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Minecraft
2/17/2022:Recently, my grandson and I switched from playing World of Warcraft on Sunday afternoons back to Minecraft, our original game. We host our server on an Amazon World Server (AWS). I tried to update our Minecraft server from version 1.17.1 to 1.18.1, but the AWS had apparently gotten too bloated for upgrades. I had substantial…
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WordPress Hosting v. GoDaddy WordPress Hosting
2/10/2022:I have a website hosted by GoDaddy. When it was time to renew the managed WordPress site and I saw the cost of renewal, I opted not to renew. I still have the domain but there is nothing on the website. On the GoDaddy site I do not think I got one legitimate comment or…
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Out-of-Date and Replacements
2/9/2022:I have a 2015 Dell XPS desktop. It was a pretty high end machine when I bought it, plenty of RAM, large drives, gaming video card. Last year, the C: drive and video card both went. I replaced the C: drive with a ssd drive, but decided that a new video card was too expensive…
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Shallow v. Deep Work
2/9/2022:The book Deep Work has a number of interesting ideas, many of which I had explored when I was working. One of the ideas that I do not think works is his idea of approaching your boss with the goal of agreeing to a percentage allocation to deep and shallow work. I have tried something…
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Distractions
2/7/2022:For many years, one of the very first things I did was go through emails. I wanted to see what was facing me that day. I still do that, but the amount of stuff I need to deal with is a fraction of what it was. I am usually at my computer by 5:30am and…
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Hydroponics
2/7/2022:We were having drinks with friends in the room next to the room where the New Kratky Hydroponics Seed Starting System is located. The Hydroponics room faces the street, which is a miles long dead end. We have only been in this area a short time, but our friends have been here for many, many…
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Notifications
2/6/2022:I am becoming more aware of the constant notifications from my devices, including my truck. I turned off Outlook notifications on my laptop and trying to respond to other notifications by turning them off. My truck, a 2020, did not come with a printed owners manual. I can get to the manual on the dashboard…
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Distractions
2/5/2022:Many years ago I organized my life around email, following David Allen’s Getting Things Done. It worked very well for years. Between the Inbox and the Tasks sections of Microsoft Outlook, all of the projects I am working on reside. But I am now questioning, as I explore Deep Work, whether Outlook is the right…
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Financial Software
2/4/2022:I am a long-time user of QuickBooks and Quicken. With the closing of my various companies, I did not feel the need to continue paying Intuit for the QuickBooks subscription. I had not realized that stopping my payment would make my data inaccessible. Quicken was not downloading data from my accounts well and I needed…
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Hydroponics
2/3/2022:Yesterday I looked at my seed starting system and had a surprising number of germinations. I planted the second shelf, another 30 cells. I will let the plants grow for a while and see if they get harvestable in this configuation. In the meantime, I am researching a larger system to transplant the seedlings and…
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