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Weekend Trivialities
I have gotten out of the habit of updating things here lately. Work has become super busy. Homelife has been busy, and frankly the blogging has suffered. A bunch of things today. 1) Apparently my car is dripping oil. If it was s late 1960’s British car, this wouldn’t be an issue, as they leak…
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DoublePlus Suck – Seizure AND broken Toe
Grab bag here, and a quickie post… Yesterday was our anniversary, 15 years! Woot. Great dinner, and life is good. Then at 10:10PM, Tate has a seizure. I was not really sleeping so apart from the panic it wasn’t too disruptive. Apart from the trauma of the seizure. Then, as I was bolting down the…
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Moving, the last frontier
Yesterday I groused about some of the last dregs of moving. While the majority of the unpacking has been done, there was still a clot of boxes in the middle of the garage. Annoying, yet stubborn. This morning I was determined to do something about the clot of boxes. It was about 3/4’s of Barbara’s…
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Moving Notes
Well, we are mostly unpacked, and all is mostly well. 95% of the boxes are unpacked, and the house is well organized. The boys are settled in (and too comfortable). However there are a few wrinkles. Before we moved from Chandler, I bought a new pair of cycling shoes. My old ones were 13 years…
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The Skype Virus
Whenever someone wants to talk to me and they say that they want to use Skype, I cringe. For a long time, I was unsure of why I cringed, I just did. Until recently when I installed the latest Skype client on my work PC. Sigh, there are plenty of things to hate about Skype.…
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Getting old sucks
Freshly into my 6th decade, I am beginning to feel my age. Some observations: Once you get gout once, it is likely to recur. Sadly, now when I have even a couple of malted beverages, I get the start of a flare up. Not being able to have a couple brews on the weekend sucks.…
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Marking a Half Century…
Today, May 10, I turn 50. Like many milestones it was both looked forward to and dreaded at the same time. I was working on a long, sappy, post, but screw that. I kind of remember turning 30. I was working at Read Rite as a process engineer, having fun, but still felt young. Life…
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WordPress musings
My first flirtation with WordPress was in 2009, and I have been a regular user since. It has mostly been an enjoyable experience. Initially, I created a free site on wordpress.com, and quickly dove into the self hosted solution. Early on (pre 2.0 era) I got hacked. Entirely because I used sketchy plugins from authors…
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Not too happy with WordPress right now…
Nothing like getting an out of the blue “Abuse Notification” from you webhost provider. Sigh. About 9:00PM last night I got the warning that there was malware on my wife’s WordPress site. Scripts in three unrelated files, and who knows what else damaged. Earlier, doing my normal maintenance, I found that the plugins and theme…
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The joy of Vinyl
Last year my father in-law passed away, a sad occurrence. However, we inherited his stereo and music collection. A couple hundred LP’s with a lot of jazz and big band recordings from the 50’s through the 70’s, and even some more modern items. This weekend, I have the stereo setup, an okay Marantz unit, with…