25 Years – Thus Far the Lord has Helped Us
When we announced, at barely 20 years of age, that we were getting were married, there were a variety of responses. Most did not realize that we actually had a fairly detailed plan...
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The Times They Are A-Changing: Courage and Grace
This moment marks a major milestone, not only in her academic career, but in her evolution into an independent and capable young woman. Obstacles are no match for her strength of will — though she feels their presence acutely. Abi will move forward, let there be no doubt...
Nothing Bad Can Happen, It Can Only Good Happen
A corrupt and cognitively-deficient President, surrounded by manipulating boot-lickers and new world order right wingers, has dragged us into war in the Middle East. The left is impotent to do anything about it, and America is too shell-shocked by scandal, and the faltering of the other two branches of the government, to raise more than
So I Tied An Onion To My Belt – 2025 Edition
2025 was one full challenge and change for all of us. As the long tail of home renovation efforts from 2024 wrapped up, we started thinking seriously about selling the house. With college drawing close for Ben, the allure of a smaller house, with less maintenance and more freedom to travel, combined with current market
Still Blogging This
This site has been online, in one form or another, for 25 years. Still, I took all but a landing page down for the move, and debated about whether it should return at all...
Fix macOS Wake-On-LAN with this one weird trick
You've probably seen the checkbox in Settings for "Wake for network access", but unless you've stumbled on the secret handshake, you might not have seen the feature working.
Down for the move!
While modern times have required some more modern infrastructure, parts of this site still depend on our home network which is currently being dismantled in preparation for the move. As a result, I ve taken the site offline until the dust settles. When we come back, things may look a little different around here. The
The UberMac
This year I got myself a new, 6 year old computer. I plan to use it much longer than I'm supposed to...
The Times They Are A-Changing: Our Empathetic Engineer
It is strange and exciting and more than a little emotional watching our first-born, and cherished little guy, launch out into the world. We can’t wait to see where his adventures take him, and we couldn’t be more proud of the man that he has become.
Where Do We Go From Here?
And so it was that through luck, or divine guidance, we ended up with a house bigger than we’d imagined, with more space than we could have hoped for, in a neighborhood we didn’t think we could aspire to...
Are you going to Hannover Fair?
My annual work trip to Hannover became a little more fun when we made a mini-vacation out of the adjacent weekend.
Resolving Boot Issues on an Intel Xserve
Apple's "rack Mac" XServe hardware may never have been "insanely great" -- or even "kinda great" but they were interesting. Here's how I got one working in 2025.
So I Tied An Onion To My Belt – 2024 Edition
2024 has come and gone, and with it another big set of milestones for the family. From trips to the ER, to flights to Asia, to college visits, this has been one for the books -- or at least, for the annual blog post...
Home Network 4.0
Version 4.0 of the network solves many of the issues I had maintaining and growing online capabilities. The new spine is provided by a Ubiquiti UXG Pro on a dedicated UPS that is practically bullet proof.
Imposter Syndrome
In my son's experience with a bad English teacher I saw my own struggles with academics. I also had some really good teachers, and a few really bad ones. The good ones would say things like "he's not living up to his potential." The bad ones told me I was stupid. Its funny how both of those things stick with you the rest of your life...