diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-02-28-vibe-check-01.md b/src/content/blog/2022-02-28-vibe-check-01.md index 7b8d836..46e6537 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2022-02-28-vibe-check-01.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2022-02-28-vibe-check-01.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ author: "Thomas Wilson" date: 2022-02-28T19:58:00 slug: "2022-02-28-vibe-check-1" draft: false +tags: + - vibe-check --- It's basically March and the days are finally getting longer! On Sunday, the sun was up to greet me as I made coffee. Tiny sweet peas and strawberries bud on the window sill. The flow of spring into winter feels miraculous. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-04-03-vibe-check-02.md b/src/content/blog/2022-04-03-vibe-check-02.md index a5479cf..c5e6423 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2022-04-03-vibe-check-02.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2022-04-03-vibe-check-02.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ author: "Thomas Wilson" date: 2022-04-03T07:37:00Z slug: "2022-04-03-vibe-check-02" draft: false +tags: + - vibe-check --- March 2022 has been a good month for me. December-January saw me feeling very mentally strained, in retrospect because we're seeing the remnants of covid restrictions lift. personal and professional obligations are changing, and as an introvert they're drawing from an already shallow well of extrovert energy. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-05-05-vibe-check-3.md b/src/content/blog/2022-05-05-vibe-check-3.md index 82b3cd6..f1e4936 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2022-05-05-vibe-check-3.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2022-05-05-vibe-check-3.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ author: Thomas Wilson date: 2022-05-06T21:08:00Z slug: 2022-05-06-vibe-check-3 draft: false +tags: + - vibe-check --- Three of the past four weeks have been a four-day work week. It's been wonderful. And yet still I'm posting this a week later than I'd like. The weather has been overcast, but everything in balance, even good weather. Still, _some_ rain would be nice. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-06-05-vibe-check-4.md b/src/content/blog/2022-06-05-vibe-check-4.md index 372b82c..0ab2e84 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2022-06-05-vibe-check-4.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2022-06-05-vibe-check-4.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ author: Thomas Wilson date: 2022-06-05T11:46:00Z draft: false slug: 2022-06-05-vibe-check-4 +tags: + - vibe-check --- Every year my brain tricks me. *June*, it says, *June is summer*. And every year around this time I get long daylight hours but seemingly endless wind, rain, and rarely-over-twenty temperatures. Some days have been beautiful, but many (like today) are unadventurous. I sit inside a cafe to write. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-07-06-vibe-check-5.md b/src/content/blog/2022-07-06-vibe-check-5.md index 60e6fba..e7bc6dd 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2022-07-06-vibe-check-5.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2022-07-06-vibe-check-5.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ author: Thomas Wilson date: 2022-07-06T20:38:00Z slug: 2022-07-06-vibe-check-5 draft: false +tags: + - vibe-check --- diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-10-02-vibe-check-6.md b/src/content/blog/2022-10-02-vibe-check-6.md index c38ac70..9b21ba5 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2022-10-02-vibe-check-6.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2022-10-02-vibe-check-6.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "Vibe Check #6" date: 2022-10-02T16:08:56Z slug: 2022-10-02-vibe-check-6 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- It's been two months since [my last vibe check](/blog/2022-07-06-vibe-check-5). We've reached the bookend sub-seasons where morning, afternoon, and evening each require their own outfit. Three layers in the morning, one layer at lunch, then two layers in the evening. It's maddening. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-11-06-vibe-check-7.md b/src/content/blog/2022-11-06-vibe-check-7.md index 378fcc6..e00441e 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2022-11-06-vibe-check-7.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2022-11-06-vibe-check-7.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "Vibe Check #7" date: 2022-11-06T08:26:11Z slug: 2022-11-06-vibe-check-7 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- I got a Steam Deck in September (huge flex), and so October 2022 saw the resurgence of video games into my life. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2022-12-04-vibe-check-8.md b/src/content/blog/2022-12-04-vibe-check-8.md index 8542438..0236804 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2022-12-04-vibe-check-8.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2022-12-04-vibe-check-8.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "Vibe Check #8" date: 2022-12-04T21:59:53Z slug: 2022-12-04-vibe-check-8 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- Winter came to Oxford in the last seven or ten days. The other day I stepped out of my house and got that _Winter in England_ smell that I forget for six months of the year, and alternately resent and treasure in for the other six. It's the smell of cold air and slow-to-wake mornings where the dew can't make it off the ground yet. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-01-01-vibe-check-9.md b/src/content/blog/2023-01-01-vibe-check-9.md index 70440c6..543d34b 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-01-01-vibe-check-9.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-01-01-vibe-check-9.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "Vibe Check #9" date: 2023-01-01T15:02:04Z slug: 2023-01-01-vibe-check-9 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- I welcomed in 2023 with a board game (Ticket to Ride, got my ass served to me wholesale by my fiancée) and a double dram of The Lake's Distillery Whisky Maker's Reserve #5, which I nursed lovingly for several hours. It was quite the quiet affair. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-02-03-vibe-check-10.md b/src/content/blog/2023-02-03-vibe-check-10.md index e0df399..c950d32 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-02-03-vibe-check-10.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-02-03-vibe-check-10.md @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ title: "Vibe Check #10" date: 2023-02-03T07:16:41Z slug: 2023-02-03-vibe-check-10 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check + - --- Everyone everywhere says last year flew by. Contrarian by nature, it 2022 felt like it took about a year. January 2023, however, felt like it took about a week. I'm looking forward to the next few weeks being a more eventful, more different, and (hopefully) passing a little more slowly. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-03-04-vibe-check-11.md b/src/content/blog/2023-03-04-vibe-check-11.md index fe21c43..1f42ad9 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-03-04-vibe-check-11.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-03-04-vibe-check-11.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: 'Vibe Check #11' date: 2023-03-04T08:02:48.483Z slug: 2023-03-04-vibe-check-11 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- The Vibe check is a series of monthly blog posts where I think back to the past month. Today I'm talking about February 2023. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-04-14-vibe-check-12.md b/src/content/blog/2023-04-14-vibe-check-12.md index d1e8c7c..530672d 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-04-14-vibe-check-12.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-04-14-vibe-check-12.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: 'Vibe Check #12' date: 2023-04-14T20:33:52.766Z slug: 2023-04-14-vibe-check-12 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- I find myself writing this a full two (2!) weeks into April. It's been seventeen days since I last wrote _anything_, which feels unusual. My brain feels it: I've taken more and more detailed notes (at work, in life) in the last five-or-so days. I wrote the notes for this piece on paper at an off-grid cottage in Wales (10/10, strong recommend). diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-06-16-vibe-check-13.md b/src/content/blog/2023-06-16-vibe-check-13.md index 6e89895..64c9658 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-06-16-vibe-check-13.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-06-16-vibe-check-13.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: 'Vibe Check #13' date: 2023-06-16T13:06:37.818Z slug: 2023-06-16-vibe-check-13 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- Summer's coming in, which is pretty great. I love the summer (old news and a lukewarm take). diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-07-19-vibe-check-14.md b/src/content/blog/2023-07-19-vibe-check-14.md index 87466a5..3cf12b6 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-07-19-vibe-check-14.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-07-19-vibe-check-14.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: 'Vibe Check #14' date: 2023-07-19T18:33:50.024Z slug: 2023-07-19-vibe-check-14 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- June 2023 was a pretty busy month. The company I work for went through a second round of redundancies and the software team (the team I lead) ended up being quite badly affected, and many of my colleagues were made redundant. I ended up doing a lot of mental and emotional labour going through that process with, and for, the people affected. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-10-04-vibe-check-15.md b/src/content/blog/2023-10-04-vibe-check-15.md index 2898af5..c6d5035 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-10-04-vibe-check-15.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-10-04-vibe-check-15.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: 'Vibe Check #15' date: 2023-10-04T06:59:55.177Z slug: 2023-10-04-vibe-check-15 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- September 2023 was definitely the end of summer. As I write this, the temperature remains balmy in the twenties, but it's dark at seven-thirty in the evening, and the days take turns towards the blusterous, or rain sprayed. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-10-29-vibe-check-16.md b/src/content/blog/2023-10-29-vibe-check-16.md index 9d0cb1b..47661e3 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-10-29-vibe-check-16.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-10-29-vibe-check-16.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: 'Vibe Check #16' date: 2023-10-29T10:46:34.738Z slug: 2023-10-29-vibe-check-16 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- The past few Vibe Checks happened between one-to-ten days after the month ended. Today it happens a few days *preceding*. The preparedness. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2023-12-17-vibe-check-17.md b/src/content/blog/2023-12-17-vibe-check-17.md index f734f2d..95a9db8 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2023-12-17-vibe-check-17.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2023-12-17-vibe-check-17.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: 'Vibe Check #17' date: 2023-12-17T18:57:55.431Z slug: 2023-12-17-vibe-check-17 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- December 2023's Vibe Check was started on gloomy December morning, and finished a fortnight later on cosy December night. Context changes things. Winds and rain (both freezing) stopped what *was* a mild winter. "Winter's not too bad" I thought, like someone who's never lived through a winter. We're into the worst six weeks of the year - three weeks from the solar solstice. It's dark by four in the afternoon, and that's still got to get earlier for a while. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2024-02-14-vibe-check-17.md b/src/content/blog/2024-02-14-vibe-check-17.md index 6b8a8f8..29e934d 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2024-02-14-vibe-check-17.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2024-02-14-vibe-check-17.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ --- -title: 'Vibe Check #17' +title: 'Vibe Check #18' date: 2024-02-14T15:28:16.337Z slug: 2024-02-14-vibe-check-17 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- January 2024 was a lovely month, really. We ended up celebrating a few delayed Christmases, so the festive period itself didn't tear through my stamina. It also meant that I didn't really feel The Blues, because every other week I was going to a family household and getting wined and dined. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2024-03-10-vibe-check-18.md b/src/content/blog/2024-03-10-vibe-check-18.md index 0910845..ef3c43a 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2024-03-10-vibe-check-18.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2024-03-10-vibe-check-18.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: 'Vibe Check #18' +title: 'Vibe Check #19' date: 2024-03-10T12:12:04.807Z slug: 2024-03-10-vibe-check-18 author: Thomas Wilson diff --git a/src/content/blog/2024-04-20-vibe-check-19.md b/src/content/blog/2024-04-20-vibe-check-19.md index 6213b38..9f38a65 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2024-04-20-vibe-check-19.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2024-04-20-vibe-check-19.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ --- -title: 'Vibe Check #19' +title: 'Vibe Check #20' date: 2024-04-20T21:06:28.408Z slug: 2024-04-20-vibe-check-19 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- I think I left this Vibe Check too late into April and I sort of forgot what happened in March. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2024-12-01-vibe-check-20.md b/src/content/blog/2024-12-01-vibe-check-20.md index 13f8d9e..5e72caf 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2024-12-01-vibe-check-20.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2024-12-01-vibe-check-20.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ --- -title: 'Vibe Check #20' +title: 'Vibe Check #21' date: 2024-12-01T08:09:08.851Z slug: 2024-12-01-vibe-check-20 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- I used to write a *Vibe Check* blog post at the end of each month. I haven't written one for six or seven months, and I miss writing them. But also I have been busy. diff --git a/src/content/blog/2025-01-09-vibe-check-21.md b/src/content/blog/2025-01-09-vibe-check-21.md index 6c7eca2..5a67877 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2025-01-09-vibe-check-21.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2025-01-09-vibe-check-21.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ --- -title: 'Vibe Check #21' +title: 'Vibe Check #22' date: 2025-01-09T00:00:00.000Z slug: 2025-01-09-vibe-check-21 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- diff --git a/src/content/blog/2025-02-02-vibe-check-22.md b/src/content/blog/2025-02-02-vibe-check-22.md index 2593744..7d72aa9 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2025-02-02-vibe-check-22.md +++ b/src/content/blog/2025-02-02-vibe-check-22.md @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ --- -title: 'Vibe Check #22' +title: 'Vibe Check #23' date: 2025-02-02T18:08:00Z slug: 2025-02-02-vibe-check-22 author: Thomas Wilson +tags: + - vibe-check --- January gets a bad wrap. As someone with a January birthday I try not to take it personally. I also spent the first three weeks of January 2025 intentionally between jobs - being free of work commitments, but assured of upcoming employment, I personally found this to be a most agreeable month.