Minor fixes

content/now-burning/Now Burning_2026-06-29_10:44.md

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+---
+title: Dragon's Blood
+manufacturer: Bhagwan Incense
+date: 2026-06-29 10:43:50
+time: 10:43 AM
+---
+

content/now/index.njk

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ tags:
 {% set postsCount = collections.now | removeMostRecent | length %}
 {% if postsCount > 1 %}
 <h2 class="postlist-header">Previous Entries:</h2>
-{% set postslist = collections.now | removeMostRecent %}
+{% set postslist = collections.now | removeMostRecent | reverse %}
 {% set showPostListHeader = false %}
 {% include "postslist.njk" %}
 {% endif %}

content/now/now_2025_11_28.md

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: Me Time
 description: "Taking time off for the holiday, incense stuff, leisure, and displacement."
 synopsis: "Taking time off for the holiday, incense stuff, leisure, and displacement."
 date: 2025-11-28
+imageURL: /img/maroma_sandalwood.webp
+imageAlt: An incense stick protruding from a round blue ceramic censer.
 ---
 Not much of tremendous interest has been going on lately; I took the week off because I forget to take time during the year, and thanksgiving is as good excuse as any to cram in some PTO at the end of the year. I've also been taking Fridays off lately. Sol and I had planned to spend thanksgiving day with their folks, but we unfortunately had to cancel the day before due to some medical stuff. Instead, we had a nice wee dinner just between the two of us: a [nut roast](https://lovingitvegan.com/vegan-nut-roast/), mashed potatoes, and gochujang-glazed carrots, all with lashings of gravy. Nut roasts are one of those foods that more people ought to eat. I think people avoid it because it sounds like too-healthy hippie food, but it's genuinely lovely. It's good hot as part of a roast dinner; it's also fantastic cold on sandwiches.
 

content/now/now_2026-06-29.md

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+---
+title: Getting Old
+description: "Life updates and thoughts on moving, aging, doing human stuff, and work."
+synopsis: "Life updates and thoughts on moving, aging, doing human stuff, and work."
+date: 2026-06-29
+imageURL: /img/Still_Life_with_Lemons_Oranges_and_a_Pomegranate_about_1620–1630_Jacob_van_Hulsdonck.webp
+imageAlt: A still life painting by Jacob van Hulsdonck of lemons, oranges, and a pomegranate.
+---
+It's been a while since my last update; I wanted to finish refreshing the style of my website before writing anything. The update took quite some time. At first, I implemented a design with big full-width header images on blog posts, and it looked pretty good. But, for some reason, after putting in all of the effort to accomplish my design I found that I lacked any motivation to keep going. I eventually realized that I just wasn't keen on the design. There was nothing wrong with it per se; I think it was just too loud. After some more time in Inkscape, I settled on the current look and worked feverishly to complete it. It's not terribly different: just a little tidier, more green, with some type tweaks.
+
+## Moving on
+
+Kicking-out time approaches for my apartment. I knew the new landlord was fibbing when she said she hoped that I, and the other residents, would stay on as tenants. It just isn't tenable without huge rent increases. For a first-time property owner it seems like she's already got the slum-lord routine down; no contact whatsoever unless rent is remitted ever so slightly later than usual (honestly, I don't mind this). She also opted not to pay a professional to replace the water heater, and simply left the broken unit taking up space in the basement after installing the new one. I realize I sound salty, but I'm not. For a man with lots of big feelings, I find it extremely difficult to hold a grudge. I recognize that she has done something awful by forcing six people from their home irrespective of their attachment to the place or ability to bear the cost of a move financially. I also don't have to hate her for it. In fact, I'm close to incapable.
+
+## Getting old
+
+But beside all of that, I've been feeling pretty vulnerable in other ways too. It's impossible to save money in this economy, and I'm starting to really internalize what a tenuous position this puts me in unless I can escape the U.S. before I'm old and decrepit. The driving force behind this awakening is that I have health stuff to consider these days. Nothing remotely serious, but, lord, It seems not so long ago that I was a twenty-something running around the city utterly uninsured, working too much, drinking too much, recklessly re-using old contact lenses, and sowing my wild oats without so much as a thought to donning a pair of dungarees. Don't get me wrong—I'm as strong and lively as ever—but you sure do start to acknowledge that you're merely a squishy machine when you have to fire up an electronic breathing box so that you don't hold your breath too long in your sleep. At the ripe old age of 36 I'm beginning to feel a bit like a monk; my only remaining vices are drinking tea, burning incense, and pondering my mortality.
+
+## Human stuff
+
+This is a good phase of life for me too, however. I'm no longer filled with the acute sense of existential dread that hits you when your life suddenly becomes more stable. Only a little of that these days, [as a treat](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cats-can-have-little-a-salami). I'm starting to regain that rich appreciation of beauty that I had too many feelings for as a teen and too little time for as a twenty-something. I've started buying the chocolate bars with love poems inside the wrappers, for the wrappers. I'm slowly remembering how to not worry too much about things I can't change. I've really come to relish small treats. I know what it's like to love someone, and be loved by someone, for close to a decade. In a world where everything seems to be going to pot and nobody has any money, I've been retreating into what it is to be a human, and it's been pretty cozy. Drinking tea, making and appreciating incense, playing music, reading and writing more prose and poetry. All really nice, really human things to do.
+
+## A big work event
+
+We had our big annual event at work not long ago. This year, Hillary Clinton was one of our speakers, so there was a big to-do with secret service, et cetera. It's par for the course for VIPs to be present at these events, so it's not uncommon for attendees and speakers alike to have private security. But this was another matter entirely and it required a lot of work from everybody involved. Despite some sleepless nights for our events director, it went very well and got quite a lot of news coverage. I didn't speak to her but I hear that Hillary had a nice time as well, which is great. You want your speakers to enjoy themselves. I rather enjoyed the conversation too.

content/status/Status_2026-06-29_13:29.md

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+---
+date: 2026-06-29 13:28:40
+emoji: 🤖
+comment: I wish that before companies bolted-on AI assistants to their products, they first considered whether they have been neglecting basic quality of life features like fuzzy search, trimming whitespace from inputs, good info hierarchy and discoverability, etc. Like, if your software is a labrynth full of foot-guns, of course people are going to want a magic lamp.
+---

public/css/comments.css

@@ -168,9 +168,9 @@ p.isso-input-wrapper {
   border-top-left-radius: 0;
 	color: var(--background-color);
 	padding: var(--space-l) calc((100cqw - (var(--grid-gutter) * 11)) / 12) var(--space-2xs) calc((100cqw - (var(--grid-gutter) * 11)) / 12);
-  margin-left: calc(((100cqw - (var(--grid-gutter) * 11)) / 12) * -1) !important;
+  /*! margin-left: calc(((100cqw - (var(--grid-gutter) * 11)) / 12) * -1) !important; */
   margin-block: 1lh 1lh;
-  width: calc(((100cqw) / 12) * 14);
+  /*! width: calc(((100cqw) / 12) * 14); */
 }
 @container (width < 460px) {
 	.isso-postbox {
@@ -223,6 +223,12 @@ textarea.isso-textarea {
 	width: 100%;
 }
 
+/* reply form */
+.isso-root > .isso-comment > .isso-text-wrapper > .isso-postbox {
+	width: 100%;
+	margin-left: auto;
+}
+
 @media (max-width: 900px) {
 	.isso-postbox {
 		margin-left: auto !important;

public/css/index.css

@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ h3 {
 	text-wrap: pretty;
 	&::before {
 		color: var(--contrast-color);
-		content: "🢒";
+		content: "▸";
 		margin-left: calc(1em * -1);
 	}
 }