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Yesterday I got a letter from the IRS, a form CP5071. It said I had to verify m…

I finally got my exhaust fixed on my Subaru Impreza (2013). As I mentioned befo…

An interesting problem I encountered when moving to use Linux more is that git …

My car (2013 Impreza) wouldn't start the other day. It had been near 0°F over…

It is perhaps deferred maintenance, but I had to put $2000 into my car (2013 Su…

The end of last week proved to be somewhat troublesome for me, with extra work a…

I was annoyed by a problem that cropped up in the latest version of MacVim when…

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Mine was good, good food and lots of peo…

I don't use npm often. When I do, I tend to be reminded of annoyances in using …

MacOS 15.7.2 seems to have fixed my issue with very slow Touch ID on awakening. …

Earlier in my career, I looked to the HTML5 boilerplate for ideas on how to set…

Since MacOS 15.7.1, the touch ID (fingerprint reader) often takes a while to bec…

I had a stressful end of workday yesterday. I accidentally deleted the database…

I think I have finally worked through and fixed the issues caused by Mac OS 15.…

Yesterday evening, I lit a candle while watching an episode of Columbo. It's o…

After running into some problems with some rsync scripts recently, I discovered…

Doing my federal (US) taxes this year, I was finding myself unable to create an …

Last Monday, my car's (Subaru Impreza) low oil light came on while I was drivin…

In January, I made another of my cinnamon roll cheesecake's. I was in a rush an…

Yesterday, a storm came through. Knocked some trees down and knocked out power …

Weird commute home tonight. Thunder, no: fireworks. Car flashing brights. Tre…

I haven't been able to upgrade composer with homebrew to version 2.7.7 (on Intel…

Reading this weekend about a backdoor introduced to the open source xz project.…

My Moto X phone, a stand-in for my non-functioning Pixel 3a, scared me by force …

My "current" phone (4.5 year old Pixel 3a) may be dead. I now can't …

I went to send a private message on Twitter for the first time in probably 6+ ye…

Furnace went out again. Had to clean out the trap. I was feeling a little uncom…

Updating to MacOS 14.2 also meant I had to update to the latest VirtualBox versi…

A while back, I wrote about dealing with the Apache / FastCGI error 'Primary sc…

Last week I got pretty sick for a few days, a bad cold perhaps. I woke up in th…

For some reason, the Homebrew version of composer hasn't been working recently,…

I finally succeeded in paying for my T-Mobile prepaid service with a credit card…

The branches that had broken in my back yard fell down the next day without inci…

A couple branches of the big tree behind my yard have cracked, swung down, and a…

I had a weird work incident yesterday. It involved a car crash (not me), intern…

Also annoying with T-Mobile, their "post-paid" account site seems to b…

T-Mobile is being annoying, requiring a debit card or bank routing number to get…

Finally, after almost a week since my stings, they're no longer itching so bad. …

Thursday, while mowing the lawn, I got stung three times by some yellow-jackets…

I found a tick biting me on Tuesday. This seems to have become an annual occurr…

I got stuck in quite a traffic jam on Route 8 north yesterday. Took me over an …

Today, another falling tree incident happened. As I was driving to my parents' …

Today, when running Vagrant on my Mac, I was greeted with a message "Vagran…

I have finally shut down my DreamCompute server on Dreamhost after my recent fo…

My server, and with it my blog, a client site, and other web properties, was do…

I've been going to Summit Metro Parks events lately on the weekends and enjoying…

Due to some compromised Github code signing certificates, I had to downgrade my …

Apparently, an update to VirtualBox after version 6.1.26 limited the IP's usabl…

My car exhaust was rattling and making noise for quite some time. I finally fix…

Some German bot(s) seemed to take interest in one of Cogneato's sites, Rockin H…