3 May 2020
Seriously. Boring is great, by comparison with the many things that could be going wrong. The garden is alive. We're alive. Life is (distantly) okay. That's good enough, right? Be well.
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Brian Bilbrey (735)
20 April 2020
Note - this is a discussion and solution for a technical problem for a Wordpress instance that uses an SSL certificate signed by a non-public CA. If you don't care about this sort of thing, please move your eyes down to the next section. The error text that I saw in the new-to-me Site Health page following upgrading to WordPress 5.4: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate The error above was generated because WordPress/PHP couldn't verify the site certificate. When this is broken, the impact can be significant on a WordPress instance. Some features…
Continue reading...April 13, 2020
We're continuing on the bored, stir-crazy, and physically healthy trend here. We hope that all is well with you and yours. Aside from working from home, and some indoor chores, most of my "spare" time has been given over to further yard work. During the week, I took half a day off. The first hour of that was conveying the dog to her second round of annual shots at the veterinary clinic. The rest involved picking up some veggies and a tray of flowers, then getting the veggies into the raised beds. I started by removing last year's landscape fabric…
Continue reading...5 April 2020
Turns out that the seasons roll by regardless of stay at home orders... Late last fall, during the cleanup, it was clear that the spruce that adorned the left side of the front yard was just about done. By February this year, there was no green left to it. This weekend: last rites were administered. Using the pole saw and the small electric chainsaw, I took the tree and both small shrubberies out, along with doing a fair bit of other spring front yard cleanup. Today, my big hope was that the odd angle of lean was indicative of a…
Continue reading...30 March 2020
As such things go these days, that's not a bad combination. I'm one of about three people going into my office for a few hours one day a week, to manage one part of our "essential" business that requires physical presence. I'm trying to keep the grocery runs to once every two weeks if I can manage it. Just about the time the weather gets nice enough that Marcia could consider going fishing, at least, the stay home order drops. A pretty good thing, frankly, but it's hard for her, I know. The extended family is, to the best of…
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