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The Century Mark

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Yesterday morning I achieved the century mark in weight loss. After stalling at 90-something pounds down since the beginning of the year, yesterday I officially lost 100 pounds! I said that when I saw 234 on the scale I would take a picture and post in on Facebook and make a big deal out of … Read more

FretMaster Beta

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In 1998 I wrote the only piece of software I had intended other people to see. I wrote it in Visual Basic 4. It’s a guitar fret board mapping program. Pick a note and a scale and click a button. It’ll show you where those notes are on the fret board. It was fun and … Read more

SELinux is the devil

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I spent two hours troubleshooting strange Apache behavior on a new VM before discovering SELinux was enforcing I always use CentOS in the cloud because it’s stable and awesome for server-grade applications (web server, webdav, samba…etc)  I use Ubuntu or a Debian derivative on the desktop because the packages are more up to date and … Read more

Non-alcoholic Stress Relief

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I have had exactly one drink in the last three months since starting my liver-healthy diet. I had an especially bad day yesterday. Not really bad in the grand scheme of things, but bad in my own head. Too many unplanned things happened in too quick succession which left me feeling under attack and over-whelmed. … Read more

The number starts with a ‘2’!

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I’ve made it below 300 pounds! Yesterday I weighed in at 295 pounds. I am officially lighter than my driver’s license (which was a big fat lie for the last 8 years, anyway) Carrie lost 5 pounds and Ashley lost another pound last week. The three of us have not had bread, sugar or pop … Read more

Fat, Sick and Dying

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“I’ve decided to lose weight.” I’ve dreaded making one of these posts because if I don’t follow through, it’s just a documented example of my failure. My liver enzymes came back really high this past month and I had to have an ultrasound to find out I’ve got nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. It’s early in the disease, … Read more

Walking

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Today is the 10th day of walking, and I’m wondering if I’m going to die in my chair. This is the end of my second week of walking everyday. I set a reminder on my calendar to walk at 4pm on weekdays. I walk around the pond behind the building across the street. The whole … Read more

Read My Feed

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Two weeks ago I stopped using TinyTinyRSS as my RSS feed reader. I love having self-hosted apps and the privacy and control they provide, but honestly I wasn’t real worried about someone snooping my RSS feeds or contaminating my OPML. I’ve been making a move back to some cloud-based apps recently to avoid the maintenance … Read more