Short Stories The totally not true story of the U.S. and Canadian Border War of 1780 This is the story of the border dispute between the Cat King of the Colonies of the United States, Joe (grey 'n fluffy), and the Canadian Governor of the Province of Quebec, Jose
Family That's a cute, um, what is that? Ellie (4)It really doesn't mater what it is, it was drawn by my youngest, ergo, it's pretty awesome.
Photos Fall Canal Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, 2017The nice part of Asia doing crew is the scenery that comes with it. This was taken last fall during one of their practices on the canal with a
RaspberryPi OpenVPN with Pi-Hole and DNSCrypt on Raspberry Pi Yes, you can get the benefit of running Pi-Hole for ad-free-browsing while away from your house with a OpenVPN (I actually use PiVPN.io), Pi-Hole, and DNSCrypt.Akin to my last post, I
Nextcloud Nextcloud Talk Setup Get Nextcloud Talk up and running in under five minutes for your own Secure Communications on your own server.
Photos Sunset and a Tree Sometimes you'll find a great shot just sitting in front of you. Of course, a "great shot" is subjective to the eye, but I like this one. I recall taking this around 2013
Family Jack. The Seven-Year-Old. Jack got the candles blown out and he's indeed now seven. Man the little guy is growing up fast. Jack made his own cake w/ ice cream sandwiches and cool whip.
RaspberryPi Hosting your Ghost blog images via WebDAV I wrote a post earlier this summer on how to use Cloudinary with your Ghost blog as a means of hosting your images so you don't fill up your SD card on your
Technical Server Down! [in short] So, I lost a server (well, a hard drive to be exact). So, you'll note little on here until I get it back to working order. And I'm back to using Ghost, it
Disney 2019 WDW Consolidated Crowd Calendar (6 in 1) A consolidation of 6 popular Walt Disney World crowd calendars into one easy to read one! Plan away!
Thoughts When an excuse isn't an excuse, but life as it is A few weeks ago I began researching the realm of meditation, Buddhism, and the general act of trying to chill out. As of late, I admit that I've somewhat strayed from my "studies"
Thoughts A complete life from A to Z Our life is similar to the alphabet, it's not complete unless it's complete. Honestly, I'm not trying to get all philosophical about life (however, if I am the first to say that, I'll
Photos King Neptune in Norfolk This was taken on the waterfront at Naucus in Norfolk, VA with an iPhone 7+ and edited with Snapseed.
Thoughts Sometimes it's right in front of you Most of us have heard the phrase "if it were any closer, it would've bit you," or at least some variation of this. I make a note of this because it dawned on
Quotes "Only the dead have seen the end of war." ~Plato I came across this telling quote from Plato (though that seems to be disputed) a few days ago and I can't seem to get it out of my head. As sad as it
Photos On the rail (Oakland, CA) Oakland, CAI got this photo while visiting Oakland, California and walking around Jack London square. The trains are aplenty and this particular spot was a great photo-op.Taken with an iPhone 7+
Short Stories A strange request at a Piano Bar It was an early July afternoon, and the sun was a haze - a mask of sorts that served only to try and hide the true location of the bright orb overhead. Of
RaspberryPi NextcloudPi Tip: Let’s Encrypt not working? NextcloudPi is an awesome way to get an instance of Nextcloud running on you Raspberry Pi and in a short time. It's as simple as downloading an .img file, burning it to an
Short Stories Crush and be Crushed I was asked to give you a quick lesson on the Sylvilagus floridanus. Topics were to cover its medium height ears, the fluff of gray and/or brown, and its appropriate tail color
Photos Matt Up Close )Asia took this about a month ago. She's quite the photographer if I do say so myself.iPhone 7 & Snapseed
Linux Install Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) on your Raspberry Pi Ryan Finnie, who once brought us a semi-working Ubuntu Server 16.04 has brought his Raspberry Pi flavored Ubuntu 18.04 to the masses (I say 16.04 was semi-working because some got
RaspberryPi Your own Dynamic DNS (DDNS) with Raspberry Pi and Cloudflare There are a lot of these types of tutorials out there, and most (well, some) of them work well. However, they end up leaving out just one or two things ('er, commands) to
Short Stories The son of a Hitman Rules. There are rules for everything in life. Good or bad, the rules are there for someone to follow. Traffic? Rules. Tests? Rules. Life? Rules. Well, some rules anyway. My life has rules
Short Stories Conveyor Lady For the most part, it was smooth. Though worn in a few areas, it was in its peak-prime-shape for sure. Sliding along on its rollers the sound was soothing to Tasha who'd just
Photos Black and White Jack I was taking a photography course when I took this photo of my son Jack a few years ago. I got really lucky with the sun in the perfect angle and he's in