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01/22/21: The best part about Inauguration 2021: Memes of Bernie Sanders
Not being an advocate for those advocating bigger government, higher taxes, progressive policies … or most Democrats in general, I was not looking forward to the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the… »01/22/21: Tech Friday: Look what arrived this week – the Wyze Cam 3
It was back in November when everyone was Black Friday shopping for gifts or ording Cyber Monday items … that is when the inexpensive security camera company Wyze, sent me an email about their new camera and motion… »01/21/21: We love having our photo albums on the Echo Show #TBT
Both Brenda and I enjoy the hundreds (if not thousands?) of photos from our albums and digital archives that I’ve uploaded to the the photo section of the Amazon Prime storage cloud. We likely enjoy it more since it… »01/20/21: Question: Can I get the COVID-19 vaccine in Ohio yet?
While talking with a customer on the phone today and talking about when I’ll be traveling to NE Ohio again, they asked me when they could get the Covid-19 vaccine? See Covid-19 Vaccination Program – LINK. So I… »01/20/21: Woodworking: Collecting workbench hold-down ideas
It is common when woodworking on a bench to use some kind of vise or clamp to hold down a work piece. For longer boards I’ve always used either a couple of clamps on each end or my home-built vise and square hardwood… »01/19/21: The US trend is politically left as opposing voices are squelched
It’s not “breaking news” that we live in a changing United States of America or that propaganda and control over speech is being used to steer large swaths of the population towards leftist ideology … but what… »01/18/21: Music Monday: Early Pure Prairie League and Vince Gill
I’ve always enjoyed the Ohio-founded group called Pure Prairie League and most of their albums, as well as the other groups from their era who blended popular rock with the country music sound (including NGDB). For… »01/17/21: Adding and storing cordless power tools and lithium batteries
In keeping up with lithium battery powered tools, those of us who have married into a brand have our reasons (battery warranty in my case).In reading most of the comparison literature and write-up websites, Price and… »01/16/21: The wire from the TV signal box is now in the basement ceiling
My wife is great … and her decorating and building taste as to what “looks” nice grows on a person after nearly 40 years of marriage … but I still grumble about some of the decision she makes. One of them was… »01/15/21: Tech Friday: Increased memory cheat on a smallish web server
Years ago when RAM was expensive, it was common to set up a SWAP space file for additional memory on computers and servers with plenty of fast hard drive space … especially when speed was not as important as… »01/14/21: A bit disappointed in the 2021 LSSU’s Banished Words List
One of my favorite January traditions is looking at the Lake Superior State University’s Banished Words listing that get posted on December 31. I can’t believe LSSU has been doing it since 1976 and it is fun to… »01/14/21: A Toyota 4Runner window sticker and missing a photo #TBT
While shuffling through a bunch of old scans and photos and uploading stuff to my Miami University .EDU Google Drive account for free cloud storage after downgrading my subscription to OneDrive (they refused to renew… »01/13/21: Archive: On January 6, 2021, my nephew Ben, Emily, Liev and Ellis welcomed beautiful baby Lyra Eileen Skinner into the world
We don’t see my nephew and his family nearly enough, but a week ago, my nephew Ben, his wife Emily, and their two boys, Liev and Ellis welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world. The boys baby sister, and Ben and… »01/12/21: Stealing cookies, punishment, deterrents and election laws
The Storming United States Capitol 1/6/2021 and White House plus multiple cities protests 2020 In recent years, NPR has not been my source for balanced reporting and commentary, but I still occasionally pick up a morsel… »01/11/21: New for me on Music Monday: Call It Dreaming by Iron & Wine
Every year, in trying to get out of my 1970’s Music Monday rut, I say that I’m going to try something new. So to keep January 2021 going with that same resolution for Music Monday, I’m listening to Iron… »01/10/21: An interesting #book: EPIC – An Around-The-World Journey Through Christian History by Tim Challies
Thanks to my daughter Katelyn and her family, I’m in the process of reading the Tim Challies book, “EPIC – An Around-The-World Journey Through Christian History.” It is the new book I mentioned in my 2020… »01/09/21: Bold and accomplished leaders often lack diplomatic tact
As a “very” amateur military history buff who is currently reading the book “I Marched With Patton,” I came away from Frank Sisson’s memoir in thinking about other leaders who earned the respect of their men,… »01/08/21: Tech Friday: New audio player for blog with CSS tweaks
A simple blog upgrade project that I’ve been contemplating for a while now was one of my 2021 New Year’s resolutions … so I’m worked on it this past week’s Music Monday post. I’m not sure how long the new… »01/07/21: The 2020 Election, the Georgia Runoff and changing America
For red, white and blue flag waving, National Anthem honoring, military respecting patriots … who believed in the traditional values that founded this country … January 6, 2021 was a tough day. The election in… »01/06/21: Sad, but still enjoying the final season of Last Man Standing
Now that the final season of Last Man Standing has started (Jan 3, 2021), Brenda and I are finally catching up on the previous season that I recorded on the DVR. We had forgotten just how much we enjoyed this sitcom. It… »01/05/21: The vote in Georgia could be the turning point for America
I’ve watched the political divide and ideology between the right and left grow wider during the past decade … and probably longer, but the voices and actions haven’t seemed this divided since the 1960s. The debate… »01/04/21: Music Monday: Like Kenny Chesney, I have a yearning to be free
Maybe it is because it is winter … or maybe I’m just in the mood to be a pirate … but Kenny Chesney and his “Pirate Song” has me thinking about warmer weather, being unplugged, sailboats, beaches and being… »01/03/21: Filler #video: We don’t have groomed hedges, but ..
Looking at the tool for tools sake, but also the technique is nice!… »01/02/21: A cigar box for sewing clips and NE Ohio drugstore memories
Adam Savage, from Mythbusters claim-to-fame, has been regularly posting a few of his shop ideas online. A few months ago he triggered me into improving my portable Sailrite Sewing machine set-up (well my wife’s sewing… »01/01/21: Tech Friday: A “Groovy Gorilla” Linux 20.10 server update
After the previous challenging server update from years on Ubuntu Linux 12, 14 and 16 to a questionable 18 upgrade … I’ve been hesitant to upgrade the server to “Focal Fossa” 20.04 in the spring and summer… »12/31/20: Thankful to have a long time friend like Jeff – #TBT photo
I had lunch “out” this week with my good friend Jeff, although this routine has become very infrequent compared to previous years. Still, we had a chance to catch up, talk about politics (Ugh), the old-days… »12/30/20: World War II book: “I Marched With Patton” by Frank Sisson
When it comes to being the first to read a book, I’m not the guy to turn to, but eventually I do get around to some of them. I’m particularly fond of the history oriented books from the last century and “I Marched… »12/29/20: Our family Christmas 2020 and a few too many wrap-up photos
It was great that the sun was shining in the new windows the day after Christmas, but the hot-spots did make for a challenging family photo in front of the tree (we ended up too busy and forgot to take on on Christmas… »12/28/20: Music Monday: The Coconut song always makes my wife smile
The novelty song Coconut (1971) my Harry Nilsson from the early 1970s never fails to make my wife Brenda smile … as she sings along having memorized the lyrics when she was a young girl (shocked at how much… »12/27/20: Understanding the Pfizer and Moderna COVID19 vaccines
There was an interesting article in Prevention Magazine that explains what the COVID19 or generically the Coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna do … AND what their ingredients are. It also details the… »12/26/20: Filler post since we are busy with family, but a great photo!
12/25/20: Merry Christmas to all who check in on My Desultory Blog
Since it is now Christmas day, I will finally post a couple of the woodworking projects that I’ve been working on for gifts this year. Ellerie was my primary focus since I’ve made quite a few items for Annalyn in… »12/24/20: Old handsaws, rusting jack posts and a deck of cards #TBT
Since I expect to be busy with our family on Christmas Eve Day, I’ll prepare a post for Throwback Thursday #TBT with a few old handsaws from my families past and asked the rhetorical question to myself: “Why do you… »12/23/20: Our granddaughters are coming and new Great Room windows
Marking time and happenings is sort of what My Desultory Blog has evolved into … or at least it seems that way lately (reminds me of the “Pacing the Cage” song). I have found that in hindsight I’ve been using… »12/22/20: Eating out with a friend during COVID19 and an MMT discussion
With only a handful of meals out during this COVID19 year with my buddy Jeff this past year, I’ve learned to appreciate them even more than usual. We’ve been having lunch together each month or so as a way to stay… »12/21/20: Music Monday: Holiday memories from the Carpenters
For the baby boomer generation, the mellow voices of Karen and Richard Carpenter were a perfect match for classic Christmas holiday music. I recall watching several television specials over the years with them (although… »12/20/20: The Great Conjunction: Saturn and Jupiter align on Dec 21st
For those who enjoy astronomy, space exploration or just looking at the night sky, an event know as Saturn and Jupiter’s Great Conjunction is happening on December 21st (although look in the southern sky shortly after… »12/19/20: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Slick roads and an accident.
Although this is the second snow of the season, the weather has turned colder and we ended up with a touch more of the white stuff this week … and with it, yet another accident on Bethany Road to our rear. I saw the… »12/18/20: Tech Friday: Twitter lock my account this week, but I don’t know who complained or what content infringed on copyright laws?
A daily routine for over a decade has been using the social network Twitter as an interactive newsfeed – replaced RSS feed reader. It has also been a place to post MyDesultoryBlog.com updates and interact on my RichC… »12/17/20: Promotional Products from an exciting Dot-Com start-up #TBT
For Throwback Thursday #TBT this week I’ll include a couple photos from 1998 or 1999. These Soma.com photos are items from my friend Jeff sent to me when cleaning out his apartment. He (and my wife Brenda) were hired… »12/16/20: Funny, but not funny … perhaps it is the frustration we all feel?
Are you tired of this COVID19 lockdown yet? It is hard to believe the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic AND those politicians dictating shutdowns in their mini-kingdoms have not had more pushback than they have? Way too many… »12/15/20: Merry Christmas 2020 and wishing you a "Hopeful" New Year
It has been a challenging year to say the least with the Coronavirus still raging in the US and around the world. So many lives, businesses and plans have been forever changed. Brenda and I just feel blessed to be… »12/14/20: Music Monday: A snippet from a 1970 CSNY Jam Session
I should be playing Christmas music or doing something more productive with my evening rather than sitting back writing this and listening to 1970’s music (although we did finish our abbreviated and… »12/13/20: Happy Birthday "daddy" Drew … and very good one he is!
Although December is centered around Christmas and holiday preparations, it is also Drew’s birthday. As the years tick by, I’m sure he won’t mind one of two of them getting forgotten … but for now it is still… »12/12/20: Santa Mouse slippers, Christmas stories and Echo messages
What grandparent doesn’t like getting voice messages (and photos) from their children and grandchildren? I sure love my granddaughters and enjoy using technology to stay in touch with them during this COVID 2020 year.… »12/11/20: Tech Friday: Using Grammarly for Chrome (Brave in my case)
Not that it would ever be noticed in my “rarely proofread” blog, but for the past year I’ve been using a plugin app called Grammarly (it unfortunately doesn’t work with Open Live Writer, the aging software I use… »12/10/20: Repairing the aging Caldera Hot Tub … AGAIN #TBT
Well, it happened again. The stainless steel heater element pipe in our Caldera Hot Tub has failed again (last time was 2013). There must be some electrolysis accelerating the corrosion unless the stainless steel tubing… »12/09/20: What’s “The greatest threat to life on Earth” – according to theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking #video
No … not a pandemic (like Covid19) … or 45 years of Global Warming … or the current adopted term – Climate Change – according to Green New Deal Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or… »12/08/20: It feels like winter, but those pesky Stink Bugs are still here?
One of the irritations in using motion sensing security cameras (ani gif from previous post) at our house is that no matter how much I tweak the settings, they still detect motion and even declare “person detected”… »12/07/20: Remembering Pearl Harbor and a few personal family thoughts
Recognition and remembrance for those of the Greatest Generation who were killed on December 7, 1941 are compelling reasons why Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day rings loud with me … but my remembering is also partially… »12/06/20: Missing sailing but appreciating a Cape Horn installation video
Sometime the best part of keeping a daily blog is that provides a place to archive tidbits for future reference. The Sailing Uma “gear review” tagged YouTube clip on their channel has a fantastic installation video… »12/05/20: Woodworking: The 100% Silicone Wood Glue Spreader Tool
About a year ago I ordered two more bottles of Titebond III wood glue online (had great success using it for a fence repair), and on a whim I added a goofy looking Titebrush glue brush. I honestly expected it to get… »12/04/20: Tech Friday: Raspberry Pi 3 webservers and a USB Power Brick
Although I only have one address accessible IP at the house, I can split it up via “Port Forwarding” on the cheap Cincinnati Bell router, rather than the home “mesh” network. After a little tweaking (ok, A LOT),… »12/03/20: Archiving pre-sale Zillow photos of Mom and DadC’s house #TBT
As a ‘still listed’ page owner according to my Zillow update emails of my parents house listing in Sidney, Ohio, I realized that it will not be long before those pages and photos disappear. I likely still have the… »12/02/20: First Snow December 1st 2020 … and another backyard accident
December 2020 rolled in with a light white blanket of snow and colder weather to let us know that winter is probably here for a while. I can’t say that I’m looking forward to the temperature change, but I really… »12/01/20: Our family is getting into the 2020 Christmas decorating spirit
Last weekend must have been the time to start getting into the Christmas spirit? I was busy getting the wreaths and window candles up (and last of the leaves raked and hauled), Katelyn, Drew, Annalyn and Ellerie were on… »11/30/20: Music Monday: Led Zeppelin and “Stairway to Heaven”
Today’s Music Monday song is due to the minor chastising from my friend Mark Jones last week. He’s been picking up a few old albums for his record collection and to play on his Crosley record player… »11/29/20: Thoughts on ‘battery drain’ with the Ridgid 18V USB accessory
Don’t tell anyone, but while shopping for “my” Christmas gift from Brenda (below … and yes, she sent me out to get it). So … I added a Ridgid 18V USB charging attachment for my inconvenience. Ha! After… »11/28/20: Love the audio Bible reading on the Truth For Life devotional
Although I’ve worked with my friend Pastor Keith Thomas on his GroupBibleStudy.com site for years, I’ve been happy for him that his daughter has taken on the volunteer job of webmaster. As I warned him, be careful… »11/27/20: Tech Friday: Setting up ubuntu server on an older Raspberry Pi 3
It is not uncommon for me to head down a rabbit hole when learning a little more about Hugo the fast static site generator (SSG). The experimenting from a few weeks ago on a 64-bit Linux ubuntu server had me wondering… »
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