Happy to put the HomeDepot shinanigans behind me and get the new toy!
Don’t have to worry about how much oil, the 2.2 ounces is exactly what it needs. The tool just wants to start and warms up smoothly. The clutch works properly and the attachment bolts on without spinning but once you pull the trigger, there’s revved-up power. Fits all my other attachments and we’re hopefully good for another 7 years, I’m due for a new one in 2029.
I had been outside and ran into my neighbor and she mentioned she was watching the Rangers game. I reminded me of visiting my grandmother and uncles house and there was always the Rangers game on. Then my thought train moved on.
Fast forward to that evening and I noticed on the news that the Mavericks are playing, not only playing but in the play offs. I searched OTA channels and nothing, then I realized that our Dallas Stars never played on free TV either. In fact the only local major league team that you can get is the Cowboys so you for 17 days of the year you can catch the home team play.
What gives? And how do they expect kids these days to become fans if they can’t even watch the games? That and you’d think there’d be a huge segment of the local advertising that would want to target that population.
I guess you can listen to it on the radio, although that’s really not the same thing.
So the time has come to get a new string trimmer. For starters this triggered another ‘damn I’m old’ episode. I was thinking that I had just got the old string trimmer and looking back, it’s been seven years… absolutely crazy.
So I do my research and all things are equal between a Ryobi and Troy-Bilt trimmers, price, manufacture and both fit the attachments that I already have but the Ryobi has a 3-year warranty and TB a 2 year. Ryobi it is…
So the price is $229.99, I head up to my local Home Depot, and find it but there are two types, grumbling I look them both over, they’re the same, no price though. Get to the checkout and it’s $249.99, strange and WTH, get to the truck and look it up on my phone, still $229.99. Go in and ask and it turns out Home Depot will not match prices… With themselves… Think about that for a bit. A store will not match the price that’s on its own website… They said they could order it for me right there though. I said no, just refund my money, things were just a little too weird at this point.
Long story, I went home, got online and it will be delivered free to my house in two days. Absolutely no need to have gone anywhere.
I wasn’t really sure when I saw this initially but the trailer pulled me in. It’s a really cute movie with the doe-eyed protagonist one of those you really enjoy cheering for and feeling the lows with her too. The ending is wide open for a sequel and it would make an absolutely fantastic series but this article seems to cast doubt on a restriction of the story on the big screen. I’ll be rooting for the sequel and will rake this as 4.3 out of 5, well worth your time!
We went to have lunch with the family and retrieved the RV and brought it back to park in the new pad for it, I hit the wall a couple of times but we wrangled it into place…
Halle Barry is the known element of this 2022 sci-fi/action flick. It’s a bit out there but it makes for a decent movie. The premise is that the moon has fallen out of its orbit and it’s jacking things up on Earth in a pretty bad way. So lots of special effects to see the world getting almost blown apart and the moon a creation of crazy origins. In a world of some really bad movies this one is watchable and entertaining. 3.5 out of 5.
Started capping off the sprinkler system for the dig. Skid steer will be here Friday for a week. Hoping that most can get done over this weekend.
So I’ve been hesitant to move the RV because that means I’ve got to get moving on getting the driveway extended with the pavers but my sister was kind enough to let me store it at her place while I get the project done. So the clock is ticking, I’m overthinking this, all I have to do is move dirt and level, the skid steer will do most of the walk.
So for whatever reason, I didn’t remember Google’s DNS addresses right and I set them up wrong on the actual server. Once the server was reliably able to communicate properly with DNS we seem to be golden and everything is working the way it should and is pretty fast. So I guess I can start addressing the email to the database I was talking about, and figure out what the hell to do with docker, or podman, or whatever it is that allows that mechanism to work. More on that to come.
I believe I’m happy to announce that all services are back including asberry.org photos and news feeds. Now that we have that taken care of, we’re moving on to putting the mail connection stuff into a database, not sure which one yet but I’ll figure it out. Then it’s desperate that we figure out the docker situation or podman or whatever they want to call it. I do need to get that working. Also we can spin up some VM’s to see what’s going on with those. Super excited to be working with RHEL, it’s all that and a bag of chips so far.