Status Update as of March of 2025

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What has been going on?

Over the past several months there has been a lot of things I’ve been working on and trying to get back up and running. One of them, that was on the back burner was the ahwaday.com website. This was the most visible, and I will be going into all of the things that I was working on. For now, I’m going to list them.

Website
Development projects
Wood working projects
Health progress

Website

Last year sometime early, I started having issues with Wordpress (the software I was using). The problems I was running into were update and plugin related. While wordpress is an extremely extensible web software; it comes with any of those extensions/update can break a multitude of pages. This is why I have chosen to go with a more simplistic method of delivering website content for this site.

I chose to go with Hugo, HugoBlox, Gitlab, and Cloudflare Pages. While I do still keep a copy of everything local, it does a lot of the heavy lifting of pulling/building/deploying the website. While it’s not as interactive, it’s a lot faster and less prone to errors because the pages are now in a static format instead of pages rendered by PHP and database connections.

Development Projects

There are several projects I’m still working on dealing with Game Servers (ARK and Palworld), they are strictly for the gaming community I’m apart of. Maybe one day I’ll take some screenshots and/or do a youtube walk through showing things off.

As for the other development projects, I’m hoping to get some mental energy to continue on them. I will expand on these projects at a later date.

Wood working projects

As some of you know, I love working with wood. I recently started fractal burning wood and trying to finish them in a way that people would like them. The first one I did, will be turned into a coat rack for my dad. This is one of the things he has really wanted since he got sick.

I do plan on making more, and I will get around to it soon as I get my energy levels back.

Health progress

This is one of the topics I could bitch and moan about for a long time. The last few doctor visits have been interesting to say the least. My condition, Scelorosing Mesenteritis, is rare autoimmune disease. With this in mind, there aren’t a lot of ‘sure fire ways’ to deal with the disease other than to try medications that will help with inflammation. Currently, I’m trying a breast cancer medication, and they are trying to get me off of a steroid. This has been a mixed back of problems with it, and the main problem is that it has taken my energy levels down to a new low. I’m hoping it will get better, but from what I have read into the doctor’s faces, I’m not very optimistic about it.