Two good people I know passed away recently. Mark who was a high school classmate and Jaye who was a fellow parishioner at church both passed away within the last couple of days. I liked both of them, and it saddens me that they are no longer with us. Jaye fought a 15-year battle with cancer and Mark had health issues of his own. Both men were good people. I am better for have known them and had them in my life. May their memories be a blessing. Godspeed good sirs.
Blessed are those who mourn.
I have been making music in a way by taking some of our CD’s and ripping them to my digital collection on my laptop. I have been using the Linux program Rhythmbox to import the music and then visually organizing the albums on Gnome Music where I will play them from.
Furthermore, I am saving them in the open source Ogg Vorbis format and tagging them so they can have the album art can be found online and embedded to each title. They won’t be going online for sharing just so that people with power will know it will be for personal use only. This is a retro way of doing things I would imagine, but it is fun.
International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th commemorating women’s fight for equality and liberation along with the women’s rights movement. On International Women’s Day focus is given to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women.
I would like to honor all the women in my life who have made our family better and the world a better place. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you.
On this International Women’s Day I would like to recognize the first woman to hold the office of The Archbishop Of Canterbury, The Most Reverend and Right Honorable Sarah Mullally. She is the leader of the Anglican Communion that reaches world-wide including the Episcopal Church that I am part of. Women in the clergy do amazing work despite facing discrimination in some parts of the Christian community.
As a reminder, I love Jesus and I cuss a little. Lately I have been cussing more because of the way things are. Righteous anger is good anger and the expression of it is important.
I reinstalled the Fedora Linux operating system yesterday and I have been settling in by downloading programs and importing files. Some stuff didn’t look right but with a Google search and some very light copying and pasting into the terminal things are looking and working good.
I must say that the vanilla Gnome desktop environment experience is good and allows for modifications. Figuring stuff out is exciting.
It’s time to “spring forward” again. That means setting your clocks ahead one hour before going to bed tonight as Daylight Savings Time begins at 2:00 AM on March 8, 2026. I hate time change like this because it messes with mood and other things. Some places have decided to no longer change time. They are smart in my book.
Once again, don’t forget to make that change tonight.
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