Author: rihahn
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Blizzard ’21
It’s slightly snowy outside, and they’re saying it’ll be like this through Wednesday. Which suits me just fine; I have plenty of food and no real desire to go anywhere,…
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Been a while…
I’m currently deeply embroiled in transitioning the company to “The Cloud”, so free time has been at a premium these last two weeks. The difficulty has mostly come from two…
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Animated Dragons
So, went and saw “Raya and the Last Dragon” last evening, in iMax, because why not… I was pleasantly surprised at how good the movie was — because, honestly, my…
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Ouch…
I find it funny how the theaters are all “COVID killed us!” — maybe, but $75 for two people to see a flick with popcorn and soda might have something…
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Busy…
On the home-front, between finishing the move and unpacking, being down with the flu for a week, cleaning up the old townhouse, and offloading a gun safe and cast iron…
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Update…
One of my favorite parts of moving is finding all of the really cool hole in the wall places near where you moved. Yesterday I found a Shipley’s Donuts just…
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Annnnd — scene.
As of yesterday afternoon I’m officially moved. After dinner at “Cheddar’s” down the road, I spent the evening getting my bedroom and office set up, and after an exceptionally restful…
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Moving day
The movers are showing up today, so — in theory — tonight will be the first night at the new place. I’ll have a couple more trips from the old…
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Bad Battery
As most folks know, rechargeable batteries can swell up when they fail. And I see that pretty often here at work given just now much hardware is floating around for…
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Reality is a harsh mistress
The movers don’t get here until the 17th, so being as my bed, desk, and other large furniture is still here in the townhouse — so am I. With the…
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It’s the little things…
The new washer and dryer for the new house were delivered and installed… So one more item checked off of the list for this move. Yay.
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One more time — with feeling
At precisely 06:07 this morning I managed to arrive at 52 years of age. I celebrated by going over to the new house and reverse-engineering Centurylink’s fiber access methodology that…
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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…