Power went out and PGE said it wouldn’t be restored for like five days. I built a habit of going to Starbucks every day and charging all my devices. Then I would read until the sun set. Then I’d pass the time watching tv episodes that I’d downloaded at Starbucks until I fell asleep.

The universe is a fickle asshole. Hope your water is back soon.

Mayor should write back, “Thanks for the letter.” And then continue according to plan.

Cool, more power to you.

My Synology is compatible with an expansion unit and can support two of them. Check if yours can do the same for the storage aspect.

If you get a NAS with 10G (it’s such a nice upgrade, I made the jump last year), there’s no reason a nice NUC can’t do the job. I went that route after previously running significantly overpowered server hardware ten years ago. We have an embarrassment of riches with modern hardware.

A+

Meet me out back after school. We’re gonna have words.

It would be a great service to this nation if a plane had crashed into that spot.

People who behave this way are dangerous to society. It’s a signal that they think they know better than everyone else and are confidently correct in doing whatever the hell they consider the right thing without considering the effects on others. These are sociopaths.

I’d never heard of or seen these weird looking guys. Wild.

Time to implement a couple forms of backups.

The model necessitates that they restrict your access in crummy ways or they wouldn’t be solvant. I met my partner on Hinge but I was paying to be able to reach people. Glad to be done with those apps.

Looks like two left hands. This person is a monster.

I had a tower that generated so much heat that during a particularly hot summer, I had to stop using it around 1-2pm every day. The room just got too hot to occupy. I’m a computer nerd, so this was particularly heinous for me.

There was a guy at one of our clients who would submit requests and then never answer his phone or respond to emails. If someone actually reached him, everyone would talk about it because it was such a rare outcome.

You’re pretty rad, y’know that?

I work for a state agency and that’s going well because the state’s values and my own overlap enough for me to be ok being part of the machine. This is in California. I would never have a state job in Texas. But I would never find myself living in Texas to being with.

I haven’t felt patriotic for July 4 since I was a teenager. And I grow more aliented every year.

Yes. You got laid off unexpectedly. Now you have more cognitive load knowing that your job can just disappear. Go easy on yourself. It’ll get better with time. Talk therapy is also a possible way to speed things up a bit.

I moved to 10Gbps and 5Gbps on some of my devices and it’s been glorious. Future-proof by having either built-in.