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Trike is back on the road!! First miles since June. I feel like my soul has been returned to me. Not the best, prettiest, or fun ride but it was 60 miles of joy, even with 10 miles of traffic. If you had told me 20 years ago that not riding would be harmful for my mental health, not sure I would’ve believed you. My emotional wellbeing is now dependent on riding. It’s like my heart is ripped out when I can’t ride nowadays. #motorcycle

Half my chore time is devoted to cardboard management and disposal and the 21st century is wrapped in a cardboard box, delivered by a frustrated driver forced to piss in a bottle to make minimum wage. Tell me that’s not a proper description of our current culture.

I have the part finally! Tomorrow I make the fix and get my trike home. Hopefully I can get in some miles before we head to VA for the wedding. #motorcycle

@mack505@feistycricket.org I remember when my state required inspections. It’s been 10 years or so and the cars on the road nowadays are either new or held together with tape and prayers. The amount of parts all over the roadways is spectacular. Cars that should be in demolition derby’s are driving around

30 days till the kid’s wedding. Made final payments on venue, flowers, and cake. One more invoice to pay the DJ. My kid picked the year Taylor Swift got married, the Taylor Swift tax is way higher than I knew. If your a new girl dad, princess wedding’s are gonna cost you way more than you think, plan ahead.

Work situation is so bad I have to start looking at evil companies because my money tree ain’t growing anything. Drives me nuts seeing so many things happening at crazy speeds and I am just sitting on the sidelines…. #infosec #getfedihired

Also, I am tired.

I gotta say, the strawberry shortcake I made using fresh local berries was absolutely delicious. Made everything from scratch. Was pleased with the new shortcake recipe. Simple but very flaky and tender but just crispy to absorb the sweetness of the berries. Been 26 years since I cooked professionally but I can still throw down. I also grilled up some ribeyes and a nice garden picked tomato and cucumber salad.

@clankgy1@infosec.exchange I would sync your folder and take a look. Yesterday I was trying to export as PDF on windows and it didn’t have my settings from my Mac or Linux. Overall plugins seem to be the weirdest issues and deep links to files

@Hierarchy@mastodon.social thank you!

@kajer@infosec.exchange this is all good info! I am still learning and hope to start small and learn fast.

Painting started yesterday, electrical panel relocation and new 200amp circuit in addition to our very old 125amp. Going to have it wired for solar/generator as well. Want to get some panels, 12v batteries, inverter and start some illegal solar power. It would be nice to have a steady supply with a decent battery backup to keep costs down.

Started playing The Planet Crafter and it has all the elements I want from a game right now. Resource gathering, building, exploration, no combat, optional online play, not cartoonish. Seems short as far as these kinda games but looks like there is some DLC.

@narthur@hachyderm.io sorry to hear about the house😳. Glad the bike ride helped!

Was able to get my GPU doing its thing with Plex. I have a bit of an I/O issue with the drives…plenty of space, just need to use it better.

@bradwilson@mastodon.social Fedora has been great for me both KDE Plasma and Gnome. Moved to Gnome for touch support and it’s been better for me than Ubuntu 26.04.

Yesterday was wildlife day round here. Saw a fawn and mom, big buck, and barred owl.

@lennybacon@infosec.exchange makes all that work to create responsive websites seem in vain.

@llarian.net was rewatching the Soprano’s and lil Anthony was wearing a MetroStars jersey, I laughed.

Got another lead on a role that doesn’t exist but was offered to someone I know, they don’t want it and think I am a way better fit. I agree just need to convince the hiring manager

@novelgazer@infosec.exchange sure! I used this one. I was surprised with the portion sizes. As far as the berries, I used a bit more lemon juice and sugar. https://www.seriouseats.com/strawberry-shortcake-recipe-7556950

@mack505@feistycricket.org that’s cheap. Average $5.25 round here

Think I finally have a decent plan to move stuff around and have a chance to take down and rebuild my little server. Now to rebuild the services I need for my backend stuff. I am going to build from scratch and rebuild a bunch of metadata and more resilient configurations. I have learned a lot since the last time I did this.

@mack505@feistycricket.org here in Washington they treat trikes and sidecars the same. Same license, same safety course, same everything. The difference here is you can test on a sidecar, regular trike or reverse trike. I tested on a standard trike but during the class I rode and practiced with the sidecar and standard trike. I have flown the rig and understand the dynamics for sidecars and want one for my springer. You would be fine on a trike, less worry about the rig and your body position is more natural to 2 wheels. Like a sidecar rig trikes require skills that bikes don’t.

Just saw the head of security for Plaid post directly for 3 roles I have watched for 6 months. By all accounts the postings have thousands of applicants. They have reviewed all these applications and no one fit the bill? It’s the same for Nordstrom, Docusign, and about 15 other roles I am tracking. Why is a leader asking for people when they have gotten a huge pool to pick from? Maybe read the resumes instead of feeding the slop machine, you may find someone.

Still have a few things in the hopper but sent out a ton of applications/resumes today. Zero sleep last night but somehow I am still awake!

Hey little snitch for Linux! https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux

If I ever do drag I will use the name Aman Duh

@nigel@unsociable.lowkey.party it was tasty. Summer berries are the best.

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange I know exactly where that sign is.

As much as I dislike saying it, I could really benefit from an in office job for a while. The last 6 months has made me realize that for close to 15 years, people I talked to and built relationships with, I have never met in real life. That is a sad way to live, I don’t want it, and have lost a lot of skills in human relations.

Sad we are not moving back home today. Too much work needs to happen before we can get back in, primarily painting which was supposed to be done Friday… I have to be back in town tomorrow and Tuesday so I will be at the house cleaning up dust and stuff

Ah yes… Today in the Harley subreddit I upset someone because I said something was dumb and maybe do some research. This was in response to my post I said something about basic differences and skills needed between trikes and bikes. My response was not really rude but they started out with “No shade but… They deleted their comments

I can see some of the appeal of living on the islands or key peninsula. The wildlife alone is enough. In the last few days, bald eagle, osprey, barred owl. Ravens, crows, blue herons, countless deer and ground animals

Started studying for the CRISC exam. Don’t think I will sit for it this year, thinking of doing some work to sit for CISSP before the end of the year. If I can get CISSP under my belt, I should be able to knock out CRISC right after. May as well use this time to get something accomplished while I continue to look for work.

@tsupasat@infosec.exchange I know it’s not the norm on trails but a .357 works well to clear out most predators and stop the ones that don’t. Cougars, bear, and elk are plentiful and great from a distance but not something I want to see stalking me.

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange wow Salesforce actually implemented reading enveloping assertions. Pretty sure this is going to be seen more and more as providers fight for auth source of truth.

That call went well. The process is going to take a while if I get moved forward. The role sounds great, small company (less than 50 people), in the HR stack (which is where I have the most recent experience), SaaS model AI in the enterprise space. 4 days in office, in Bellevue, WA. Pay is good. No big downsides…

My love for Deadwood, SD, #harleydavidson #motorcycle and little kids looking at bikes has collided. I will always take time to allow little people to dream. I was that little boy who loved motorcycles and stuff, when someone did something to bring me closer, I would be awe struck. Today when I ride, I love seeing kids looking at bikes, for escape, to dream, to feel something different and I believe a lot of bikers feel the same. Glad H-D is capturing this and putting it on display as it’s one of the legacies the Motor Company imprints on our roads. I have never lost this feeling and hope I never do. https://youtu.be/XDf8zMAFR4o?is=8xAl0YCKGYl8HF9Y

People keep saying late stage capitalism like they know. For all we know this could be mid stage capitalism. People just make shit up, change my mind.

@mack505@feistycricket.org I have been there! I am happy to be back. Glad to here the Ural got out, such fun scoots!

Last night I got fed up with my Plex server stuttering and started digging in to figure out what was going on. I realized I was transcoding with the CPU not GPU, and I never configured anything for transcoding with QuickSync. Hopefully that fixes up remote streaming a bit. Now I can continue to slowly move the rest of the services over to the new server.

@tsupasat@infosec.exchange normally open carry for me is unnerving as well but in the woods, away from well populated trail heads, I am not taking chances. I think well populated trails have better safety measures in place but open country I am not going to take chances

If anyone in Seattle/King County and want dog supplies, food, and a literal ton of toys and stuffies, we have a ton. I can easily donate the food and unused meds but toys unless new seem to not be wanted. Our pup played with some but most have just been sitting and never touched. Most are Bark Co. medium sized toys and chews. I would be willing to deliver in the local area if needed. #seattle

Went to the #harleydavidson dealer to check on my parts order. 2 of the 3 parts are in….still waiting for the last…. Riding season is here, I need this dang part.

@cybeej@infosec.exchange I am not a fan of the inconsistency and fragility of the road network. Most of the in person roles I have looked at have been 10 miles or less from my house, the commute could be 20 minutes or 2 hours. I thought growing up in DC and learning to drive there was bad but Seattle traffic is the saddest traffic ever. I would rather be moving for 45 minutes than stop and go for 30.