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I store all of my important (and many not so important) documents in my Paperless-ngx instance running on my homelab. Given this importance, I wanted to add an additional backup of my documents and the metadata. Having them in cloud...
Five Years with TPA (via Pen Addict - Kimberly). Congratulations on five years of pen blogging! Many people don’t understand how big of a commitment it is to put words on paper regularly for this length of time.Everything I Bought at the...
Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976) Vitals Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, disturbed taxi driver and Vietnam War veteran New York City, Spring 1976 Film: Taxi Driver Release Date: February 9, 1976 Director: Martin...
I should have been on a flight to the Yukon on Wednesday. I was meant, by now, to be sitting on a river with bears. I was, instead, lying on an operating table getting an emergency appendectomy. Don’t let anyone tell you the life of a...
When faced with a book this bad, the hard part becomes deciding which of its enumerable faults not to share, purely for length. As such I apologize if this review seems to drag, and plead only that this would accurately convey the...
The picture is pretty fuzzy, but it summed up my Sunday. The board shows my flight for Chattanooga, departing about three hours later than the original departure time. A series of storms in Chicago shut down the airport multiple times...
If you want a little whimsy in your wedding, it doesn't get more classic than Alice in Wonderland. Plus there are so many great Wonderland elements to choose from! You could go super subtle with a top hat and pocket watch: (By Sweet...
I just noticed that Scrub Mommy sponges are a product of the Scrub Daddy sponge company. This feels like some sort of analogy for the creation of Eve from Adam's rib: Genesis 2 ²⁰But for Adam no suitable helper was found. ²¹So the LORD...
The road to our time at the family lake house is a mile long and a bumpy washboard filled with twists and turns. Arriving after shaking out a filling or two, there’s a leveling out that leads to a sort of peace, even if only for a few...
On 16 August 1897, the Tate Gallery was opened on Millbank, it contained a collection of 67 Victorian paintings donated by sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate. Starting a grocery shop, which grew to a chain of six stores by the time he was 35....
I made a conscious decision not to blog yesterday. That means another day of missing Blaugust, but I'm okay with it. We had a friend's birthday party to go to, and after that I spent the rest of the day playing with Ranni, getting some...
Liars, Lisa Ridzen, and Debbi Voisey – welcome to episdoe 153! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tea-or-books-153-1.mp3 In the first half, we talk about our expectations of truth in the non-fiction we read, inspired...
Longer, hotter summers are a serious existential challenge to cask ale – a product which already has its fair share of problems. Last year we wrote about the effect of heatwaves on pubs and our drinking habits. But this year, it’s been...
how does it feel, doing less time-wasting on the computer? obviously the internet-time-wasting behaviors stem from boredom, but they also kind of produce more boredom? it's rare to read/see something that gets me to stop...
By the time the Spanish arrived in Peru at the beginning of the 16th Century the Chachapoya people had already been subsumed in to the great Inca Empire. Although they had resisted the Incas fiercely, the lands of these Warriors of the...