Author: rihahn
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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…
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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…