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Blizzard ’21
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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…
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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
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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…
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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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Update…
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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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Moving day
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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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Reality is a harsh mistress
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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…
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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…