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The number starts with a ‘2’!

2023-07-072018-08-27 by chawley

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

2023-07-072018-07-07 by chawley

“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

2023-07-122018-05-25 by chawley

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

2023-07-072018-01-04 by chawley

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

Fort Impostor

2023-08-042017-10-13 by chawley

Do It Out In The Open

2023-07-312017-10-12 by chawley

I attended my first Ohio Linuxfest this year (2017) and had a great time. I found the lightning talks especially inspirational. One of the talks I especially like were the lightning talks. Lightning talks are a series of short (5 minute), impromptu talks that anyone can do. They hand you a microphone, and you say … Read more

Ohio Linuxfest 2017 – Sep 29-30 2017, Columbus, Ohio

2022-08-112017-09-30 by chawley

Attended talks: Command Line Tools, Clif Flynt Keynote: The Battle Over Our Technology, Karen Sandler (robo-lawyer) Lumina Rising: Challenging Desktop Orthodoxy, Ken Moore The ‘Onwards’ & ‘Upwards’ of Careers in Open Source – A Panel Discussion, Warner Moore, Cassandra Faris, Jason Green, Chad White Secure Cloud: Linode With Full Disk Encryption, Roberto C. Sánchez So … Read more

2017 Cleveland Givecamp

2023-07-222017-07-24 by chawley

I made it to Cleveland Givecamp this year after many years of wanting to go but never having the guts. I added this to my LinkedIn page: Technical Volunteer, Cleveland GiveCamp Jul 2017 I volunteered at Cleveland GiveCamp and assisted “The Valentine Project” in refreshing their web presence. I served as site admin by managing … Read more

In case you forget.

2024-02-022017-02-02 by chawley

During my time working at the Sheriff’s Office, I had the privilege of being able to traverse the building freely since I was part of IT. Any room that had a computer was a potential visit for us in case we needed to plug something in or turn something off and on again. One afternoon, … Read more

Death of a Bully

2022-08-112016-12-28 by chawley

I found out after the fact that my bully from grade school died. He was not well liked by most people, if I remember correctly, but I was surprised at the outpouring of emotion online when his death was announced. A lot of years have passed in the interim and in hindsight, I suspect there … Read more