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Tooth Pain

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I have a toothache that only hurts when I drink coffee.

Wouldn't you know it? I have to have coffee, so I have to be in pain.

Whatever.

I think there's a small crack in a tooth from the grinding I've been doing. I tried to get it taken care of earlier, but it was too small for the dentist to see.

However, I think they'll probably be able to detect it now. I mean, the pain is radiating into my ear.

I haven't had dental problems in a long time, so I suppose I'm overdue. I also haven't been going to the dentist because of everything going on around me.

I've got to pay them a visit now, though. I just hope I'm not in root canal territory.

Category: Health — Tag: teeth,

9/11: The Tower

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History revisits us wearing different clothes.

The Tower (tarot card)

Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe. Reversed: According to one account, the same in a lesser degree; also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny.

What can I say? I enjoy a conspiracy when it's layed out like how Michael Hoffman has done here and here. I don't bother with a lot of what he writes, but sometimes I tune in and can't help but be like, wow.

Oh, and if you can make it...

Who knows? It might be an eye-opener worth peering into.

Category: News — Tag: 9/11,

The National Anthem

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I'm so glad they uploaded this. I was away from the television and came in the room right after it ended.

That 1960 Fender looks beat to hell. It's probably not THE Fender, rather, one of his relic'd signature models.

Category: Music — Tag: video, pearl jam,

WebSite-Watcher

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I've ditched my RSS reader for WebSite-Watcher from Aignesberger Software. It's not the first time. I've used the program on-and-off for years. It just seems to me it's better to have something to monitor anything with than be restricted to the usual limited RSS reader offerings.

You see, WebSite-Watcher can keep up with just about everything.

X, Facebook, Instagram, RSS, eBay, regular web pages, it's all there. If you find something you can't put into the program then you may be doing something wrong. For example, record a macro for X in order to keep up with X.

You know, stuff like that.

Bottom line, there's nothing I've thrown at WebSite-Watcher it hasn't been able to work with, and that's quite amazing. For roughly half the price of Feedly, what are you waiting for?

EDIT

Yes, so WebSite-Watcher does not monitor email boxes. I completely forgot about that. I can see how such a thing would be extremely beneficial to users, in order to allow them to track alerts.

Maybe it will be added at a future date?

Mood: Wonderful

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I had a good day. Finally. I don't precisely know why, but nothing got to me in a negative way. It makes me wonder what's been going on with me on all the other days.

Something is, that's for sure.

It may have to do with my dad doing better. He sounds and feels better. I can tell.

When things around me are good, I tend to be good. It's been a while since I've even remembered that about myself.

Category: Status — Tag: general,

This Works!

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For now, anyway.

xsukax X RSS Generator

A lightweight, self-hosted RSS 2.0 feed generator for public X (formerly Twitter) profiles, built entirely as a single PHP application with SQLite caching.

xsukax X RSS Generator fetches publicly accessible X profile HTML, extracts posts and media, stores them locally, and exposes the results as standards-compatible RSS feeds that can be consumed by RSS readers, automation platforms, monitoring systems, and other feed-aware applications.

No Composer packages, X API credentials, external database server, or cURL dependency are required.

I had to up my PHP version to 8.4 but that's all it took. Just put it in a directory, load, and use. It couldn't be easier.

Category: Blog and Feed Related — Tag: rss, x,

Notes Post

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I have messy note-taking habits. Everything important is either in Notepad or Standard Notes. The stuff I don't consider all that important? It's up on my hosting.

I don't know how it ended up being this way.

First of all, Notepad doesn't synchronize. So what's there is there, and nowhere else.

And Standard Notes? It's fine, but the way I use it is ridiculous. I just sort of copy and paste stuff here and there, into this note or that note.

There's no real organization to it.

So, what should I do?

I think this weekend, I'm going to spend some time getting it all under control. I want something on my host that can serve as a repository for, well, a lot of stuff. I want everything in its proper place, ready to be edited in seconds from my phone if the need arises.

If you have any suggestions about what I should be trying out, feel free to leave them in the comments. I'd want the security of the application I choose to be top-notch.

Category: SciTech — Tag: notes,