• Happy Festivus! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ„
    I hope every enjoys the airing of grievances, I know I will. ๐Ÿคฃ

    Image of George Costanza from Seinfeld on a 'Human Fund' card.

    (Side Note: I’m only awake at this ungodly hour b/c I took a friend to the airport. โœˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒบ)

  • Migrated 18TB of data from one server to another and even though the โ€œnewโ€ server has redundancy, Iโ€™m still hesitating to click โ€deleteโ€ on the old server… ๐Ÿคฃ

  • Dear Apple
    I’m pretty darn sure you know that I keep marking emails with “Payment Completed” as spam, esp when they contain image attachments and ask me to contact the support team (with a very odd URL) if I have concerns. Perhaps you could just block them moving forward?

    Thank you,
    Unhappy Geek

  • So, I did a thing last night…I finally moved to a new server case. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ“ท

    Photo of a tech mess: two computer cases (one horizontal on the floor with open wires exposed and the other vertical with wires poking out), parts on the floor, three computer fan boxes, screws everywhere...on top of a grey/white carpet (the carpet is on top of a hard-wood floor), with a Christmas tree in the background (presents under it), and a couch on the edge of the upper-right side of the photo.

    It took far longer to get started than I though it would and I ended up with a bloody hand (it’s a very nice case but that metal is sharp ๐Ÿคฃ)…and I haven’t installed case fans yet but…the server is back online and running!

  • ๐Ÿฟ Ended up doing a double-feature tonight and watched the Christmas Setup, a lovely holiday movie. ๐ŸŽ„ It’s sappy but I do love seeing LGBTQ movies hitting the mainstream. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
    โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†

    Movie poster for The Christmas Setup.

    Plus, it has Fran!

  • ๐Ÿฟ We watched a Christmas Story tonight. ๐ŸŽ„ It isn’t my favorite movie but my Partner loves it, so every year we watch it.
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    Alternative movie poster for A Christmas Story.
  • House chores are done for the day, now off to Costco. Fingers crossed I spend less than $100 today… ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿป๐Ÿ˜†

  • Holiday Lights @ the Gardens ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ“ท

    Last weekend, my partner and I went to see some holiday lights at our local botanical garden. It was a wonderful time, they always so such a great job of decorating things and of course, me being me, I took well over two hundred photos (yes, I’m that guy). I wanted to post them all but that โ€ฆ read more

  • It’s hard to stay up all night, running around the house, keeping everyone up… ๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ˜ผ๐Ÿˆ

    Grey cat sleeping in the sun, curled up into a ball, half on a white chair and half on a red plaid blanket.

    I guess I have become a crazy cat person, all I seem to do lately is take pictures of Alex. ๐Ÿ˜น๐Ÿ“ท

  • Finished reading: Battlefield Reclaimer by David North ๐Ÿ“š
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    This book, a re-read for me, is the first book of the Guardian of Aster Fall series and in my opinion, sets up the universe for said series rather nicely. The character development is decent and the RPG improvement system is very cool.

    Book cover for Battlefield Reclaimer
  • I don’t think I played enough video games this year… ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜…๐ŸŽฎ

    Screen shot of Nintendo's 'Year In Review' showing my gaming trends, along with my top three played games by hours: Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Zelda Breath of the Wild, and Animal Crossing New Horizons.
  • ๐Ÿฟ One of my favorite holiday movies, While You Were Sleeping always brings happy tears. ๐ŸŽ„
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    Alternative movie poster for While You Were Sleeping
  • I was going to spend my lunch break working on creating a single-page app, to bulk-upload photos to Micro.blog but…I ended up throwing in the towel and just wrote a C# script instead. It still makes me happy Microsoft open sourced .Net and it runs natively on the Mac. ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ˜€ #HappyGeek

  • Someone is very upset they’re not allowed to eat this morning before going to the vet… ๐Ÿ˜น

    Grey cat sitting (half on grey tile, half on cherry-red hardwood) in front of an empty feeder, looking back to the camera.

    Alex is making his displeasure known, to everyone in the house. ๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿ“ท

  • My Partner and I went out to dinner with my little brother and his girlfriend tonight…and it was the best sushi of my life. ๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿ“ท

    Roll of tuna sushi, horizontally cut, next to a stack of spring rolls on a different plate. Roll of fried sushi, coated in an orange sauce.

    So full and so happy. ๐Ÿ˜„