16 September 2025

by Rob | Sep 16, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery

11:29pm A while back, I mentioned that I was giving LibreOffice a try to replace Microsoft Office. I now consider that experiment to be a success. Aside from Microsoft Teams, I no longer have any Microsoft software installed on either my MacBook or my gaming...

13 September 2025

by Rob | Sep 13, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery, Writing

11:58pm This week has been interesting. I completed a project that has been eating at me for a while. Our Generac generator came with a wifi module, and when we bought it, my Wifi network wasn’t what I wanted, so I never connected the generator to it. Two years...

14 March 2025

by Rob | Mar 14, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery

4:31pm Greetings and Salutations! I hope this Friday is treating you and yours as well as possible. I have a few different topics I wanted to cover, and I figured I might as well write them up while I wait for the sun to set. No… I am not a vampire or any other...

13 March 2024

by Rob | Mar 13, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery

7:45am I’m writing this from my Linux computer while I take a food break from writing. I’m only 1,500-ish words into my writing day, but I’m hungry enough that I can no longer concentrate on the story. I took that as a sign. I’m writing this...

4 February 2025

by Rob | Feb 4, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery, Writing

11:49pm Given the time, this will probably be another “11:59pm” post… given how much I have to discuss. So, the Linux Switch-over that I was so excited about was… largely pointless. I burned an entire week, and for all of that, the only thing I...

23 January 2025

by Rob | Jan 23, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery

7:29pm This is the third post in a series chronicling my switch-over from my MacBook to an Ubuntu 24.10 install on my desktop (i.e. my former Windows gaming box). If you arrived here without reading the previous two posts in this series, you might wanna go back and...