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characters

Arthur

Corey

Zac

Shane

Cal

Amanda

Jerdar

Brian

Erik

Bret

Kevin

Mark

Mom

Connie

Lace

Kafka

Jeff

Seaweed

Chase

Fuzzy

Lauren

Little Thingies

Heidi

KO

Ryan

Nugget

kshot

Ted

Scott

Tori

Dani

Dan

Nathan

Derrick

Ty

Curt

Sophie

Kourtney

Jon

Ayr

Jessica

Chrissy

Sants

Dave

Cooley

Rob

CattleDecapitation

Steve

Gage

Dad

Cheryl

Lee

Mom

Christmas travel.




A family-friendly winery, a ballgame, and a weekend trip.




A trip to the big island.




We decided to go to NorCal for xmas this year.




Friendsgiving mayhem, timely Halloween costumes, gun stonks, and Tacoma parts. And some machine learning graphics links and learnings.




Construction begins on the veranda, the market dips while China cracks down on crypto, meme stonks, and some video games.




I check out Google search console, discuss graphics in static site generation, and talk SEO when I really don't care about SEO. Plus some investing, video games, and foot talk.




Danielle arrives. And some other stuff while nevously awaiting delivery.




Having bigger fish to fry, I hadn't really touched the media room in about ten years, aside from swapping some electronics and furniture. It seemed like a modest house project was in order when we hit reopening stage 2.5. The plan centered around repainting a darker, more cinematic color and moving the audio wiring from being exposed to hidden behind moulding.




A road trip, Fire Emblem Three Houses, and BL3 Handsome Jackpot.




Food and parties, Borderlands and Risk of Rain.




A Maui trip during humpback season.




Christmas was the usual fare: travel, eggs benedict, prime rib, secret Santa, wine.




Horizontal fencing installation, a DC trip, and Battleborn.




Wedding.




The 'rents were out on Kauai for a birthday, so I joined them.




The big island at 14,000 feet above sea level and 60 feet below.




A long time back blogspot removed the feature that enabled publishing to an external domain. Using a little perl-fu, I created a simple markup-to-html processor and went independent. Well, that code was shoestringy and so it's finally time to EOL it.




After five years I bid qcom adieu to take on a new challenge in the startup world. This meant cleaning the cobwebs out of the study and setting up a proper work environment.




KO turns 40, Dad turns 60 in Hawaii, Lee and Carly get married.




I took a brief trip to NorCal. Ted's place is looking good, too bad he can't decide on a railing.




The pool light switch was backward. It broke the common so I was getting power to the light even with the switch open. That resolved, my sweet led bulb is working its magic at a whopping 2.75 watts, compared to the 500 watt incandescent I pulled out.




Some motorcycling, diving, and golfing on Maui




Erik's got a blog now. My forecast is interleaved Penn and Teller Bullshit-style rants and updates on the reich rocket (pictured). If only Connie, Curt, and me could convince him to join the photo class there'd be some great imagery to go with it. Relatedly, sign up for intermediate black and white at UnEx if you like to party.




So the ol' 1.6 Athlon setup finally choked. Hard to say what it was, I've failed to diagnose the problem hardware having independently swapped everything out. I'll revisit when I'm setting the box up as a terminal in the garage.




The 'rents came down this weekend. Mom bought me the taxadermed animal I wanted so badly.




Flew out on United, landed at five local time. It's amazing how pleasant a flight can be with DS, an mp3 player, and copy of MC with twelve articles about the new Gizzixer. Mom, brother, and I ate at Coconuts. It wasn't bad, but a bit pricey/touristy.




A ski trip.




A few shots from a Tahoe ski trip.