Author: gander

  • Bernie Sanders

    A fucking Bernie Sanders bot texted me last night. It didn’t go well – for them.

  • Exciting Weekend

    I am helping my sister move and get settled into their new house. It will be a good weekend.

  • The Decade Challenge

    The Decade Challenge

    There’s been a lot of side by side comparison of people from the beginning of the 2010’s, and the now start of the 2020’s. I don’t have pictures, but, I do have a story. The story begins the week before. I was getting started on a diet and a renewed vigor. Daily exercise, caloric intake…

  • White trash neighbors

    White trash neighbors

    Living in South San Jose is pretty great, for the most part. Great house, mostly great neighbors, and amazing weather are all positives. But the negatives come out twice a year. There are several rental properties in our neighborhood, and they are often rented by giant wads of fuck. Case in point: Last night, New…

  • Looking back on 2019

    Looking back on 2019

    As we wrap up 2019, a look back to what the ending year brought.

  • Ditching the Gas – Going to Charcoal

    Ditching the Gas – Going to Charcoal

    Hank Hill would be disappointed, but I have gone to the dark side, charcoal, and it is delicious!

  • Tivo – getting to the end of the line

    Tivo – getting to the end of the line

    The Tivo died. It is fixed now, but how long will it last? Who knows as the whole TV and media consumption model is changing.

  • Shingles Vaccine

    A couple of months ago, we lined up for our annual flu shot, and this year decided to get the shingles vaccine. Since both of us were from an era before the chicken pox vaccine, we both had it as children.

  • Website (and host) migration time

    Website (and host) migration time

    The annual shutdown is the perfect time to do website maintenance, and this year is no different. A bigger maintenance window than usual, I needed to move all to a new host droplet

  • Fucking hell – Redirects

    Fucking hell – Redirects

    A full day spent moving websites, and one final frustration that was driving me mad, how to redirect a url. It used to work, what was different?