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From Insecurities to Empowerment(?): My journey as a midlife Dad.

8 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Brittany_Aus Explorers

At 44, and with one daughter from a previous relationship, I thought my years of having more kids were behind me. Not so much biologically, but with particular respect to, well, just being too old to be having more kids. Or perhaps I was just content...

The beginnings of a midlife Dad.

23 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Brittany_Aus Explorers

I’m a Dad of 3—three girls. All being girls notwithstanding, that’s a fairly standard, nuclear family type of deal I suppose, but I began to veer from that, the most common travelled path, at 48 years of age after having found myself going against th...

I think i will die soon

22 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Tirria

  You can't lock water in a cage. The mind flies in its own air being water. Turn off the heat even if it gets hot. It dissolves the earth even if it flows calmly. It's all about time. Everything comes. But the only thing that remains is spiritualit...

How to use Cloudflare with Pfsense

21 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments powersjo

Recently, I tried to use Cloudflare with Pfsense. I used the IP addresses 1.1.1.3 and 1.0.0.3. Those IP addresses are meant to use DNS to block malware and adult content sites. I ran into an issue getting the content blocking to work and wanted to sh...

A brief on my midlife parenting

20 Mar 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Brittany_Aus Explorers

My approach to parenting young kids in mid-life, when compared to my early 30’s, like my taste in music, has barely changed a bit. I’ve certainly changed and developed within myself, but there are traits that I have carried with along me, much like a...

Review of The Sun Does Shine

20 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments powersjo

The Sun Does Shine, How I found Life and Freedom on Death Row, is a powerful personal account from Anthony ‘Ray’ Hinton. Ray was on death row in the Alabama Judicial system for nearly 30 years, for a crime he didn’t commit. No one goes through life b...

An intro to this midlife Dad

14 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Brittany_Aus Explorers

I’m currently 50 years of age, with 3 daughters—one in her early 20’s, a 2-year-old, and a 5-month-old. The little ones aren’t the result of “accidents”, nor a means of staving off a midlife crisis by introducing babies into middle age—that would be...

The Hidden Reason Behind Your Anger

7 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments TAS OFFICIAL

  A great deal of your anger involves your defense against loss of self-esteem, when people criticize you, disagree with you, or fail to behave as you want them to. Such anger is always inappropriate because only your own negative distorted thoughts...

Review of Everyday Millionaires

19 Feb 2024 2 minute read 3 comments powersjo

Everyday Millionaires is written by Chris Hogan and is based on the largest study of millionaires ever conducted.  10,000 millionaires were surveyed and studied to find out any common traits, circumstances or practices that lead them to achieve a mil...

PowerShell script with Robocopy

18 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments powersjo

While working on my media server, see more about that here, I came across a repetitive task where code could help. The issue: as you move content to your media server it gets repetitive with any TV show. Jellyfin likes a certain format to ingest the...