I still don’t know what I want to do with a blog, but what I’m conceptualizing now is a social media platform that I control, no character limits or restrictions, not that I ever say anything that’d get me kicked off a platform. I’m picturing for now putting small updates here and then summarizing them with a short video on the YouTube channel semi-regularly and we’ll see where it takes us.

Amazon Store

So, let’s get into it, for starters Amazon determined that I am an influencer and allowed me to start a virtual store! I’ve taken the opportunity to start cleaning up our Gear Page, and anything on there that can be found on Amazon is now in the store. I took all the original posts’ text and dumped it into the Store’s link on the gear page until I decide how I want to format things.

YouTube

I’ve been wanting to start the Deep-Dive video tests for Tesla Software update 2021.4.3 as it rolled in right when I was wrapping up the Quick-Look video into 2021.4.2, but the weather has been miserable. Yes, I’ve got all wheel drive and decent tires, what concerns me is everyone else on the road, Tachikoma is our only vehicle, and I can’t afford to have it go down for us being impatient, so when the winter storm warning is lifted, we’ll be out in the streets testing and filming to see what Tesla hid this time in a bugfix update.

I’ve gone through and caught back up on comments as Dan C and Dan H at vidIQ (affiliate) gave me some pointers at managing YouTube’s comment system, so I addressed some comments I previously missed.

YouTube comments: Thank you all for leaving such thoughtful comments and questions. I do get a fair share of trolls and negative comments or unhelpful non-solicited solutions to problems I’m not experiencing or don’t perceive as problems but on the whole you folks have been quite welcoming and I’ve enjoyed the experience.

Work

I get my extra day off this week so that’s exciting, I also was able to push through some roadblocks systems were giving me so that is exciting. My experience with Microsoft AppLocker came flooding back while assisting a friend once I was able to remember the name of the technology, helped them glide over some problems I first had implementing the tech, especially the missing start menu on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. The trick is to set default rules for both “Executable Rules” and “Packaged app Rules” click each category and right click in the right pane and select create default rules. Many people overlook the store apps thinking since they don’t use the store that they don’t use any store apps, this is extremely far from the truth as both 10 and 2019’s Start Menu uses store tech, and the calculator and a few other in-box apps that an office worker might use as well. Look at this screenshot from my home computer for clarification. We can get further into AppLocker if you want but this isn’t the focus of today’s post.

Screenshot showing how to add default rules that you can later customize allowing the start menu and properly installed apps to run when you first apply AppLocker Policies (or later as a troubleshooting step when portions of your computer fail to fu… — Screenshot showing how to add default rules that you can later customize allowing the start menu and properly installed apps to run when you first apply AppLocker Policies (or later as a troubleshooting step when portions of your computer fail to function like the start menu or a line-of business app)

Home

Luna made her award-winning (she won the office competition twice) Vegan Chili again and I’m stoked to eat it for dinner, right now it’s in the slow cooker but I can hear her prepping it to serve! She ended up pouring this over assorted pasta noodles and I’m eating it as I edit this post, it is good but will be better after sitting in the fridge overnight and then warming again in the slow cooker.

Friends

A few friends were making fun of me last night for ensuring I got a place the car fits in, and then letting it sit outside during an ice-storm. I’ll need to clean out the garage to fit the car, we were doing great with it until the last trailer load when everything just landed and stayed in the garage. We’ve moved a few boxes and items but not enough. I did get a new scanner and unpacked the shredder so that’ll take care of a few boxes. Next, we’ll need to sell things we don’t use that aren’t playing the roll of cold backup items, like how we have the GoPro Hero7 Black in case something happens to the Hero8, I don’t need 8 ergonomic keyboards (or however many there really are) and some old hard drives won’t be going into the NAS or the PC so they can go after I verify the contents, and hopefully find my old crypto-coin wallet.

Health / Resolutions

I don’t normally do resolutions but after the year we had for 2020, I was compelled to set and complete some goals for this year.

My social media friend and fellow Youtuber Arash Malek Arash Malek 🦆 (@MinimalDuck) on his channel: Minimal Duck has been daily Vlogging, which is pretty difficult from my experiences posting videos daily. One thing he’s been doing all this year is doing 100 pushups every day, I had resolved to do pushups, sit-ups, squats, and crunches everyday this prompted me to edit my goal and I also picked 100 push-ups as it’s quite tough to sit there and just watch his videos while he’s there doing a push-up montage knowing I’ve still got another 40 reps to go. After a few weeks I settled on 3 sets of 40 pushups giving me 120 but being easy to remember to do enough and making up for any poor form.

Besides the push-ups my resolutions are to:

Publish an average of two videos per week on the channel which would see me adding a minimum of 104 videos this year.
Lose 50 pounds by year end, the details of this one was at a minimum to come down one pant size, and the weight could go up if it were muscle, at the time I was 28% fat according to the scale.
Free up the NAS of all unfinished videos
Have no moving boxes full of stuff.

That’s all for now, catch you on the flipside,

Kacey

Back at it - February 13th, 2021