We have had a couple of really cold days that aren't really that cold. This morning the thermometer read 7F and that is the coldest it has been thus far this year. Regularly we are above freezing during the day. I am a bit worried though as we have had repeated days in the 50s and 60s, which is a bit odd for January. I think the animals and plants would like to acclimate to weather, and I am not sure how that works in the crazy swings we are having. It looks as though a big storm is shaping up for this weekend with cold and freezing rain. Having been through a couple of situations we have added some resiliency, such as generators and capacity for extra fuel. I think back to living in the city and our only real answer was to go stay at the residence of family or a friend. Increasingly I worry about the impact of these events and how well that works out when the events are larger, affecting more people who are increasingly less prepared to handle situations that are outside the norm of everyday life.
I had wanted to make a feed of articles or content that was being added here and it ended up being quite the search. There are many references out there for using an atom feed for a Gemini capsule, but that seems wrong. Producing a bunch of xml markdown for a text site does not compute in my head. Thus after much searching I came to the Gemini protocol companion document on subscriptions. I should have probably just started at the protocol documents in the first place.
This lays out a fairly simple format of standard links and follows them with a ten digit date and then the link description. So something like the following, with many of them together being a gemlog
=> gemini://simpit.com/blog/20260119.gmi 2026-01-19 Gemini Subscription for a gemlog
That seems simple enough, and fits inline with what I have been thinking Gemini is. Now there is a gemlog for Simpit.com