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The events below happened around two years ago while I was still trying to get to the Pacific Northwest (PNW) from the Chicago suburbia. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Day One After a rough winter and several years of job searching without filling out an application as I can be choosy about what I apply for. None of the ads I have seen have fallen into two categories, either not my thing (not even [...] Read more

People it seems, are creatures of habit. Once they do something a few times they tend to do it more often until they do it on a regular basis. To be clear, I am not talking about habits that are detrimental to our existence, rather, the patterns of things we do mostly without realizing it. Why do we do these things? Because it has always been done that way or maybe it is just something that was picked up along the way. [...] Read more

Space is not cheap but this is ridiculous. “Space is hard.” This has been said many times by many different people but what they are failing to add to it is “Space is expensive, very expensive. Especially for governments.”. This will be a look at five different rockets that are or will be used in the near future for travel beyond earths confines. While there are others that are in the current space race, these [...] Read more

Well, maybe not quite so unplanned While I have been working on various future posts as some of the do require a fair amount of research, I have also been trying to get a little ahead of uploading new posts at the start of the week rather than at the end of the week. I am pushing this for a few reasons, work is starting to pick back up, updating the code for this blog is adding to my time requirements, and since the [...] Read more

Not that we really need more proof it is needed... and maybe it should be even higher... TL;DR: If you want to even think about the pursuit of the "American Dream" and get the US economy moving forward, it has to start changes at the bottom not the top and this needs to be done really soon. Now even. While a Presidential Executive Order does not directly raise the minimum wage to $15/hour, even for federal employees, the [...] Read more

My Father. You might have already seen the insurance commercials about "becoming your parents", if you watch any live TV you are almost assured to have seen at least one. If you haven't seen any of them you can just search "becoming your parents commercial" in your favorite search site and it should show at least a few results. The general gist of them is that when you buy a home you become one of your parents. Because [...] Read more

So I got an email with the subject of "Time to upgrade your PHP Software". Some of the contents: In an ongoing effort to bring you the very best products and services, we will be upgrading all of our servers to PHP 7.4. In addition to improved data processing, which can boost your site’s speed and performance, you’ll also gain increased security. Newer versions of PHP have more frequent security updates to help [...] Read more

It has been said that "Taxes are essentially just a yearly subscription to the country you live in, childhood was the free trial" (Source: Unknown but there is a meme about this somewhere). Since the beginning of time, life has had subscriptions. Maybe not the subscriptions you are thinking about or possibly in the same way that subscriptions are done today. Even back in the hunter/gatherer day there was an unspoken (no [...] Read more

In wanting to write more this year and having an outlet for to do so, I will be attempting at least a post every week on some subject that has been rattling around in my head, some for quite a while. This one doesn't count as it is just introducing the plan. As with most plans, however well conceived, no plan survives contact with the enemy, in this case, the enemy could just be life in general these days. I will be [...] Read more