I used to make fun of people who littered their laptop lids with stickers. These were obviously immature folk, who were still living those days where decorating your locker was the height of your high school experience. It was sad, and a little offensive. After all, your resale value goes to shit if it’s covered...

One thing is for sure, having a blog has meant sharing more online. It isn’t a consequence that I forsaw when I started this here blog. But as I’ve gone through, and written 114 posts in 7 months, I find that I’m sharing more than I ever have before. I’ve been on social media since before Facebook, and that was...

Maybe I just have odd ears, but I’ve never found a pair of in ear earbuds that actually fit my ears. Oh, if they have wings on them or whatever, they’ll stick in, but that seems like cheating, and those too can be very uncomfortable. The promise of earbuds is that you don’t have to have heavy, hot, and obnoxious...

So yesterday, I wrote about my home lab fiasco. I’ve managed to get some things set back up now, but it’s time for the report of what all I lost because of my poor backup habits. First, I was able to salvage my RSS feeds and my Linkding stuff. That was the most important part for me, so I’m quite happy. I ended up...

I thought I learned this lesson years ago, but apparently not. I have a small homelab. It is just Proxmox on an old HP workstation that has way more memory and CPU power than I really need. I love it, though, and it has been fun to tinker with. I have known for ages that I needed a better backup solution for the...

A few days ago, JCPROBABLY wrote this post about finding and maintaining friendships as an adult. I found this blog post amazing and very insightful. It also made me think about the status of my own friendships. The truth is, in the real world (i.e. outside the internet) I don’t have many friends. I work from home,...

I’ve been writing a lot about blogging during Blaugust, but I’m fascinated by the whys and hows of why people write and read blogs. Back when Blaugust first started, I wrote about how I subscribed to every Blaugust participant’s RSS feed. I’ve weeded quite a few out since then (people who don’t capitalize their...

I’ve seen several people, including myself, talk about not having something to blog about. When we undertake these blogging challenges, we often suffer from the idea that every blog post needs to be “epic,” or perhaps “revolutionary.” I’m not sure about other people, but I feel that pressure. The pressure not only...

In 2020, which seems like forever ago, I set out on a quest to type faster. I chose to do this for several reasons. First, I worked at the time as a writer, so typing faster meant I could get my assignments done more quickly. Second, it seemed like something I could dedicate myself to each day and see actual...

We’re just over half way through Blaugust, and I haven’t written anything for today’s post. I’ll be honest, I got nothin’. I have an idea for tomorrow, but have no interest in writing it today. So, instead, I’m just going to say hello. If you’re doing the whole Blaugust thing, how is it going for you? For me it has...

I don’t talk about my health much. My mental health, sure. I’m a shrink’s best customer. You know, if I’d ever go to a shrink. But my actual physical health? I stay away from that as much as possible. It’s private. And while I am an oversharer, in this area, I’ve tried not to be. But it’s time for me to talk about...

So one of the posts that caught my attention during this Blaugust, was this one by Why I Game. In that post, one line really got to me: There’s just a craving to be heard. To be read. To be seen. This really resonates with me. One of the things I said yesterday in my post was that my YouTube channel has slowed when...