Month: June 2026

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Drown

Well. That was rough. At times small sites see a suspicious/unexpected increase in traffic (or worse, bombarded by bots). A few months ago I was dealing with some configuration issues here, which made this site unreachable. More recently, some more unexpected downtime… this is why we went into “maintenance” mode. As the server also indicated, some (way too) heavy loads (at times), it was definitely time to do some “pruning”. Annnnnd, take a break.

Any other comments, opinions, ideas? Hmmm. A long marathon of Dateline NBC may make a few people appreciate what they have, destroy their assumptions/ignorance, and realize humans can’t be coded or predicted.

Those printers that Shaq promoted? They are actually pretty damn awesome. Epson did a great job with the ink bottle refill approach. “Outside the Box” and innovative. After a deep cleaning, works great for photos, scans, copies. It’s been about two years since purchase. Still going strong.

Still loving cachyos. And continue working on that linux os.

Music? Let’s go back.

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Distro Hopping.

Doing a little distro sampling. Currently on CachyOS, and let me just say… it just “feels” nice. Very fast boot time and seems light and responsive.

My vpn client (app) is supported “out of the box”. Network config was no issue, and automatically detected at boot. Both wired and wireless network are working flawlessly.

Bluetooth speakers picked up and paired quickly, listening to some music while writing.

The whole system just seems solid, efficient, and easy to use.

ArchLinux always seemed like a steep hill to climb. And to get to this sampling of the OS, went through several downloads of another distro…opening the physical shell of my pc…swapping SATA boot drives…and lots of wiping internal and external disks.

Also involved going into the bios and changing quite a few settings.

The CachyOS made the whole iso preparation/installation process simple. It’s light and very easy to use if you are familiar with basic terminal (CLI) commands and also have a basic understanding of linux systems.

Signing off (for now), from CachyOS.

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Oh hell yeah, It’s Saturday

Long week, with quite a few surprises. Time for the funk.

…as a note, will not be posting about the “gardening” after all. The blackberries and apple tree are doing very well. However, because of several days, at various times, away from the plants… plus the lack of an irrigation system and timed lighting, some plants did not make it.
Nevertheless, still a hell of a lot to do outside (live by a woods).

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Yellow.

It was about an hour away. The town was notable for both it’s university and it’s unique, for the area, park. What made it unique? An unusual series of trails, elevations, and scenic views (including rivers, falls, forestry). As I rode in that blue Buick to camp, I didn’t know what to expect.

The car had that old wood grain framing around the cassette area and center air vents. And playing through the speaker, from a beige colored audio tape, was a love song for the ages.

We entered the parking lot, of the park, and I was soon dropped off. My cabin mates were somewhat diverse. A few from the inner city, a foreign exchange student, and a few of us from rural areas.

Amazing what we all shared in common. Yet, intriguing how different we were.

In the middle of the week I was called into the camp counselor’s office. A fight had broken out between a black male and one of the other camp members. And I was a witness. It was the first time I’ve witnessed true hate in person. Aggressive, Ugly, Unapologetic.

Many of those camp members are not around to read this today. I’m sure that soccer girl would love the current FIFA madness. I’ve loved “Umbro’s” ever since we met.

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Feel Good Music

Posted last night, but later thought that the content was a little thin. Twas a good day for several different reasons. “Celebrate!”, you say? Just press play.

Night Verses -Love these dudes:

They were on tour with other bands I’ve followed in the past. Saw them at a coffee shop when they had a lead singer. They were amazing live. Been a fan ever since.

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Fiona, Alanis, Tori? …Emma Ruth Rundle

While going through some familiar label content on YouTube, found this song. Appears she’s done quite a few appearances and has been around for a while. This kind of has the feel of Fiona and Alanis, sprinkled with just a very very small portion of L7.

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How about some more Thursday?

Was introduced to this band over two decades ago by a military friend of mine (his band loved these guys). And as I attended more shows, heard more and more about them.

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Cubed.

It’s Cube. mfers.

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Blue Balls

It was painful. It’s been at least 2 years, probably more. Couldn’t find the time to commit, or take things seriously. And whenever there was a new opportunity that came up, I didn’t take advantage. Leading to the condition today.

Rusty. You can imagine how hard it is to get back into the game when you haven’t been playing for so long. Nevertheless, I continued, persisted, made things interesting.

Played again recently, but this time with blue balls.

Lots of whiffs, slices, etc. But many encouraging moments also. Great to be back out there.