The replacement Synology arrived. I swapped the drives over, and while I was at it, threw in 4 GB of RAM that had been sitting in a drawer anyway — now it’s at 8. Plex came up quickly, I restored the config too, fine-tuning will happen as I go.

Not even a year and a half had passed since I became a happy owner of a home server from Synology, and it already went belly up.

The “Canada Days” trend was born in my booze blog, and I kept trying to remember what else Canadian from the past month (besides the beer and whisky) I had forgotten — and here it is.

Less than a year has passed (July to February: about 8 months) since replacing the strings from “whatever was on there” to Yamaha NS 110. After half a year of light strumming, the brand-new strings already look like this:

Inspired by gourmet ideas, nurturing the notion of culinary caste greatness… or, more honestly, after scrolling through Instagram of Poles living in Ireland, I bought myself a little knife to cook outdoors.

When you’re riding through beautiful scenery, you want to capture it and share it — but you can’t pull out your phone while driving. So the photo arsenal has finally gained a tool for shooting on the go. Stay tuned for new videos on the YouTube …

The absence of snow in these parts had made me a bit complacent — but that won’t do, so a shovel was finally bought and put in the trunk.

The older axe (who, by the way, is named Ira) has been joined by a smaller one. Still unnamed and without any mods for now, but I think we’ll sort that out come summer.

Today I’m reading that Twitter has permanently banned one red-haired president. I went to see what that looks like (nothing, really) — and remembered that I had already banned him myself a few months ago. When I first arrived I followed him, since it …

This particular purchase, on the other hand, was well thought out — it had been patiently sitting in my Amazon wishlist, waiting for a discount.

After swinging an axe all summer and realizing that cutting trees crosswise is not the most rewarding of tasks, …