Josh L

My new coffee grinder arrived this afternoon. If I don't get to sleep as early as I'd like tonight, there may or may not be a causal relationship with that particular event.

This weekend I broke out the olde Minolta film scanner to digitize some negatives - to my surprise, with a little coaxing (and some third party drivers) the scanning software even works in Windows 11 [inside a VM on Linux]!

This week at work I got to unpack some Nokia DWDM gear for the first ever optical transport project I've gotten to work on. IDK, this might be the most excitement / anticipation I've had unboxing something in quite a while.

In "crazy ideas that work surprisingly well," I present: nitro cold brew Bengal Spice herbal tea

My latest fun: emulating a simple service provider network with MPLS LDP, then trying to migrate it "live" to SR-MPLS. It went a little too smoothly that I fear I missed some crucial step, but the L2 and L3VPNs kept on working, so maybe it really is that easy?

What do you do when you're snowed in but still working from home, and you and your pupper both need a break? Why, take the big camera outside and capture some intense blizzard zoomies, of course!

With both feet now firmly in 2025, I guess it's time to say goodbye to my festive cardinal "roommates" until next winter. Have fun, guys, but please don't get up to too much mischief on the decoration storage shelf!

'Twas the night before Christmas, and the cable to the living room AP developed a short. My assistant convinced me to make that a problem for Thursday, and suggested treats and ear scritches instead.