Oh yuengling, I missed you.

I don’t NEED a $200 modded plush, but grrrnpunf!

See you soon Boston!

Time to level up my windows 98 workstation!

philo.leaflet.pub/3mcvvpaaaqs2t Just gonna leave this here.

Well, changes are a comin' at work. Not sure if I'm excited about them, because my manager is leaving whom is as much a mentor as I've ever had in 25 years. I may get a new role, I may not, all up in the air right now.

Embolism, embolism, he's our man! If he can't do it...well then I guess we're starting WWIII over Greenland.

Ffffff this meatloaf is good. Used rolled oats rather than breadcrumbs, and wrapped the cast iron in bacon as I baked it. Paired with a cowboy butter diced potatoes and dill pickle salad

Starting my Russian phase!

Garlic stuffed pork tenderloin and cowboy butter broccoli

VCF Midwest hotel room booked! I'll be in Chicago in September!

Disappointed to receive a legal letter demanding my former SEA-PAH equipment, days after I already returned all equipment to current leadership in full view at a public event. It’s sad to see a transition met with unnecessary legal threats.

Today's home internet outage was powered by me forgetting something in my docker compose for adguard. Only took me 15 minutes to figure it out!

Go watch a good dog stream!

Chinese chili crisp glazed ham for dinner!

I swear I was Asian in another life. Chicken and broccoli from scratch.

Sales kickoff this year is in 4 weeks. In Boston. Deadass of winter. Whyyyyyyyyyyy?

Ah just what I wanted to do when I got home. Rebuild the firewall/router, upgrade it 6 major versions, deploy a new Adguard server, set all the static DNS entries, and reconfigure my network. *angry dog noises* But at least ad blocking is working at the DNS level and I have internet again!

T&T is always dangerous to my wallet every time I go

VCF Midwest 2026 looking mighty promising....

Ah I found some! It’s so hard to find up in the PNW

Spam musubi deviled eggs and prime rib done. Next up, creamed Brussel sprouts and maple orange butternut squash

George C Scott is really the best Scrooge, and I will not be taking questions.

Time to tuck into the couch and do my traditional pre-christmas day movie marathon

And I'm pretty much done with real work for the rest of the year. Closed my last customer renewal for 2 years, and they're bringing forward a January purchase this week. Time to focus on getting the homelab reconfigured some more (*arrs to postgres) and minecraft.

I cannot believe all this was just $80 with tip included — 5 rolls and a half order of fried rice plus fried Oreos.

Holy shit that Heated Rivalry episode last night

Ah, had a chill birthday, had chinese food and in a first, actual cheesecake from the cheesecake factory.

Awake at 3am because *checks notes* temp flood barriers failed in the valley below and we can hear the helicopter broadcasting evacuation notices

Ok, I need to go to bed or I'm deploying docker containers till 3am. Does this make me an SRE now or something?

Hold up, wait a minute. You're telling me I can actually throw these docker composes into Gitea, tell Portainer to grab the compose file, and it'll automatically download and deploy it? Did I miss the future by sticking with Proxmox?

Instead of MFF, I learned how to set up gitea, semaphore, and ran my first anisble scripts on my picluster, successfully I might add!

No MFF for me this year, only missed it once in 15 years. Did not want to be part of the shitshow this year it's going to be.

How about spam musubi deviled eggs?

You’re probably wondering how I got here…

Added new plants to the plant shelf. Excited to see how the new palm and blackberry like indoor growing

What a time we live in. Playing a cassette from the infamous BMG club from the mid 80s, on a new Bluetooth cassette player, charged via usb, playing to a cheap Bluetooth speaker. What audio quality?

Retro computing, you are a foul temptress. Guess I own a cheese grater Mac now!

That great feeling when you go from 3 convention slack instances down to 1. Resigned from Crowd Control at BLFC, so now it's only BFC for me as staff.

Welp, no more Disney+ for me. I think that reason pretty much sums it up.

I’m super happy that everyone at BFC had a great time! I didn’t get to do as much as I wanted but that’s the life of a department director, I have fun vicariously through others. Also the BFC computers are coming back next year!

15 hours later, home and in bed from the con. 1650 miles round trip

Bagged it in early last night after a stressful day. Missed all the stuff last night

uuuuugh BFC pre-con anxiety. I should really pack and get ready, but.... I have 48 hours.

Found on instagram and made it! Miso Spam Udon Carbonara! With gochujang honey butter garlic bread.

Traded in the Mach-E at the beginning of the month. Car got auctioned, and it's at a dealer now in Denver, with a flat tire. AGAIN.

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Say what you want, but this LED front grille is… *chefs kiss*

Traded in the Mach-E today to take advantage of the disappearing ev credit. Got a new Cadillac Lyriq instead!