for personal health going forward.

Just upgraded the static blog software to Nikola V8b2. The conversion is not perfect. Current goal is to just get the links correct before I worry about format.

One of a the better quotes that I come accross:

"We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it." [1]

—Thomas Aquinas

This quote belongs with this post:

Let us practice many acts of kindness and gentle clarity toward those we like the least.

—St. Frances de Sales

I went sailing with a friend. It was supposed to be just a mellow hour or two of sailing then pull my J/70 out of the water. Instead, we ended up sailing with a pod of dolphins. We did get caught in 25-mile gusts and large swells without enough weight. We had to furl the jib to get inshore. That short sail turned into a four-hour adventure.

A friend sent this to me in a text message. Put a smile on my face. If this is a metric to judge me by, I am both a real and a great man.