Mikes Thoughts

Some little bits

This is mostly to be a thing about some little things this morning been thinking. I have been doing my share of chaos with blogging lately. I don’t have some grand purpose or any really even if not grand. Just felt like doing whatever. Now I am back on 11ty. I like it here. For me, it’s a simple thing to use. I write in IA Writer for everything. Create new posts on the MacBook and then decide I want to continue them when I leave here for some hours. I like blogging on the iPhone from coffee shops or on the walk I do. Ideas I want to write about seem to persist across the house and to a coffee house. Today will probably be the same. Writing in the journal has changed to doing one big file in markdown. I don’t know why but this seems so much easier and better. I don’t write everything in it and sometimes there’s a thing I want to write more on so I lift it out or link to it from the journal. I don’t do todo items or tasks so I never really have to contend with them. It’s all really just my blather. Somewhere things cross over and become something or other. I try other ways of doing things and while I enjoy them awhile, they just don’t feel like me.

We did not do Malaysia due to health problems. That hurt. I had felt we really needed that change. Getting away from what I hear and see around the house and sometimes even Siem Reap. I love the city but we live far enough away where it’s not a presence. Riding a tuktuk somewhere maybe feels like some traveling at times :-). We went to have coffee by the river one day and that was nice. We tend to go to the same places which is both good and bad to me. Siem Reap has this wonderful variety of places. I wish sometimes we would just go to some neighborhood khmer place for soup out. There are many of them. We don’t do that unless we go elsewhere together.

I like just going in the mornings. To tell the truth anywhere but here. I do not love or even like the house we live in. So chances of just going whether for blogging or travels are key. The just going though often means vicariously. Like I go look at photos most likely of Hanoi. My daughter here went to Hanoi recently and loved it. I have not been since 2023. I guess that hurts in many ways. I feel sometimes like painfully separated from it. It has this space in my spirit and soul. It has always really seemed like home to me. When I lived there though, I also went. Often. If not to Da Nang I would fly down to Can Tho to see my friend Lily and others there. Saigon sometimes. Never a fan of Saigon though.

This morning I guess I will write a little more from a new vantage point. The coffee place that will call my name and let me sit and consider things. It’s really any chance to get away from the house unfortunately. So I do. It used to be I would speak honestly about it around the house. My wife did not like that much so we argued about things more. I do tell my daughter and she understands it all. She’s dealt with her mom longer than I have.

anyways and there is always one

I’ll see you down my road later. Maybe a photo of a place I enjoy for coffee. I don’t know where yet.