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I wish I was twenty and in love with life
and still full of beans.
Onward, old legs!
There are the long, pale dunes; on the other side
the roses are blooming and finding their labor
no adversity to the spirit.
Upward, old legs! There are the roses, and there is the sea
shining like a song, like a body
I want to touch
though I’m not twenty
and won’t be again but ah! seventy. And still
in love with life. And still
full of beans.
At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.
And that orange, it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.
This is peace and contentment. It’s new.
The rest of the day was quite easy.
I did all the jobs on my list
And enjoyed them and had some time over.
I love you. I’m glad I exist.
— Wendy Cope
over the last couple of months, I've jumped back into working on Bidoun, primarily to add a couple new features they've requested. but since I have to root around in there anyway (and for the foreseeable future), I'd like to make my experience a bit more pleasurable, so I've been updating some stable but outdated code.
for better or worse, there hasn't been a major change since I migrated from a self-deployed VPS to a more automated Heroku infrastructure. I didn't really know what kind of a mess I was getting myself into. I knew I wouldn't have to worry about any build processes, or compilation steps (outside of Rails asset pipeline), to configure, or patch up.
anyway, the primary reason for this post is two fold:
Mobile Lighthouse scores, which is a better simulation for how visitors will experience the page