The Adventures of Rob, Susan, Mason and Morgan O'Hara
Last week my friend Aaron, co-host of the Amigos Podcast for Amiga computers, drove to Oklahoma with his son Luke to visit and hang out for a few days. Prior to their arrival, Susan and I began brainstorming different places we wanted to show them along with restaurants we wanted to eat at. As the list continued to grow, I… read entire post
In case you missed my post from a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been experiencing “digestive distress” for nearly a month now. “Digestive distress” is a polite way to say “stomach cramping and explosive diarrhea.” When I first began experiencing symptoms on July 19 Susan and I thought it might have been food poisoning from a local sushi bar, but… read entire post
Throughout the years I’ve collected some pretty wacky Star Wars related items, one of which was Jar Jar Binks tongue, in candy form. Shortly after the release of Star Wars in 1977 Kenner began producing toys based on the film, and it didn’t take them long for them to release they were literally printing money. If they made action figures,… read entire post
“Eat your vegetables,” they said. “Salad is good for you,” they said. These are the things I think about while sitting on the toilet. And over the past couple of days, I’ve had lots of time to think. Last Sunday, Susan and I had lunch at one of our favorite local sushi spots. Instead of my normal sushi I decided… read entire post
Last weekend marked the fifth annual meeting of the International Retro Computer Expo (formerly BoatFest) in Hurricane, West Virginia. For the fifth summer in a row I drove 1,000 miles from Oklahoma City to Hurricane to attend the event. Officially the event took place July 10-11, although the organizers got access to the building on Thursday which allowed people to… read entire post
I haven’t had much luck with dentists in my life. I didn’t visit the dentist often as a kid and had a couple o relatively unpleasant experiences as a young adult that I just decided to quit going. The last time I went to an actual dentist was, as we jokingly say, “in the 1900s.” This led to one of… read entire post
After going 8-0 and sweeping the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers in the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Oklahoma City Thunder hit a wall in the Western Conference Finals; specifically, a 7’5″ wall named Victor “Wemby” Wembanyama. Despite barely edging out the Spurs for the top seed in the Western Conference, the Thunder had a 1-4… read entire post
After roughly three years, we had our first AT&T internet outage. For what it’s worth, I had problems with Cox Cable about once a week — sometimes they were outages but more commonly it was just long periods (hours or days) of degraded service. It seems like multiple times a week I was contacting Cox’s technical support only to be… read entire post
Many years ago, back when I worked on a helpdesk at work, I used to sit in on interviews. Management wanted me there to gauge the technical and troubleshooting skills of each candidate, which I did by presenting the following scenario: “a user calls the helpdesk and says they can’t print to one of our network printers. How would you… read entire post
Since people rarely read my entire blog posts I’ll start this one with a one sentence summary: while stealing a broken music keyboard from my neighbor’s trash pile I wrecked our eBike so badly I ended up at the doctor’s office and getting referred to leg wound care. The longer version is slightly funnier. Our story begins last weekend —… read entire post