Bullet Journal meets Blog to Keep Track of my Days via Bullet Points.
This website looks simple on the outside but is complicated inside. And I have designed it to be run via my mobile. It uses up to a dozen custom post types, twice as many custom taxonomies and some custom fields, all pulled together via code. Hopefully, it will fulfil its role, a place for me to display my life. Though I fear I have left it too late to do this properly.
Sections: + A Journal item, - a Note, O an Event, ! Remembering item and ✚ a Heath item.
Tasks Related: · a New Task, X a Completed Task, > a Migrated Task and < a Rescheduled Task.
Things to Remember
I either need or want to remember these important things that happened on this day.
Things to Remember Today
Things to Remember This Week
Tasks
David’s Day was created to manage tasks. Though now it covers all aspects of things. This section shows the latest “open” tasks—rather than those I must do now. Again, this section does not get updated too often.
Open Tasks
Music
Music! Most of us like music—though we don’t all like the same stuff. My taste is eclectic; therefore, expect some vastly different music styles being listed. Please note that I rarely add to this section and listen to far more than I might add here.
I recently listened to…
Notes
Notes are snippets of information—therefore, they are often very short. This is my latest the note.
Thoughts
Thinking is something I do a lot. Writing those thoughts down is something I don’t do a lot. Below are some of those I have written down today.
Health & Wellbeing
My health & wellbeing has become important to me since the arrival of Evie and then Maisie. Below are the health posts I have written down today.
I had a bad day for carbs, eating a daily total of 114g. This is in outside my target of circa 60 to 80g. Two roast potatoes did it!
My blood sugar levels were very good, my fasting reading in the morning was 5.5mmol/L and my two-hour post diner reading was 7.7mmol/L. Again, down to the spuds, but below the target of 7.8mmol/L.
Latest Ancestry Additions
Today’s Events
This section is being worked on!
There are no events today!
This section is no more. After trialling it for a week, I have decided to move it to a standalone website called David Live.
Journal Entries
This section is no more. Due to my lack of use, I have decided to move the Journal on to a standalone website called David’s XYZ. The Journal is now here!
Recent Diary Entries
Diary entries colour coding:
Happy Sad Annoyed Inspired Music Food
It’s New Year’s Day, 2024 and Ruth and I are alone. We don’t have anything planned for the day other than to eat, not drink, but definitely watch TV at some point. New Year’s Day has become nothing more than a Sunday on a different day of the week! That said, it does hold the expectation of probable change—though this rarely happens, and any New Year’s resolutions are often broken on the first day of the year.
This diary entry differs from others—well, it is the start of a new year, and I am trying something new.
Having moved the live section to David’s Live, I realise the concept of live posting still has uses—adding content to my diary entries. I will still use David Live as a standalone website. Maybe as a social media poster.
Time to cook the remainder of our New Year’s Day lunch. The pork has been slow-cooking for a few hours. With this, we are having sprouts, carrots and roast spuds. I am also doing parsnips for Ruth, as they have too many carbs for me. Not as much as spuds, but…
Lunch is now over, and I have finished washing up. However, I was naughty today, enjoying three roast potatoes with lunch. Admittedly, they were previously frozen, so the carb hit won’t be as bad as it could have been, but it is still naughty.
I woke with a headache this morning, the morning after the night before—the night before being New Year’s Eve. However, I only had a couple of drinks—two Jarrold’s Sloe Gins with coke. My thinking is that the headache was brought on by a poor night’s sleep, which was caused by the alcohol. Drinking so close to bedtime is not ideal, but Ruth & I had to toast in the new year. Had to? Perhaps not!
After a day of grafting, I have almost got this site ready in time for this new year. I could have finished it; however, Ruth and I watched TV during the evening. We saw a film—Death on the Nile (Disney Plus), and the last three episodes of All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix.
The last half an hour of 2023 was spent watching Rick (with a silent P) Astlee. Well, Ruth watched it. And I shouldn’t be so rude; the silent “p” bit is how I always introduce Ricks.
Anyhow, it is now 2024! Happy New Year Everyone!
The final part of our trip to Portsmouth was a family meal at the Deep Blue restaurant on South Parade Pier in Southsea. Geoff and Kay turned up first, with Bailey Rae—a Teardrop Chiwawa. We were at the top end of the pier, and Evie and Maisie excitedly rushed over to Geoff and Kay. However, I think Bailey was a big part of their excitement.
Geoff bought us a drink—I had a cider—and we sat on the pier at the Deep Blue restaurant and waited for the others to arrive. Adam, Jenny and her parents were next to come, followed ten minutes later by Bethany and Nathan—mummy and daddy to the girls. After a bit of chit-chat, we ordered food.
I know I am on a low-carb diet. However, I had consciously chosen to eat carbs today—who can resist fish and chips by the sea—or on South Parade Pier.
Ruth had scampi and chips, I had fish and chips, and the girls, Evie, had battered sausage while Maisie enjoyed her chicken nuggets, both with chips.
After the meal, the British Navys’ Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier left Portsmouth harbour. South Parade Pier offered an excellent, though distant, view of the event.
Soon after, it was time to go. Ruth and I missed walking the girls off the pier, which was sad, considering trips out like this would now be few and far between. It would have finished off the day.
Geoff and Kay brought us back to Petersfield as we would have had to wait an hour for our train. The girls went home with mummy and daddy.
Though the day took a different route than expected, spending time with the girls and our family was wonderful.
Notes
It’s been two months. Two months since I last visited this website, two months since I posted anything. Yet earlier in the year—I am sure I mentioned this, though I can’t find where I had written it—I mentioned writing more often and learning my diary writing style*.
*I have now found where I had written it; it wasn’t quite what I remembered. What I actually said was:
David’s Diary is made of snippets of my life. My 2023 Diary is a test—helping me find my voice—and by 2024, I hope to have my “way” sorted. But what is a diary?
And it can be found on my Diary page! However, I cannot find the piece that mentions writing more often. So, I must address this.
There are many reasons for neglecting David’s Day. But the main reason is working on a new cruise website of mine called Cruisez. I’ve been so focused on that project that I have forgotten this blog—perhaps neglected is the right word choice. So, I am now making a conscious decision: I will TRY and do regular entries. When time permits, I will also try to create some diary entries retrospectively.
The additions include adding a new section to the home page to be used as a Whiteboard. This could be achieved using a new custom post type with custom taxonomies. These can be pulled through via shortcodes. And change the diary entries from noindex to index—we are talking SEO here—and link to the individual diary entries. Previously, these formed part of a page and not stand-alone posts. David’s Day: To-Do List
In my original design for Bulleted—now David’s Day—I would have the list of open tasks in a prominent position on the home page. For some reason, I don’t have this. Instead, tasks are listed towards the bottom of the page. So, I need to find a way of reorganising the home page to make this work.
For the last couple of days, I have been working on the look and feel of this site. Bearing in mind, it is predominately a text-based thing. With that, there isn’t a great deal to do styling-wise. However, I should create a web design task to keep track of the changes.