Life in This MedjoPangit World

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A very nice Christmas gift we got, today.

I need to stop saying "when..."

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12/25/2023

Each Christmas I spend a year older, whether I like to admit it or not, it does feel like certain magical feelings drift away. I can better understand now those Christmas songs (a lot of them by TSO) about coming back to the child within. But more on that later.

For quite some time now, I'm ashamed to say I haven't picked up any new or good books. After discovering a service called LibreVox, I've started to repent, and I started that penance with a book called "The Land of Hidde. . .

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This

This was actually a couple weeks ago, and all of the snow (and the man thereof) are gone, now.

Performance vs. The Real Thing

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12/18/2023

For the holidays, it was a slower week than I would've expected.

In fact, honestly, probably the most notable thing that happened in the last seven days was just a few hours ago- I went to a choral concert for a charity donation. As it turns out, despite the main act being the big focus and the reason most people went, I actually went for the preshow, as my father was singing in a barbershop group. Yes, those still exist. And they were great!

And here's where I need t. . .

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The tiny tree, deprived of the overload of decor that had strangled it to death.

Don't overbear your tree

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12/11/2023

(In the voice of a young Macaulay Culkin) Yikes, I did it again! Yeah, I let another week slip... I'm not sure how, I feel like I am a more consistent person that that... oh well.

Over the past two weeks I've been to the car repair shop several times. The first one happened when my check engine light started flashing and my cylinders started misfiring. That was fun. And picking up my car was also fun because, for complicated reasons, I dropped it off several cities away . . .

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A view from a sunset drive in a wetland this last week.

That hill reminded me I'm not the kid I was fifteen years ago.

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11/27/2023

So... I missed a week? How did that happen? I'm usually so consistent- I have no idea how that just slipped by. Well...

One super awesome thing that happened was that I got to go see Postmodern Jukebox in person! They put on a fantastic show! And the talent is off the charts. One super not-awesome thing that happened was that I was sick for like a whole week prior to that.

During the holidays, I also found myself in an interesting juncture. An old friend asked if . . .

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Finally

Finally replaced the bulb in my lava lamp after a LONG time.

Chekhov's Gun Saved Me.

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11/13/2023

Another week later into fall, and life goes on and on.

I got great gifts from everyone on my birthday- and all have been greatly appreciated. My wife bought me a pair of roller blades, though- and I haven't gone a bladin' since probably ought nine! In any case, it's been a good moment since I last had, and I was still a youth. I got to dawn my new stylin' wheels and go out on the town for a quick lap around the park in the dark. I was pleasantly surprised to find I still had mo. . .

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This

This is a weird piece of urban art near our flat... do the hills actually have eyes?!?

One Less Turbine in The House.

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11/08/2023

Honestly, there's not much I can say for this week.

Don't get me wrong- it was my birthday, recently, and if I didn't publicly thank those who celebrated with me, I would feel ungrateful. Despite having to work and take care of stuff (AKA being a responsible human), it was a good day, and I'm very grateful to my family and friends.

Easily the most eventful thing to happen last week was something that should've happened awhile ago, now. Until recently, I've been using a. . .

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I love my workplace.

Revamped Website and The Power of Thinking

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11/01/2023

Sometimes you gotta take a braver and bolder step forward in life. I don't know if I can say what I did falls under that qualification, strictly... honestly, it falls more under the "it's about time" category of things- but I finally setup this website to actually promote my business... not that I'm so certain that I have everything figured out one hundred percent, but, as the old saying goes, "You gotta start somewhere".

And where did our Halloween start? Well, it started with m. . .

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That

That old brick building by night (with the lights on upstairs).

A Halloween experience in advance of the holiday

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10/24/2023

Life has been a peach. I say that, but also my work life has been super duper busy, and I've been trying to just catch my breath between it all. And yet... maybe I wouldn't want it any other way? Maybe.

Probably the most notable thing I did this last week happened Thursday. It was fall break for one of our charter school clients, and Thursday was the day we dedicated to getting their new network cut over. Knowing most of the work would be wiring (out of my scope), I got down t. . .

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Odd

Odd jumpscare that greeted me as I walked into this room from down below.

Art and Creation vs Work

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10/17/2023

Some weeks at work I find myself just finding a few things to do to fill in the blanks. Then there's weeks like this one where I've driven hundreds and hundreds of miles this last week, rebuilt a firewall (only to have it commit suicide on me twice in a row), and have my check engine light come on not once, but twice more after last week's repairs. Not a dull moment, so to speak.

But my proudest accomplishment this last week was two things dealing with the same matter. My wife a. . .

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A beautiful view in the mountain mists on a drive, seeing the fall colors.

I did not hunger.

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10/10/2023

For the entire 0.27 fans who I think read this blog somewhat regularly, sorry for the delay on my latest post. You'll see why it was delayed in my story below.

This week has been no shortage of busy, expensive, and also fun. I had to get my catalytic converter replaced, so that stung pretty hard. My HomeAssistant had issues like no one's business, to the point where I was up til 3 in the morning getting it fixed and up and running, again. I changed out the motherboard on my off. . .

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The moon was so bright the other night, it looked like daytime in the sky!

Never stop learning!

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10/03/2023

This is a very special week on the back end; why? Because, you are seeing this website as it's being relayed from my new server!

Back in... oh, I can't quite remember, but I want to say somewhere between the fall of 2017 and the spring of 2018, I was taking college classes on network engineering and started finding a stronger interest in the topic. I started thinking it would be cool to be able to access my own files from home on the go; as such, I was starting to really get into. . .

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Dusk

Dusk from a corn maze.

Lights, Mazes and Rhythm.

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09/25/2023

It's that time of year when things are starting to get just a bit more chilly- jackets are dawned, frost appears on my windshield in the morning, and ever on and on the busy life goes.

The week kind of just came and went, mostly- working, a fun drive at night, grocery trips, the usual. Perhaps the most unexpected part came when, what should hail in the autumn equinox but... hail. Yeah, we had a hailstorm that came in a few quick but strong waves. And that storm was finally the t. . .

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It was a tossup between this and a few others, but the view of the desert from this mountain won.

When we can't see beyond the bushes...

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09/18/2023

Before this summer dies out totally, I guess I had to get a few more fun licks in.

One very accomplishing thing I finally got done this week was setting up my own self-hosted mail server! This is something I've been putting off on my backburner of things to do for almost two years, now- and out of the blue, I finally got it working correctly! Mail protocols and delivery is not quite so simple as most other services, as it turns out.

I also had the fun opportunity to bo. . .

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Just

Just a beautiful dusk-evening photo I happened upon when leaving a building this week.

A Voice in Those Strings

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09/10/2023

Have you ever experience the onosecond? It's the second that YouTuber Tom Scott describes as the second after you make a terrible mistake and realize there's nothing you can do about it. I had that second this week.

Granted, in this scenario, the stakes were not terribly high, like in other times I've experienced it. This time, I was at my office comptuer, as I often am, and I was going through some old SD cards and wiping them to make them ready for easy use. I use Linux Mint . . .

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So

So yeah... don't go... swimming... in the electrical junction box...

To make a difference in somebody's life...

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09/04/2023

You know, it's funny, I just spent the last several days out on a vacation with my family- and don't get me wrong, it was a great time! And yet I have almost nothing to talk from it- at least, not here on my blog.

But there are a few other interesting things worth noting this week. Probably the most noteworthy was something I got roped into- and it was all my fault. As we've been looking at houses and trying hopelessly to find something affordable that we could live with for awh. . .

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Accidentally

Accidentally caught a perfect picture- including the roadsign... which curiously ties into my main thought this week.

Troubleshooting and Assumptions

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08/27/2023

It's an interesting thing, when, being a network technician with years of experience, you sometimes get assigned strange tasks... like sprinkler work. Well, technically, that's an objective way to look at it; I got asked to connect a client's sprinkler system up to their Wi-fi, and then ended up programming in the zones and everything. It was an amusing day to spend a Monday.

But despite the fun stories, there's also the ...other fun stories. Like how I spent two nights in a row. . .

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A beautiful pre-dawn moon over the canyon to the East.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life... or will you?

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08/20/2023

Everyone, more or less, has a "busy season" at their place of work. You might be a tax associate company, and have quarterly and yearly such times. You might be a supermarket and have busy holiday seasons. Working as a network engineer for a vast host of clientele, and a good portion of those being charter schools... well, guess what week it was?

Yeah, it's been busy, busy, busy- and it hasn't just been schools, too- I've been having to juggle a few projects relating to a fire d. . .

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Can't believe this park is still flooded in the hot August sun!

To Grandmother's House We Go!

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08/13/2023

I always think August is going to be this miserable month, because you always associate it with hot, hot weather- at least where I come from. But I can honestly say, some of these days have been exceptionally beautiful, and not overbearingly hot.

One fun thing I did this last week was get to hang out with "the boys". We pulled Halo night... and having almost never played Halo in my life (I know, am I a freak or something?), I can assuredly say... well, in layman's terms, I got my. . .

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Having no good photos to share this week, I quickly went outside and discovered both how pretty the night sky is and how good my camera is.

Transforming Demons into Angels.

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08/06/2023

I really do love the summer. I almost regret not going camping more than I have been, though. I suppose I still have a handful of weekends to remedy that...

First fun story of the week was a major accomplishment of mine, in which I explored uncharted territory. I have a 3CX phone server at home, which I use just as a nerdy way of saying I technically have an intercom and bell paging system, as well as occasionally testing out VoIP-related stuff. I also have Home Assistant becau. . .

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Well...

Well... I can say I've been here, now... Think I'll go home, now.

Offroads, Servers, and Forever-long Tech Calls

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07/31/2023

For those hoping I was being honest about my comment last week about this one being just as exciting if not more, I say unto you: I deliver.

It started with me helping run sound for a float in a big local parade. The float was pirate themed (including a whole mast and crow's nest) and was for a barbershop singing group. It went reasonably well, although us nearly taking out some phone lines as we pulled off the parade route's end and followed the side roads was a little too excit. . .

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An offroad adventure view, coming over the sadle in sunny summer storm!

Rick Rolls, Night Hikes, Rocky Roads and a Wedding.

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07/24/2023

And once again, in case anyone might've been worried it'd be another boring week, fear not. In fact, this week and next should have some interesting stories to tell!

I think it's a pretty good week- or at least a very notable one- when nearly getting hit by lightning, breaking old electronics with sledgehammers, and hanging out with new friends playing smash until after midnight all qualify as less notable things that happened- though don't get me wrong, those dudes I hung out wit. . .

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I had no photos I took this week, so here's a gift of a beautiful little trinket a friend made for me a decade ago halfway across the world.

Bad Rice and Welcomed Quietness.

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07/16/2023

And finally, it would seem my adventures came crashing to a somewhat welcomed halt for a week.

Honestly... the most outstanding thing this week came from a rather unwise decision I made. With food leftover from my previous weekend campout, I decided to have that for dinner the next day. In any ordinary circumstances, that would be no problem- except I knew full well that the cooler did not stay as cool as I was pretending it did- and there was more than a good chance that the ric. . .

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When

When the road ahead diverts expectations...

Stop.

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07/10/2023

How often is it that I can say that a week where I went camping over the weekend was far less eventful than the past three? Well, this week I can. And this week, looking back on it, had a bit of a theme.

Getting back into the swing of work after like three weeks of being gone was honestly nice. A little stress here and there, but it was almost welcomed. What wasn't welcomed was the state of my poor car. Day one of getting back to work, I found my battery drained and deader tha. . .

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Our first campsite, in a desolate, dead forest.

Lost in The Wilderness

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07/04/2023

If anyone really actually follows my stories and was worried the excitement couldn't be topped from last week, FEAR NOT. And buckle up.

After finally getting back from our fun Germany trip (and less-than-fun experience at the Zurich airport), I had Thursday morning to pack and then leave on a big backcountry backpacking trip. The goal: drive out to a very remote part of Idaho and stay a night at a very remote hot springs resort; the next several days would be spent driving a coup. . .

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The old, beautiful organ at the old, beautiful church.

The good, the bad, and the Zurich Airport.

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06/28/2023

I'm not joking when I say there has been enough that happened this past week for pretty much every day to fill up it's own blog post. With that said, I'm going to condense this down as best I can, and... well, the title I gave this blog post explains well how it will be categorized. Here we go.

The Good

There were a LOT of things we saw and did this week. We saw Sansoucci Palace and had a cool tour of the gardens and palace itself- and then had to go out into a. . .

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What

What once were walls, now are roads.

Philippine Memories and German Delicacies.

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06/18/2023

Guten abend meine Freunde. Writing in from Germany on this one. Oh yeah, halfway around the world for the first time in a few years!

I could go into detail on the story of how we got here, but it's just about the most boring thing, ever. Long 10 hour flight, another 1 hour flight, layover, confusions, jetlag- you get the idea. We arrived in Berlin and my wife's sister was here to greet us and guide us (she may as well be a native for how well she speaks and knows some of the cu. . .

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This

This road is closed in the winter. It just recently opened.

Munch knew it, too.

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06/11/2023

Monday was the “let’s start slowing things down day”, and finally, ever-so thankably, this week has been a hundred times less hectic. Dreams do come true.

And it’s just been another week in the life. I rebuilt built a school’s firewall from scratch, I powerwashed my patio and ruined the garden hose I used, because the pressure in it caused it to rupture in four different places; I scrubbed and cleaned some grill appliances harder and more furiously than I’ve ever scru. . .

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This

This photo does no justice to the beauty of this moment.

Is it Friday yet? No? It's still only halfway through Sunday?

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06/05/2023

There are some weeks or days in one's work experience that may tend to be memorable- for either good or bad reasons. This week- namely and foremostly, this weekend- has been easily the most insane and crazy one in my IT career so far.

I didn't realize it until I looked back in my journal this past week, but it actually began from the start of the week- or the work week, anyway. I was on call this week, and I awoke Wednesday morning to find some servers had gone offline- including. . .

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The

The waterfall we hiked/biked to!

Put down your pencil and jump.

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05/29/2023

I mean, there is just so many things this week to talk about, this blog entry could never suffice. Not that it's the busiest week I've ever had, but in a way, it's been among the most adventurous. Let's begin.

In my personal endeavors, I've had a projector that I rescued from death for probably a year now, but never looked seriously at it to see what it could do. After finding out some of the cool network capabilities of it, I then noticed it had a serial port on it. I thought,. . .

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A blurry view from a ridge we went over on our offroading drive.

Marsh Slogging!

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05/21/2023

And finally, despite it seeming like it would never happen, spring has officially graced us… and what a nice week of spring we enjoyed, this year, as the summer weather feels as though it’s already coming on.

It was a pretty fun week, particularly because of one big day. This weekend, the wife and I decided to take a little weekend getaway to a nice mountain lake not too far away, and just spend time to ourselves. We ended up inviting a few others with us, as the lodging spac. . .

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The

The view at the end of a scenic drive.

Learn to love the medjo pangit.

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05/14/2023

Playing catch-up a week after you’ve been playing catch-up really gets to be a lot of work- go figure.

From last week’s “show up with a UPS and actually deliver a box of junk” story, the resolution to that was that I showed up Monday morning to go over and simply install the UPS. The worst of that job was supposed to be that I simply power down their office network, plug everything into the UPS, and go singing on my merry way. Well, the possibility of singing stopped the . . .

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Best

Best meme I've seen in awhile.

Stop in the road and turn

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05/07/2023

After spending several days on vacation the week prior, I got to play catch up this last week... and I'm further behind than I started. Gotta love the month of May.

Much went on in the life, including throwing scrap metal, planting trees, celebrating my wife's birthday, etc. But EASILY, the most entertaining story this week came in a very interesting way. To make a long story short, I thought I was on call this week, and soon discovered I wasn't- but that's irrelevant. Earlier . . .

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A morning view from our campsite

The Fire Within You

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04/30/2023

In case you were worries last week's boredom would continue into this one's, fear not, for there is A LOT to tell.

At work, I have been trying to solve a conundrum for some time, now. One of our schools was having wi-fi issues, and it was odd. The issue would seem to happen at 1:15 in the afternoon, but it was random on which days it would happen. It would even bring up a notification on our monitoring that their external IP was down, and it caused some weird issues. On top of . . .

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A dead printer... or is it???

I raised the dead at work.

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04/23/2023

So goes another week of wishing warm weather would just frickin' happen, already. I am about ready to scream for how much I want to go out riding my bike and do outdoor things in general.

Perhaps I should talk about the photo subject, though. Some few weeks ago, I got a ticket in to look at a client's printer that showed signs of dying. It was shooting off a random error code that wouldn't go away after they rebooted, and would cause the printer to just continue in a regular boo. . .

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An eagle statue I own... because I took no interesting pictures this week.

Ever used a flathead as a drill?

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04/16/2023

Life carries on and on, and new adventures come each week.

This week, one such adventure came in the well-disguised form of installing software on a new laptop. We had a client who needed to install some software they use for court recordings (it’s a city government) on a new laptop, as the old one was getting too old. That led to the software technician I was on the phone with asking for us to connect it to a mixer, which led to the discovery that the mixer wasn’t working ri. . .

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At tumigil ang mundo.

Oops...

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04/10/2023

I can safely say it's pretty wild week in a number of ways... I suppose I may as well get the photo subject out of the way, first.

In my line of work, my days vary pretty greatly- sometimes I'll be working, sitting at a desk, and sometimes I'll be onsite at a client's. On Wednesday, I was indeed onsite, and was trying to figure out why two buildings weren't connecting their networks. I finished doing what I could for the day, and took off Northbound on the freeway. I was in stop. . .

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A beautiful dusk shot I happened upon!

Battery Backups and The Lord's Wind.

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04/02/2023

It's been a more busy week than I would've expected. I guess I'll start from the beginning.

I've had a long standing project at work (it's gone on for months) trying to solve the mystery of why a battery backup wasn't providing power at one of our clients with a pretty important network infrastructure. Finally, Monday, with the help of our electrician, we solved the issue... the only thing is, I'm not entirely sure how we did it, but we did. To explain the specifics would be mor. . .

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An overnight snowstorm that came right out of nowhere and covered our covered patio in snow. Yikes.

Patience, patience, patience... and a new watch.

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03/26/2023

And there goes another week of what I wish would be biking weather, but continues to be impossibly snowy weather for this late in March... which is honestly the biggest thing I can say happened this week. Truth be told, it's just been a typical busy week at work, and a boring week at home. I suppose the most excitement I can say I had was helping my mother move furniture in and out of her family room so hard wood flooring could be installed.

Well, okay, there's technically one ot. . .

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My local park doubles as a water retention basin, and the sunset view was absolutely breathtaking.

A Colossal Cave adventure and house hunting.

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03/19/2023

Among the more interesting things done this week, I ate rabbit for the first time- and it was... good. Not outstanding, not bad, but good. The stew we made of it was pretty great, though. And honestly, that's all there is to really tell about that one.

The biggest thing this week has been my wife and I looking at homes. There was one that was good, but not all that great, and there was one that was great, but already had two offers on it. So, our adventures continue onward. I. . .

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The

The hailstorm this week was pretty impressive, albeit short!

My MedjoPangit self making MedjoPangit friends!

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03/12/2023

Well, a lot happened this week, and honestly, I didn't expect it would, but I suppose that's usually how it goes.

Fun interesting events that don't require a lot of detail that happened this week include: a super hard hailstorm that was fierce and lasted about 5-10 minutes, and left a nice sheet of ice; going on a silent date with my wife, as she has lost her voice; riding my bike for the first time in months, and realizing how out of shape I am; figuring out an easy way to install. . .

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I ordered some Gorilla tape and got way more than I thought I was getting!

Car crashing and camera rebuilding

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03/05/2023

And blog rewriting. I accidentally messed up the first time I wrote this blog, and this is the second time I'm writing it up by hand... but with what I'm going to say, it fits right into this week.

First interesting thing this week was that I got into a car crash for the first time in years.... well, not exactly, actually... I was leaving for work the other morning, and a nice blanket of snow graced this valley, as it has quite a bit over the last weeks; and my brain being what i. . .

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The

The snowstorm this week made the oustide wall of my office turn white!

Fond memories.

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02/26/2023

Just another hard working week in the life. Good things happened, like getting to see my cousins I haven't seen awhile, and bad things happened, like having to owe about 2k on taxes... especially where this is the first time me and my wife have owed together. That one kinda sucked. But what can you do? In terms of the most interesting adventures for me this week, honestly the most interesting one was reviving a computer that truly seemed dead but wasn't... and that's pretty much the who. . .

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A lighter I had custom made, for some reason... I make impulse buys, sometimes.

When, not if.

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02/19/2023

You would think being on call this week, and with how adventurous last week was, I would have something to go on about this week, but there's very little to talk about.

I mean if we're talking about fun things that happened, pretty much it was changing my cell plan provider, playing smash bros with my friends, and Minecraft with my wife and sister. Otherwise, just work and busy life. Well, actually, one other feat I put forward was a combination of two weeks of work, so far, and . . .

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A view from the cabin deck.

Close Encounters in The Snowy Hills

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02/13/2023

Well, it almost wouldn't be much of a week to talk about, were it not for today's events. But we'll get there.

The first fun thing that happened this week was I got food poisoning. Wait, did I say fun? I meant I was so sick at work, and that the drive home was so bad I nearly started hallucinating. That's one way for a Monday to rear its ugly head. But to counter that bad experience, this week my sister-in-law and her husband had their first baby, so that really exciting!
<. . .

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The

The only interesting photo I took this week, and it was actually just my brother spamming my phone when I left it sitting.

Depression, my car wouldn't start and spam... yep, it's February.

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02/05/2023

It's been an even longer winter week than the last. So much of this week I spent trying to tie up loose ends on a project that should've already been easily done, but essentially consumed the greater portion of my time, this week. I am grateful to say it's nearly over, though.

This week certainly began interestingly, when I left Monday morning to start my car in single-digit temperatures, and found it wouldn't start. I spent a good 30 minutes trying to jump it, and finally someh. . .

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My

My Baofeng Radio, installed in my car!

What gets you through?

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01/29/2023

It feels like it was a long winter week, but in retrospect, it was a good one.

For one thing, I finally got some little things that were sitting on the back burner done. For example, I went through all of my saved passwords and removed duplicates and non-applicable ones, so now I feel more organized, now. For another thing, and I'm afraid it won't be very apparent from most of the front end, but I got a lot of things fixed on my website! And after such a long time, I now have a . . .

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When you build a room inside the room...?

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational home automation! Also there was a blizzard.

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01/23/2023

Talk about a week of big accomplishments.

First of all, I finally finished something I'd been trying in my spare moments for a week or three, and got a portable router that also utilizes my home-hosted VPN setup. The funny part is, I was trying very much to utilize my Raspberry pi to accomplish the task, and git rid of a little TP-Link one I had bought over a year or two ago; but in a twist of events, I managed to flash OpenWRT onto that TP-Link, and the Pi ended up being far too . . .

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A view from our snowshoeing excursion.

Snowshoeing and a bad week for on-call.

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01/15/2023

This week was mostly utter chaos, for two main reasons.

First, as residual from my last post, I've spent the remainder of this week getting the rest of my home Home Assistant compatible, and it was a jump into cold water. Going from using Google's fairly straightforward UI of automation to Home Assistant's extremely customizable UI was like getting too much of a good thing all at once. But thankfully, in the course of a few days, I got most of the kinks worked out and setup, and . . .

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A hilariously dated item found in my grandpa's shop last week.

That Inner Voice...

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01/09/2023

Trying not to make it the norm- I know I'm late a day to posting again, and my audience of probably zero is furious. As such, I beg your forgiveness.

What a chaotic week it's been. I took on more than I should've this week, and- the outcome? Well, the good news is I've moved over to my new virtualized firewall, and it's great! The other news? I've [mostly] eliminated my old smart home devices that were cloud-based only, and have now setup a network of Kasa devices that play oh. . .

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A fine, clean popcorn machine!

Authenticity.

Adminisk8or

01/02/2023

What a week it's been. Where I expected to be met with a very slow work week, I instead got rushed by a few projects- most of them unexpected, and one of them, unfortunately, dealing with a suicide. But thankfully, that's all behind.

One of the things I tried to get finished, but haven't just yet, is my new firewall. The configuration is a little less straightforward than I had hoped, but it's my own fault for complicating my home network the way I do. Hopefully I find the time. . .

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