2019 posts

I hung out with my Texas friend Dwight all weekend. We also hung out with Scott…

Merry Christmas, or post Christmas. It's always nice to get days off, but I som…

Christmas approaches. It came fast. I have all my shopping done though, in par…

With the help of Retro Pie's special key setup, I've lost many hours of progress…

Up way later than I wanted to be, fighting with Symfony's framework bundle trapp…

After much stress, I have chosen my health insurance plan for 2020. I could've …

I got my controllers working on my retro pie. I just had to press random keys o…

I bought myself a new Raspberry Pi, for use as a Retro Pie (video game emulator)…

Looks like I've finally encountered the failing battery in a cartridge video gam…

I finally got a better antenna for my TV. It's a Clearstream 4Max, replacing on…

For Black Friday, I mostly avoided going out during the day, but at night I went…

I fired a real gun for the first time (that I recall) today. Two of them, actua…

Happy Thanksgiving. Dinner was good with family, some of whom I haven't seen in …

I use Letsencrypt with certbot for the HTTPS certificates of my personal sites.…

A StackOverflow question showed me that Ansible handlers can be stored in their…

I had a bit of a scare at work today, thinking that a site that accepts credit c…

My Uncle's gun auction went pretty well I think. Some items didn't do well and …

My Uncle Joe's estate includes many guns, knifes, swords, and other military and…

I feel like every day should have an extra hour. Not looking forward to it gett…

I got locked inside my Uncle's house for a while tonight. Yes, inside. My brot…

I have turned on this DoH (DNS over HTTPS) thing in Firefox for the last several…

I bought the first two seasons of Stranger Things for $10, on sale at Target. I…

This weekend, I implemented a dark theme for my site. I'm referring to using t…

In the interest of progressive enhancement, my site doesn't force browsers to c…

Friday, I went to the Indians game with my coworker Brandon. My parents had ext…

I had a weird loss of a git commit when my battery died unexpectedly. I made a …

Went to the Indians game with Jamie and Tiffany, but it got rained out. Jamie a…

I finally got my online T Mobile account working after switching to a new plan l…

An advantage of having a Pixel phone is that I got the upgrade to Android 10 on …

A little over a week ago, I went to an Indians game with my brother. We were wa…

Today I went for a good long walk on the Dogwood and related trails. There were…

Today, on the drive to lunch, I saw a person get slightly hit by a car. I think…

I replaced my rear brake pads tonight. As I was told when I had the car in the …

This site was down tonight, possibly for a couple hours, seemingly due to anothe…

This morning, I was relieved to have my phone number restored. I went in to the…

I bought a new phone today, a Google Pixel 3a. It was a long overdue purchase,…

I went to see the Cleveland Orchestra perform at Blossom this evening, likely my…

This week, while my car was in the shop, I got a loaner 2019 Subara Impreza with…

My car was in the shop this week for two recall issues. I scheduled the work wi…

I had to re-scan my TV channels tonight. I lost Retro TV (16.1) in the re-scan,…

I was able to get wi-fi working on my recent Ubuntu install, but not with the bu…

I installed Ubuntu on my Windows tablet this weekend. I've been meaning to do s…

Saturday, I saw the Cleveland Orchestra perform at Blossom. My mom and dad, and…

Not sure what happened, but the Jetpack Markdown plugin setting got turned off b…

I decided to start up my old cell phone, a Motorola Droid 2. I was then reminde…

I went to Kelleys Island with cousins and company this weekend. It was both rel…

I went to see the recording of Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me at Blossom last Thursd…

Today at work, I came up with the word "æffect" as a solution to the …

I am home from another successful GiveCamp. As always, it was very tiring. Whe…

The tenth annual, and my ninth, Cleveland GiveCamp started today. I took off th…