Category: General

  • A Blank Slate

    A Blank Slate

    The idea of a blank slate at the beginning of a year is compelling. No one really has one though. For me I don’t. Yet I do in some ways, not good for the most. Nearly a week ago my blues kicked into high gear SAD or worse, I don’t know. I just don’t like…

  • Christmas Tree Fairy Lights & Paper Pinwheels

    Christmas Tree Fairy Lights & Paper Pinwheels

    This year we got a Living Christmas Tree. I had made a simple decorative decision, I made some pinwheel-sort of decorations from Christmas cardstock, and used Jute to make strings of them. I made the paper pinwheel decorations before we had the tree. (See directions at the end of this post.) I got the Fairy…

  • The One Thing: Chilis

    Not eating potatoes or tomatoes or pepper anything except for black pepper these last few months, then a bit of mashed potatoes in one meal, something else with “some” tomato in it. Not much stuff, I don’t know except for this: I am just as clogged up feeding day in and out and actually I…

  • Music Servers

    Always wanting to do something with the music I have, I always want it in a way I can easily listen to it, and basically enjoy it fully.  I used to sit at my desk mostly to listen to music via my computer. At one point I had an mp3 kind of player, but it…

  • Plex or Emby? Emby Wins.

    That first part of the title was my question earlier in this year. By January 2018 I was sick and tired of the mainline online media things. I wanted to keep it easy, make it work, and I disliked how things were changing.  So I looked into my own media solutions and checked out (via…