The pair of UE 5's that I've had for about 13 years died, and honestly, I didn't really feel like sending them back to get repaired. Honestly, I wasn't a huge fan of Ultimate Ears after Jerry Harvey left, so, I went back to do my research. (With many, many…
Wanting to find a good SIEM that is relatively inexpensive, I started looking at the various options that are out there, and ended up falling in love with OSSIM. ...then, I discovered that AT&T bought the company up. ...and basically eliminated their EC2 offerings. Not to be completely disappointed,…
Well, it's about 2 weeks too late, but, I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.…
I woke up to a text message this morning from my friend in Florida telling me that his status has been changed from "Pending" to "Eligible." He filed on 3/21. He was approved on 4/27. Thirty-Seven (37) days. I had him write letters to his Florida State Representatives…
Broken, but together...Let's be honest – 2020 is a year that nobody really expected would happen. What appears to be a global biological crisis is not the future that we expected, hoped, nor prepared for. My 40th birthday was going to be a hell of a time – Black Hat, DEFCON,…
As many of you know, I have a small business (in fact, I have two of them, but, that's another topic for another day). The minute the PPP was announced, I went to my friendly bank, US Bank, and applied for the PPP. The process itself took about 90 minutes…
Since the COVID-19 Pandemic started in early March, there have been about 1.8 million unemployment claims processed (source [http://lmsresources.labormarketinfo.com/covid19/index.html]). Transversely, only about 116,830 claimants have been paid. This means that only about 6.65% of those who have applied for unemployment in…
So, yes, I know. It's been a hot minute since I've posted something in here. In the last few months, I've managed to find myself a new job, stay relatively safe from COVID-19 (after a weird couple of days), and managed to find myself in a fair amount of stress.…
...and like that, a 5 year contractor position is gone. Oh well. I'm job hunting again right now, so, this should be fun.…
So, it's my goal to go to as many Michelin starred restaurants as I possibly can.The new list for Washington DC is out [https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/news-and-views/michelin-guide-washington-dc-2020-results] , so, I have updated my list of places that I want to go to: The Inn at…