Brookside Gardens is always a beautiful place to visit.
Some nights are for warm noodles.
I just realized watching my 12 year old nephew navigate Fortnite whipping through menus at light speed is how people feel watching me navigate a computer with keyboard shortcuts.
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.
My wife is creating tiny jell-o molds of foods from the 70s. Today, she found LILEKS (James) :: Institute :: The Gallery of Regrettable Food And it’s… amazing. The logo jiggles.
Things like this: LILEKS (James) :: Institute :: Gallery
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.
They’re not out here making traps out of sausage.
Fix local DNS when upgrading pihole and using unbound for your homelab
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.
It has been documented by the pi-hole team, but I had no idea where to find these options they showed. V6 – Post release fixes and findings – Pi-hole
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.
Fix pi-hole login behind nginx proxy manager after upgrading to pi-hole V6
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.
Credit to jclendineng in this thread: How to configure Nginx Proxy Manager correctly to use v6? - Help / Community Help - Pi-hole Userspace reported the same problem and then, like a hero, came back to report their fix: Edit: you have to expose /api

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
Finished reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚
A unique story that tosses you right into the pit and leaves you there. A very dark, dystopian book that’s a dark as it is mysterious.
Saying I enjoyed reading it feels wrong. But I was riveted by the story and could not put it down.
My niece just released a cover of Bon Iver’s Roslyn that is incredible.
The Fifth Light is her band and she’s incredible.
We had some freezing rain overnight which iced over the trees, shrubs, cars and everything else. It’s beautiful but treacherous.
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.
Crafting. Questing. Friendship. Courtship. Adventuring. Farming.
Do you remember A Softer World? This is one of their comics that sticks with me.
This is delightful. Open it in your browser and enjoy the beautiful pixel art.

This is a beautiful piece about local art museums.
The Wonder Of The Regional Art Museum
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.