New Toy: B.C. Rich Warlock NJ Electric Guitar

September 23, 2021

I became involved in music at a young age. As time progressed I have acquired more and more instruments (and gotten rid of many too!), but there has been one on my bucket list for quite some time, the B.C. Rich Warlock. I saw my first Warlock in person as a teenager and it was

Introducing “Shadow”, our new Catalina 36 sailboat

April 12, 2021

Update: Shadow has her own website! See it at https://svshadow.com I am very excited to announce that Alix and I have completed the purchase of S/V Shadow, a 1987 Catalina 36. She is in tip-top shape and ready to take us cruising! Shadow started her life in Long Beach, CA and had the same owner

How to fix the “sed command expects \” error on Mac OS

April 7, 2021

If you are familiar with the sed command on Linux then you might be in for an unpleasant surprise the first time you try to use it on Mac OS. Mac OS runs the BSD version of the sed command. As such, there are some syntax differences. An example of a classic sed command, that

Highly Performant PHP Sessions with Redis

March 29, 2021

The web is stateless, but often the apps we build are not. To facilitate state in web apps, PHP provides a session handling mechanism. Sessions are off by default, and enabled with the `session_start()` function. Read more about PHP session handling at https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php If you have worked with PHP sessions before you may have noticed performance issues

First water adventure of 2021!

March 13, 2021

What a beautiful day to be on the water! Still boatless, Harold and Jesse took us out on their 36′ Unitflite, for a tour around the Tacoma harbor, across to Dockton, and we even poked into Gig Harbor to pick up some lunch at Tide’s Tavern. This was Clara’s longest trip on the water, and