My Descent Into Retro Gaming (and the War With Modern TVs) Like a lot of people, I hit a point…
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The Mods That Made Our Jeep Ours
The Jeep didn’t stay stock for long. It never was going to. We didn’t build it to look cool in a parking lot—we built it to work, to protect, and […]
How We Ended Up With Our Jeep
Some vehicles are just transportation. Others end up woven into your life. Ours was the second kind. Maranda grew up in the mountains. I was born there, left for a […]
My Journey Into PC Water Cooling: From AIO Fixes to Full Custom Loops
I didn’t get into PC water cooling because it looked cool on YouTube. I got into it because I had to fix it. Where It Started: Repair Shop Reality Back […]
Desktop Touchscreen Controller
Why a Small Touchscreen Below Your Main Monitor Is a Game-Changer This is one of those setups that, once you build it, you wonder why you didn’t do it years […]
Hammock Camping
5 Why I Fell in Love with Hammock Camping I didn’t come to hammock camping through YouTube hype or Instagram reels. I was introduced to it the old-fashioned way—by a […]
Garage Gym Story
Building My Own Home Gym: From Cold Concrete to Personal Sanctuary Like a lot of people, my home gym story started right around the pandemic—but in my case, just before […]
What I’ve Learned About AI by Actually Using It
I didn’t get into AI because it was trendy. I got into it because work forced me to. Once AI started showing up in procurement conversations—“Should we buy this product?”, […]
Into Retro Gaming
My Descent Into Retro Gaming (and the War With Modern TVs) Like a lot of people, I hit a point where nostalgia started pulling harder than cutting-edge graphics. I grew […]
Home Lab for IT Professionals
Why a Home Lab Actually Matters (From Someone Who’s Been Doing This a While) I’ve been an IT director long enough to see a pattern that never changes: the people […]
Ignite 2022 Recap
I didn’t get as much time this year to attend Ignite even virtually and ended up taking a day off work so I could at least see some of it. […]









