This will be my third #BrokenArrow race.
Goals: finish strong, beat last year’s time.
The race sold out within 10-15minutes of opening this morning. Here’s how it went for me:
09:00 Pacific time registration opened (I had two laptops ready, reloading every second)
09:06 I completed registering but it redirected me to the home page (not a confirmation). I thought it had canceled my registration, so I kept trying. The #UltraSignup site flow was sufficiently broken that I didn't know I had successfully registered.
~9:15 I was able to check my online UltraSignup profile and see the 09:06 registration.
09:25 Received email confirmation of registration.
You can still register for the 23k waitlist: https://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=117118
More Broken Arrow races and distances (e.g. 46k, VK, 18k, 11k) registrations are opening the rest of this week, every morning December 10-13.
See the https://www.brokenarrowskyrace.com/ website for details for each.
Previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2024/176/t1/finished-broken-arrow-skyrace-23k
* https://tantek.com/2023/178/t1/june-trailrunner-ultrarunner
¹ https://www.brokenarrowskyrace.com/23k
#23k #trailRace #RingDasBell
My mother passed away nearly 20 years ago. I still miss her. A lot.
But as I was in the car chatting with my kids about our own ages and growing older as a #family is wont to do, it occurred to me that if my mother were still alive, she’d be 73 years old. And the notion of having a 73-year-old “Mom” suddenly struck me as absurdist, loony, perhaps even a little frightening.
I have no idea what a 73-year-old Mom would be like! And would I even like her, the way I did when she was in her 50s and I was in my 20s?
And that idea made me giggle a little. It’s easier to miss her now, because I miss her in a special way I simply wouldn’t if she were different, older, and here.
For IndieWebCamp San Diego’s Create Day, I worked on cleaning up some code for indiewebify.me and pushed it to a branch on my GitHub.
The readme there has more details, but this is basically an in-progress update to use the SlimPHP framework. It is probably only about 30% complete, but some parts of it are functional. Pushing this to Github will make it easier for the community to collaborate on and decide how to move forward.
IndieWebCamp San Diego 2024 Project Goals
TIL the term “smishing” (SMS phishing) while looking up info on those spam text messages claiming to be from the USPS about a missed package. Never click the links in those, of course. You can also report them to the postal inspector.
Checking out a new podcast, Public Health is Dead. Sounds promising so far.
“Public Health is Dead is a forward-thinking autopsy on how we’ve f*cked up in public health. How do we prepare for future pandemics while we’re already in the thick of one? And how do we reinvent systems that place some of us closer to death?”