August 21, 2026
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Always expanding my repertoire, this time by creating hot sauce with peppers from my garden! Was mostly jalapeño, some Seranto and a bit of chili peppers. I fermented for about 10 days and then blended with the brine for more … Continue reading
August 15, 2026
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Received all of my parts to build my OpenSense router and firewall this week. Put it all together and got it fired up and connected to the networks I want but not controlling anything just yet as I learn what … Continue reading
August 3, 2026
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Home projects with a bit of self sustainability, gardening and preservation squash, making bread and bacon. Continue reading
July 18, 2026
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One of my custom built XCP-ng virtualization servers is finally in my rack, connected and working. I will soon have my hallway space mostly back which is where they have been running serving up my virtual environment for the past … Continue reading
July 12, 2026
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After performing a successful clone using Clonezilla of my physical BL460 Gen7 blade that was my W2019 Data Center server with Sam Broadcaster that served as my music server, it was time to move my C7000 blade chassis out of … Continue reading
May 10, 2026
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Pulled weeds in vegetable and flower gardens, trimmed bushes can plus did some extra work on the pool. Got a lot done in the yard before the weeds could take hold with the veggies starting to hit growth spurts. The … Continue reading
April 11, 2026
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Been building up the soil and redoing a few items and moving forward with my gardens. Progress adding more soil nutrients and mixing them into the soil. Redoing irrigation. Moved a grape vine from growing around irrigation controls. Tweaked irrigation … Continue reading
January 18, 2026
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I removed a lot of weeds and this is a great time to get rid of more of mint roots. Still paying for putting mint in the garden years later instead of an enclosed area. I then planted some thyme, … Continue reading
December 11, 2025
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I backed up the MySQL database of WordPress and then updated to 6.9 version of WordPress,then updated the OS patches which were quite a few including going to the latest kernel version on Rocky Linux 9. I also updated my … Continue reading
October 8, 2025
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Weeds and some herbs were in need of trimming for my garden to make room for other vegetables. Mint and pineapple sage needed to be trimmed back to make room for squash and cucumbers where I had the 3 sisters … Continue reading
