Travelers Diarrhea

Matthew Heick

Traveler’s diarrhea is a digestive tract disorder that commonly causes loose stools and stomach cramps. It’s caused by eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water. Fortunately, traveler’s diarrhea usually isn’t serious in most people — it’s just unpleasant.
– Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/syc-20352182

16 years ago I returned from my first international trip to Hong Kong, and low and behold my uneducated self sat on the toilet. I deduced that accidentally drinking a little shower water in a hotel might’ve created the pain I had to endure for the following days.

I planned today to take a journey back 16 years, kicking my digital heels off to travel again to Hong Kong for the first time, again.

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My Magic Number

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I have a magic number.

It’s been a number that I invented as part of an experience with a scientific calculator when I was in the 8th grade (circa 1994-1995). The calculator I possessed had the ability to convert between different number bases, specifically between decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal. Being the child I was I saw potential with using the calculators hexadecimal alphabet and writing letters and numbers together.

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Disk Usage: 100% to 76%

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Around October of 2021 I was running out of disk space on my 6TB hard drive that I had acquired back on November 2015, so I decided to upgrade to the newest and greatest storage solutions of all time: 14TB of block storage! I went ahead and purchased a WD Elements 14TB USB 3.0 external hard drive, proceeded to format it down and get it ready for storing all my useful content.

From October 2021 to July 2025 I completely filled that volume up, and just recently hit the 100% usage. What to do? By the looks of the graph I figured that out without having to delete any files…

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