Category: Life Happens
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Home Phone!!! And Happy B-Day, Gary!
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This time the setup went seamlessly. 🙂 Happy 2nd birthday to Gary and his siblings!
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Home Phone?
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in Life HappensThe struggle is real. With any luck I’ll have a home phone again on Friday. I will not bore you with the details, but my experience getting my DSL and old VOIP cancelled and Home Phone – Advanced has been a mixed bag. Very mixed. Oh, it works (worked), but the provider managed to FUBAR…
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Cold Days
Yes, it is that time of year, and yes, cold and snow were long overdue. Compared to a lot of the country, we got off easy with around 8″ of super light, fluffy powder snow. The cold on the other hand. . . brrrrrrrrrr. The sun came out today, and that made everything right in…
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SpeedTest, Baby!
After jumping through more hoops than I want to talk about this past week, I have moved off of my ancient AT&T DSL and on to their fixed wireless Internet Air. Yes, I am close enough to a 5G tower to actually have it work well. I was getting maybe up to 10 Mbps download…
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Just because you can . . .
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. . . doesn’t mean you should. That along with its cousin, Beware the Law Of Unintended Consequences, have been riding me pretty hard the past couple of days. Building out the bones of Yaar-Jan’s page led me down the slippery slope of photo galleries, digging through years worth of photos, editing said photos, realizing…
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Hello 2026!
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in Life Happens“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” Edith Lovejoy Pierce Wishing the most excellent of years to one and all! Susan, Bill, and the Salukis at Ash-Shi’ra Looking back on a warm day…
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Well, that’s been a while.
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Nothing like creating a single blog post and letting it sit there for years, unlinked, abandoned, kind of like this website has been. It’s time to give it some love and a much needed update. No comments allowed, but you can follow along as I stumble my way through all this new fangled web stuff…
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Endings and Beginnings
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in Life HappensThe past seven days have been about changes; some planned, some most certainly not. I retired. Yes, that’s huge. I’m still wrapping my head around how huge. It is both an ending and a beginning, and I can’t wait to explore the new world in front of me. We said our final goodbyes to our…