John

I'll be on vacation next week in Frisco, NC. It's been a couple of years since I've been back to NC and I can't wait. If you don't like beach pictures, unfollow or mute me now. 😁

Good suggestion! I'll add it.

Good suggestions! Thanks.

Leaving for the Outer Banks Saturday (Frisco) and will be listening to @carolinainsiderpod.bsky.social on the way. I have the 2017 championship pod and the 2022 Duke games queued up as well as the 2022 run story times pod. What else should I add @carolinapodfans.bsky.social? It will be 8-9 hours.

Radioactive wasps... It's funny that in 2025, this problem seems tame in comparison...

14 more quart jars and I still have a grocery bag full green beans to cut up (probably 7 more quarts). It's hard to keep up with the beans this year. Going on vacation in a week, so I'm trying to get as much done as I can.

Sorry for your loss. 💔

Princess Bride
Fifth element
Top gun

My son just sent me this photo. He caught a ball at the Phillies game. Cheese steak in one hand, catches ball with the other.

Go to vesselfinder.com to see what the ships are and where they came from.

Here's Seaboard.
www.vesselfinder.com?imo=9347267

I've only lousily followed NASCAR since I left NC, but when MJ became a owner and then got Bubba, I knew he'd be my favorite driver. Great interview.

It's been working pretty good for the Republicans so far. Hell, that's all Donald does is blame Biden, Obama, or the Democrats, even when he created the problem. It's all about perceptions, not solutions. I agree with what you're saying, but it hasn't worked.

Canned my first batch of green beans this weekend. Got 7 quart jars with some leftover. Good start. #garden

If Trump can run again, so can Obama. 😉

Babies are getting bigger and now there's a smaller 3rd one (laying down in the shade).

Time to go out and eat at Cracker Barrel... Thanks little man Stephen for pointing that out!

@uncpress.bsky.social 🤣

I use a REOLINK Video Doorbell WiFi (also does Ethernet). I wanted a 3:4 picture so I see packages. It's working well with Frigate (and also Home Assistant integration). Coming from a Ring doorbell, the Reolink is much better, no subscription, and local storage (via Frigate and/or microSD card).

Gotta make it look different to warrant a new game every year! Centered to the black looks better to me instead of centered to the case.

Next year they need to rotate the font 180. 😜

I don't cry anymore, haven't since I lost my best friend as a teenager (I'm very broken in that way), but I was close and I didn't even know Big Grits personally.

Going back and listening to @carolinainsiderpod.bsky.social‬ to be in the 100% club. Just listened to pod 100 this morning. Man did that Eric Montross "Big Grits" montage with Boys II Men "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye" hit really hard! What a great human being Eric was. #GoHeels

I wasn't looking forward to having to build an interface by scratch, so I spent most of my time figuring out how make a HA dashboard B&W and sized to 800x480. Now I can easily change the dashboard and it's picked up the next time it refreshes. No compiling or uploading.

XIAO 7.5" ePaper Panel - Home Assistant Dashboard I got a XIAO 7.5" ePaper Panel (early build) while it was on a flash sale from Seeed Studio. This is something you can make yourself, but I took the lazy route. After playing with it for a little bi...

I use Puppet to render a Home Assistant dashboard. It was much easier that way. Hardest part was getting it to look good in B&W. I go into more detail here: community.home-assistant.io/t/xiao-7-5-e...

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

🤣 It had just rained. It was in the 80's before the rain. It's been in the 90's a lot lately though. Reminds me of NC (where I'm from).

Bought an eink display from @seeedstudio.com when they were on a flash sale. Programmed it with ESPHome Builder in @home-assistant.io and show a bunch of information from Home Assistant. I like the way it's shaping up. Still have a little more tweaking to do.

It sounds like corporate BS because it is corporate BS. Can't wait for this all to be over.

It sucks, but this what you have to do because of the NET. Hopefully the rest of the ACC is doing the same so that we all are high in the NET when conference play starts and we all stay high playing each other. It's broken, so if you don't game, you're left out.

a man in a white shirt is standing in front of a window looking out . ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing in front of a window looking out .

MWC

I those damn things. Ruin the peaceful sounds of the ocean.