I am not as confident driving as I once was. I work from home, so I don’t go out as much as I used to. I’ve talked about this a little either in a post here or on the podcast, but I just don’t feel like I’m as good a driver as I once was. One of the things that I’ve really noticed over the last few years is that I have a serious fear of running a red light. Now this is a fear that I think everyone should have. Running a red could lead to your death or the death of someone else. So, being fearful of it is reasonable and rational.

I’m not a self-reflective type person. I never really have been. I have aspired to be so at times during my life – usually during times where I’m dissatisfied with the direction things are going. But it’s never really been something I’m good at or good at following through with. I have a tendency to say I’m going to do something instead of, ya know, actually doing it. There’s a reason I proclaim to be the laziest person on the planet.

So, I’ve been doing this blogging thing for a few months now, and now that I have the transition to Hugo done and the theme sorted out, and comments (see below!) sorted out, it’s time to make the process of blogging easier. The first task is to make it easier to actually create a markdown file with all the Hugo stuff pre-populated. I spent a little time in bash and this is what I came out with:

In my never ending quest to track all things, I’ve been looking into ways of gathering even more data about my day, my habits, and my workflow. I’ve been keeping a to do list for years (using Todoist), but it doesn’t do so much with stats. And really, there are days where I mark things off without actually doing them. Horrid habit, that, to be sure. But it does happen. So even if Todoist kept the type of stats I’m looking for, they wouldn’t be that accurate. And it’s an entire separate application - one that relies on the service of a third-party as well. Not ideal, to say the least.