I’m the kind of person who buys a Christmas tree stand at the end of February.

The Problem#

One thing blogs are bad at is storing posts that evolve over time. For example, if an article or manual is being written and developed, readers only see the first publication — further edits don’t make it into RSS feeds and no emails are …

A short note — while Apple is dragging its feet releasing the new MacBook Pros with M1X, I’m suffering with an old 2013 laptop that is struggling badly with today’s demands. A video call in Teams or Skype, and especially in Zoom with a virtual …

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.