Personal
Maine, For The First Time
So my wife and I took some time for a change of pace and scenery and spent some time traveling up the south eastern coast of Maine. I have never been there, though I heard stories from my family about Read more
Family
It Slices. It Dices, It’s the Only Knife You’ll Ever Need It’s the Quickut Quickkle Stainless
My Aunt Bette is 92 (as of April 2025) and has a recent back injury, as one does in your 90s. My sister and brother have already been down to help her recover over the past month or so. And Read more
Silliness
Richmond SPCA, or a small part thereof…
So I’ve been volunteering at the Richmond SPCA for a couple of years now. A couple of times a week I go there to play with some of the dogs and do some laundry. And by play with some of Read more
Opinion
Lets Visit A Hungarian Graveyard
I ran across some CDs with pics on them that my father had made for my Aunt Bette. My Aunt Bette is my mother’s younger sister. She married a Man who had immigrated from Hungary, last name Szönyi (Serrrn-yee). When Read more
Silliness
Funny, I Don’t Feel Like A Victdom
About a year and a half ago I had to stop wedging my phone into my dashboard and actually get a MagSafe car mount so I could better use my phone’s mapping software to guide me around my newly adopted Read more
Personal
Leaving Austin
I moved from New Jersey to Texas at the end of 2005. Basically I was sick of the cold winters and my townhouse had appreciated in value substantially. So I could afford to move, rent an apartment and then look Read more
Personal
So it’s Been A While
The last time I wrote a post here was on September 16th 2020. It’s now June 8 2024, too goddamn long. Yeah, I do enjoy writing here but a lot of shit has happened in the intervening years (nothing personally Read more
Family
Les Voyageurs at the University of Michigan… in the late 1910s
So a few years ago my wife and I decided to try out the DNA tests available through Ancestry.com to see how much our families had be lying to us or just mistaken about our ethnic heritage. We didn’t find Read more
Mac OS X
MasOS Catalina, An Upgrade Story
Those of you who use Macs are well aware of the current version of macOS called Catalina, or if you prefer macOS 10.15. Those of us who support macOS likely know what a clusterfuck this version has been. And that has Read more
Opinion
Apple Retail In The Time of Pandemic
I needed to visit a local Apple store recently. So why the hell would I go to a crowded mall in the middle of a pandemic to visit an Apple store? My Primary Mac, a late 2015 MacBook Pro, had Read more
Mac OS X
Virtualizing macOS Mojave on the Cheap
So when Apple, in its infinite wisdom, decided to drop support for 32-bit apps in macOS Catalina (its latest macOS version) I came to realize that I rely on a couple of apps that are not now nor will they Read more
Mac OS X
I Just Really Hate Adobe
I work in IT at a law office. There’s about sixty people here and I am pretty much in charge of keeping everything running smoothly. Basically your JOAT IT guy. If it breaks I get blamed and have to fix Read more
Family
The Baby Album of Barbara Jane Blashill, 1929 – 1932
Many Homes Have One… …possibly on the shelves at your parent’s or other relative’s house. An album about a new baby, including pictures and notes about the happy family’s new addition. Many if not most are almost completely empty, save Read more
Family
Not So Angry…
Not long after mom passed I wrote a blog post entitled “I’m Angry, and I’m Not Sure What I’m Angry At.” Which was basically me venting about the death of my mother, on October 15th 2012. Since then Dad passed Read more
Tech
Head Crash
This will probably mean nothing to anyone but computer techies or people really into computers. So during my 20-plus years fixing computers for a living you run across a lot of really strange ways for computers and their components to Read more