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Wandering the Sackville River

To cap off the long weekend we went for a drive. There were many things that we had to get finished around the house, so there was no planning made for the weekend. Once we finished up the important things, I packed the kids into the car and asked them …

Puffins

I went with CO on a short adventure this morning to visit the puffins on Pearl Island. They are typically around until early-mid August so its getting a little late.

This was the first time with a much smaller and quieter boat, so we were able to get much closer …

Another Turn

The weather is getting better, and everything is at another turning point. Canada has a new government, maybe its going to be stable. The CPC party has gone full cult, with their unelected leader living in government housing and refusing to leave.

I switched up my work set up a …

A new week

Last week was exhausting. First there was the Canadian Election where the Liberal's won the most seats and get the first opportunity to form another government with Mark Carney as PM. While I was hoping for a majority of seats for the Liberals in this round, I'm relieved at the …

Spring Flowers

One of the best gardening things is to have crocus bulbs in your lawn. They come up when the snow is thinning, and in years like this, they are out while we have a couple late snow storms.

They are great, and just the colour that we need after what …

Auto Posting to Mastodon

Something that I find a little annoying is having to manually post things to different social media. I like to post JUST to my site here and then syndicate to socials, mostly just mastodon, but I would like to figure it out for other corporate socials too.

There is a …

Fix Wifi Speed with Debian

First off, may I say this is dumb. This has been an issue for at least 4 years in the Linux community and still, to this day, the solution is to fix it manually.

To start, my install uses NetworkManager which has a rudimentary GUI, and since this has been …

Newsboat for quiet reading

I have started working on a little personal project I like to call, computing like its 1999. Part of this is moving a lot of the things that I do from a browser to a local app, and when possible to a TUI/CLI interface to further reduce distraction and …