July 2, 2021

Sitting With the Dead

Sitting with the Dead

I love sitting with the dead as I think about life
The Johnsons, Olsons, Andersons, Edneys, Yaegars
Their stories told by the company they keep

The Olson brothers went off to war in Germany
Both lived long lives

The Johnson’s lost two children
Both before the age of three
Two others grew up to marry and have children of their own

Young John Schmidt loved to fish
He waits for his parents
Their stones wait for a date

July 2, 2021

Zen Row

It’s been an emotional week with lots of evening hours spent not relaxing. A 20 minute, 20 stroke rate (SR) workout was just what was needed.

Be kind to yourself. Extremism in any part of our lives is toxic.

Thanks Dark Horse Rowing for making this workout video in addition to all the other great content you have.

Zen Row Complete

July 1, 2021

Changes

Change is Here

This week, I attended two events that were hosted at work. Both were after normal business hours. Neither are events that I would have attended pre-2020. But I’ve changed.

Gathering to Honor and Support Indigenous People

was an online gathering of coworkers prompted by news of the discovery of the 751 bodies of the Indingenous children at a former residential school in Canada. I didn’t know what to expect, or what to do, or what to say. I didn’t have any real idea of what we could do that would make any difference. I just knew that I wanted to honor the souls of those children who died far from their families and homes. Children who had been taken by force so that they could be assimilated into the dominant culture while having their own culture erased.

June 30, 2021

motionEyeOS

I chose to use motionEyeOS for my security camera OS because it’s:

purpose built for cameras on the Raspberry Pi
it has all the features that I was looking for in a home-built security camera, including motion detection
there’s also a lot of documenation online that can help with questions you might run into

Installation

I am using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a NoIR camera, so if you’re using something different, you might have a different experience.

June 30, 2021

Raspberry Pi Security Cameras: the plan

Home Security Cameras with Raspberry Pi Zero

This will be easy.

– me

Raspberry Pi Security Camera

It all began innocently enough. I thought it would be cool to make a little security camera to put in the garage attic to look down on my driveway. I’d get a NoIR so it could work in low light levels. I’d get a Pi Zero so it’d be small. Yeah, that should be easy.

June 28, 2021

Hugo 1

Looks like it’s time to learn Markdown

I’ve been working on some projects that I think are share-worthy so I decided it was time to revamp my site. I wanted something that’s simple and fast to load.

Since I’m already a Cloudflare customer (and stock holder), I thought I’d give Pages a test run. I was able to setup a very quick Jekyll project, but ultimately decided to go with Hugo as the static site generator.

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