Kill Me Fast

2026-01-07 Music Bob Ossler

I’ve tried
But I still can’t read your mind
Wonder if there was a sign
That somehow slipped me by

If you’re right at the edge or you’ve found someone else
Let me know
Oh

Tell me when it’s over
Don’t make me ask
Come a little closer
And break me like glass
If you’re planning to go, just don’t leave any hope
That you’re ever coming back
Tell me when it’s over
Kill me quick, kill me fast
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

When you speak, It’s silent
When you’re silent, It speaks

And slowly your thoughts will come to silence
And in that silence, you suddenly begin to see the world as it is
You don’t see any past
And you don’t see any future
You see that we live in an eternal now
There’s only the eternal now
Alan Watts/Frank Herbert/Soren Kierkegaard

Mayday

2026-01-05 Music Bob Ossler

Welcome to the end, just take a number
Just get used to the influence you’re under
It’s the same old story of
Wanting it all but it’s never enough
The more you know, you know, you know nothing

We walk like dead people who haven’t died yet
We ride like passengers without a pilot
We be losing our minds, but we all try to hide it
It’s hard to keep fighting when you’re barely surviving
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2025 Year in Review

2026-01-02 Post Bob Ossler

2025 the year in review

It’s been a long time since I have posted anything. 2026 has just started and I thought it would be a good time to start my blog/journal anew. I give all credit for this inspiration to an amazing, beautiful, talented woman I met in 2025. Let’s call her Nat (she might kill me, but she will get the joke). We met in the most unlikely of places, but it doesn’t matter. She is smart, creative, and inspires me. We are kindred spirits. I plan to start with a cadence of one post per week, gradually increasing that as I get into a rhythm. My first post will be a summary of the year 2025…

Mermaid Test

2023-07-01 Test Mermaid Bob Ossler

Using Mermaid in Hugo

I am trying out the mermaid markdown-like syntax for creating code diagrams, graphs, and pie charts.

Graph L-R

--- config: theme: 'base' themeVariables: darkMode: false background: '#f4f4f4' primaryColor: '#ccc4dd' primaryTextColor: '#aa2825' lineColor: '#ccc' --- graph LR; Root-->A & B & C A-->A1-->A2--->A3 B-->B1-->B2-->B3 C--->C1-->C2-->C3

Graph Top-Down

--- config: theme: 'base' themeVariables: darkMode: false background: '#f4f4f4' primaryColor: '#ccc4dd' primaryTextColor: '#aa2825' lineColor: '#ccc' --- graph TD; A-->B; A-->C; B-->D; C-->D;

Pie Chart

--- config: theme: 'base' themeVariables: darkMode: false background: '#f4f4f4' primaryColor: '#ccc4dd' primaryTextColor: '#aa2825' lineColor: '#ccc' --- pie title Linux Distributions "Debian":42.96 "Ubuntu":50.05 "Arch":10.01 "CentOS":5

Flowchart

--- config: theme: 'base' themeVariables: darkMode: false background: '#f4f4f4' primaryColor: '#ccc4dd' primaryTextColor: '#aa2825' lineColor: '#ccc' --- flowchart TD; A[Choose OS] --> B{Do you want?} B -- Yes --> C[UNIX or Windows] C -- Windows --> D[Good Luck!] C -- UNIX --> E{Linux or macOS} E -- Linux --> G{Good Choice!} E -- macOS --> H{apple.com} B -- No ---> F[End]

And that’s only a few examples of what can be done using mermaid. I pulled these examples out of an article I read in Ultimate Linux Projects, Issue 2, written by Mihalis Tsoukalos. I had to make several corrections to the mermaid syntax provided by the author; possibly because of mermaid version changes.