Early session

March 27, 2025
sports

Been hitting the early morning Thursday game the last few weeks. It was cold and I’d had a crummy night’s sleep so I didn’t really push it today.

We had a tryout tournament last weekend (that I’ll talk about soon) so I’ve been angling to play a hunch to stay sharp.

To spoil my story, we got the wins we needed last weekend, but it was at a cost. I’m still kind of beat, mentally, and it feels like I tweaked my left knee. It’s balky for the first half-hour or so and then it gets progressively sore after I’m done playing.

Rest is the likely answer. Someday.

Lazy Blogger’s Carpal Tunnels

March 19, 2025
computers, internet3

With the podcast wrapping up, this was, of course, the perfect time for my blog credentials get compromised. The site was down for about a day. Luckily the good folks at Dreamhost (my hosting provider for forever) run a tight ship with good support and responsibly managed backups.

It took some to discover that the trouble was the result of compromise, but I was back a couple of hours after I reported the trouble.

It was enough of a scare to push me to batten down the blog hatches. Online Mike is kind of lazy, so some of the update maintenance falls behind. I spent some time last night cleaning up and found 8,000+ blog posts, all on January 3rd, for poker and casino spam. It was a good feeling.

WordPress does a fine job at many things, but bulk post deletion is not one of them. Not at that volume, anyway. It took about an hour to delete those spam posts, 20 at a time.

My carpal tunnels are disappointed in me this morning.

New office mate

March 18, 2025
photos

Gifted a cutting a few months ago that got repotted over the weekend.

I think the big window in my work office is a nice place for the gal.

Sawtooth clouds?

March 12, 2025
photos, tv

Weather’s been weird here lately. The other day I saw these odd saw-tooth tops. I wonder if those odd high-level winds had anything to do with the “mud rain” we had:

RICHMOND, Va. — Numerous folks in Central Virginia woke up to find their cars covered with what at first may have appeared to be pollen, but was actually dust from storms in Texas and New Mexico.


Sturdy Lady

March 11, 2025
art, photos

Our oldest lives in Chicago and adopted a cat last year. I’m not generally a pet guy, but this attractive (and certainly sturdy? well-fed?) Siamese could have a place in my house and heart.

I don’t know that our suburban windows would offer much of a traffic/people view but we would carry the day in birds and small woodland creatures.

Getting closer

February 23, 2025
photos, sports

Spring training has started and in his first at bat of the preseason, Juan Soto hit a home run.

I love watching baseball anyway, but having the Mets spend money and improve the roster has me eagerly awaiting Opening Day.