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As commented yesterday, I have been undergoing another shift in my home server and the capabilities, to try to improve the overall performance and reliability. As part of this, I ended up trying to rebuild the Nextcloud personal cloud server, so that it would be more efficient. Previously, it was sharing a 300 GB VM with WordPress, for which I was only using the 15 GB of stored files (and barely anything for WordPress). So there was a lot of unused and wasted space. On the other end, my home theatre server (which holds the VM) has been squeezed for…
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Spending some more time, re-juggling my website configuration and features, this time to move back to a hosted service. I have found that recent activity on my home server has fundamentally overwhelmed my little WordPress server, so I have had frequent registered outages. Of course, traffic is almost non-existent, so outages are not a big deal, but if I ever hope to grow an audience a reliable site is required. By the time this is posted, the WordPress site will be fully migrated and functional (it already is as I write this), and I am working on the Nextcloud portion…
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Held our first GURPs Warhammer session yesterday, focusing on character generation and teaching the new players how to operate in the GURPs mechanics. Overall, I consider it a success – the Warhammer setting converts readily to the GURPs system without much difficulty and the players seemed happy with their options. There was a bit of data confusion – the only prior experience most of the players had was with Pathfinder – so all the math and details was overwhelming. But GURPs is pretty straightforward, once you get past the basic math, and makes a lot of logical sense. Of note,…
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Despite great plans to the contrary, I ended up not being as productive over the holidays as I had intended. Initially, I had lots of plans for getting caught up on videos and podcasts, painting miniatures, gaming, and various other activities. I actually ended up barely touching the video content, only painting a fraction of the zombie hordes, and doing minimal gaming. Much of this was due to over-confidence in my planning, but much was also due to simple procrastination and other distractions. It is so much easier to sit and watch TV or hang out with the family, than…
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For many years, many more than I can recall, I have always had AT&T for my internet service provider. They have been a mostly reliable provider, with solid service, decent prices, and the top speeds in my area. However, they have slipped a bit recently in the speed category and pricing. Since I work from home, I try to keep my internet speed at the highest consumer tier available – previously 72 Mbit download, 8 Mbit upload. In addition, I use the internet quite a bit, so last summer when AT&T added data caps, I ran into another price bump,…
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Holidays are wrapping up, and it is back to work next week. Scheduling wise, I am preparing to start the GURPs Warhammer campaign next week, character guidelines and details are finished, and just need confirmation from a couple of the players. Pathfinder is back in session the week after, as the group continues their assault on the Stone Giant stronghold. For GURPs, the plan is for the group to start as basic village, in the southwestern parts of the Empire. Recent events in the world spurs the group into action and adventure, though there is no requirements as to which…
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Had some time over the last week to finally do some more painting, and managed to get half of the zombie runners painted up. Fortunately, they were all very basic, only a few colors, and all identical, so it didn’t take that much time to complete. I continue to struggle a bit without glasses, which makes it difficult to do anything else at the same time, and working at home also means the light isn’t the strongest. But overall, they turned out pretty decent, though as I write this, I realize I still need some blood effects for each of…
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It’s my birthday today, and enjoying some time with family. Continuing our new tradition of seeing Star Wars in the theatre, and then likely dinner and pie or something similar.
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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