I’ve wanted to buy a Ryzen Threadripper chip for a while, for no other reason than I love the name.

Then I found out there is a Threadripper Pro, and the only thing stopping me is…

The $6000 price tag.

“A new sign-in has been detected on your eBay account” 😟

… Oh yeah that was me.

Watching an old episode of Full House, where The Beach Boys come and take the Tanner family (who live in San Francisco) in a limo to a concert — but the next scene is them at the Los Angeles Colosseum.

6 hours away.

It’s almost like TV is a huge lie.

I’m trapped in the slowest Taco Bell drive thru line on the planet. Send help.

I don’t have a ton of rules for my kids to follow.

But not watching their shows on my streaming profiles is one.

And they just. Can’t. Do. It.

I had to run an errand this morning near Micro Center, so I dropped in around opening. Stumbled upon a fresh shipment of Nvidia RTX 3070 cards so I bought one (they limit you) — but I don’t know what to do with it now.

Siri just tried to auto correct “come vacuum” to “coke vaccine” 💉 I was not aware that was something you could do. 🤨

Your regular reminder that it’s not necessary to have an opinion (shared or not) on everything.

I almost forgot how much of a joy planning holiday events with extended family was.

Any possible way we could go back into lockdown this weekend?

Random Person: Me: Rando: You know what? I think these masks are all about government control. I don’t even wear them. And, I’d like to see who’s really died from this, who brought this, minorities, people in inner cities. Me: … You know this the line for the Chinese restaurant?

AirTags work. Had my kids hide one in the house three times and was able to find it within a few minutes. It’s complicated a bit by having a multi-level home.

There are some phrases that when I do a GIPHY search, that accidentally return soft-core porn, and I have no idea why.

Dear IOT device manufacturers, can we please make it so the only way to change the Wifi password to a device is NOT to perform a factory reset?

I rearranged my desk a few weeks ago, it was perfect.

I rearranged my desk a few minutes ago, it’s now perfect.

I’ll rearrange my desk in a few weeks, it’ll be perfect.

The only thing I really need to know about this European Super League is if it has any impact on the next season of Ted Lasso.

Anyone who’s had their second Covid vax in a different arm have a tingling sensation in their original injection site?

My wife thinks I’m imagining it. I’m pretty sure it’s for real.

Gravity Updated

Just under a year ago I started working on a side project, which I talked about here, called Gravity Sync.The basic premise was to create a script that would synchronize two Pi-hole 5.0 instances. What started out as a few lines of bash code though has grown into something kind of crazy, and has been a fun experiment in (re)learning how to code. echo 'Copying gravity.db from HA primary' rsync -e 'ssh -p 22' ubuntu@192.

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Being vaccinated does not mean you should make changes to prod at 5pm on a Friday.

We’ve now reserved two different Airbnb/FRBO for this summer, big house in remote location with a pool for us and our COVID Pod family to vacation at.

They’ve both been sold and cancelled on us. 🙄

I’ve reached the point in maintaining my Gravity Sync script where even though I’m the sole maintainer and have written 98% of the code, there are things that I assume the script works in a specific way but when I go look at it, realize “nope, it doesn’t do that at all.”