It’s supposed to frost tonight. How do I know? The joints in my feet hate me these last six hours. Oh. Emm. Gee. The pain! But, it’s also been lovely the last few days. Even the light drizzle Tuesday morning didn’t really change anything. Sunday I went over to the state park overlooking the SusquehannaContinue reading “The Wind Shifts”
Pondering the Past
Did FBI Director Kash Patel and I buy comics from the same comic shop in Richmond twenty-five-ish years ago? The news about the Punisher-themed challenge coins Patel had made for the FBI makes me wonder. I was not expecting to see a post about Patel and the challenge coins in Facebook’s University of Richmond alumniContinue reading “Pondering the Past”
As Seen on Facebook
Some recent ads on Facebook (and one on Instagram) caught my attention, and I wanted to share. Oh, bother. Yes, Facebook thinks I’m still in the market for unlicensed Washington Nationals jerseys with pop culture characters. To be fair to Facebook, I did buy the Oasis Nationals jersey (and had it customized for Sean Doolittle,Continue reading “As Seen on Facebook”
The Dying Days of Windows 10
These are the dying days of Windows 10. It doesn’t really bother me; I made my transition to the land of Tux (the penguin) and Xenia (the transfem fox), in other words, Linux, several years ago, in fits and starts, then much more firmly after the ransonware attack on Diamond. Oh, my computer has WindowsContinue reading “The Dying Days of Windows 10”
Danger, Construction Zone
Earlier in the summer, the property management announced that roofing crews would be on site in August. The announced schedule never matched up with when they were actually here, though. They were here in August, then some September dates were given, and the September dates didn’t happen, then they were back week before last, andContinue reading “Danger, Construction Zone”
The Wild Frontier of Job Hunting
In early July I applied for a job with a memory care facility in Lancaster. It was a marketing position, and I felt the mission of the facility personally — my grandmother suffered from dementia, and her mind gave out years before her body did. I was intrigued, and I applied. The application process wasContinue reading “The Wild Frontier of Job Hunting”
The Only Thing about the Government Shutdown You Need to Know
Republicans have the White House and majorities in the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. And they can’t keep the government open. John Thune could overrule the parliamentarian and move the CR in the Senate if he wanted to. Russ Vought is talking about how the shutdown lets him fire federal workers. This isContinue reading “The Only Thing about the Government Shutdown You Need to Know”
Believe in Six Heresies Before Breakfast
How much heresy can one man hold? Apparently, quite a bit! I saw this on Reddit over the weekend — the TheoCompass quiz, which is 60-odd questions about Christian belief, and from those it analyzes one’s beliefs and what sort of church they should attend. I, being of a puckish nature, took the quiz. IContinue reading “Believe in Six Heresies Before Breakfast”
Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing
We take you to breaking news, live footage of the inside of my head… While none of these are specifically labeled as GNDN pipes, these are absolutely GNDN pipes. GNDN was a Star Trek: The Next Generation acronym/in-joke, GNDN meaning “Goes Nowhere Does Nothing.” And it’s entirely appropriate for today, as it was on thisContinue reading “Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing”
And Now, EndeavourOS
It took a little elbow grease to get the WMX window manager working on EndeavourOS, but after the experimentation to make the window frames dark instead of light it wasn’t anything difficult at all. And since my EndeavourOS setup runs the i3 window manager, I had rofi already installed, so I set up a launcherContinue reading “And Now, EndeavourOS”