⛽ It wasn't the battery…

While the main issue was not the battery, it still needed to be replaced. Over the weekend, I went to the Mac in the morning, and when trying to leave, my truck did the same thing where it would not turn over. I ended up calling Nicole and having her pick me up and take me home, where I could call around and get it towed to Docs Automotive in Okemos, as they had done work for me in the past. ...

January 30, 2024 · 2 min · 239 words · shelby

🪫 Dead Battery

Well, it finally happened; I shouldn’t say finally, as this is the second time that I have had to change the battery in a 2013 Chevy Silverado since I purchased it, but the timing sucked more this time around. I got home from work Wednesday, pulled into the driveway like usual, put it in the park, turned off my Bluetooth aux receiver, and turned the ignition off. I know it’s quite the production… ...

January 26, 2024 · 2 min · 399 words · shelby

☕ Taking a break from caffeine

I have been noticing that my caffeine intake has been through the roof; on most days, I am hovering at close to 4x the recommended FDA daily caffeine intake. With that being said, I was planning to slow my roll and then take a break from caffeine starting on February 1st, but on the morning of January 15th, I decided to take the plunge and stopped cold turkey. ...

January 25, 2024 · 2 min · 257 words · shelby

How to set up DNS on Ubuntu 22.04 without a netplan config.

I finally found the solution here: https://serverok.in/systemd-resolved ( Archive.org cache) In case the link dies in the future, Create a file: sudo mkdir /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/ sudo nano /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/dns_servers.conf Add my DNS in this file: [Resolve] DNS=8.8.8.8 1.1.1.1 Then restart systemd-resolved sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved It works even after reboot :-) PS : No idea why my DNS configuration was lost during the upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04.

January 11, 2024 · 1 min · 66 words · shelby

🚶How far did I walk in 2023…

While I know it’s not a huge accomplishment, I am still pretty proud that I have been keeping up my yearly tradition of posting about how much I have walked over the past year ( And it seems like each year, I am adding more stats as available.) And just like how I did this before, once I had the CSV and imported it into Numbers, I created a totals row and used the SUM function to generate the totals for each dataset. Alas, without further ado, here are the results. ...

January 1, 2024 · 1 min · 170 words · shelby