Woke up at 3 a.m.

78 degrees in the Fort.

Pull tires and load trucks.

Peddle hula hoops.

Ready for 5 p.m.

Have a wonderful day!

Monday Zzzzz

It is? Okay, just give me five minutes.

Back in the office!

Take a dirt road curve with a devils nerve
Make a car dance across the mud
Haulin' shine was his regular line till the track got in his blood

• Gym done for the first time in a week
• Two weeks now with The Wife gone
• Tilled up my garden by hand after 20 years of no-till. Clear plastic goes on today to solarize it and kill nematodes

• Finally slept some, just not enough. Went to bed at 10. Woke up freezing shivering cold at 11:45PM. Woke up sweating buckets at 2AM. Finally awake at 5AM but didn't get up cause hubs was sleeping.
• Hoping for a fairly quiet day. Only a few meetings
• Destination wedding appears to have gone great! Not a single complaint from any guests. Did get a few late night calls for minor things, but all in all, it seems to have been a big success. Woohoo.
• Karma Kolache for breakfast (boudin).
• Travel work tonight

Do the day!

Another dark morning with clouds and thunder. We had 3.98" of rain yesterday. It's about to start raining again. Benny's scheduled 13 volunteer hours this weekend wound up being only six, and they're his first six hours. He has procrastinated. He gets it from me. He needs 50 volunteer hours before he graduates in May 2027.

Monday

I killed most of yesterday working on Benny's PC. Weird sh** going on. He'd been running Cachyos Linux since December. The networking stopped working on Thursday. I got involved on Saturday. None of his three wireless devices would work with any Linux distribution. They could see our wireless router, but couldn't negotiate with it. After a few minutes, it would generate a password error. I set my cell up as a hotspot and placed it on top of the PC. After successfully connecting to it, I could ping www.google.com, but I could not browse the web at all. No URLs would resolve (and I tried multiple browsers). I tried three Arch-based distros, but I tried plain-jane Debian 13 as well.

I finally decided to let a local shop look at it. They won't work on a Linux box, so I reinstalled Windows 11. Voila, the wifi is working fine in Windows. WTF, man?!?

I'd tried three wireless devices on four Linux distributions and used two wireless access points. Makes no sense whatsoever.

-I am leaving work early today. There is nobody here and nothing going on

-not so little Tatem is at camp and having a blast but I miss her so

dabo man said:

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Another dark morning with clouds and thunder. We had 3.98" of rain yesterday. It's about to start raining again. Benny's scheduled 13 volunteer hours this weekend wound up being only six, and they're his first six hours. He has procrastinated. He gets it from me. He needs 50 volunteer hours before he graduates in May 2027.

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He can knock out 50 volunteer hours this summer, no problem.

Food Bank
Habitat for Humanity
Library

Plenty of others out there

I can't stop thinking the words "juicy Lucy". Why does dumb **** get stuck like that?!

Up at 0630 hours eastern time. Another rainy day in west Georgia/east Alabama. We have several of these lined up this week. So my Colombian Supremacist coffee from Costco helped a lot.
Because a good day starts with good coffee.
Make it a good one in spite of what humankind and the Middle East is up to.

• Diet Coke for Breakfast
• Went with my buddy to look at kei truck yesterday, It's a Honda Acty Attack that was a former firetruck and it is awesome.
• Going to look at a Geo Tracker this afternoon
• My wife is getting a new jeep this week
• Have fun out there folks!

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Post pics!

Slept great.

Got to work before 7am for no real reason other than I was ready early and left early.

10am meeting got rescheduled and I'm grateful for that.

Need a vacation. The few days off I take later this month to go to concerts will have to do for now.

Have a day!

dabo man said:

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I killed most of yesterday working on Benny's PC. Weird sh** going on. He'd been running Cachyos Linux since December. The networking stopped working on Thursday. I got involved on Saturday. None of his three wireless devices would work with any Linux distribution. They could see our wireless router, but couldn't negotiate with it. After a few minutes, it would generate a password error. I set my cell up as a hotspot and placed it on top of the PC. After successfully connecting to it, I could ping www.google.com, but I could not browse the web at all. No URLs would resolve (and I tried multiple browsers). I tried three Arch-based distros, but I tried plain-jane Debian 13 as well.

I finally decided to let a local shop look at it. They won't work on a Linux box, so I reinstalled Windows 11. Voila, the wifi is working fine in Windows. WTF, man?!?

I'd tried three wireless devices on four Linux distributions and used two wireless access points. Makes no sense whatsoever.

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Did you check the date/time on the computer? That could cause your issue on webpages with SSL certs.

Windows syncs time automagically. Try booting into a distro on a thumb drive, check time and try again.

Date and time were fine in the BIOS and in the operating systems as well.

Try rolling back to an earlier Kernel, maybe broken in the one currently being used.

I've tried four distros with kernel 6.12, 6.18 (two of them had this one), and 7.0.

• Parlor Panther #1 has now consistently been sleeping on the bed between us for a week; she's taking up the mantle of the late Beagle #1
• I never realized how bad the depreciation on jewelry is and how much the market varies until I got two offers this morning on stuff from my mom that were almost $1,000 apart
• This 5-week grad school course is kicking my ass
• I need to practice

While I wait here are some of the Kei Truck.
-It's a former fire truck
-Locking differential with an extra low gear
-Fully loaded with BOTH available options, all wheel drive and passenger sun visor

Vending machine Coke Zero is flat. Disappointing.

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He can knock out 50 volunteer hours this summer, no problem.

Food Bank
Habitat for Humanity
Library

Plenty of others out there

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He can't just volunteer anywhere. It has to be approved/witnessed/supervised by someone with the Missouri A+ program. Every high school has A+ Coordinator, and they determine what charities/events are approved. I've asked him to call or email his Coordinator. He says he will, but I can tell he won't. I get an email every two or three weeks that has something he can do for hours. I always forward them to him. He's going to have to start saying yes to some of these.

The food bank is actually a pre-approved placement. He just needs to contact his school, and he can get hours there.

https://rbhs.cpsk12.org/counseling/a-scholarship

You have a repaired knee.

Tell him you will kick him in the butt if he needs extra motivation.

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nai06 said:

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Post pics!

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Welp this is now the second Geo Tracker I went to buy that sold before I could see it.

My guess is motherboard.