Category: Freelance Friday
Friday Notes 080 – November 22 2019
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One of the things I always wonder about is what parents who work out of the house do when their kid suddenly gets sick and they have to deal with it. Today (Thursday) my 9-year-old is upstairs not feeling well in the bathroom, but that doesn’t mean I have to take time off work. My…
Friday Notes 079 – November 15 2019
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This week was great, and then a kid got sick which makes things tougher. It’s harder to find time for work because we need to keep the kid home instead of having someone over to play with them. Usually kids being sick means I loose 4 hours of work at a minimum. When that happens,…
Friday Notes 078 – November 8 2019
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This week I watched an interesting video about how much a small YouTube channel can earn. It has me thinking about putting out extra YouTube content for the next number of months, say two videos a week, to see if I can really earn something there. I’m not talking earning enough to stop doing anything…
Friday Notes 076 – October 25 2019
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This week we saw crazy rain followed by very sunny warm days that were beautiful. The kids got some new playground equipment at school, and I’m writing this a day early because it’s a 1/2 day of school and Friday off for the kids. Actually they don’t have a full week of school in October…
Best Handbrake Settings
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I’ve been working on setting up a Plex server, and of course wondered about the best way to encode my videos for said Plex. Clearly smallest file size possible with highest visual quality. I’ve tested about 10 settings and these directions are giving me the best results
Friday Notes 075 – October 18 2019
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Canada finished celebrating Turkey Day last weekend, and we threw a family birthday for a new 9-year-old in the house. Brunch was had and we were eating cake around lunch time. That means it’s been a busy, but great week around the McHale house. To continue my email list only content let’s talk about being…
Friday Notes 074 – October 11 2019
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It’s turned cold around here, even had frost on the ground Thursday morning. Of course, give it a few weeks and I’ll see 15C and rain…for most of the rest of the year until summer decides to come. The continual ran was the hardest part of moving here from Ontario, where it isn’t grey for…
Friday Notes 073 – October 4 2019
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This week I finished Company of One by Paul Jarvis and I very much enjoyed the book, watch for a review of that coming in the next week or so. Outside of that, I’ve been thinking about doing more of what makes me happy. Sometimes that’s client work, but sometimes it’s not. Yesterday what was…
Friday Notes 077 – November 1 2019
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Yet another week of school is happening that isn’t a full week. Today my kids are home and in theory I’m still getting work done, but with noise cancelling headphones on because kids make a lot of noise. Seriously, I think that Starbucks is a quieter place to work than a house full of kids.…
Friday Notes 072 – September 27 2019
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Last night was the first race for the x-country team I’m helping coach at my daughter’s school. That meant two trips across town to get my wife to work, us back to the race, then us back to the arena so all of my kids could skate. Then back home after 7pm with three kids…
