And as long as we’re talking about Plex…
I added a few more disks to my NAS when Best Buy put them on sale earlier this month, so now we’re officially up to a whopping 20 disks including parity i...
Year: 2021
Lesson Learned – Test Your Backups!
I like to think that I’ve come a long way since I first started noodling around with Plex back in … wow – 2014?! What was first an install on ...
Sore, and Exhausted, and Yet Surprisingly Good…
I just noticed that my last blog post was a little bleak, and yet today although I’m still faced with several of the same ongoing challenges … dare ...
Mental Space = Ugh
September has been quite the week. 😯 It’s one of those times when the culmination of things either rumbling in perpetuity or looming in the distance have ...
The Attic is an Itchy Place
Today is the first day that I’ve ever been in our attic. Well, I’ve stood on a ladder with my head in the little hole before, typically just long en...
“Upgrade your server!” they said. “It’ll be EASY!!!” they said…
It’s been a while since I’ve done much tinkering with my home servers – frankly because I’ve been pretty satisfied how they’ve bee...
Warm Water Weekend
This week, amid Tropical Storm/Hurricane Elsa, we did something that we honestly should’ve done years ago – added a solar heater to our pool. Once the bad...
Writing Prompt Sundays – Fix a Movie
Writing Prompt – What’s the last movie you saw and how would you make it better? This is an easy one – Fatherhood, with Kevin Hart, and I̵...
a good Florida day…
By my best estimation, I think we spent something like 3-4 hours in the pool today. It was basically all we did today, and it was fantastic. The kids admittedly...
Coronavirus, Day 474 – What Now???
I honestly just don’t know what to think about this pandemic anymore. It frustrates me that vaccinations have slowed down so significantly – a month...