WOW

When moving back to Chicago, we needed an internet provider, as one does, and I’m working from home. This is not news. The interesting part of all of this is that where we are in Oak Forest, IL (Chicago Suburb) there are 2 cable providers that service our area. Comcast, and Wide Open West (WOW). After figuring out which provider was connected to the house. We have had great service from WOW for about 7 months, on my modem. Arris SB6190. I have and am now again very happy with actual speed and response time (more important). Real speeds are at 500+ mbps down and 49+mbps up.

Info

Moving the Blog over to Jekyll for Blogging. I can keep up with Emacs (Spacemacs) to do most everything. ## Emacs (Spacemacs) I’ve been using vi/vim for years and I was introduced to Spacemacs, the bridge between Emacs and vim (evil) I’ve found the Emacs ecosystem to be very alive and busy. Where has this been all my time on computers? Well right in front of my face! I had missed this Huge advantageous system of editor, IDE, mail, news reader, PIM, etc. etc.

THANKFUL

Well another year and the holidays are upon us again. There is much for which to be thankful.

• We’re alive (always on the top of the list),
• Everyone is healthy
• Mother in Law is living in the states now, with us.
• Jazzy’s seizures are much less frequent it was almost 6 months till his last 2 months ago.
• I’m Still working at Rackspace January will be 4 years.
• We have 2 Newer Cars 2013 and 2015

How to Browse keep your Machine uninfected

This Gist was floating around the IRC Chats the other day and I though I would share.. To Help family and friends keep their machines un-infected and un-encumbered.

READ IT

April 2015

I’m Currently back with Maiden Killers, ( Iron Maiden Tribute to the Deanno Years )

Unit 57 ( Rock Covers ) Zero the Hero ( Original Metal )

I have finally acquired my Warwick 2008 Thumb Bolt on Wide Neck. (Brand New) Distributor back stock

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Back at it

I’m going to attempt to get back into my writing mode to increase visibility into my psyche, and increase or even establish My Brand. Keep and Eye out people.. I’m coming back.!

Marty

Jammin!

My cousin “=Robert“= was able to get a few Tickets for the Korn Slipknot show here in San Antonio on Sun. Nov 2, 2014 7:00 PM Looking forward to the show.

Update November 3, 2014,

I Went to the show last night, The bands seemed to do a great job. Where we were sitting the sound for Korn was good. The bass drum was a bit over bearing the bass. The Slipknot show was (sound wise) very disappointing. The First 20 min one could hardly hear the singer. The floor and upper tom’s were louder than the bass drum, and it seemed that the cymbals were stage volume only, not seeming to come through the PA at all. I thoroughly enjoyed the stage show. They were very engaged with the crowd and would pump up the audience at even the slightest Lull. Around the 9th song the vocal volume was fixed and the guitar leads were finally discern-able. Over all I enjoyed the eve.

It’s Official

We’ve finally sold our house in Indiana. It was a short sale, The Bank was a TOTAL PITA. (Pain in the Ass) But it’s done. Gone, Finished, History. Huge weight off of my mind for sure.

Update 2018

Selling Hobart and Giving Sauk Village back to the bank were the biggest mistakes I’ve made. I should have held onto them and rented them out to create a passive income stream that would have been huge at this time now.

I have been using IRSSI and it’s proxy feature to keep a running connection to freenode. While I play road warrior with the laptop. With a bit of down time over the holidays I came across ZNC. While not a new project it is new to me. I found that it’s features set and project focus is what I was trying to have IRSSI do for me. This IRC bouncer they call it is quite mature now and has many module for expansion..

I came across this article in my reading while on Vacation but had to get this out.. cause the mainstream is finally catching on to Microsoft being on the way out.! Read what I’m talking about and make up your own mind, of course. Lock in or out that is the question.

-Marty