Author: Doug McCaughan

Having run water in the kitchen is so game changing. I get that this is a first world problem and feels so luxurious. The lack of running water in a kitchen affected our food budget, the ability to cook and clean, and so much more. I now understand the importance of bringing clean, accessible water to everyone in the world.

…waking up when you know you need more sleep.

This says “Kicks”. I wrote it to remind me that car payment is due. I still did a double take when I looked at my calendar this morning.

I ordered a car part for delivery June 24 and AfterShip showed it as an on time delivery. On June 22 it landed in Memphis and sat and sat and 8 days later I filed a research request with FedEx. They came with “we’ve been busy” and today my package is in Karns. I figure it fell off a conveyor belt or otherwise got lost at the FedEx hub. Why can’t they just say that?

Had the most glorious experience today. I received a recorded phone call from “Coinbase” warning me that someone in Utah had tried to access my account. “Press 1 if this was not you or press 2 if this was you.” I pressed 1 and the message said “one of our security personnel will be in touch” click. I logged into Coinbase and confirmed there had been no such activity and that two factor authentication was working. Ten minutes later the call came. It was a heavily accented person. He had my phone number, my email address, and my name. I acted like an old, hard of hearing guy making him repeat himself many times. He instructed me to open my coinbase account in Safari and confirm that I had some crypto in some account. He asked me to click the “receive” funds. He wanted me to transfer crypto from my Coinbase account to my Coinbase wallet then they would lock my account for 24 hours then I could return the funds. Then he said he would send me an email which he did. I told him the email had arrived. Sure enough, very phishy looking link in the email. He said, “No click the link” and I replied “Hell no man” to which he went on a 20 second rant of cursing me while I laughed cursed back at him and told him I was recording him and I knew where he lived. The jovial “fuck yous” on both ends was almost like two old college buddies meeting up for the first time in a long time. Cracked me up. I really wish I had been able to record that call.

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This sounds like you’d end up with a board of directors for your home. Want to paint the walls? Get the board to vote on it. Why? Because you are giving up ownership of your home! This is nuts.

I swim in deep waters

Whoever heard of a dump being closed on Wednesday?!

My speed squares, my carpentry square, and my ridiculously large square are all missing. This isn’t right.

I didn’t realize PowerShell ISE wasn’t compatible with PowerShell 7. If you are still using PowerShell ISE and wondering why everything executes on PowerShell 5, try switching to Visual Studio Code with the official Microsoft PowerShell extension.