The plan for vacation is off to a good start.

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I published my own thoughts on Luke Smith’s post about Destiny 2 from yesterday.

Good post on Stoicism - canion.me I found from a comment on Potatowire’s site

Boiling it down The easy 1, 2, 3 of stoicism may be presented as: If you can change it, it doesn’t deserve your worry. Go ahead and make the change. Just do it! If you can’t change it, it doesn’t deserve your worry. You can’t fix it, so why stress?2 If you worry about it anyway, you are simply inviting it to tyrannise and traumatise you, indefinitely. Rumination is the worst.

Simple Stoicism.

My car has a backup camera now.

It seems like a good product. The instructions were non-existent. I bought three things from Home Depot to get it working. And I learned how to crimp wiring. And just how flimsy the interior of a Chevy Equinox is.

I watched Another Life on Netflix. I enjoyed the journey and hope there is more to this world. 📺

Provide general program information and/or general position overview. Example: The [Name] Group at Leidos currently has an opening for a [Job Title] to work in our [City, State] office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the [Contract/Program Name] mission. In this mission we...

I’m very excited about this [job] at [company]!

This is a slow read because I keep stopping to take notes. It’s so good and reflects where I am in my head with social media and connection.

I love my Ikea Skarsta desk. It’s a hand-crank adjustable desk meant for sitting or standing. Truth be told, I mainly use it because I can never find a desk tall enough for my 6'5" frame.

When I got it, they did not have the larger desk top. Now, two years later, I am running out of horizontal space and decided to look again. They had it in stock at my local store so I went and picked it up.

So long 27"x 47". Hello 31.5" x 63"!

I’ve had it for two days and it was easy to replace the top and readjust the base. Other than it making me want to rethink how my office is laid out, I love it.

Looking to move on from Dreamhost where I’ve been for over a decade. It seems they’re pushing towards VPS plans and saying my meager WordPress sites are using too many resources.

What are you fine people using for shared hosting?

I’ve got a box to tinker on at home so not looking for a VPS.

Looking for blog hosting. WordPress. Known. Photo gallery. All personal.

Cpanel would be nice.

I like to try out new things.

Sandwinch.

Noun.

Usage: “I can make any kind of sandwinch. Turkey sandwinch. Peanut butter sandwinch.

Credit to my 6 year old nephew.

Just booked a trip to Belfast, Maine. There are so many weird attractions. I can’t wait to see them with lobster rolls in hand.

I would book a place to stay offering nightly thunderstorms under a tin roof for vacation. I grew up in one and there’s no calmer sound that rain on the tin roof in the summer.

I don’t know what the reward is for walking over 25om in a week. But this is the first time I’ve got it and I’m excited to see.

It’s been relentlessly hot this week but I used the Independence Day holiday and waking up early on the weekend to hit the goal including a nearly 4 mile walk this morning around my favorite lake.

That feeling when a Comcast line comes down in a storm. You struggle to get them out to fix it because you’re not a customer. Then that line takes out your Verizon FiOS line so you’re without internet.

I’m three phone calls deep with Comcast to get them to fix the line dangling across the street and have yet to get an appointment. I don’t know when someone will come out to repair it.

Verizon will be here tomorrow. And they’ve already been out once (but since it’s a Comcast line, the repair tech couldn’t do anything about it.)

Comcast. We call it Xfinity now, but it’s still the same terrible service it was a decade ago the last time I was a customer due to their monopoly.

📺 I have finished Stranger Things Season 3.

I have many feelings. It’s a great arc and a satisfying enough end.

Oh.

What’s that?

A scene after the credits?

Oh…

Well..

If we had 3 or 4 kids from the 80s we’d have all of our problems solved in about 90 minutes.

I love seeing the woodpeckers at the suet feeders.

📚I finished reading Robert Caro’s Working. An interesting peek into his obsessive curiosity.

The only people who want to be free are those who have committed a crime. The rest of us incarcerate ourselves in marriage, 9-5 jobs, organized religion, loyalty cards. Do you think they've have had to comb the deserts for Terrorist 47 if he had a loyalty card?

Division 19

Played Mysterium tonight with Reesa and Michelle and had an absolute blast. (Sorry you missed out Stanley and Lori.)

The artwork is beautiful. The game is a cooperative Clue where a ghost passes clues to you about the murderer through abstract artwork.

We were successful in our first playthrough as a team. It was a great party game with a fair bit of setup. But it’s very easy to understand once you get going.

After this, we played possibly the wildest game of Fluxx. This is a game where you start with simple rules of “Draw 1, Play 1.”

Then the rules can change the number of draws. Or plays. Or the number if cards in your hand.

The goals to win also change constantly.

It’s a fun game where everything changes so quickly it’s hard to have any kind of strategy.

We spent most of the game with a hand limit of zero. We picked and played the same card for turn after turn. Until we finally got to draw 4 cards at once and Reesa got both cards needed to attain the goal and won.

This post will be gibberish to most people. Pretend it says “blah blah blah video games”

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I play Destiny 2. I play it enough to have started a podcast about it.

I have been chasing one Triumph in the game to earn a title. And tonight, I finally got the final piece of my puzzle.

I am a Dredgen!

First Dahlia of the year.

Four hours of Tiller rental from Home Depot. 850 pounds of sand. 2220 pounds of pavers. 1 ton of pea gravel (almost). 1 fire pit.

My wife and I have spent the last couple weekends removing grass and earth and laying weed fabric, laying sand, leveling sand, laying pavers, re-laying pavers, and spreading pea gravel. But it’s been a wonderful project and it was nice to be able to sit outside on our patio around the (unlit) fire pit watching the birds eat at the feeders and a local deer wandered up to say hello.

As with all home improvement projects, it wasn’t fun doing it but I’m glad to have it done.

The strange bird was back again today.