The good old days…
… 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 Bell… Mostly because I happen to like Taco Bell and it’s always been a cheap place to eat when I’m…
History in computers
My company has been in business since 1999, and one of the services we used to provide was hardware compatibility testing. What hardware compatibility testing is, is seeing how a given piece of software operates on various hardware platforms – CPU, north/south bridge, video card, sound card, etc. In 2018…
But it’s a dry heat
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 the rates for electricity into the realm of painful, I’m determined to not use the AC at all this year.…
Despite the cost of living, it remains popular
Just got back from my Saturday morning run to King Soopers; $27 in gas and $111.70 ($93.43 after coupons) in groceries. Gas was $0.50 off thanks to grocery points, so a mere $3.60 a gallon for the good stuff – and I burned a bit more than I usually do…
Car Stuff
I tend to post something about my car every thousand miles, mostly to keep track of utilization and whatnot. And, being as I passed another thousand mile milestone this morning, here is said post. I bought the car with 20 miles on it on August 10th, 2022 – 317 days…
Exhibit A
Right after the last post, I had to break out the old Dell laptop again – so I figured I’d do a quick post that kind of illustrates a typical day for the Wizard… I have a client here at work that makes an internet connected thingy – which really…