The Blog of Michael Lee Mitchell

I have been teasing some big news for this month. Here it is. I have sold my 15.15 acres in Paris, Tennessee. I didn't want to say anything until it was finalized. I only had 8 years to go on paying it off. But due to life circumstances living in Florida and it being 14-16 hour drive away I had not been up there in over 8 years. So I got a call out of the blue from someone who lives up there and offered me a price I could not refuse. So it is done. I will miss it as it was a gorgeous piece of vacant land, but I just could not justify keeping it anymore. The money I got for it will help pay off a majority of my bills and get me on a better tract and allow me to have a sufficient savings. So in addition to my discontinuing posting on my Blogger site, it is also the end of an era for the land I used to own in Paris, Tennessee. I hope everyone has a great and thoughtful and thankful Memorial Day.

 This is the end of era for me. I will stop posting on Blogger.com effective immediately. I will not be taking this site down and it will be hosted here as long as Google allows and doesn't shut down Blogger. I have moved all my all posts over to my self hosted WordPress website.  Why am I doing this? Well for a few of reasons. I have had my personal website for many years and just finally learned how to work WordPress. I imported all my Blogger post over there.Secondly, there is no easy way to post from one source and have it propagate to other services, like Blogger, my WordPress website, Twitter and my own Mastodon instance. In addition, there is no way for me to easily integrate/embed those sources into my website (though this one could change in the future). Thirdly and lastly Google has not invested in Blogger in years and it has remain stale and feels like it has been forgotten. I am just wondering when they will kill Blogger.  Again I will be keeping this up as it...

I am currently spending an early, beautiful Saturday morning at Ford for vehicle maintenance. Wish the car could drive itself for this so I could sleep ☺️.

  Today I spent almost the entire day upgrading my network cable in the attic and setting up for bringing a backup internet connection online. While upgrading the network, I thought I had Cat5e Cable in the attic. It turned out to be Cat 5 and my Dad and myself installed it in 1995 almost 30 years ago. So now I have Cat 6 and I ran two lines with my dad’s help and then made my own keystone Cat 6 jacks for the first time. A lot of people might ask why Cat 6, not 6A, or 7, or even 8. Well, I chose Cat 6 because it should be fine for my needs and I watched several videos that Cat 7 or 8 are not official specs. There were a few hiccups on the way but it is done. Now I just have to set up my TP-Link Omada Router and turn my Wifi5 Netgear Orbi and Satellite into Access Points. I will eventually upgrade the Access Points but I am taking this one thing at a time. I already have a backup internet connection. Frontier Fiber 500/500 is my main internet connection. Spectru...

I saw the Google Pixel Tablet yesterday and was intrigued. But, I am shy of their phones and will be staying away from them after being burned with the Google 6 Pro. Even when I used that thing, I wanted to throw it from the go with the stupid fingerprint sensor. Back to the tablet I can see use cases for it but am wary of the Tensor chips because they are modified Exynos chips and those are some of the hottest chips I have used. I will wait for reviews. I do like the fact the dock comes with it.

So far the beginning of May 2023 is starting off interesting. I will be able to expand on more as the month goes on as things get done. For now, I am tired and heading to bed for the night. I hope everyone had a great day.

Lately, the start of the week starts early and ends late and I am tired throughout it all. With that in mind, have a great week, everyone.

I have spent all day learning how to update my website myself. It has been interesting and I hope it is improving. I am learning that WordPress has a lot to offer. After I get this down I my learn and create a completely static website. Well, that is it for now and the most I have worked on my website in years and blogged in a long time.

I am finally trying to learn WordPress I have had this website for a long time. WordPress has some interesting features but you know what it would be easier if they had sort learning videos from the company. I wish there was a full-feature free personal theme too. I so miss Microsoft Frontpage. I could really use that program and it was really easy to understand. I will tell you another source that has been helping me ChatGPT. I cannot believe how useful it is.