My CFO / real-estate mogul has been renovating a new house for his family for about a year and a half now – and now that he’s moved in, he has discovered a network shortcoming that I’ve been tasked to fix. See, he bought the place off of some relatives…

My alt.save.the.planet neighbors with the gargantuan SUV, the bad air-conditioning habit, and the alter to Greta Thunberg have struck again… Apparently said neighbor saw a field mouse on their deck and put out a few kinds of poison to fix it. See, we need to protect Mother Nature as long…

We’ve had centralized OS updates in one form or another for about thirty years now, and they still can’t install them when you’re not using the computer… This morning my MacPro 5,1 that I’m using at work – which runs logged in, 24/7, for a few cron jobs as well…

It’s been a bit, so I should probably post something for proof of life. The roommate’s hospital visit on the 9th turned into a fiasco; I delivered him at noon and was back there again at 4pm because they had to cancel the surgery. Apparently, the day before someone from…

So, back on the 24th I had a tussle with some food poisoning which landed me on antibiotics for ten days. Antibiotics tend to make me woozy and slightly ill, so I don’t get much sleep. On the 30th my roommate had a guest show up for a week which…

Over the years I’ve played a lot of MMOs, and with a couple of notable exceptions such as World of Warcraft, they’ve all become inoperable relics in my game collection. For example, I was looking for something to write about and decided on a random grab from the dead MMO…