Weekends

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I probably won’t be posting much the next couple of days. The in-laws are coming up for a visit, which is cool. I actually get along pretty well with them. With it being a 3-day weekend I’m still hoping to get some geek stuff done for myself on Monday. Mostly I need to get the laptop hooked into the home network and get some software updates. I haven’t been traveling so it hasn’t been needed, and it’s fallen behind. Not that I’m planning any traveling in the near future, but you never know when the ‘net connection is going to crap out at work again, so having an up-to-date laptop is never a bad emergency plan.

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