Category: Friends & Family
…and we’re back!
Note to future self (and you, Dear Reader): WordPress on Docker, behind an nginx front end, spread across two servers in a home environment (see photo) is not a good combination to maintain data reliability. To summarize: I’ve always kept old computer parts around and, almost a decade ago when…
Some Reason for Optimism!
After losing an entire night worrying about my family’s Dwindling reserves (and having a long convo with an old friend with a financial background) I settled on giving things a few weeks, then cashing out my smaller retirement account and taking time to finish projects and let things settle down…
Dwindling reserves… Do I sell house or cash out 401k?
[Originally posted on Reddit to ask for help…] I was laid off in the middle of July as part of the tech layoffs. I am the only person able to and do many household chores while my spouse is between major eye surgeries. My family of four was struggling paycheck-to-paycheck…
AI Generated – Mediocre Creamy Garlic Crock Pot Potatoes
We had some potatoes starting to rot and Wife said I should look up a scalloped potato recipe. In my CIS college classes, one of my professors drilled into us, “work smarter” and “make the machine do the work” so I decided to be extra efficient and just aske chatGPT…
Consciousness and Life
After dealing with some health anxiety and fear around death and dying, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be conscious, living, or what even “real” is in the world. Sometime ago, I read a theory that talked about how any particular moment in our universe is…
Entrepreneurs Aren’t The Bad Guys
There are a lot of (rightful) criticisms about billionaire entrepreneurs, but I’m forever grateful to people like Bezos and the people who work for them who make our lives significantly better. Amazon gave me (a working class tech-guy) an affordable, usable, personal assistance and personal shopper. While my wife was…
Another Brush With Death
I have always believed that our souls incarnate in humans to learn some kind of lesson and grow in a spiritual sense. If that’s the case, I have no idea what my wife is supposed to be learning, but MAN-OH-MAN has she been having a rough couple of years! Basically,…
Part of the #tripledemic
I still don’t know if we had flu, RSV, COVID, or something else, but my family got hit by part of this #tripledemic in the American Mid-West and were collectively down for about two weeks leading up to Christmas. Thankfully we had nothing in our lungs and were never short…
Old Fashioned Holiday
Meijer had this “Limited Edition Ginger Beer” that I was intrigued enough to try. I thought it would be like Ginger Ale (which my family LOVES), but it’s got quite a bite to it. It was not good on its own but after some experimentation, I’ve found it’s good to…
1 Year Anniversary of Robin’s Hospitalization
Last year my wife and I looked at each other and, without saying the words, both communicated the same thought: “if she goes to the hospital, she’s going to die.” I watched while she hugged the kids for the last time while they watched whatever was on TV. Then I…
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