Aging is a strange thing, and I’m struggling to coherently put this thought into words. In my 20s, I felt a certain attachment when returning to my hometown. Driving “home” felt wrong, as if I was leaving again to a foreign place. This complex feeling of nostalgia and unease persisted...
I’ve been relying upon xDrip+ paired with a Fitbit Versa w/Glance for years. As much as I appreciate the setup, it has one drawback: My phone must always be by my side. This is a minor inconvenience at home or work, but maddening for trips involving water, sand, or extreme...
Year 1 We had driven down to my Mom’s house one day in 2019. She took me to her dimly lit, breezy garage and guided me to a box along the far wall. “Look inside!”, she said. The box was full of tiny kittens. Why the neighbor’s cat had chosen...
I was excited to see Aventon’s Throttle on Demand Controller and new BC 280 Display. The Pace 500 has been awesome for the past 3 years, but its controller and original display had their flaws. Aventon currently provides no Installation information, and instead suggests hiring a bike repair shop: IMPORTANT...
“Are you okay?” my wife asked around midnight. There was a loud ringing in my ears and I was drenched. I glanced at my watch, which read 39 above a solid line of red dots for the past hour. ‘No,’ I replied as I struggled to sit up and move...
This past week I converted the last remnants of badly encoded data from a 12 year old MySQL database to utf8mb4. Good riddance to latin1! The database migration itself went well. Alas, hours of my life were consumed battling the MySQL 8.0 ODBC Connector used to import shipping records to...