{"id":11,"date":"2016-07-02T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:51:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T20:51:59","slug":"the-blogging-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"The blogging thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently moved our domains over to Google Domains<\/a>. They allow pretty good integration with Blogger<\/a>. So I decided to relocate our blog to www.moondog.org<\/a>. I figured that maybe my wife and I might start posting occasionally. I also noticed that it’s been a long time since either of us have done that.<\/p>\n

Blogging is a little weird. There is a fine line between good blogging and what amounts to self-absorption. I’m pretty sure I’ve crossed that line a few times. And perhaps blogging at all crosses it from the get go. Hard to say.<\/p>\n

So what’s new?<\/p>\n

We recently refinanced our home with Quicken Loans<\/a>. We were able to drop PMI, cut 8 years off of the term of our loan, and lower our monthly payments. That was pretty sweet. And we’d only had our original mortgage for barely over two years.<\/p>\n

We hired a new guy at work who is from India named “Bala”. He’s going to learn to do what I do. So I’m responsible for helping him get up to speed. He is an experienced developer (Oracle) but has no experience on the IBM i or with the programming language we use (RPG). So there will definitely be a learning curve. He’s a really nice guy and very articulate. I really like working with him. I hope he doesn’t get too frustrated with all the new stuff that he will have to learn.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the IBM i, we brought our company up on a brand new Power 8 a little over a month ago. That was pretty sweet. I did much of it myself over the course of one weekend. Very nice to be up on a new box.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was the last day of employment for another of my co-workers who also did what I do (Programmer\/Analyst). Unfortunately his health was not such that he could continue.<\/p>\n

So that leaves me the senior guy with a relative trainee working along side. While he doesn’t know RPG or the IBM i, he’s familiar with most of the concepts. I have high hopes.<\/p>\n

On a different note…. I’ve taken to listening to over the ear headphones both at work and at home. This resulted in a very undesirable effect I will call “headphone hair”. After getting frustrated with that… about two days after my last haircut I’d had enough. We went by a hair salon and I went in and had them do a #3 clipper all around. Yes… pretty much a shaved head again.<\/p>\n

The funny thing is… even with hardly any hair… I still have a semi-permanent dent in my head where the headphones sit.<\/p>\n

Ok… that’s enough for now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently moved our domains over to Google Domains. They allow pretty good integration with Blogger. So I decided to relocate our blog to www.moondog.org. I figured that maybe my wife and I might start posting occasionally. I also noticed that it’s been a long time since either of us have done that. Blogging is … Continue reading “The blogging thing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}