Sleep apnea is apparently a pretty common condition, and I know writing about it here is going to get my blog hit by about a thousand spam comments. I know this, because I’ve been tweeting about it and doing research and whenever I tweet something I get new followers and they’re almost all bots who … Read more
I have a technician scheduled for Friday morning who should hopefully be end-of-the-line for my DSL struggles, for now. A new modem arrived day before yesterday and I got it hooked up after work promptly. I logged in, set it up, and configured my wireless. I checked the status page, and the SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) … Read more
I really like the functional service level of my DSL. When it’s not working right though, it’s irritating as can be. I’ve had intermittant problems with them since I moved into this house last June. It may not make any technical sense, but apparently every time the weather changes, my internet stops working right at … Read more
My dad passed away last year, a year ago today, in fact. I went yesterday to visit the site on Blue Ridge Parkway where we spread his ashes, spent some time praying, crying, remembering, laughing, and deciding. I remembered I’ll see him again one day. I was Tweeting a lot of these, and decided they … Read more
So I’ve been working on a few projects at work lately, here’s the brief rundown: Knowledgebase Project – Three years ago I installed MediaWiki on a desktop under my desk and used it to establish a sort of internal knowledgebase for the Help Desk to use to store all of our documentation; these were things … Read more
I had text messaged my mom to let her know I’d be coming home this weekend, much to her delight. She text messaged me this morning to let me know that Grandma is back in the hospital with another seizure. Mom is hoping that instead of going back to the nursing home Grandma was in … Read more
I know I’ll never reach my goal of being a full-time professional blogger if I don’t update, and I apologize to all of my readers for having not shared for a while. Here’s some of the reasons why I’ve been away, both on my blog and on Twitter: Work: I’m shaking up the dust a … Read more