Category: Moods
…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…
More Medical Dipshittery
This stuff doesn’t even surprise me anymore, but it’s still funny in a way. So for two months, I’ve been getting bills from McLaren Greater Lansing to pay an $80 copay on a lab test that hasn’t been performed. I tried calling my doctor (who ordered the test at my…
CVS [doesn’t care]’mark
I have always prided myself on being pretty libertarian in my beliefs, but a single experience calling CVS Caremark (our prescription drug insurance) has made me decide to lobby with the Leftists to get the entire industry out of business. Here’s the back story: wife needed an eye surgery and…
Making Google Money
Every time I get one of these “your edit helped,” emails from Google, I just think, “I did free work and helped make Google $62 billion last year.” This is why, for the most part, I stick to editing on OpenStreetMap. Much less restrictive usage policy and it’s not directly…
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…
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 19
- Next Page »