Typepad, which hosted my original blog since August 24, 2004, on September 1, 2025 gave me 30 days notice that it would shut down at midnight September 30, 2025, making my roughly 40,000 (not a typo) past posts inaccessible.
I spent a frantic month trying about 10 blog hosts seeking one I, a card-carrying Technodolt, could actually use without a lot of pain.
The only one that came close was Google's Blogger.
Alas, it's horrible: janky, confusing, and always changing something I thought I'd finalized.
I used multiple sync "solutions" (terrible idea, in retrospect); Dropsync, Syncthing, Drivesync, in addition to paying for Obsidian Sync, because I was delusional about "backing up my data". Huge mistake on my part, I've spent many, many, many hours deduplicating worthless "backups". Agree with "just pay for Obsidian Sync".
Egg nog is listed on the triangle as away from flour, but it is extremely high in carbs. When I was a kid, I loved egg nog and a couple of years ago I decided to purchase some. I liked it so much I drank the whole half gallon in a day. That night I had horrible painful bloating and looked at the ingredients label to find "sugar", "cane sugar". "corn syrup", and "high fructose corn syrup".
It's not so much that it's high in carbs, it's extraordinarily high in fat. Its main ingredients are egg yolks and heavy cream along with the sugar. What you're describing is like eating an entire cheesecake or drinking a pitcher of melted premium ice cream. The bloating is from the enormous amount of fatty calories that are slow to digest. Not really about the sugar. (And of course it has sugar, it's essentially a dessert drink.)
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