I don’t read DMs.

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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • Over the years, there have been fewer and fewer people in my life. Sometimes I told them to fuck off, sometimes they told me to.

    Now that I’m retired, there is no one left, except my adult son, and the cat. It’s fine.

    I do what I want to do, when I want to do it, and answer to no one. No compromising, no tongue biting, no one pushing me to do something different.

    I’m happy and content. No regrets.






  • It’s satisfying building your own at the length you need.

    I learned to do this when I became the defacto IT guy for a small business 20 years ago. I also wired my house. My success rate on cables is 100%. It’s not hard, but it does take extreme care. You just need to triple check the wire order and position before you crimp it.

    I’ve always done 568A, and memorized green-stripe-green, orange-stripe-blue, blue-stripe-orange, brown-stripe-brown. I repeat that to myself over and over as I’m making the cable, and checking carefully.