On the Road

06:54 Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Current Wx: Temp: 31.84°F Pressure: 1020hPa Humidity: 67% Wind: 14.74mph
Words: 296

Heading to Mom's today, spending the night, back tomorrow evening.

Today's On This Day contains a couple of my lengthier, if not better posts, Brittle Failure and Thank You for Your Service. They weren't necessarily on this day because of some glitch that remains unexplained, changing many $PublicationDate attributes, and also altering $Created, which would have been the backstop to correct $PublicationDate, as $Created is a system attribute and presumably unalterable by moi. Whatever corrupted $PublicationDate did the same thing to $Created, and so now the source document, the marmot, is unreliable as to dates. (Also just noticed the dates aren't even on this day, as it's the 13th and those were purported posted on the 12th. Something is screwed up.)

[Update: Ok, found that problem. Agents are set to update automatically. They aren't. For the past few days I've had to select Update Agents Now to force the index page to update. I noticed that the index (main) page hadn't exported because it supposedly hadn't changed. Looking at it in the marmot still showed yesterday's posts. Force the agent to update, and today's post populated. But that had the effect of updating On This Day, and so now the posts are from the 13th, and so the second paragraph of this post makes less sense. Such is life. I've got to go.}

There are two anomalies, representing different lengths of time, and given enough motivation I could go through and correct them using the data from the html files. (I stop exporting months when they're over, so most of them are correct.)

Anyway, just discovered the January 2020 archive is missing. Oy! Only a few posts that month, and I think I can fix all the dates. But it'll have to wait until Thursday.

Yeesh.