Balancing Fun and Frustration in Parenting…
While we were up in Michigan a few weeks ago, we spent an evening with my Aunt and Uncle who I hadn’t seen in a long time. They have a huge yard and the k...
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There and Back Again – a Camper’s Tale…
Last weekend I had an unexpected opportunity to visit the camp where I spent the better part of my childhood, first as a camper and later as a staff member, as ...
20 Years of Blogging, Baby!
I’m honestly kind of impressed that LiveJournal’s servers are even still up!) 20 years ago when I made my first LJ post, I was living in my Mom’s basement, abou...
Vacation Blog, 03-2023 Edition
Wait – how does this thing work again??? Oh … I remember now… I’m coming to learn here in my ninth year of parenting that family vacatio...
Dream Journal : Lost in Time
I found myself back in high school, but something didn’t feel quite right … like I’d already done it all before. After stumbling through my first day, not...
State of the Server Rack – 2022 Edition
It’s finally the way that I want it … for now, anyways… 
(from top to bottom) 2U shelf that pretty much only holds my Hue Hub and the button ...
The Road to Multi-Gigabit Internet Service…
To say I was caught off guard last month when I randomly stumbled upon a news release stating that my ISP, Frontier, was going to start offering 2 Gbps service ...
Dream Journal : Grandpa’s (Very Fictional) Rum Empire
Note: This was an interesting set of dreams with some very accurate references and some very not, so I’ll try to point out when I jump from one to the oth...
A New Start for 2022
I probably don’t even want to know how many of these posts I’ve written over the years, but I’m promising myself that I’m going to finis...
Reprioritizing Your Life
I saw a quote yesterday that I thought was a pretty good statement of the times that we live in today… People are no longer doing the things that they don...