I am helping my sister move and get settled into their new house. It will be a good weekend.
Exciting Weekend
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Website (and host) migration time
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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
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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?
Kamado Kapers: Brined Turkey Breast
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A long history of fowl abuse has prevented me from cooking turkey. It could be time to rethink that banishment of this fine flesh from my repertoire
Two Months, and 2,400 miles on the 2020 Acura RDX
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A month in, one big road trip, and plenty of smiles with one sadz
New Car time: 2020 Acura RDX
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As I progress into my dotage, I find that I need a little (ok, a LOT) more comfort when I drive, so out with the sports car, and in with the CUV
Bagel Shop Economics
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Observations of the cost of a dozen bagels from a local shop.
The Trek Century Challenge
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I enjoy cycling, but I am pretty far from elite. I did make the 100 miles, but my mind boggles at those who can ride more than three thousand motherfucking miles in 4 weeks.
Time to retire
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(My other blog that is…) When I began my journey on the internet back in the 1990’s, I signed up with a small-ish ISP at the time, Best Communications. One of the “benefits” of their ISDN service was the inclusion of a domain for my email. At the time, I had an English Mastiff, a giant of a dog, named Astro – from The Jetsons, and of course that domain was gone...
Car Shopping
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As I age, I am increasingly finding it less and less comfortable to fold myself into my current car, a Honda S2000. I wouldn’t have noticed this if I hadn’t spent a few months with the use of my Step Father’s Jeep Cherokee after he passed. A compact SUV, it was comfortable to drive, and I found that I enjoyed that.