Work has been crazy lately at my day job. Students have returned to campus, they all run around like chickens with heads cut off. None of them, nor their parents, read any of the instructions given to them. We’d like to blame this on poor communication on our part, because then we could fix it. … Read more
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
This post was sponsored by Kmart. All the opinions are mine. A fond memory I have of when I was little is walking around Kmart with my mom. It was one of my favorite stores as a kid because there were so many places to run around and hide. The circular clothes racks with long … Read more
I’ve been working on a few projects lately, both work and non-work related. One of them I wanted to share with you all is a Twitter-aggregation site I made that collects all the Tweets on Twitter for a recent period of time that relate to steak, different cuts of steak, the #wehavesteak or #steak hashtags, … 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