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I had a good time attending the recent solar full eclipse. Our home wasn’t in the zone of totality, was 85% there. We wanted to see totality, so we took a 3 day road trip. I joked that we spent 3 days in the car to get 3 minutes of thrill. Kinda like the linesContinue reading “life: Solar Eclipse”

I was in a Sunday School class at church today, and one of the scriptures we were looking at referenced the phrase the “dust of the earth”. It said: “And they had viewed themselves in their own carnal state, even less than the dust of the earth.” One of the class participants mentioned that theyContinue reading “faith: Dust”

Within my church organization, I’ve been asked to help organize and run activities for the youth in our area. The biggest activity is what we call “stake youth conference”, which is basically 3 days with 250 youth, age 14-18. It’s not a small task. As we approached this year’s youth conference, one of our bigContinue reading “tech/faith: tools for running an in-person conference”

Gluttons for punishment, or doing all the fun over again from 9 years ago: I don’t know which. But had another wonderful 3 week road trip this summer. Stats: duration: 21 consecutive days driving distance: 6890 miles total hours driving: 120 average mpg: 25.5 gas consumed: 270 gallons (generally around $4.50/gal) Monuments / Parks /Continue reading “life: the epic road trip (v2)”

Marcel is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This is an address he gave in a congregation on February 27th, 2022. Is it reasonable to expect to understand all things about the gospel right now? I don’t think so. We operate a lot on faith, which is less than aContinue reading “faith: perfection and temples”

Marcel is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This is an address he gave at a funeral of an elderly friend on June 18th, 2021. Personal information has been removed out of respect for the family. We met at church. There is a program at church where we are allContinue reading “faith: death”

After having a couple Raspberry Pi’s doing miscellaneous things, and working my way up to a Plex server where I needed real storage and video transcoding crunching power, it was time to do something real. But I didn’t want to spend a lot of money. Here’s what I did. Hardware I wanted a decent machineContinue reading “tech: the [ultimate] home server on the cheap”