This song seems to be old as fuck, but it sure is a mood. A whole ass mood. I’ve been stuck on it for the last week or two. I can’t get it out of my head. Normally the songs that get stuck in my head strike me as being garbage, because they’re just perpetuating due to their tendency to get stuck in your head. I think this song is a damn decent song, but jesus- It’s infectious.

The older I get the more I realize I don’t know my ass from a hole in the ground. I guess to be wise is to know you don’t know shit, which I suppose would make me pretty fucking wise. Expect this post to be a sprawling rant encompassing everything and saying little.

The SD card in my 8gb raspberry pi finally took a shit. I knew it was going to be the SD card that failed, because I’ve had a few fail over time. It’s not a huge deal, and I didn’t lose anything critical. I did, however, lose my Ubiquiti controller, and that sucked a lot. Especially considering how much of a pain in the ass it is to find it these days with all the restructuring they’ve been doing to their products. The whole “ISP level networking” thing is great for them, I’m sure, but not so great for me. I’m not an ISP. I don’t have a burgeoning need for serving whole ass populations with data. I’m just a little guy networking a single house with commercial grade equipment. Yes, it takes a little more braining to do something like that, but the payoff is huge. My network downtime is non-existent, and the performance is absolutely stellar. I don’t see slow-downs or loss that a lot of people see. Even people running that cringey “Netgear Gamer Router” crap can’t touch the performance of my network. Your little nighthawk can’t hold a candle to my setup. The nighthawk is only slightly less expensive than my rig, and the performance difference is a night and day comparison. But, as I was mentioning earlier, the SD card in the raspberry pi took a shit, and I’m without automatic updates for my wireless access point. It sucks, but I’m going to fix it this weekend by flashing Ubuntu server onto that raspberry pi again. Once that’s done I should be good to go.

I saw this recently and honestly felt compelled to comment.

James Rayl was warned and continued breaking and entering.

It’s in the fucking video. Watch the video, it’s all the evidence anyone needs. This piece of shit broke the deadbolt of the door and was almost inside when they fired on his idiotic ass and killed him, and he fucking got what he deserved no matter what these retards think.

Honestly, take the page down. He got his justice and he’s dead. Shut the fuck up and move on.

I keep writing and re-writing lines in this post. I don’t actually know what I want to say. I’m just not happy right now. It’s not that what I do for work has fundamentally changed, or really changed at all, but that for the last few months I’ve been tasked with projects that are out of state. It’s unusual to spend months at a time out of state in my role. At least, it’s been unusual with my company, anyways. I know there are application engineers with other companies that are never home, and that’s never really been my experience with my particular job or the things I’m typically assigned. I had one project right at the beginning of my employment with my company that had me out of town every week for nearly six months. It happened once in the six years that I had worked this job. But it seems like now we’re going to try and outdo that previous record.

Slowly but surely I think I’m catching on to this “git” stuff. I’m just glad that I’m not the only one that’s had issues figuring out the details of it. It’s actually really well written and quite simple for the most part, but the problems it solves just happen to be very complex in nature. I think that’s really where it becomes pretty difficult to follow. You have to follow that the developers wrote git with merge conflicts in mind, I guess. Other than that, the file tracking stuff is insanely helpful. The file tracking from multiple disparate remote locations is also incredibly awesome. Being able to recover from me mindlessly editing crap on one device and then totally forgetting and modifying further on another before I make a commit; that’s what really got me to start thinking about it. I’m also still getting used to the whole file tracking thing. You can arbitrarily remove tracking status or add tracking status to files, but that doesn’t necessarily imply the file will “disappear” everywhere you change the status (or delete the file).

If you eerily stalk my blog in ways that definitely make me uncomfortable, you might’ve noticed a minor change in my totients post. In the last section of code starting on line 25, you might notice that line 27 is now highlighted yellow. That accentuation was always intended to be there. The problem was that I had done it incorrectly, because I didn’t understand the fucking directions.

I was using:

```lang {linenostart=25,hl_lines=27}
Blah blah blah
Blah Blah blah
```

What I didn’t realize was that hl_lines is independent of linenostart. What does that mean? That means if I want line 27 highlighted in the code, I don’t set hl_lines=27. I set, in this particular example, hl_lines=3.

I keep thinking about the current state of organized Christianity, and the more I think about it, the more disappointed I become. First and foremost; when exactly did Christianity become a grifting scheme? Originally, tithing was a sort of a tax you paid to the church to receive their services, as the earliest churches were not only places of worship but served as primitive “social workers” as well, houses of charity, and they were largely considered some of the first courts. It wouldn’t have been strange a thousand or so years ago for a priest to help two feuding individuals settle their differences as an objective third party. The church had a place in society, so not tithing was a considerable mistake in those days. It would’ve made you a social pariah and excluded you from services that were life saving at the time.

I keep seeing news dart across my phone of the GOP throwing a fit about the FBI raiding Trump’s syndicate headquarters. Listen, I’ll be honest with you- Even the best politicians are fucking lying criminals. A huge part of the problem is the culture of depravity orbiting the legal system, with far too many bar exam graduates contributing to how absolutely fucked up the government is. Yes, it starts with the sleazy piece of shit lawyers and works it’s way all the way up to congress and the white house. Especially the fucking supreme court. Total fucking clowns. Idiots who thump bibles and give zero shits about society at large. Fuck the supreme court. Fuck the GOP, too. They’re leeches, really. They draw district lines so that they can’t be ousted, then they take kickbacks to remove social safety nets and destroy the environment, and then they fucking retire to a board room where they rake in millions and put their kids through law school to perpetuate their trash nonsense. It’s a cult, and it’s time to deprogram the cult.