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Economics
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There’s a couple of fairly up-scale apartment complexes right near my office; you know the type – one is “modern” and looks like hundreds of various colored cubes stuck together,…
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Update
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Back on July 4th, 2022, I put in a request for my OMPF (Official Military Personnel File), and today it showed up in my email from the National Archives. So…
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Debugging
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My CFO came in this morning stating the big sliding front doors to the building wouldn’t close. I just had them serviced, so I doubted it was anything major and…
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The Listeria Diet
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I spent several hours at “Urgent Care” last evening for a bad bout of food poisoning, probably caused by a King Soopers salad… I try to eat healthy, but apparently…
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Teach a new dog old tricks
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My HR director at work has been using the same HP Envy 700-527c desktop since the company purchased them ten years ago, and earlier this week the drive started showing…
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All my bags are packed I’m ready to go
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Apple has apparently caught wind that I’m using other systems and decided that I’m a heretic, because starting this morning nothing has worked right. My roommate likes to use iMessage…
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It’s a windows world
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And I just live in it… So, it’s been a few days with Windows now, and I’m adjusting well, I think. I know I make it sound worse than it…
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I don’t do Windows
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Or maybe I do… I got a bit fed up with the complexities of my Hackintosh this morning, specifically the flaky network kexts I’m using to make an unsupported NIC…
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It’s complicated…
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Last week my boss / CFO / landlord had to take off to Taiwan for a while to deal with family issues, and since then things have been pretty complicated…
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Azure
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In my last post I mentioned that Microsoft was in something of a panic and gave me an inordinately short period of time to ‘fix’ my end of my AD-to-Azure…
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Hackintosh + Update
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All of the parts I ordered came in this afternoon, so I took the XPS apart again and upgraded pretty much everything in it… It’s now got the fans out…
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OpenCore
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I spent the last couple of weeks fiddling around with OpenCore, and overall I’m pretty pleased. This all started because I found this old, disused Dell XPS PC at work…
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Mileage update
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Just passed 4000 miles. I bought the car on August 10th, 2022 – 404 days ago – so I’m up to about 10 miles a day on average. The up-tick…
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Newer typically isn’t better
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Occasionally I’ll be doing something here in the bright and shiny future, and suddenly realize everything is incredibly overcomplicated in the name of technology… For example, this morning I was…
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Update
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Not only does the bag contain a half an ounce less, but it’s also six bucks now… And that’s pretty much how everything is these days. Listening to “Dark Days”…
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There is no saving throw versus the plot device
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Ever get the feeling there is some sort of diabolical Wizard of Oz chuckling quietly to himself as he says “watch this!” and presses a button to make your day…
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Shrinkflation
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Not only is the box really small, but when you open it you realize you just spent $3 for a literal handful of crackers. I’d have to say a full…
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HVAC
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Like the t-shirt says: “That’s what I do: I fix stuff and I know things”… My time in the USN was on a submarine, and on a submarine you’re expected…
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The good old days…
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… of 2020. I decided to get out of the house for a bit and get some fast food for lunch / dinner, and the place of choice was Taco…
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But it’s a dry heat
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Summer has finally arrived here in Colorado, and over the weekend it went from rainy and mid-70’s to dry and mid-90’s. And, being as the local utility company has raised…