• Maple Syrup Production

    Maple Syrup Season 2022 is Here!

    Usually I will tap on Valentines day. The season always starts around then and it is a good weekend to make sure you get your taps into the trees. Looking at the weather forecast, I’m going to tap this coming weekend just to be same. While Sunday starts us off around -5 in the morning, it will warm up and start off what looks to be a perfect week for running sap. Warm days and freezing nights. Depending on the actual day time temperature and how long it gets there, the trees may not run at all, the sun really needs to thaw out the tree first, but just in…

  • Blog

    Privacy.com Tip

    On the billing name and address, you can use any name and address you want. Did not know that. Ordered my sim cards and they had my name on them due to me using my real name on the billing address and a fake name on the shipping address. Damn. Still moving forward with it, but wish I knew about that one before!

  • Blog

    Removing Amazon Prime – Update

    I’m feeling good about myself today. I posted about cancelling Amazon Prime. I didn’t mean I would never order from them again, just remove the prime part from my life and stop paying them money for what I figured was no reason. My working theory was that they had built up such a distribution network that they couldn’t help but you get stuff quickly. So I ordered on Monday some RFID blocking items. They showed up on Wednesday. Two days. Free shipping. No prime. Drops the Mic…

  • Digital Privacy

    Trying out Mint Mobile

    Ordered a pre-paid sim card from Mint Mobile and going to pop that into one of my new phones. Being delivered today. Should be interesting. The privacy experiment is moving forward! I’m so into this right now I have people near and around me thinking that one day I’m just not going to show up to work and they’ll never hear from me or see me again. Funny thing is… That’s tempting. Not going to happen, but very tempting.