I’ve heard a lot of complaints about 2023 being a tough year, but for our family, we don’t really have much bad to say for it. Compared to pandemic years, it was pretty great, in fact. We started off the year with notice that our Green Cards were on the way — after 14 years…
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Last Friday night I thought I heard a meowing in the garage. I knew our cat was inside, so I looked around but found nothing. I assumed it was just a neighborhood stray (or Tigger’s nemesis: a neighbor’s black cat, that occasionally comes by to taunt him) and went about my day. Later, the same…
Continue readingI caught a glimpse of the future… but its not here yet
“We have to do something to prevent our planet from melting!” says everyone. Unfortunately, the “something” we’re willing to do to save the planet doesn’t include providing the average driver any kind of functioning and affordable alternative to exploding fossil fuels down the highway…
Continue readingThink Different
I wrote a couple years ago that the move to Apple Silicon (and accompanying lock-down of their hardware ecosystem) was a last straw for me as a Mac user (and long-time fanboy.) I still have some Macs, but haven’t — and will not — moved beyond Intel: An Intel Mac Mini provides our home web…
Continue readingI’m afraid our furry companion has gone and done something rather rash
We moved here 8 years ago so I could accept a job I’d been recruited for, leading the development of some new ideas inside a staid industrial automation company. Those who’d put me up for it had talked me up (somewhat undeservedly) as an “expert”, so I took the role with a level of authority…
Continue readingPrayer Changes Things
This past Sunday, surrounded by our church family, some good friends in the area, and Nana and Papa — who made the trip from Ontario starting at about 4 in the morning — our girls followed the Lord obediently in the waters of baptism.
Continue readingPieces of My Heart
Growatt Shine WiFi Not Connecting to Server
If you found a deal on a Growatt Shine WiFi adapter for your Solar Inverter, but are having trouble adding/viewing it on the Growatt Dashboard, and you live in the US, you need to change the default server.
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