Eric Mann @ericmann@tekton.network

Now to cool slightly before I apply the cream cheese icing ...

One of my favorite Christmas traditions: homemade cinnamon rolls :-)

Now to refrigerate overnight so they rise.

Looking at my Garmin stats for the year you can see gym use high in Jan, waning in Feb, and all but gone in March. Since then I added walking and have gradually picked running back up (despite it being only 29F this morning).

Time to get back into shape.

Who else has #Garmin gear so I can connect with folks for friendly challenges?

One of my favorite things is getting an email notification that my account and personal data was stolen from a vendor as part of a breach.

A vendor with whom I have never set up an account ...

I use custom email addresses when I sign up for services. So glad that I do.

Started through some worksheets on how to set up a will and a trust for my family. Not a big deal (but a lot of work), though it required registration to save my work.

They sold my info to "My Funeral Quote.." OK ... kind of related? But still.

They in turn sold my info to ... "Customized Letters from Santa."

Huh?

TFW you're running hashcat on rented AWS hardware only to suddenly remember you have an overpowered GPU sitting unused in a machine learning laptop on the other desk in the office.

My Oryx Pro puts the AWS rigs to shame.

Explaining to family members literally crying in anguish as they can't understand why I'm skipping a family event for the first time ... ever ... is mentally and emotionally draining.

"Please just trust me right now. I need for you to trust that I'm doing this for the right reasons."

Deaf ears. Constant tears.

I hate 2020.

Saw an article the other day about how covid has ruined friendships and divided families. I kind of got it ... but not until I had to explain why we wouldn't be joining the large family Christmas morning gathering did it _really_ resonate with me.

I hate 2020.

Just learned The Expanse is out!

Gonna work hard to resist the urge to just stop working and binge all the great sci-fi.

Attempting to 3D print a duplo rail to see if I can expand my daughter's train set ... so far, so good. And she'll like having pink rails :-)

Amazon driver dropped off a package, then stood in front of my house to smoke for ~10 minutes. That was new ...

Slackbot alerting me on the desktop to download the desktop app for a better experience is peak irony.

Made the mistake of searching blindly for something on Tor again. I love the anonymity and structure of the system. I loathe the kind of crap it attracts.

Just took a two hour break to attend a funeral. Not high on my list of "enjoyable things." Made even worse by the fact that we all had to wear masks and stand at a distance and couldn't comfort one another.

2020 sucks.

After sending details to one person via DM ... I need a more succinct way to communicate things :-(

So if anyone else wants to participate ... shoot me an email instead. eric[at]eamann[dot]com. That'll save me sending a DM thread.

Anyone interested in an almost kind of ponzi-styled holiday bourbon exchange? If so, send me a DM. 🙂

The toddler wanted to make Christmas cookies today.

Have I ever mentioned how much I loathe cookie cutters? But she gets what she wants...