Year: 2021
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Stay a while and listen…
After some pondering I decided to skip the $600 cat-6 install into the west bedroom and office, and instead decided to try a couple of Motorola “MOCA” ethernet over coax…
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Moving, part two
Dropped off my end tables this evening and did some investigation on the wiring situation; there are some suspect lights and light switches that I’ll be replacing… I ordered the…
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Strengths and Weaknesses
Everyone has their personal superpower — and their personal kryptonite; that proverbial Achilles heel that succeeds in thwarting them no matter how they try to work around it. My kryptonite…
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Moving
I started moving over to the new house on Sunday, and moved some of my more fragile items like framed art and whatnot this evening after work. While doing this…
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One down, three to go…
Last evening after work I finished the quest chain for “A Realm Reborn” in Final Fantasy 14, so I’m officially back to where I left off in July of 2019.…
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Tax time!
My W2 arrived, so that means it’s time to break out the calculator and get to doing my taxes… Fortunately I have one of those new-fangled electronic adding machines… Funny…
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Work / Game Balance
One of the nicer things about Final Fantasy 14 is that you can log in and achieve something without having to block out several consecutive hours to an entire day…
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Update
I tend to get to work pretty early in the morning; between 0600 and 0630 usually. I blame this on my years in the military, but it does come in…
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Games people play
After discovering a friend of mine also plays Final Fantasy 14, I dug in and and really played the game for several hours this weekend. While I had started on…
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Time marches on…
I managed to get ahold of a utility to create watch faces for the Apple Watch, and while installation is a giant PITA, once it’s working it’s pretty keen. Being…
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If it’s “Final Fantasy”, why are there 15 of them?
For some light entertainment I decided to fire up FF14 yesterday, which was entertaining in a “I should get a dozen levels of EXP for just figuring out how to…
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A cinema show…
During my walk last night I wandered past the local theater and noticed they were open once again — so that became my adventure for the evening. Over the last…
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It’s simple; you’ve seen what food processors do to food right?
In general, all word processors are the same; you type, words show up on the screen, some of them might even be spelled right, and if you’re lucky the grammar…
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Good morning, Internet
This morning is one of those mornings where you can actually see the shadow of the horizon slowly pan down the mountains and across Denver from the roof of my…
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Secondlife Sightseeing
Back in 2018, the group I ran role-play sims in SecondLife with decided they wanted to play in a futuristic space setting. Of course to do this required a sim…
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Breakfast in the apocalypse…
With all the flop and twitch going on in the world I took the hint back in March and, over a few months, amassed some supplies in case things got…
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The world according to Microsoft…
Super busy with a project right now, but while this .iso comes down from Microsoft I just had to post an observation… Microsoft’s “Hyper-V” is their house-brand hypervisor for virtual…
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Moving…
Today I got to see the place my CFO is offering, and it’s really nice. It’s probably twice the space I have now, with a really upscale layout and killer…
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2021
Welp, we made it. As is tradition, I was asleep by about 10pm and missed all of the drunken frivolity and fireworks. Today is a day off, so after my…