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Dad’s funeral

Yesterday was a busy day. It was my dad’s funeral. The day started very very early, Dad’s viewing was at 9:00 am and the Mass was at 10:00. Flowers came in around 8:10 and Dad arrived at 8:30. This was the first time seeing my father after he left us and it felt strange. He …

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Good bye Dad

Yesterday 8/14/2019 at 4:35pm, my father left us. He has been fighting cancer for the last 9 month. Initially, treatment went pretty well, but last 3 months the conditions turned for the worst. The last month was really tough for my father and my family. My dad went from a fully functioning person to completely …

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LCD 1602 and Pi – Part 1: 1602 LCD displaying Interface IP addresses for a headless Raspberry Pi

So I’ve been working on some projects for work and I dug into my collection of parts and pulled out my OG raspberry pi’s (RPi). I am using them as endpoints for a proof of concept project for OT visibility. But since they are all headless, (meaning there are no monitors or keyboards for input …

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Check out the other blog

So it’s not that I haven’t been writing in my blog lately, it is just that I haven’t been posting in this blog. So check out my other blog, which I talk about my recent experiences in learning Japanese… http://certcircus.mintrix.net/

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Another tough few weeks

Summer of 2019 really sucks!!! Last week dad was in the hospital all week and he was finally released on Thursday, because there is nothing that doctors can do and he is now on Hospice. Before 2019 I did not even know what the word hospice means. But I am learning really quickly about this …

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It’s been a tough June 2019

Today is the last day of June 2019. This month has been extremely tough. I am not talking about work. My father has been sick and during the last month we visited the Emergency Room 3 times and admitted to the hospital twice.

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Well, this is interesting

Mintrix migration is done… I think. so yeah… this will be interesting. I hope we will have more interesting stuff to come.