This blog runs on a small box (an Intel NUC) sitting in my basement using Fedora Core Linux. I have regularly forgotten this box in terms of maintenance for as much as a year or two. The good news is that the little machine keeps on working without a complaint.
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We are entering the spring season here in the Kootenays, a time when the weather is supposed to be somewhat unpredictable. But this year our whole winter has been kind of strange- and our spring is setting up to be equally odd.
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My truck produced a lovely indicator a few weeks ago showing a picture of what could be interpreted as an engine. In this context, this indicator is know as the ‘Check Engine Light’ or CEL.
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Irene and I enjoy our spa pretty much daily. In the winter time at least it is lovely to walk across from our bedroom and jump into the pool, letting the jets blast away the sore muscles and tension. It is also a great place to talk or just relax together, and we read our books there too.
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I like to write, and to share what I write with others. I started blogging back in 2000 or thereabouts, so this is nothing new
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I had an MRI of my lower back a week ago, and the results have come in this week. The MRI confirms that the left channel (fossae) in the L4-L5 vertebrae is compressed. This pretty much explains my sciatic nerve problems: the root cause, so to speak, of my sciatic pain is the degeneration of my lower lumbar spine.
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The last quarter of 2025 was a bit of a mess for me health-wise. It started in October with some kind of sciatic nerve disruption that left me essentially crippled and, on some days, crawling on the floor to move about. It ended with me in the Daly Pavilion for mental abnormality reasons.
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I was surprised a short while ago when I realized that my blog was cross-posting all of my posts to LinkedIn. I don’t really live on LinkedIn at all- my account there was created more or less because a couple of decades or so ago my employer made it effectively mandatory.
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I previously mentioned my occasional frustration with never-ending to do lists. One element that appears and disappears from our lists regularly without ever really getting done: unpack boxes.
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Everyone in the modern world deals with constant distractions. But one of the benefits I expected from retirement was the concept of being able to focus on a task, or to set it aside and come back to it later without nagging guilt. I was, sadly, wrong to expect this.
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