Eugene's Musings

Dear Joa, I've been meaning to write this post for a while, but I purposefully decided to delay writing it.

I recently migrated a TrueNAS SCALE system from a 2 × 6 TB mirror to a 3 × 6 TB RAIDZ1 pool.

Most of you were probably expecting my first post after Joa was born to be something profound about raising a newborn.

Dear Joa, Your long awaited arrival is here at last.

Dear Joa, I've been meaning to write this post for a while - but something your Mom said last night, reminded me to get to it.

Dear Joa, The past few weeks I've taken on the challenge of building a chest of drawers for your baby room.

Dear Joa, This is a letter to you, even though you have not been born yet, and you won't be able to read this for a while.

Two years ago, I started doing yearly reviews, as a way to reflect on the year that has passed, and plan for the year ahead.

Recently I read the following two quotes in a James Clear 3-2-1 Newsletter and they inspired me to write this post about playing the long game: "Each day, spend some time on two things: working toward something that will pay off years from now appreciating

We as humans are very easy to fool.

I have not published a blog post in a while, and this one will be short as well.

Last weekend, I was invited to a friend's 32nd birthday weekend camping trip.

I've recently been going down the rabbit hole of self-hosting more and more things and avoiding those dreaded monthly subscriptions.

Dealing with people, it doesn't take long to realise that you are surrounded by either doers or talkers.

People have opinions about all sorts of things.