Well, it finally happened: summer hotted up. This has been a very windy and generally cool summer (which is fine by me) but about a week after publishing the last post about my HVAC system, we fina...

I’ve been using Obsidian as a personal journal and goal keeping device for a couple years now and have always felt that I’ve been underusing it. It’s a fantastic tool for building up notes on a va...

In the last post, we created a bunch of sensors and automations to make it possible to control the HVAC system. This time, we’re going to build the portions of the system which control the thermost...

In the last post, I introduced the idea of automating my HVAC system to go beyond the stuff that is capable out of the box and some of the reasoning as to why I wanted to do that instead of going w...

You know those projects where you start doing something and pretty quickly think “why am I doing this? Isn’t the default behavior good enough? Why should I customize this?” If you don’t ever think ...

I took a look at my webste the other day and, for whatever reason, I just wasn’t in love with the way it looks any more. It happens; I mean, the last time I’d updated the look was something like 8 ...

Here’s my favorite pictures of 2019. This year, we went to Australia, San Diego, and Yosemite, some great places for lovely images. I went through and picked my favorite 15 (including the preview i...

For my wife’s birthday, we decided to take the ferry to Angel Island, a place we’d never been; just another of those places we’d heard of but never gone to because… well, it’s always there and ther...

Went to a school dance with my daughter and they had these fun little signs for people to hold while taking selfies. Well, didn’t I just find the most appropriate sign there was… Here’s the full ve...

I got it; the next large Lego car, the Bugatti Chiron! Just like the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, this thing is huge and took quite some time to assemble. The thing that amazes me about all these builds is...