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Introduction With the IPv4 address space depletion, many ISPs have resorted to CGNAT and the assignment of a private IP address instead of giving their residential customers a public one. This presents a problem for those who want to self host their own services out of their home. Fortunately, WireGuard can help to solve this…

After 10 years, I finally got back on the bicycle to start riding again. I am really out of shape so even riding one mile is not easy but I am proud of myself for starting again. A journey starts with a small step forward and that’s exactly what I’ve done. I took my bicycle…

So I am really struggling right now to come up with the motivation to learn JavaScript because I am so focused on the HTML and CSS aspect of this web development class that I am taking, The Odin Project. It feels like it is too dramatic a shift. If I had my druthers, I would…

It turns out that this partial hospitalization program at MeadowWood Behavioral Health Hospital is a giant waste of time. It is nothing more than a psychiatric mill and a warehouse; simply a place to go during the day and nothing more, perhaps everything less. To say I am disappointed in the program is to vastly…

In the coming weeks I know that I am going to have to prepare for my eventual move to subsidized housing through NAMI so I’ve begun a deep cleaning of my apartment and going through my various odds and ends. While working on my office last night, I happened upon my amateur radio that was…

Today I did what I really did not want to do and made the bus trip into New Castle, to sign up for the one partial hospitalization program in the State of Delaware that accepts my health insurance: MeadowWood. As an aside, the US bloody US health insurance system is in utter shambles. Anyhow I…

So my previous posting and the ensuing research made me realize just how much I over thought my plans to have a little bit of fun with a site-to-site network when I could just do a software-defined overlay network and it would vastly simplify things. Instead of doing things like trying to connect a physical…

Once I move, I’ve got a fun little project that I’ve actually begun doing the research for today since I enjoy this kind of thing, especially when it is about open source, Linux, and BSD. I think I got my friend, Jim, intrigued a little by this one. We are actually going to join our…

Today I had some time to kill and I wasn’t feeling like doing any learning on The Odin Project so I decided to do some prep work for moving to subsidized housing. The subsidized housing that I am going to be moving to includes all utilities and internet access. So, I decided to prepare my…

As the title reads, it has been a rough two days. My car has been voluntarily surrendered to the local Hyundai dealership and I’m now without a car. I guess I hadn’t realized how upending the experience would really be. After dropping off the keys, I ended up taking an Uber because I could not…