by Ira | Apr 17, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
The weirdest thing has happened on my site over the past few months: the bots have come to be a little bit obsessed with it. Traffic is way, way, way up…but I know they’re bots, because almost none of the views are repeat views. It has to be AI agent scraping for...
by Ira | Apr 16, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
The pups are clean! Starting off the entry tonight with the dog report, which, let’s be real, is the important stuff. They’re getting photos taken this weekend for our holiday cards (early, I know, but this is when this photographer Liz loves is in town). That’s a...
by Ira | Apr 15, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
The Warriors win. It’s just play-in game 1 of 2, which we entered as the 10-seed, and even if we win game 2 of 2 our prize is to go play the Thunder, so let’s not get too excited…but it was still cool to see us win tonight. We’d be a very dangerous team if Jimmy...
by Ira | Apr 14, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
Coops is not completely blind in his blue eye. Woot! He reacted to light today at the doc’s office. He can’t really see anything at the moment because it’s so cloudy, but we’re hoping that eventually clears up. Still not quite sure why it’s happened. We think...
by Ira | Apr 13, 2026 | Challenge, Journal
I got my pages done today. Whew! It was tough and go, both because I had to spend the majority of my morning session outlining a spot in the book I hadn’t covered the first time around, but also because I was going to an appointment in the middle of the day. That...
