07 Feb, 2026
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Celebrity

On May 31st – we are going on another Alaskan Cruise on the Celebrity Solstice, we are taking the inside passage route. Most people our age probably haven’t been on a cruise before.. I’m pleased to say that this will be our 2nd cruise. I kind of surprised myself by expressing the desire to go […]

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All work – some play

I drive about an hour to work each day, its a long drive – about an hour.. I had an sweet surprise on the drive on the 218 close to the 201. You never know what you’re going to see on the drive – sometimes it’s something wonderful – today it certainly was… Actually, I’ve […]

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Watchers 🔭

I got the Audible audiobook “Watchers” by Dean Koontz… here is the description of the book: They escape from a secret government: two mutant creatures, both changed utterly from the animals they once were. And no one who encounters them will ever be the same again: A lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; […]

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Numbers 10

I just finished reading thru Numbers 10, it’s a pretty short – Moses is commanded to make 2 trumpets of hammered silver. And then they are giving a series of instructions on how to use them to signal various instructions – but clear and separate instructions to the camp. One of my close friends is […]

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Lightning

I got another audiobook by Dean Koontz called Lightning.. it’s about a woman named Laura and a strange guardian that has appeared in her life; meanwhile strange forces malign against her. I can’t wait to listen to his one; I’ve made a summary of the books from this author and I’ve decided that this will […]

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Celebrity Solstice – Alaskan Cruise 2026

We are hopefully going on another cruise again this year at the end of May if things work out.. *sailing date will be May 31, we have people staying at our house during our absence. Last year we took a cruise on the Holland American ship the Koningsdam, and that was a magnificent time, fantastic. […]

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Spare Time

I used to read a lot of books in my spare time, actually I read everything, cereal boxes, instructions, Child Craft, a whole library of books really… growing up my parents had an entire library of books and I enjoyed reading immensely. Unlike when I was younger; there isn’t time to read like I used […]

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Oddbits Youtube Channel

I created a YouTube channel about a year ago called Oddbits, its a collection of personal video’s & couple of playlists. We had a retro video game channel before that with a really good subscriber count but the impossible happened, (and I don’t even know why) but I lost a large part of my taste […]

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Good Clean Fun

This is about what I do for fun from a technology perspective. I’ve always enjoyed watching TV & Movies, throughout the years, we had BETA, VHS, CD-ROM, DVD, Blue Ray, Plex, Prime Video and I enjoy being able to watch whenever, wherever I feel like it. I have bought thousands of CD’s, DVDs over the […]

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Mikrotik Switches and Imaging

I posted previously about deploying software packages a different way; more reliable, faster, always the latest package… etc. and that’s all important but it’s also about pure speed. The faster I can deploy a workstation; the better, and this is another area that needed improvement, our imaging system was running in Hyper-V as a Linux […]