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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 1h

And then today is also a day spent pondering adoption and abortion, and why the fuck am I even here. Carol the secretary at Xerox in Hinsdale in the late 60s who was fucking her married boss could have made a different decision and saved me from all of this.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 1h

Why would a scammer send a fake "refund" check? Why go through the trouble? Just go radio silent and be done. Why send a fake check? It doesn't make sense. My trust and faith in humanity is shaken. But why priority-mail a fake check?

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 1h

Brutal week. Just let work know that I'm dealing with "The Nonsense" again today and will likely not be around much. And then I feel like I'm both lying and letting the team down. Which then leads to a spiral that starts at "They're mad" and ends with "I'm going to get fired." #adhd #rsd

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 13h

It's just two grand. I have the whitest of white privilege. But I feel so, so stupid. I'm shaken. I joke about security training. Then I fell for one. And I had even sat on it for a few days. Idiot.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 19h

Credit Union thinks the check I got from the "innocent woman in the middle of this" is fake. So I may still be out $2k. My daughter thinks she knows the guy's identity. I'm not so sure. Time to call the FBI.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I sure hope that cashier's check -- if it even exists -- shows up today so I can put this nonsense behind me. So stupid.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ahh. That's better. Ubuntu 24.04. Apparently the CITES Status thing isn't working.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Latest campus I.T. listserv thread involves wiping old data from things like tablets that don't have hard drives so that they can be disposed of. Guy from the State of Illinois just popped into the convo -- "that's state of Illinois data -- you have to ask us first before erasing." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FINDINGS: There is no pneumonia, pleural effusion, or pneumothorax. The heart size is normal. There is no rib fracture.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, I'm aware that x-ray should be capitalized. So should The Internet. I'm going to xerox some things at work today after wiping off the glass with some kleenex. Maybe I'll even take the interstate highway system to work today.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Got chest x-rays taken yesterday. Nothing broken. Lungs fine. Gave me a pain Rx that I'm picking up this morning. Hope it isn't something addictive, or I won't take it. Sucks.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And of course I mentioned hitting my head and the nurse is way more concerned with that than my ribs. It was 11 days ago. I think my head is fine now.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So throwing bags of mulch over the fence this weekend (among other things) has irritated my ribs, to put it mildly. Waiting to hear from doctor's office about coming in for an x-ray.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The air is relatively still this evening. The interstate traffic is very loud. The fire is nice and warm.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Been giving a lot of thought these past few days to my fraternity experience in college. And my college time in general.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel sorta bad for our smaller, purple sibling up in Evanston. First game at new football stadium. Against Penn State. National television. And the stands are mostly empty. I know the fans aren't at Wrigley. 🤷🧡🤷

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also, a week later, head is all better. Ribs still hurt but annoyingly. Deep breath still hurts, but not bad enough that I don't take a deep breath every few minutes to confirm that yes, in fact, they still hurt. 🍖 #ribs #orahamhock

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gettin' a little weather tonight. Most of it is north and west of us. New neighbors moving in across the street. Lady that moved out ("oh the TAXES...") said new owners paid cash.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whoa, whoa, whoa -- you did what now??? Jesus christ, Skynet. I'm aware it has permissions that I've allowed, etc. but out of the blue "...well since you worked behind a bar..." Wait, what? 🤣🤣🧡💙

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is not the day for "not all men," fellas. "College kids are more promiscuous these days." I will happily get in trouble with HR for telling that guy to fuck straight off. I'm enraged. (Signed, an old, white, frat boy.) And do not "we don't know what happened" bullshit at me.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of the 17,714 rows my little app has written to the database, 13,487 have a "GPU utilization" value of 0.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sox advance. Cubs eliminated. What a wonderful day. One team has Barack and the Pope, the other has Charlie Kirk at the Trump-supporting Ricketts family. Somebody cue Boy George. Red, gold, and green, indeed.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So I froze all my credit on Monday and TransUnion just e-mailed me a credit card offer. Fucking seriously?

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a week. I fell for an online scam last weekend. So many warning signs that I missed. I feel like a complete moron. I've been sick to my stomach all week. So, so stupid. I don't know if my psyche will recover from this.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Installing a new computer for the TV in my office. "Donated" the old one to a new digital sign that needed to be up and running last week before our college academic review or whatever it was. I think I'm going to go with Ubuntu instead of Debian. Hopefully no more OS freezing over the weekend.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meatlab finally has ground beef in stock. Ordered 10 pounds of ground beef, and 10 pounds of ground chuck. No more store beef until we get a new President. (Also the meatlab is cheaper than the WalFart even....).

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No self-respecting Linux administrator should be without a set of penguin socks. Thanks so much @mikebruin.bsky.social for hooking me up!

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm a moron. "If something sounds too good to be true -- even if it is from a kid you went to grade school with -- it almost certainly is."

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It occurs to me that while I have yet to have my ex-wife's initials covered up on my shoulder*, I'm making plans to have her day of birth tattooed on my arm, as part of my Halloween costume. By golly I'm committed to the bit. (*binary ASCII 01000101 01000001 01000111)

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another hugely unpopular opinion: I loathe Neil Young. His voice, his "music," his schtick.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Starter number three. If we count the original bad one. Didn't break the terminal this time! Okay, time for reassembly of the rest of it. Smoke break first.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@jikei723.bsky.social will be as excited as I am that Tuscola football lost tonight!

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I sent an e-mail to the campus cPanel folks yesterday because "www" wasn't working for a .org domain. Their reply was that there's no CNAME for "www." I thought "well I guess I'll contact -- where is the DNS?" Oh, that's right. This is/was ALL ON ME. I'm the "DNS guy" for the domain. Me. Sigh. 🙄

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My grandson and his parents are visiting the ex-wife's condo for the first time this Sunday. Go Bears!

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." — Albert Camus, Le Malentendu, 1944 Claude Monet, French painter, 1840-1926 The Avenue, 1878 Oil on canvas Private collection 📷 From Illusions©

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If "Interstate Highway System" is a proper noun and gets capitalized, so should The Internet. It's essentially the same thing, but worldwide, and a billion times more complex and much more important.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I broke a rib, the pain would be unbearable, right? I'm in a ridiculous amount of pain, but probably not unbearable. So probably not broken?

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Aaaannnd. I just wasted $165. Dammit. And I knew better.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The battery tray, of all things, was a pain in the ass to remove. Then the starter is *right there*. Bottom bolt -- the long one -- ssuuuucccckkkkked. I finally cut a board to hold the ratchet in place laterally and broke it loose.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, it's because I paid the mower off last week. Today was actually the end of the six months no interest promotion, come to think of it. If we could time-travel back to the late 80s, before the dark stepmonster destroyed everything, my dad would have been proud of me.

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Michael Greifenkamp @nerdrium.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My credit score just dropped 61 points because none of my balances are very high. Credit scores are so, so stupid.

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