Category: Ramblings
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My credit card went on vacation
Had a bit of excitement over the weekend, when I was notified that my credit card was being used in San Francisco to take Lyft trips. Normally not a concern, except that I have not been to San Francisco in many years. From what I can tell, during our recent trip to Disney World, our…
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The great move is beginning
Although we have previously worked on a number of home repair and improvement projects, it isn’t really a move until the boxes arrive. Our plan this year has been to sell the house, and move to a larger home, to fit the growing family and collections. However, until recently, not much has actually progressed. So…
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The Crabcam
A couple years ago, during our trip to Myrtle Beach, we adopted a collection of hermit crabs for the kids. As these things happen, they became the pets of the wife instead, and over time, various things were added, including at one point a streaming webcam with the intent to record and review their nightly…
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Travelling
Travelling back and forth for work again, due to a problem with travel approvals internally in the company. That prevents me from heading up earlier in the week, and going home later, and instead makes me need to travel up and back in the same day. Basically, I can charge mileage without needing approval, but…
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Happy 4th of July
To any American follows, happy 4th of July! There won’t be any other content post as such today, since I will be out with family and friends enjoying some food, fun, and fireworks.
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Breaking the chain
So I haven’t been that successful continuing my ongoing chain of postings recently, after missing yesterday’s deadline yet again. The good news is the habit is strong enough to make me realize the miss, but not strong enough to keep me from avoiding it. In truth, I have been allowing myself to get rather distracted.…
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Another rebuild
In my continuing quest to fine tune my home computer network, I am tackling another reorganization. Currently, this website and some other functionality is residing on an Oracle VM Virtual Box configuration, running several virtual machines which each in turn run Ubuntu. It dawned on me, that the same computer which runs the virtual box…