Went to the elementary early this evening and sprayed Weed-B-Gone around the bench and area. I hope it knocks the remaining weeds there back. There was no wind and no rain thus far, so I hope it works.

Staying this weekend in a Marriott in Owensboro, Kentucky, for GeoWoodstock 2023. Headed to Louisville in the morning for some oldies.

This morning I was dealing with the 1965 edition of the Grinnell College yearbook, Cyclone 1965, in Digital.Grinnell. That’s a monster of a yearbook, 278 pages and a .pdf that’s almost 1.4 GB in size.

In order to get the .pdf to upload I tried a number of tricks, the only one that worked was a modification of Book Ingest in Digital.Grinnell The key command was…

docker cp "/mnt/storage/Yearbooks/Cyclone 1965/lib_1965cycloneyearbook_0002.pdf" isle-apache-dg:/var/www/sites/default/files/book.pdf

Beautiful day for commencment 2023 in Grinnell.  I just wish Alina were here.  8^(

Been prompted to do this for a couple of weeks so I finally took-the-plunge. https://analytics.summittservices.com/index.php?module=CoreUpdater&action=newVersionAvailable.

Wow, that was way too easy. I wonder if it really worked?

I ran into a big road block with implementation of Pagefind in Rootstalk today… everything works fine in development, but I can’t easily deploy to Azure because there’s no way to “inject” Pagefind into an Azure Static Web App build before the “public” content gets deployed. I can generate the Pagefind parts after deployment, but that does me no good.

Tomorrow I need to have a look at my Rootstalk DigitalOcean deployment to see if what I already have might work there (DO uses a build script that I can add an npx... command to). If that fails I need to look back at https://www.blogtrack.io/blog/powerful-blog-setup-with-hugo-and-npm/ to see if there’s a solution there for me.

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location: Toledo, IA

Mowing the lawn this evening and I’m happy to report that most of the weeds I treated last evening have curling leaves.  As Young Frankenstein might say… This could work!

Today I applied one bottle (29 oz.) of BioAdvanced™ Concentrate Season Long Weed Killer to my entire lawn in 9 applications using my Ryobi 1-gallon chemical sprayer. Mix was 3.5oz per tank with each application covering about 500 square feet.

We shall see how it performs. See https://bioadvanced.com/season-long-weed-control-for-lawns for more details.

mixture: 704050A MenardsSKU: 2634119

Traveled to Iowa City to see Luis A. perform in a production of “Fathers and Sons” at the University of Iowa, part of the annual New Plays Festival there. Found a geocache outside the theatre after the show.

My back isn’t as sore this morning as I expected it might be. I did ref some middle school soccer matches last night on a VERY hard field at STC. Managed to trip over a sprinkler head that I don’t think has been “used” in years.