Synology

This isn't a new religion or anything, but it is a great NAS! I have had this NAS for maybe a year and i love it. My DS211j is still not organized, or fully utilized, but hopefully some day it will get there.

The DS was easy to setup and even easy to update. I only purchased one hard drive of a two bay system, but I do like it. This past week, I finally convinced Laura that we needed that second HD to backup our data, so I am currently in the process of seeing if i can get it to where i can RAID it.

I tried expanding and adding a group, but it would always create a separate volume that would not allow it to be managed and changed to a RAID. Finally i decided to try to expand my current volume...we shall see.

Love and Respect

I cannot say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but i do think that there are a couple of things that i took away from this book.

i believe this book could have been shortened to about 50 pages and been just a relevant.

however, i do find myself referencing some of what it says every now and then.

it talks about men and women and their battles because of how they see things differently (obvious i know, but he explains some of the differences in the book). he talks about some ways to recognize unhealthy communication and a couple of ways to combat it.

i think that he touts his process way too much in the absurd amount of examples (which do show the diversity of problems that people work through). a cliff notes version would have been great.

thanks for the long read. and hopefully it will impact me for the positive, as well as those that i am around. i do have to admit, it was great getting to go through this book with a couple of great friends was definitely a bonus.

a great book on communication, one i do suggest reading, is crucial conversations