I’ve finished the first 11 books in the He Who Fights with Monsters series and am eagerly awaiting Book 12 in May.
I’ve enjoyed a combination of reading and listening to them.
Tip: If you borrow through Kindle Unlimited, then get the audiobook, it counts as owning the ebook so it’s much cheaper.
Longlegs was a beautifully shot movie.
Unfortunately, that’s about all it was.
Really thinking about the new iPad. Just iPad that was released recently.
I have an iPad Pro from 2016 that’s showing its age. As a benefit, more storage (128gb) and no Apple Intelligence. Win/Win.
Playing a game of how long can I go between hearing the President’s voice.
Days so far.
Books. Walks. Video games. Homelab tinkering. All far better for my mental health than hanging on every headline.
As I watch my coworkers families lose their jobs and get thrown into chaos. And wonder when.
We had a good bit of F.A.
Now it’s F.O. Day and the trucks are in motion.
I’m really enjoying the subtitles of Alone Australia turning “saw sedge” into sausage.
Now that I’ve gotten my pi-hole instance working, I realized I wasn’t able to load any of my local DNS entries.
I have a domain.com that I use for a couple of things that are exposed to the world. Mainly my RSS reader. I also keep a *.lab.domain.com wildcard domain so I can have wiki.lab.domain.com internally so I can make notes to myself without worry about the outside world seeing them.
Well, nothing on my lab subdomain wasn’t loading. It’s DNS. It’s always DNS.
Either enable misc.etc_dnsmasq_d to restore the “old” behaviour, or if you have only a few lines you can add them directly to the misc.dnsmasq_lines setting instead. Both of these settings can be found in either the toml file, or on the web interface under All Settings -> Misc
Login to your pi-hole install. You may need to use the IP address instead of the domain name if that’s also broken for you.
First, you need to go to the Settings in your pihole.
Second, locate the *Basic button and slide it to Expert.
The button should be up near the System Settings header.
Once you do this, you will see an extra option under Settings menu, All settings.
Moving the slider to Expert is the option I had to figure out on my own, as it wasn’t mentioned when accessing the All settings menu. So I’m telling you now.
Now that you have the menu, click it.
On the All Settings page, click Miscellaneous to filter the results. Now look for misc.etc_dnsmasq_d
Once you find it, enable it.
Click Save & Apply.
Now you should be able to access your local DNS entries again.
If you’re running pi-hole behind a reverse proxy and upgrading to pi-hole 6 you are not able to login.
You need to make one change in your reverse proxy.
I use nginx proxy manager and you need to expose the /api.
You should have already added /admin to your reverse proxy. You need to click the add location button at the top and then add /api to port 80 on the IP address of your pi-hole.
Trying out Finch as a way to track some habits.
And furnish my little house and bird friend.
On the way to the pig. And the pig.
From the Brandywine Museum of Art
After seeing the embroidery of Solitaire and minesweeper on Instagram we learned the show was going on currently in Delaware. So off we went and the entire museum was incredible.
There are so many Teslas near us. We counted a dozen just going down a mile or two. And I see a Cybertruck nearly everyday.
Passed a protest today at our local Tesla dealership. Probably 40-50 people with antifascism science shouting and making noise. Lots of signs and shouting. #TeslaProtest
I picked this game up with my wife on Xbox and we tried it out… and have now spent 22 hours playing it. Most of it over the past two days. It’s perfect.
Visiting a small art museum on Maryland’s Eastern Shore led me to a university art museum for an embroidery exhibition it and another in Roanoke, VA earlier this year.
Every museum in is its own treat.
Roast some really good chick peas tonight.
Washed. Dried thoroughly
Then roasted for an hour at 400.
Olive oil and salt. Spices are for later. Once I get the timing down.
They came out very crispy and I can’t stop snacking on them.
Junk Journalling has given me a place for all my scraps and stickers and neat things I’ve wanted to keep but didn’t have a home for.
It’s also a great place for last year’s calendar photos.
The crows left their marks today. With the other sparrows, wrens, finches and grackles.
I got a whole $7.44 from Equifax doing something illegal on a virtual debit card.
I went to Amazon and bought a gift card for $7.44 and sent it to myself.
Redeemed it minutes later and now the money is somewhere useful.