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Finishing a 4-year story arc in D&D

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Published: September 12, 2024 17:11

This is a D&D post, so please bear with me. I know that reading about other peoples' D&D campaigns is like hearing someone tell you about that really weird dream they had last night. It's interesting to the person telling the story and

Star Trek Ramblings #1 (TNG First Contact and S01E1-4)

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Published: June 25, 2024 18:51

I'm a nerd, but I've never been a Star Trek nerd. I've seen Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country many times when it was on heavy rotation on cable TV, and I saw the first reboot, and I've caught bits and pieces

Same, Same, but Different

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Published: June 22, 2024 18:59

Sometimes it's hard to think about something to blog about, because life keeps grinding on, with nothing new to report. Each day seems the same as the one before it. Each week like the week before it. Month after month. Year after year.But then you stop…

Doing stuff

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Published: May 11, 2024 16:49

I like to do stuff sometimes. But I feel like I get really into some stuff for only a short time before I suddenly change to different stuff.For example, my most recent Minecraft phase lasted a couple months earlier in the year, but then I suddenly…

A Little Bit of Progress

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Published: February 1, 2024 15:25

I’m pleased to say that Dry January was a success. There was a little fudging at the start for New Years' and at the end for an afternoon off of work on a beautiful day outdoors in Tokyo. But I did manage to string together 28 drink-free

Serve the Server / Movie Review (Barry Lyndon)

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Published: December 14, 2023 14:56

The past few weeks, I've been spending a lot of time messing around with a spare computer that I set up as a Linux server to host a media server (Jellyfin) and some other stuff, including Immich (Google Photos alternative) and NextCloud (Google Docs,…

Happy Mastoversary to Me

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Published: November 6, 2023 14:38

Like many of you, I came over during the mass exodus from Twitter in November 2022 and now I'm celebrating my one-year Mastoversary. In some ways, the move was not a big disruption for me, because I was always at the margins of Twitter. Despite joining the…

November Goals

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Published: November 1, 2023 16:30

New month, new me (again)Kind of like New Year's resolutions, every time the first of the month rolls around I find myself wanting to hunker down and work toward some goals. They usually end up falling by the wayside, but this month, I'll use this

The Flock Rises

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Published: October 29, 2023 17:02

Me

Finally...The blog is up!

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Published: October 29, 2023 15:32

I had way more difficulty installing the blog than I should have! But it is finally up. And the real treasure was the Linux commands I learned along the way.