Screws In My Coffee

Like everything in my world my music presents itself to me in a tapestry of color.  When I was growing up my mother exposed me to Mahalia Jackson and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir .  When I was a teenager I rebelled and listened to BB King and The Cream .  Now as an adult it is no wonder that my musical taste includes Valerie June and Los Lobos One of the best features that I love about Spotify is the ability to discover new music and to collect music into playlist that fit my personal tastes.  There are times during the day when I really want to listen to some rock and twang.  This My Kuntry playlist hits the spot.  The migration from going up in Southern California listening to The Flying Burrito Brothers, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen and Crosby Stills Nash and Young was the foundation for me taking to real country music when I moved to Texas.  Now I have the ability to pick and choose the level of twang that I like the ...

I was refilling my kitchen soap dispenser the other day and somehow the person doing the work broke the ends of the threaded pipe that the refillable bottle connects.  I did not panic, I just went to Loews to get another one.  I was not surprised to find out that I could only buy a matching blackened copper finish soap dispenser if I bought a complete kitchen facet set. Arrrrgh. So I decided to get a cheap plastic chrome replacement.  Before I opened the box I read the description and it described how you could use the included tubing to bypass the refillable bottle and connect to a large liquid soap bottle.  This would eliminate having to go under the sink every few weeks to refill it.  Instead of keeping the cheap dispenser, I bought some 1/2 inch OD by 3/8 inch ID tubing and fitted my existing dispenser with it.  I cut a 1/2 inch hole in the top of my super size Dawn bottle from Sams club and viola, it works. The bottle of Dawn and my soap dispenser...

Each New Year Udemy offers a discount on their classes.  This year I signed up for about 5 classes.  One of the classes is  Introduction to Modern Programming with PHP .  I decided to freshen up my skills and expand my knowledge a bit in the web development arena.  I love working with web applications, but I have never formally studied it.  Most of the time I have gained knowledge under the pressure of fixing something that is broke or because there was no one else available to work on it.  This year I decided to take control and learn at my own pace and enjoy what I am learning. Two years ago I started playing around with Twitter Bootstrap and never went anywhere with it.  Last night and today I learned more about Twitter Bootstrap than I ever did fooling around on my own.  In the course I also learned about a wonderful Text editor named Atom .  I have been using Notepad and Adobe CS6 Dreamweaver to write code in and now I will alway...

This is the first node in the cluster showing the size as three. I usually do not struggle getting something to work on a server.  I wanted to get a MariaDB 10.1 cluster going for development purposes and to learn more about clusters.  I started following documentation on CentOs7 for about 2 weeks and then gave up.  Then I switched to Ubuntu and struggled for another two weeks.  then this morning I got my three node cluster working. I basically took parts of my CentOs 7 knowledge and combined it with the Ubuntu knowledge.  Getting the first node up on Ubuntu was easy, I never got it working on CentOs 7.  Getting the other two nodes to join the cluster was hard.  Today I decided to copy the main cluster config to the other nodes and started MariaDB and they joined. Now I can move on and start my Udemy classes BTW, I have been working on this project instead of drawing in the morning and evening before and after work.

This month I was able to get back to working on my house.  It was very frustrating to be physically limited to working on my house due to my bicycling injury.  I am glad that I am getting back to normal. January 15 - Making the attic safe to work. I started working on making the platform in the attic above the hall safer to walk on.  I have been working in the area as it is adjacent to the master bathroom.  The existing plywood was un even and not completed supported.  I also had to temporarily remove some of the plywood decking to expose the area where I was installing the new data center and access point. Garage Attic Platform I have been climbing up these attic ladder stairs for a long time.  I decided to add some plywood at the top where I step every time I go up or down.  the addition of the plywood makes it safer. Top of the stairs attic access above the garage before adding plywood decking Top of the stairs attic access above ...

Last year in October we switched our Internet plan to a higher download limit.  I tried to get ! terabyte of download in October and November, but missed the mark.  This month I went over by 25GB.  I will try each month to get as close to my limit without going over. Life is a game and we play it all the same, there is no end.   Thunderclap Newman:Accidents  

Maybe not a big deal for most, but I figured out what was wrong with my uplod issues.  I had to configure my directories that needed to have files uploaded to them for read write in the SE Linux context.  Here is the command I ran on my Word Press content directories. chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/html/wordpress-multi/wp-content/uploads/  Now I can upload pictures to my test site . http://wordpress.zaramyth.com/health/