Author: rihahn
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ARGGGG! (tension breaker)
As is par for the course; today I rolled out Office 365 to my users with instructions on how to set up 2FA and everything… And an hour ago Microsoft…
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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.…