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  • The Munsters

    Scanning through Netflix for something different for the kids to watch, I happened across The Munsters. The kids are giant Scooby Doors fans, so Munsters should be too much of a stretch. After a little hesitation about things being too scary, I went with it. Turns out they loved it. I think they’ll make it…

  • Chicken Marsala

    Yummy free style chicken Marsala. I don’t need no stinking recipe. Came out super tasty this time around. Of course, the kids wouldn’t touch it… Sigh.

  • Bad chicken

    Forget where I first saw the trick of putting the meat you’re pounding into a ziplok bag, but I use this trick all the time. No worries about cleaning up raw chicken juices sprayed all over your kitchen. Just remember not to deal the bag all the way it or else kablam. I also find…

  • Props to DreamHost

    I finally got around to shutting down my DreamHost account.  I poked around a bit in the control panel and didn’t find a way to cancel the account.  I started to file a support ticket and their ticket tool pointed me in the right direct to cancel the account myself.  Turns out I was on…

  • Email at Digital Ocean

    Turns out setting up an email server at Digital Ocean is pretty straight forward.  Here’s my recipe: Follow this Digital Ocean tutorial to set up postfix. Poke a hole in the firewall for mail to get through with sudo ufw allow mail (not sure why the Digital Ocean tutorial didn’t have this critical step;  props…

  • Finder Quickie

    Wait a sec, you can change where the search box looks in Finder windows? The default for Search This Mac never seems to be what I want.  Search the Current Folder is much better!