Bryan Robb

Category: Notes

  • S: I was born in August, I’m a Leo.
    P: What’s a Leo, mom?
    S: It means I’m **bold**.
    P: You’re not _bald_ mom, dad is!

  • I wish the west coast would get on with that whole high-speed rail thing. Tijuana to Vancouver, and all points in between, we want trains.

  • Beautiful morning in the northwest, but time to button up the house until this evening. These temp swings are pretty drastic.

  • Happy to have found some dad hats in 3xl made by ‘47 on a specialty site for the cranially endowed.

  • Some meetings just require you to put on your best Cillian Murphy.

  • The phrases “rock music” and “rock and roll” seem anachronistic enough now that I don’t think we need to throw “classic” in front of them anymore.

  • Pretty nice that you can accept [tips & donations](https://ghost.org/changelog/tips-donations/) natively in ghost now.

  • Spun up a GoToSocial instance in Docker to see how it works. Surprisingly easy. Not as feature-rich as Mastodon, but it’s supposed to be a lot lighter on resources.

  • Here we are on Labor Day and my kids (5 and 2) are already so excited for Halloween that they’re begging us to take them to a store to buy decorations. 🎃

  • I need to make more friends on the westside of Portland. Time to get back on Meetup?

  • Civil War (2024) has got to be one of the most boring movies I’ve seen in years.

  • Saturday Market

  • Exciting times, lol. Some of the bumper crop of tomatoes from our garden are finally ripening. Tons of tomatoes this year, even though I got started late this year. I attribute their success to the organic fertilizer recipe I got out of the book Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades. Bring on the BLTs and fresh pasta sauce!

  • Trying to reduce my subscription and other misc. costs so last night I migrated several hosted software applications over to my home lab. Going to give Actual envelope budgeting a try as well.

  • I’ve been stuck at 49 states for a few years now, with the last state being Alaska. Starting to think about knocking it off the bucket list next year, even if only for a long weekend. But where to?

  • Looking for a new memory foam bed. Anyone had any luck with an affordable mattress-in-a-box? 🛌

  • Friday vibes.

  • After a stressful day yesterday, and with my son starting kindergarten today, I’m having a helluva time focusing on work! Pomodoro time?

  • The new TriMet light rail system map showing the extension of the Red Line 10 stations deeper into Washington County and improvements made at Gateway and the Airport.

  • Took the day off to spend the day with my son. The kid starts kindergarten in 2 days and I’m trying to not let the waterworks hit me.

  • Things get interesting now that Oregon is in the Big Ten. Going to the MSU – Oregon game this year in Eugene. So weird.

  • I stopped listening to Deftones sometime shortly after the album White Pony was released. However, my Discovery station recently recommended this song off their album Saturday Night Wrist from 2006, which I didn’t even know existed.

  • TriMet completed its Better Red project, extending the MAX Red Line all the way out to Washington County Fairgrounds. I can now take one train all the way to the airport. Hopefully they’re still working on bettering security.

    https://www.koin.com/news/trimet-max-a-better-red-line-expansion-beaverton-hillsboro-airport/