So many people on the internet seem to have unlimited time on their hands to accompany their unending abilities. They get involved in all sorts of projects, all of which seem to succeed – or at least make a splash.

As a member of the unemployed set, I have a fair bit of time on my hands. For a while I was doing little else than sitting around and reading; burnout is a horrible thing.

So I have to admit, four years is far too long between meaningful posts (I don’t count my nearly wordless mid-pandemic rant two years ago). Why have I been so quiet, you ask? Well, that’s complicated, and frankly, not at all …

It’s been a bad year. All I have to say is this: Good Riddance!

I love my home, but the floorplan is a bit odd. It’s a popular thing in the region: they like to put a room or two adjacent to the front door, neither of which have doors of their own. These rooms seem solely for show rather than …

My Christmas was a general mess. It was supposed to be the first year I got to host it for the family, but then my 18-month-old nephew got sick and ended up in the hospital (don’t worry, he’s doing much better!). Everything fell …

Amazingly enough, I’m still alive. Surprised?

At some point while I clearly wasn’t looking, 2017 managed to escape. Now I’m stuck in 2018, and I have no clue how it happened. My attention span really is that bad.

So there I was, all gung-ho to make some serious progress. I was going to do a bunch of reseach on Z-Wave; I was gonna write a nice little bit of software to replace OpenHAB; and I was gonna blog about it. It was gonna be great! I …

I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with my small collection of servers when I moved into the house, so they ended up stacked on a folding table. While it was functional, it certainly wasn’t the prettiest thing in the world. Plus …

Hard as it is to believe, today marks floating.io’s first birthday. One year ago today I finally got around to putting my new blog together. My goal was to post often, and talk about fun things. I only managed about a post and a …

Need I say more?