Nick’s Vibe Check

If you haven’t fallen down this rabbit hole yet, enjoy it. I was always a bit mystified at how one would actually get their own domain. GoDaddy commercials during the Nascar races were about as close as I came to figuring that out (but I was still too young to care). However, I decided marketing myself started with creating my own website, and I quickly settled on nalvarez.net via Squarespace ($20/yr, switched to Google Domains for $12/yr later). And, for a while, I was content. Playing with all the DNS records, seeing what I could integrate with my home server, and just having my own website was my entertainment. A year later, the domain itch came back… justifiably. My aspirations as a DJ had accelerated enough to the point I thought my own DJ website was necessary. Until that moment, I had been running everything from a subpage of my main site: nalvarez.net/dj . So, Google Domains once again received $12 from me as I purchased djnicky.net . This one had a bit of thinking involved

Hopefully this really gets done in the time frame they’re promising, but I’m not confident in that. If you’ve flown out of the Reno-Tahoe International Airport recently, you might have noticed the lane closures, construction, and somewhat longer wait times getting in and out of the ticketing area. This is all part of the MoreRNO initiative by the Reno-Tahoe Aiport Authority (the same one that just canned the air races ). I think this is stems from every medium-sized city’s growing pains. Reno has been expanding quite a bit since I moved here about five years ago. Dirt lots have become luxury apartments (or ones soon to be) and old motels are being demolished along 4th Street. We can thank the influx of tech hubs (Tesla, Apple, Google, etc) and the exodus from California. Accordingly, the airport has been seeing more traffic: 4.3 million passengers in 2022 — a mere 3% less than 2019’s numbers. I believe airlines recognize this, too, as we’re seeing more flights into the region (23 n