2021 posts

Merry Christmas, all. I had a fine day preparing for and then enjoying dinner a…

Merry Christmas Eve. I spent part of my day day preparing gifts and sending Chr…

I got my covid booster vaccine. I wasn't planning on doing so quite yet, but t…

I do a lot of management of work and personal projects with git. I've been mak…

My furnace stopped working again yesterday. Luckily I was able to get it runnin…

First day of snow sticking to the roads. Didn't start till after dark though an…

Happy Thanksgiving. It was a good day with good food. I took a long walk aroun…

Last Sunday was the first real snow of the year. It was also a cold, blustery d…

My old eBay username / email seems to no longer exist in eBay's system. I used …

I use rsync for backups, site deployments, and other purposes where I need to s…

My furnace was fixed on Monday, just a few days after stopping working. I calle…

My furnace stopped working. Luckily this house has a lot of thermal mass (brick…

I watched Dune (2021) at the Midway drive in this weekend. Went with Jamie and …

R.I.P. Chester. Jamie and Tiffany's dog got lymphoma and it grew quickly. I s…

I went to Country Maid and got some ice cream today, chocolate peanut butter in …

I hiked the Dogwood trail for the first time since at least April, when my healt…

I got my lowest usage on my water bill yet: -1 unit. Thus, my lowest water bill…

I had an issue with a MySQL query containing a sub-query recently where it work…

The first full day of fall was appropriately cold, not getting above mid 50s and…

The work I did on my car earlier this summer has clearly helped my gas mileage. …

PHP's defacto package manager, composer, has long required large amounts of mem…

On my new MacBook, I've been isolating responsibilities into separate user acco…

I recently had need to submit a web form with file fields via AJAX. The applic…

As the final larger repair on my car, I got the exhaust repaired. The gasket be…

I figured out why Firefox 91+ seemed to break some CSS rendering for me (as I b…

I replaced the brake pads, and the front calipers and rotors on my car this wee…

I spent $900 to get my car's AC running again. It stopped running several years…

Atom (text editor) lost a bunch of unsaved work I had in it. I've gotten so use…

I've made another new laptop purchase in the past couple months: I bought a re…

I accidentally made a 147GB file filled with grep output and almost filled up my…

It seems the WiFi in my aging 2009 Macbook is dying. It's been having problems …

The recent Firefox Developer Edition update (91.0b6) seems to have broken CSS re…

Last month, I finally bought a new laptop with plans to replace my aging 2009 M…

I went for a hike yesterday at an inopportune time and got soaked. I was feelin…

I got sick again with virus-like symptoms. It was rough at first and kind of ha…

I accidentally went to the wrong restaurant for lunch today and almost overheate…

I finally got my second Covid vaccine shot. Unplanned until I was on my way to…

Apparently, Microsoft gives the wrong link for their Bitlocker recovery key pag…

I recently needed to sort query results to match the order of IDs passed to it …

I signed up for the Ohio Vax-A-Million vaccine lottery at ohiovaxamillion.com, e…

When I bought my house, half of the regular windows had already been replaced w…

I watched the Stir Trek conference today, live streaming. It was done virtuall…

I had another tick, a big one, though this time it didn't leave a mark at all. …

After another strong anxiety attack, I've been off and on sickly for over a week…

I found myself needing to get the path to the current script and its directory i…

I think the deer are eating some of my bulb plant leaves. The daffodils seem fi…

I planted some flowers in my garden today, and discovered a large number of acor…

I had another health incident yesterday. It kind of makes me feel like I'm dyin…

Many of my crocus flowers were damaged in the snowfall of last week and wilted a…

I went outside after work to sit and enjoy the nice 80°F weather, but the sky w…