…just another random person's thoughts & digressions.
I figured out how to auto-generate a title for when I’m too lazy to come up with one for my WP posts. I’m using a little snippet of code I found here.
The only notable differences are that I changed my date formatting, and added ‘post_name’ => ” to the update array in order to set a slug based off the title instead of going with the post ID.
People do not seem to understand how the Internet and search engines work; they also seem to have forgotten the concept of catalogs. On a near daily basis I’m faced with a customer with either their phone in hand or at the ready with a Google result for an item listed on *******.com, expecting us to have it in stock and on the sales floor. Earlier today, a couple of guys came in looking to get a push mower listed at the top of their Google results for $128. The one guy asked me what was up with Google showing that we had a cheap mower, yet none of the mowers we had on the shelf were under $300. I couldn’t take not being halfway smart anymore, and explained that when using Google or any search engine, it may pull results that aren’t necessarily in the store, and may only be available online; I then followed it up by saying, “Remember the Sears catalog? Just because it’s in the catalog doesn’t necessarily mean it’s in the store.” He said he understood that, but wanted an explanation of the pricing. I then explained that sometimes the company offers separate sale prices for items purchased on the site, and ships them directly to the customer address. I should’ve, but didn’t go further; I feel I should’ve told him that, like Amazon, not all listings are sold or fulfilled by the company, but by a third party seller, like Joe’s Refurb Mowers. I get the feeling though that the guy would be another one of those that would want to claim false advertising, bait and switch tactics, etc.
I don’t know. It just irks me that, here we are, thirty years into e-commerce, and God knows how far into concepts like mail order delivery, and the general consumer is so incredibly lost and stupid.
OMFG, what is up with people? About an hour ago, maybe, I had a nice little blow up between customers right in front of me at the register. What had happened was an elderly couple pulled up to the register in their respective mart carts, having the wrong direction. No biggie; there wasn’t a line, yet, and what they wanted to purchase wouldn’t take long. Except it did. One of the plants was missing the UPC, so I had to look it up. The card reader also decided to act up on the gentleman’s debit card. So, a line forms. But the line forms in the wrong direction, because everyone realizes that two mart carts are difficult to reverse and impossible to turn around in the space they occupied. Still, no biggie. Until one lady appears going in the direction traffic is supposed to flow; she appeared immediately following my cashing out the customer that was behind the first couple. So the one going the normal directional flow takes it upon herself to verbally attack the lady that followed the couple for going the wrong direction.
I’ve got another story to tell about something else that happened not long after, but break is almost over. Hopefully I’ll remember to share it when lunch comes. It’s a repeating sort of story that frustrates me almost daily.
Out of nowhere this morning, Mr. Six popped into my mind.
In completely unrelated news, I took the kids to school this morning. It was kinda nice watching everyone get ready, gather, then load up. I took everyone since I had to take Nivea to the high school for her to do her teacher shadowing thing. Even more awesome is the fact that I was scheduled in an hour later this morning, so I was able to come back home. I’m now sitting here in the kitchen waiting for Ashlee to arrive from work.
I did a silly thing last night. After the youngest went to bed I left Nivea to watch over things while I made a trip to work to surprise Ashlee with some late Mother’s Day flowers. She said she was just a little embarrassed to have me pop in and interrupt the meeting. I think it was worth it. Still kinda silly, though.
I’m in a little bit of a better mood this morning. I still don’t wanna go to work, as I still see way too many things that I could be doing around the house.
I think I hear an Ashlee car’s speakers bumping outside, so I guess I’ll end this here. Maybe I’ll write a bit more tonight.
I really wish I could just clock out and go home.
This sucks.
I don’t have time to write anything, really.
We got home later than I’d wanted, which meant I kinda jumped right into making love to Ashlee, which kept us from going to sleep until even later, so I slept through several alarms this morning.
I had to leave sooner than I would’ve wanted because I had to stop for gas and cigarettes.
I really haven’t had much time to work out any of my thoughts because of the losses of time.
I really don’t want to be here (work).
I don’t know. Like I said, I don’t have any time to get into anything right now.
And it’s depressing.
I wanna go home.
Where I’ve been attempting to get back into a regular habit of journaling, I thought of a method I had been using once upon a time, and decided to see if it still worked. It didn’t. What I was attempting to do was use a little quick script I put together that opened up nano with a little template, pushed the entry to WP, and saved the entry as a .gmi file for the gemini server. After a night of sleeping on it, I finally figured out that my failure was that I had changed my php version at some point for some other random messing around and forgotten to switch back, thus causing the wp-cli to fail. I’ve got things back into a working state, but now I’m catching complaints from a WP plugin that hasn’t been updated in a while. I wish I knew more that the little bit of tinkering I’ve stumbled through and taught myself; it would be nice to have all these things working and running smoothly.
Ashlee is grabbing a shower before we head out to get the big kid from college.
The dog is barking her head off because some other dog went down the road.
I’m hoping that I’ll have time to do yard work and stuff this afternoon and evening.
I wonder if there’s a plugin of some kind, or if there’s a bit of code I can change to automatically set some sort of title for posts for when I’m too lazy to come up with a title.
## Fri May 8 07:13:01 AM EDT 2026
Testing out to see if I’ve fixed a script that I somehow managed to break. If this works right, I should have both a .gmi file and a WP entry. Guess we’ll see.
Thanks for reading;
–J
Not a whole lot of time available to waste on journaling this morning. Shortly before loading the kids on the bus I remembered that I have an appointment for tires at work, so I need to leave a few minutes earlier than normal in order to check Ashlee’s truck in at the ACC; and I need to take a few minutes extra before leaving to clean up the floor. Sure, the techs are probably used to seeing messes in the floors of cars, but we are talking about coworkers–even though we don’t work in the same departments. I really don’t want the chance of someone commenting on the condition of the thing’s interior at work.
Last night would’ve been a decent night to do some work on the fence, but I arrived home tired and late. There’s always tonight, I suppose. Not getting to it is driving me crazy. Maybe I’ll get lucky and I’ll be cut loose early because the store is over budget on hours this week.
My back is killing me. Okay, it’s not that terrible–I’ve felt much worse pain–but still, it’s an annoyance. Not really my back, so much as my left hip. It’ll work out after I really get moving. Pretty sure it’s just my body complaining about a worn out bed.
I was going to make a colorful comment about worn out beds and noise complaints, but changed my mind.
I guess it’s time for me to get my butt in gear and go clean the truck, then head to work.
