2020 posts

Needing to get out of the house, I went on a short hike this evening on the Dogw…

I replaced my nearly eight year old car battery with an Interstate from Costco t…

Merry Christmas to all. It has definitely turned out to be a white Christmas a…

My phone (Pixel 3a) has been dropping longer calls when using wi-fi calling over…

I spent some time playing with my Raspberry Pi's this weekend. I took advantage…

The Ubuntu / Debian unattended-upgrades package has an option to automatically …

I spent a good bit of Saturday evening into the night buying the ingredients and…

Sunday, my family had its deferred Thanksgiving dinner. It was a delicious meal…

I have determined that one cannot link a prepaid and postpaid T-Mobile account t…

For Ubuntu servers, I use the unattended-upgrades package to automate keeping t…

I figured out why the T-Mobile Home Internet router has SMS in its web interface…

Yay Browns for a great half of a game that was fun to watch, and for pulling off…

After three and a half years tethering for my home internet, I've given in and …

I watched a MacGyver TV movie because I had the theme song in my head, only to f…

A young man and woman presumably from an energy supplier knocked on my door toda…

'Twas the first heavier snow of the year. Not as bad down here as in Cleveland …

I may have fixed my jacket zipper with a heated nail. The zipper was getting to…

I probably spent more this Black Friday than any previous one. I bought four t…

I played Jackbox Party Pack 5 with Dwight and Grace over Zoom today. We had pla…

I had to make a toggle switch widget for work recently. I had not done one bef…

My Thanksgiving started out a little sad that it would be alone, but it ended up…

Happy Thanksgiving. This will be my first Thanksgiving alone (I'm pretty sure).…

Up until recently, I hadn't directly known anyone with COVID. Two family(ish) m…

Yesterday was quite windy. Sideways rain, leaves blowing and swirling, debris, …

I've been trying to eat from more of a variety restaurants lately. Since lockdo…

Healthcare.gov's rating system seems to only have two options: not rated or 3/5 …

I went on a pretty last minute camping trip this weekend. Went two nights with…

I reduced my political and philosophical postings since combining my personal an…

OhIo voted. They changed the sticker. I voted this morning before work. I nor…

First snow of the year. It was enough for a solid coating on the deck and grass…

I spent 3-4 hours this afternoon doing yard work. I stopped when my back and jo…

I hung out with some college friends this week. Dwight and Grace came into town…

Two more auctions of my Uncle Joe's stuff tomorrow: an alcohol auction and an ar…

As of the start of Prime day yesterday, the Amazon home page seems to completely…

It was a sports-ball kind of day today, with a Browns win and a Lebron Lakers wi…

Apparently, the Western Fruit Basket sign that's on the corner of the Cogneato o…

I watched the NBA finals game tonight, the one series they have all games on bro…

This past weekend and tomorrow had and are having some of the last sales of my …

I went camping this weekend at Mosquito Lake. Went with some family after the …

It went from summer-like to fall-like temperatures fairly quickly. I had been l…

I made a simple bash backup script for the newer MySQL database servers at Cogn…

The Browns were on broadcast TV tonight. And I noticed early enough to watch ha…

I recently had the need to take a name from a form submission and use it as the…

Lots of rain today. This summer has been pretty dry. We seem to have gotten th…

Some presumed bots figured out the reCaptcha (version 2) we protect forms with …

There was another DreamCompute incident leading to downtime of my site / server…

I've upgraded my Firefox Android install to the new version running GeckoView. …

I bought another set of items from my Uncle Joe's estate. I got: three more pi…

I've just learned that, with the MySQL command line client, one can run \s or st…

I watched my second movie on the new VCR: The Big Lebowski. Probably hadn't see…