Evie Day 22,569

Good morning! It’s a beautiful day – the first day of July, and a Taco Tuesday. Life is good, Today is 1 July 2025.

Sorry about not writing yesterday, I was staring down two different hard deadlines – the end of the month sometimes can lead to a flurry of activity for the chronic procrastinator. I got it all done, but I need to remember yesterday as a learning moment. If I get a little bit done each day leading up to a deadline, I can relax a little better when the deadline hits.

Yesterday I did prepare a small tri-tip brisket – I used two different rubs, a caramelized onion butter rub first, followed by Jack Daniels’ beef rub. Wrapped it at 165, pulled it off at 205. Great bark, and not much for leftovers. I’ll remember that combo, it worked very well.

Today I’m sitting a class most of the day, unless of course the experience doesn’t appeal to me. If the start going over stuff I already know in repetition, there might be a better use of my time.

We may have a need for a few extra tacos tonight. Gracie and Evie might be coming over, and there was some discussion about Dane’s girlfriend coming over as well. We might even back up the lot and just eat at the restaurant, and dodge the whole cleanup process following the meal.

July has some open spots for me. I have a plan for the last week of the month, focusing on some personal time, but the next couple of weeks will give me a chance to work on my sunroom workspace a bit. I have a new standing desk to put together, and then I’ll use that space for some of my other interests, music and digital art.

OK, time to think about coffee, and a piece or reheated breakfast casserole.

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 834

It’s Friday again, and I hope this finds you well. Today is 27 June 2025. The weekend awaits.

So does the lawn mower.

No worries, really. I got a good start on the lawn last weekend. All I really need to finish up is an unmowed patch out to the west of the house, about an acre of so. Some of the property doesn’t require the constant upkeep, so I let it grow… but I do like to keep the ragweed out of it.

I’ve got some work to get done today. We had some storms roll through yesterday, and that caused some power outages late in the day. It kept me from getting my work wrapped up. I reached out to my content manager to let her know – I had hoped to have things wrapped up by the end of the business day today, but our hard deadline is the end of the month… from a work perspective, is there much difference between turning something in on Friday to be ignored all weekend, or first thing Monday morning?

Today Dane and I are going out to lunch. His birthday was last Friday, and I have tried to make a habit of going out to lunch with the kids on their birthday. Dane will be sushi, Gracie will be Mexican, and Bonnie – well, Bon is my eldest and lives a bout an hour away, and over the last couple of years we’ve tried – there’s a little place here in Lawrence called BonBon that we’ve gone to a few times for her birthday. The thing is that her birthday falls on New Year’s Eve, and she tends to get together with her friends to celebrate the dual occasion.

OK, time for me to plan out my day and get focused on the tasks at hand, including reinstalling the operating system on a laptop.

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 833

Good morning! It’s Thursday already! Today is 26 June 2025.

Lisa and I get up early… and she usually gets up even earlier. We both get up, get going, and we used to watch the news, but have turned the news off after the last election. It’s been Columbo and Diagnosis:Murder in the mornings, and then Lisa heads into the university, and I might flip it over to Youtube to watch aquarium or tide pool videos with relaxing music.

First thing that caught my eye was a commercial, and now I’m fixated on a spicey chicken sandwich for dinner. It’s going to be just Lisa and I for dinner, so it’s definitely within the realm of possibility.

Lisa spent the day with Evie yesterday, and I was in the house as well. I will admit that the presence of my granddaughter doesn’t not create the most productive environment for me… Evie makes for the most welcome interruptions. Yesterday’s interruptions revolved around freshly-baked snickerdoodles that Evie insisted I sample at leat four different times throughout the day.

Welcome interruptions, indeed.

Today is going to be pretty quiet around here. I’ve got plenty of work to tackle, and a new system to get loaded with all of my favorite tools. I got it setup and Office installed on it yesterday. Today, a few more apps, and maybe a couple of pieces of software I’ve thought about installing and have held off… Debian subsystem, anyone?

OK, time for me to shift into a more productive state of mind.

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 832

Good morning, and a happy Wednesday (Humpday) to you all. Today is 25 June 2025.

Yesterday was a good day. I was productive with my content review, and I got a jump on step two of the task. Two big sets of labs, but the first block required some extra time due to some scripting capabilities. The second – a series of short, easy to complete exercises that don’t take too long.

Gracie and Evie came over for a bit yesterday, and Gracie ended up with a nail in her tire. It’s getting fixed today, and Gracie too Lisa’s car home. We’ll see her in a bit – Wednesday is my wife’s day to watch Evie. I’ll pitch in as time permits.

My 4-year old laptop is giving me fits, between having to do hard power resets and the video acting wonky. I’ve got a new system on the way today… I’m hoping it performs a little better than the old one. I’ve had pretty good luck with the brand, the older one being the one that has caused me some trouble, but I’ve picked up a couple of others since then. It will be good to get back to 64 GB of RAM once again.

Lasy night, there were tacos… and one big margarita that Gracie and Dane split.

It’s about that time to get coffee brewing and grab a bite of breakfast before my granddaughter shows up.

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 831

Good morning, and a very happy Taco Tuesday to you all. Today is 24 June 2025.

Once again, it’s hard to believe how quickly the calendar can slide by. One more week, and we’ll be into July, and for a number of companies, a new fiscal year.

I am on a deadline for a project – we need to be at 80% completion by the end of the business day tomorrow. We’ll get there, no problem, but deadlines and me didn’t always have a good working relationship. A long time ago, I worked as a technical editor and contributing author on a few titles, and often the deadlines were ridiculous. I worked on one book that had been picked up and dumped by half a dozen authors, and then I was given demands like reviewing six chapters in two days for technical accuracy and have all discrepancies corrected. I don’t think I made that deadline… and to be frank, that particular title is one that I would never recommend.

Today I’ll get to work on my content review in about another hour and a half. I don’t expect any surprises.

After I get done with my review today, it might be a good time to just grab a guitar and noodle around out by the pool.

Tonight… there will be tacos.

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 830

Good morning, and a very happy Monday to you all. It’s time to get to work, people! Today is 23 JUne 2025.

We had a good weekend around here. Friday was Dane’s official birthday… although we celebrated on Thursday. We opened some gifts for the young man on Friday… books and a new blade. Dane likes pocket knives, and has a pretty vast knowledge of the metals and locking mechanisms of his knives – that knowledge might be an extension of his mechanical engineering interests.

I have work to focus on this week. I’m reviewing some labs, and I have a good start on the first course, and the second one shouldn’t be quite as demanding. The goal is to have everything wrapped up by the end of the month, and I hope to have my part completed by the end of the day on Friday.

Gracie and Evie were over here quite a bit this weekend. We’re making some changes out here, and the barn is now called “the shop”. The change makes some sense. We’ll create a woodworking space for me, and get my power tools organized, and we’ll get address some of the plumbing needs, with a toilet and wash basin to start. It has a lot of potential.

Other than that, there’s plenty for me to focus on. Right now, my attention is being steered towards the coffee pot and an everything bagel.

In the meantime…

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 827

Good morning, and happy Friday to you all. Today is 20 June 2025.

Today is my son’s 20th birthday. Happy Birthday, Dane!

We had a family get together for dinner last night to accommodate everyone’s schedule, a dinner at Kobe Steak House. Evie was both terrified and impressed with the knife and fire show. We all had a great time, and in a Reinsch family first, everyone caught the shrimp in their mouth.

I worked on labs a bit yesterday and prepped for today’s security fundamentals session. I hung up my work around 4, as Gracie and Evie came over to swim in the pool before dinner.

So, birthday, security fundamentals, pool time… that’s about it, for today. The weekend will be full of yard work and cleaning out the shop – what we used to call the barn. We’re getting ready to do some renovations out there, so we need to get rid of some of the accumulated crap out there before we can dive in.

In the meantime, I should look back over my decks for today’s class. Oh, and get the trash out for pickup, too.

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 826

Good morning, and a very happy Thursday to you all. Today is Juneteenth! 19 June 2025.

I wish all of my friends that recognize and celebrate this day to have a safe and peaceful holiday surrounded by friends and joy, the emotion, not the dishwashing soap.

Around here we start a little celebration of my son’s birthday. We wanted to get as many family members as we could, so we’re celebrating a day early. We’re heading over for dinner at the steak house for an early meal so Evie isn’t up too late. This works out for me, as I’ll join the guys around the virtual tabletop around 8 for a couple of hours. Dane turns 24 tomorrow. He’s a good kid.

Today I’ve got to focus on some lab content for a couple of different projects. Thankfully they are interrelated. I’m working through one set of labs for one class, but I have a fundamentals class I’m delivering tomorrow that addresses a lot of the same material.

Yesterday, Lisa and I watched Evie for the day, more Lisa than I to be frank. There were cookies and a cake to be made, and there was time with Bluey and time with Gramma in the swimming pool… well, at least the first couple of steps in the swimming pool. It was a little cool for complete immersion, I guess.

OK, time to switch gears and focus. Coffee, toast…

Until next time…

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 825

Good morning, folks, and welcome to Humpday. Today is Wednesday, 18 June 2025.

56 days off 6000 remaining… the average person lives about 28500 days… make ’em all count.

For some of the Wednesdays this summer, my wife is planning on working from home on Wednesdays and spending time with our granddaughter. I’ll be around, too, but I need to stay a little more focused on work, as I have some hard deadlines coming up by the end of the year.

There is some tension in the air. The conflict between Israel and Iran is getting more heated, and Trump is getting into the thick of it with his own threats. That’s what America needs… another protracted conflict in the Middle East. Add in the political theatrics on the Hill, and you get every GOP representative voting for a policy that allows ICE to deport American citizens. That makes no sense.

Lisa and I watched some basketball last night, the Indiana Fever playing the Connecticut Sun. It was a brawl. Caitlin Clark was getting quite a lot of jostling around, and there was a moment when I thought one of the Sun players was going to get ejected. After Clark was poked in the eye and bumped by one player, another player just blasted into her and knocked her to the ground. The refs didn’t eject any players that time… but later three players would get ejected. The refs should’ve ejected at least one during the first incident, and started calling the hard fouls with a little more awareness. I’m glad more people are watching the WNBA, but I’d prefer there were fewer incidents more reminiscent of a hockey match.

Evie will be over in about half an hour. Time for me to focus on coffee and breakfast. I made a big skillet of chorizo hash yesterday, and I’ll enjoy the leftovers.

Until later…

I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.

Evie Day 824

Good morning, and a happy return to Taco Tuesday. Today is 17 June 2025.

Today could be a stormy day. I had heard some rumblings about the possibility of storms passing through, and after checking the weather forecast, it might very well be a pretty harsh afternoon and evening with thunderstorms, winds, hail, and a likely tornado watch at some point.

Remember the difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning.
A tornado watch – you have all of the ingredients for tacos… with a tornado warning, tacos have been sighted.

Speaking of tacos…
The G7 conference …The G7 serves as a political and economic forum where leaders discuss global issues such as trade, security, climate change, and economic stability. The G7 (Group of Seven) is an intergovernmental forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The European Union also participates but is not officially counted as a member. The G7 was originally formed in 1975 as the G6, with Canada joining the following year. Russia was part of the group from 1997 to 2014, making it the G8, but was expelled after its annexation of Crimea.

Trump whined about the absence of Russia. He was a full-on Putin proxy. The Prime Minister of Canada cut him off, talking about time restrictions, and Trump then threw a temper tantrum and went back to the White House basking in the dim glow of self pity. What a small man he is.

I had a productive day yesterday. I was able to get some billing completed, and I started on a new project. We grilled some chicken last night and ate that with some potato salad. Today, of course, will be a taco run. I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do for breakfast other than coffee, but we’ll get it sorted. I have some potatoes and chorizo… maybe a take on a southwestern hash?

It’s about time to grind some beans and make a pot. Medium-roast Tanzanian Peaberry.

Until next time…

I hope the world treats you better than you deserve.

Peace y’all.