One of my 2021 TODO Items was to listen to music for pleasure. I’ve really struggled with this the last few years. To be honest, my relationship with music as a whole has been strained. After Dollar Fox, I just didn’t have the passion. Not that the band did anything, it just took a lot….
Month: March 2021
Azure SQL Server Empty Datetime Handling
I’ve had a few instances where a datetime column gets populated with an empty string. When accessed these come out as either “1900-01-01 00:00:00.000” or “1899-12-30 00:00:00.000”. I was converting these from datetime to date and tried using CASE() to present NULL instead of the incorrect date. Turns out, if you do the CONVERT() anywhere…
Bird’s Nest
I spent some time practicing skipping jigs. This was inevitable. This was also far from the worst. I did get better at skipping so the pain of getting skunked was diminished a little.
Hello Snake, Hello Spring!
The snow melted, and spring is in a hurry! The sun is shining bright and warm even though the wind continues to be chilly. The snakes have noticed, or at least one snake noticed. He also noticed that I was disturbing his sun bathing and darted away to the longer grasses near the creek. The…
No Motorcycle
For the first time in over two decades, I have no motorcycle. I sold my Triumph Scrambler back in December. This weekend, I finally went through the rest of the motorcycle gear and started getting it out of the garage. All in all, it was not nearly as emotional as I expected. This was the…