Upcoming Blizzard Empties Costco
I’ve never seen it this empty before, but it still had more food than most grocery stores, including Trader Joe. (Last image will be Trader Joe chips aisle)

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and Trader Joe:
Twin 2 Month Old Photos
(including big sister Scarlett!)

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I’ve reduced the size to make it load faster on the net. If you want a larger size for printing out a photo, let me know. (Although these might be good enough for 4x6 in photos)
How to add more RAM to a KVM Virtual Machine
I haveĀ VM running Emby that I set up a while ago on an low spec machine that had been the guest computer before everyone got Chromebooks and tablets. But it only had 2GB of RAM and I gave 1GB to the VM. So I added some new RAM to bring the system up to 8GB and wanted to start off by giving the VM 4GB to see if that improved performance.
Now Jewish People can freak their kids out, too!
I came across this in Target during Christmas time. Now, I am not a fan of the concept of the Elf on the Shelf and I’ve heard quite a few anecdotes of kids becoming freaked out - like the girl who called 911 because it fell and she didn’t want to touch it because kids are told that if they touch it they won’t get any presents. But between companies looking for a cash grab and those Jewish families who want to celebrate not-Christmas (like the ones where I went to high school that had Hanukkah Bushes (Christmas Trees with blue lights) and Hanukkah outside decorations), I guess this was inevitable.
Using Systemd to automatically restart services
Recently I’ve been having a problem where the Emby server kept dying. I haven’t been able to figure out what is causing it. So while I’ve been trying to figure it out with the Emby folks, I fixed up the systemd script for Emby so that it would restart itself whenever it died. It was incredibly simple to do this. Here’s the original script:
[Unit]
Description=Emby Media Server
After=network.target
[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/emby-server.conf
ExecStart=/usr/lib/emby-server/emby-server.sh start
Restart=on-abort
TimeoutSec=20
ExecStopPost=/usr/lib/emby-server/emby-server.sh clear
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
And here’s how I fixed it:
Christmas Portraits with Danielle's Family

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If you want a full-size version for printing out, email me.