Scott Gruby's Blog

This year for Thanksgiving, we decided to spend it with my wife's family in Santa Cruz.

About 24 years ago, I started having symptoms of ulcerative colitis and then was diagnosed right after I got married.

The other day, my son came to me and said his monitor wouldn't turn on when plugged into the surge protector and that the "building wiring fault" light was lit.

A few weeks ago I read an article about how celebrities and famous people were ripping out home automation systems because they were hard to use and unreliable.

When I first learned to drive, I always relied on checking a map prior to leaving so that I knew where to go and kept a map or map book (Thomas Guide) in my car in case I got lost.

I was chatting with a co-worker the other day and we were talking about working in an office.

In our trips to the bin store, we kept encountering silicone liners for air fryers.

When I transitioned my blog to a virtual server many years ago, it worked adequately with the version of Wordpress and MySQL that I used.

I've converted my blog to a static blog so that I no longer have to maintain the database and other things that were causing me issues.

At the height of the pandemic, I started to think a lot about retirement.

There has been a lot of discussion in the last few years about people working from home where it went from almost no one to most office workers working from their homes.

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about fixing the SB36512-F6 soundbar as sometimes we just couldn't hear anything from it.

I’ve been carrying a wallet for something like 35 years in my back pocket.

When I started learning about USB-C, I was excited to standardize on cables instead of having all kinds of cables and having to travel with a ton of cables.

Last year, I wrote about ditching Paperless and storing all my documents in the Finder.

Several years ago, I replaced the networking gear at my parents’ place with a UniFi Security Gateway, access points, etc.

This past summer I was reading 3D printing posts on Reddit and saw the mention of “bin stores” where people were purchasing filament and other 3D printing accessories for cheap.

As I’ve written, I switched to Consumer Cellular in July in an effort to save a little money.

As someone who tries to be thrifty, I routinely look at recurring charges and see how I can save some money.

When I was designing ReceiptWallet, I was concerned about the database being corrupted and losing all my data.