I forgot I was on PickleTok because I used to watch a women from Ukraine or something taste pickles. And I’m only watching this guy because he has a nice face.
—My wife, who has been sick (not Covid) for the past 5 days.
I saw three goldfinches in the back yard today. This fine fellow is from earlier this week as this morning’s trio were too quick to capture.
Seeing them is always a treat that brightens my day. It’s a job to play “is that a bird or a bloom?”
Podcast listening stats. In reply to @chrisjwilson’s post about listening stats
My listening has taken a huge hit in the past 18 months without much time in the car. I used to have a 60-90 minute commute each way. So I’ve spent many hours of quality audio time with podfriends.
🔨 ❤️ ⛈️ (Thor: Love & Thunder)
You do what you do best and you link to the rest. — Austin Kleon
What iPhone does The Large Handed buy in 2022?
Wife is getting latest SE model.
I’ve enjoyed the Google Pixel “a” line of cheaper phone. I don’t need a top of the line pocket computers.
I like photos and don’t have a plan with 5G. Going to stay with Google Fi as provider.
This albino rock pigeon has been hanging out in my neighborhood for a few days. I always see it at the same house.
We have plenty of mourning doves but rarely do we see pigeons. And even more rare to see a white one.
On the bird front, our bright yellow flowers have attracted Gold Finches! I could not be more pleased.
The #100DaysOfHomelab has sent me on a renewed path to figure out local DNS for my tinkering and I had a breakthrough tonight.
Setting up pihole with unbound for DNS plus nginx proxy manager gives me local DNS resolution inside my house. But not publicly accessible.
No more remembering which IP address and port which project is running on!
I wish I had somewhere in my house I could stash my homelab boxen where they would be out of earshot. But without a basement, extra room closet, or an attic that’s an appropriate temperature, they sit partialls near my living room router and in my office to make noise.
Running away to spend the weekend in Richmond, VA and see Bon Iver Sunday night.
[sinister music overlaid with jaunty big band music]
Questions I was not prepared for today:
How do we get someone from the International Space Station into Zoom with audio and video to present?
Super excited to see John Scalzi this weekend at the Gaithersburg (MD) Book Festival!
Less excited for the extreme heat warnings also scheduled for this weekend.
Once again, I find my job being completely different than what it was a couple of weeks ago. I’m still learning to be a Product Manager. Now I’m learning how to build, document and test APIs. And next up, I need to be a systems architect to continue building.
📷 Day 9: Bloom
📷 Day 8: Union The unholy union of 17 Again and Constantine. The sequel I didn’t know I wanted.
Moved a large entertainment center down some basement stairs singlehandedly.
I’m done for the week. Makes notes while I am still strong. I am no longer in my 20s.
📷 Day 7: Park
Crater Lake National Park was breathtakingly beautiful. We visited July ‘21 and the weather was clear and the fires cooperative.
Joe Ledger is my first love. But Jack Reacher can be fun too.
Love reading about little podunk towns in Virginia I’ve been to that pop up in stories. I see you Sperryville, VA.
📷 Day 6: Silhouette
📷 Day 5: Earth
The Place of a Thousand Drips, Smoky Mountain National Park
📷 Day 4: Thorny Haven’t killed this little one yet.
📷 Day 3: Experimental Tried walking downstairs without ducking. Did not go well.
