Post about Charlie and misc local changes

config.toml

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   [[params.social]]
     icon = "mail"
     name = "Email"
-    url = "mailto://eric@ericwagoner.com?subject=Blog"
+    url = "mailto:eric@ericwagoner.com?subject=Blog"
 
 [menu]
   [[menu.main]]

content/now.md

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 [grimmlunch]: https://grimmlunch.org
 [steampunk]: https://www.atlantasteampunkexpo.com
 
-This page is all about what I am doing *now*. It was last updated on December 21, 2022, and will be edited as things change.
+This page is all about what I am doing *now*. It was last updated on January 7, 2023, and will be edited as things change.
 
 ## Where I am now
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ I'm on the management team and am a senior developer at [Infinity Interactive][i
 
 ## What I am reading now
 
-[The Aleph Extraction](https://dmoren.com/the-aleph-extraction/) by [Dan Moren](https://dmoren.com/)
+[The Nova Incident](https://dmoren.com/the-nova-incident/) by [Dan Moren](https://dmoren.com/)
 
 ## What else?
 

content/posts/2023-07-24-goodbye,-charlie/index.md

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+---
+title: Goodbye, Charlie
+description: I lost my best boy Sunday morning...
+date: 2023-07-24T21:45:12.751Z
+preview: ""
+draft: false
+tags:
+  - diary
+  - pets
+categories: ""
+lastmod: 2023-07-24T22:26:01.797Z
+---
+
+I lost my best boy Sunday morning. For the last eight years, he was never far from my side and we took care of each other. I tended to his physical wounds he had as a tiny foundling (in the parking lot of a liquor store in the middle of a thunderstorm) after I adopted him and he took care of my mental wounds, which ran just as deep.
+
+He wanted to be wherever I was, always watching and preferably helping. When I was at my desk, he was either at my feet or perched up behind me, watching intently. When I was in the kitchen cooking, he would watch me from the top of the stairs, sitting propped up in his weird little way. If I was in my workshop making something, he'd be right in the middle of it.
+He came to me in the exact right time and left way too soon.
+
+Goodbye, Charlie. I miss you so much already.
+
+![Baby Charlie sleeping on my chest](images/sleeping-on-my-chest.JPG)
+![Baby Charlie standing on an award plate](images/standing-on-my-trophy-plate.JPG)
+![A collage of Charlie being where I need to be](images/trio-of-being-where-i-need-to-be.JPG)
+![Charlie and my Charlie mask](charlie-mask.jpeg)
+![Charlie watching me cook from the top of the stairs](images/watching-me-from-the-stairs.JPG)
+![Charlie perched in my office letting a leg hang long](images/perched-with-long-arm.JPG)
+![Charlie perched behind me while I work and watching my every move](images/watching-me-work.JPG)
+![Charlie perched in my office next to my This Is Fine dog](images/watching-me-work2.JPG)

content/then.md

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 title: Eric in the Past
 ---
 
-This page is all about what I have done. As things roll off the [now page](/now), they'll show up here. It was last updated on December 21, 2022.
+This page is all about what I have done. As things roll off the [now page](/now), they'll show up here. It was last updated on January 7, 2023.
 
 ## What I finished reading
 
-- The first four stories (two novels and two shorts) of [Dan Moren's](https://dmoren.com/) [Galactic Cold War](https://dmoren.com/writing/galactic-cold-war/) series. These are spy thrillers set across multiple star systems colonized by humans. Both aspects are very well done and each story has been better than the last.
+- The first six stories (three novels and three shorts) of [Dan Moren's](https://dmoren.com/) [Galactic Cold War](https://dmoren.com/writing/galactic-cold-war/) series. These are spy thrillers set across multiple star systems colonized by humans. Both aspects are very well done and each story has been better than the last.
+- [Paper Girls](https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/paper-girls). I had the final two installments sitting on my nightstand for months and finally sat down to read them. My inaction is not reflective of the quality, as I really did like the whole series. It's a time travel adventure that fits in almost all of the standard time travel tropes, but it blends them together in really weird ways that tread new ground. And the artwoek is top-notch, and that really helped. The images of kaiju tardigrades battling it out over the city will stick with me for a long time.
 - All of Martha Wells' [Murderbot Diaries](https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm). These are all told in the first person by a sentient security robot who has hacked himself to be free of harsh programmed restrictions and has to live in human society. I can't stress enough how much I loved these, perhaps aided by how my own coming to terms with being an undiagnosed autistic adult makes me [relate to the main character](https://www.tor.com/2022/06/21/murderbot-an-autistic-coded-robot-done-right/).
 
 ## What I finished playing
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ This page is all about what I have done. As things roll off the [now page](/now)
 
 ## What I finished watching
 
+- Season Three of [Jack Ryan](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B8KWN7N2/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s3) on Amazon. I was a big fan of the original books (to the point where I considered applying to the CIA in my late 20s) and I liked the first two seasons of the show well enough. This one? Not so much. I mean, I watched the whole thing to see it out, but I wasn't happy about it. The character works when he's placed in a realistic world and the events could plausibly happen. This season might have well been set in an alternate history earth, where the geopolitics are similar yet very different from our own in key ways, the technology borders on fantastical, and things like travel time and logistics coordination is miraculous. In this fantasy setting, Jack Ryan became a comic book character in a superhero story. And I don't want or enjoy that version of Ryan.
 - All the espisodes of [Taskmaster][taskmaster] [on YouTube][taskmaster youtube] (and some that fell off the back of a truck). Nothing I've watched recently has lifted my spirits and made me giggle like this show.
 
 [taskmaster]:https://taskmaster.fandom.com/wiki/Taskmaster_Wiki