“The deck is clear, projects are ready to go, I’m ready to WRITE!” One lovely Friday night in May, She Who Must Be Obeyed finished teaching for the summer. The following Sunday, at five AM, she broke her leg. You look alarmed, so I’ll say now: she will fully recover. The next couple weeks were […]
A couple Fridays ago was my wife Liz’s last day of teaching at the college for the spring semester. Summer break, yay! Two days later, 5AM Sunday morning, she put her foot down wrong and broke her leg. A freak accident that could have happened to anyone. I’ve spent most of the last two weeks […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of May, and to the world at the beginning of June. Not a Patronizer? Sign up at https://patronizemwl.com.) This month was better than last month. If you look at April’s Sausage post, you’ll see that is a terribly low bar to clear, but I’ll take it. The […]
Yes, a Friday. I have long meetings on Saturday as we try to land BSDCan at the end of the month. I’m pondering trying some Tuesday night hangouts. We might get more people then, don’t know. Jerusalem (+0300) 2024-05-11 02:00 Berlin (+0200) 2024-05-11 01:00 Detroit (-0400) 2024-05-10 19:00 Chicago (-0500) 2024-05-10 18:00 Boise (-0600) 2024-05-10 […]
Yes, that’s two morning hangouts in a row. Sorry. One weekend in April is Penguicon. Two Saturdays have BSDCan meetings. This is the most tightly scheduled month since I began the whole Patronizer program. May will have an evening hangout, promise. Jerusalem (+0300) 2024-04-13 17:00 Berlin (+0200) 2024-04-13 16:00 Detroit (-0400) 2024-04-13 10:00 Chicago (-0500) […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of April, and the public at the beginning of May.) Well, this last month officially blows. I just got news that Craig Maloney finally lost his fight with cancer. Craig was a regular in our Patronizer Zoom hangouts. The guy had the usual IT cynicism, but it […]
Note that Daylight Savings Time kicks in here on 10 March. Let’s see how wt copes with that: Jerusalem (+0200) 2024-03-16 16:00 Berlin (+0100) 2024-03-16 15:00 Detroit (-0400) 2024-03-16 10:00 Chicago (-0500) 2024-03-16 09:00 Boise (-0600) 2024-03-16 08:00 Los Angeles (-0700) 2024-03-16 07:00 (+0000) 2024-03-16 14:00 Thanks to EDT it’ll be extra early. I promise […]
Last month, I mentioned blood pressure problems. The good news is, I have the blood pressure under control. The bad news, it’s given me a cough so fierce that I occasionally fall over. People have told me I work to hard, so now I’m taking a thirty-minute break every four hours around the clock for […]
A FreeBSD developer solved my time zone problem with a shell script. I think. Unix is lovely. Except when it isn’t. I’m listing all the time zones I know people attend from. If yours isn’t on the list, poke me and I’ll add it to the config file. (A config file! Unix is lovely! That’s […]
Last month, I made plans. Immediately thereafter, life gave me a surprise. Since my last doc visit in June, seems my blood pressure has doubled. It’s been 80/110 my whole life. Suddenly it went to 130/190. What changed? I had my first bout of covid, that’s what. Fortunately high blood pressure is a well understood […]
