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This is the current favourite birthday cake in the house from bromabakery.com, I like to use the 9" pans.

I don't remember exactly what its called, but it happens every year around this time.

For the first time in a very long time I decided to take my morning coffee to the backyard, and since the 200-800mm was still on my camera I took that out too.

We took a drive over to Eastern Passage this afternoon to have a snack, throw some rocks in the ocean and check out some sea birds.

August is here again, and so are the monarch butterflies.

We went for a wander after soccer yesterday and the little one picked the Frog Pond.

When I finished my last exam in December 2024 with my Electrical, Computer Engineering Degree I started work at AMEC in January 2005 in the building that used to be right here.

Two weeks ago a buddy took me and the kids for a short boat ride to Sambro Island.

I'm working out my own, custom, RSS bot thing that I should be able to auto-post from here and ideally instagram and other corporate social media.

It's Canada Day, and while like any large multi-cultural society, we have our issues, but we also have our strengths and those deserve celebrating.

My raspberrypi was running "hot" in the case so I bought a fan.

I started my self-hosting journey in 2001 when I bought my first desktop.

Sometimes it takes some experimentation to get the cookies just right.

Winter finally seems to be on the wane, and this is the time that the USA decides to start yet another war in West Asia, this time supporting Israel.

On the weekend we took a short wander at Point Pleasant Park.

Hope for Wildlife is a wildlife rehabilitation and education organization located in Seaforth, Nova Scotia.

I'm a little surprised that I haven't already posted this recipe in my recipe format, so this post is to remedy this.

I started the weekend making a couple of recipes from Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens including a Cinnamon Loaf and Rolled Oats Bread.

This recipe is unmodified from my revision of the Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens book.

I really want to run Windows 11 on my laptop, and the last couple of times that I have tried it I got stuck on the bridge connection.

This weekend I knew we needed bread, but I couldn't get myself to the store.

Today was the day that the leaves all fell off the trees.

The weather was nice so we picked a close trail that we haven't been to before, and chose The Old Coach Road in Bedford. link to the map There wasn't a lot of people on the trail, in fact we only cross paths with one new Dad with their tiny baby wrapped to

:wq

The blue jays are playing amazing, 2 home runs to start and a triple to add on in the 4th.

We took the kids to an annual halloween party at Needham park this weekend.

It is Nocturne weekend here in Halifax.

I have a job with a company laptop.

Something that I have a hard time with, every time that I start up a new distro, is getting my xbox controller working without a cable.

I have been having issues with one of my BTRFS pools on Unraid, it keeps locking up and then becoming unmountable.

We did something that I used to do a lot, but haven't for 6 months or so.

It's Friday and I should be getting the couple of things that are on my plate, off of it.

I always try to keep my camera close, even when I'm home.

There was a moment in recent history that I was opitimistic that business and start-ups were going to focus more on why and what they were doing, rather than chasing the next bubble.

You heard it here first folks, I'm predicting that Ernesto will impact Nova Scotia in 7-10 days.

To cap off the long weekend we went for a drive.

I went with CO on a short adventure this morning to visit the puffins on Pearl Island.

The weather is getting better, and everything is at another turning point.

Last week was exhausting.

Something that I find a little annoying is having to manually post things to different social media.

One of the best gardening things is to have crocus bulbs in your lawn.

I don't know about you, but this has been a hard year already.

This is the content of my super blog post.

First off, may I say this is dumb.

I have started working on a little personal project I like to call, computing like its 1999.

I read a post on mastodon sometime in the last couple weeks, I can't find it again but it was from someone that re-installed Linux on their main machine for the first time in 10 or more years.

I finally ran out of daily planned pages in my notebook from the last print that I did.

I had a request to create a human-readable list of the OPML files that I posted earlier this week.

There are a lot of great memes that come across the internet, this is my collection.

Its January 2025 and the internet as we knew it in 2020 is again being upended.