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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • I took my kids to a tree lighting on Saturday. Small townie event near my MILs, like 30 miles from us. Affluent town. Main St. The whole thing felt like the climactic scene of a Hallmark movie. Fr.

    My oldest took it upon himself to start dancing in a clearing yelling out “6 7”.

    To this, a bunch of other kids joined in and started dancing and doing the meme as well.

    Idk where I’m going with this story. Anyway, Is it easier to make friends as a kid, or is it just because they are less inhibited?






  • The idea is to have four stacks of cards at the top. One for each suit, ace thru king. Once you get that you win.

    You can move cards around the bottom by stacking them in descending order (King thru 2), in alternating colors (red, black).

    You can move multiple cards to a new stack if it’s suitable.

    You can turn the upside down cards on the bottom once there are no face-up cards covering them.

    When the bottom stacks are empty, you can start a new stack in that spot, but only with a King.

    The draw pile at the top is where the different sets of rules come into play…some people draw 1 at a time, some draw three at a time. Some people also play with a limit of how many times you can loop through the draw pile.

    There’s also a scoring system but that’s unimportant for most people unless they really care. After all, solitaire is a one player game.









  • Depends. I don’t think we are exporting a whole lot of SUVs and pickups…especially big body-on-frame SUVs.

    CAFE standards already killed the small/midsize car market. Automakers have all their chips in the SUV/CUV segment, because they are in the same category as giant trucks, and thus they improve the average fuel economy.

    That, combined with the fact that Trump doesn’t do anything for the heck of it. Somebody is gaining (or at least planning to gain) from this (besides him)…makes me think that this will have significant negative impacts for the environment.



  • I’m really starting to feel like my youngest kid is like this. But obviously I can’t tune him up myself, he’s only 6.

    Can I hire some other first-grader to beat him up?

    He’s a pretty solid kid…could I get a fourth-grader?

    I joke…I love him but man sometimes it feels like no punishment works with him. I know that it’s really just his ADHD and him being exactly like I was as a kid…except my hyperactivity was internalized while his is externalized. Adderall helps. Both of us. Maybe I gotta see about upping his dose.



  • Ah if you want to use it on their website or in a browser you’ll probably also need a mini card driver like OpenSC.

    And if you’re using firefox, you might have to go into settings to add a pkcs provider and tell it where opensc-pkcs11.so is.

    There’s lots of generic info out there on smartcards in Linux if you were so inclined to “figure it out”…but I don’t blame them for not “supporting” Linux…that’s kind of a minefield.

    Still, that’s the fun of Linux…realizing that “not supported” doesn’t mean it won’t work…just that they won’t help you.