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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. This is a bad,

States visited: Texas Kansas Tennessee New Mexico We started our month in Austin, at the hotel where Michael and I met (💖), then we made the drive up to Andover, KS. As a South Texan girl, I'd always thrown a little shade at the Great Plains states. Pfft. Kansas? Nebraska? Who'd want to live there? Unfortunately, the more we go to Kansas the more I like it. On the other hand, we haven't been there in the winter yet, and we've never seen a tornado so my opinion has not yet so

States visited: Tennessee New Mexico Texas Arkansas Missouri Illinois Indiana Ohio Kentucky Oklahoma Kansas We started our month together in Tennessee. It was a short trip from Alabama to our class in Gainesville, but it was only at 10:00pm on Sunday night that we realized our class was ACTUALLY in Cookeville, not Gainesville. Oops! So we threw everything back in the van and got up early Monday morning to make the switch. It was only about 90 minutes away, so not a catastro

Remember when Microsoft forced us all off the elegant, versatile, and reliable Windows 7 with the promise that Windows 10 would put an end to the frustrating process of upgrading operating systems every 5-8 years? Remember when Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft "evangelist" promised that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows we'd ever have? That "Windows as a Service" meant you'd never have to change operating systems again? Remember when they assured us "All of that migrat

States visited: Washington State Texas Louisiana Alabama Feeling like a tech again We started September home in Boerne. I even got to...

<p>States Visited:Japan (!!)TennesseeAlabamaIdahoPennsylvaniaNew Jersey Well, we left Kansas and spent a week in Chalmette, LA. We were just ten minutes from Bourbon St so we braved the extreme heat and the homeless drug-addicts and went down to Jackson Square for beignets and coffee. From New Orleans, we hopped in the car, drove 8hrs up to<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/was-this-crazy/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-

<p>States Visited: IndianaIllinoisTexasNew Mexico After a week at home in New Jersey, we saddled up and headed out to Illinois. On our way through, we spent the night in Indiana with the long lost sister. We taught in Spoon River, Illinois at a school that seemed to have two programs; fiber optics and medical marijuana.<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/out-in-the-badlands-of-new-mexico/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-te

<p>Well, we finally made it to Japan! After a 14 hour flight, we got to spend almost 3 weeks in Japan, touring temples, eating sushi, and -primarily- walking up and down flights of stairs. We started with 2 days in Osaka and a day trip to Kurashiki to see the historic denim manufacturing hub, then<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/japaaaaaan/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;Japaaaaaan&#8221;</span></a></p>

<p>States Visited:TennesseeNebraskaIllinoisNew JerseyNew York Well, we flew out Nashville thinking we would drive to Little Rock the week after. Turns out our Little Rock class was canceled, so we got to drive to Lincoln, NE instead! Combine a 14 hour drive and a flight delayed by 5 hours, and it was a very long night!<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/count-down-to-vacation/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;C

<p>States visited:New MexicoArkansasFloridaMontana We started off with a week in Santa Fe and then a week in Taos. While in Santa Fe, we visited the historic Santa Fe Plaza and walked around the Hotel La Fonda, another famous Harvey Hotel. From Taos, we had our first class in Arkansas! We arrived in Little Rock just<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/west-to-east-and-back/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;West

<p>States Visited:New YorkNew JerseyAlabamaTennesseeTexasNew Mexico We started our 2025 with a class in New York City. If you had told me when I was a little country kid that one day a week in New York City would be routine, I would have been very skeptical! From New York, we drove down to train a<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/its-really-winter-now/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;It&#8217;s really winter

<p>States Visited: FloridaLouisianaTexasNew Jersey We left for Florida after Thanksgiving, making this our fourth time in Chiefland this year. We stayed in our little cabin AirBnB again. It feels like going home at this point, except this time it was COLD! From Chiefland we headed back to Lake Charles (yes, again). From Lake Charles we<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/a-new-jersey-christmas/">Continue reading <span class="screen-read

<p>States Visited:LouisianaNew MexicoTexas We spent the first two weeks of November in Louisiana, first in New Orleans and then in Cottonport. From there, we headed out to Taos for our first taste of winter in 2024! While in Taos, we branched out from our culinary comfort zone and bought an octopus. Have you really lived<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/first-taste-of-winter/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;

<p>States Visited:AlabamaWashingtonTexas New Mexico After our conference, Michael and I went back to Mobile for a week, then drove home, took everything out of our suitcases, but them back into different suitcases and flew to Washington state! This has been a bucket-list thing for me for ages! Now I&#8217;m only missing Hawai&#8217;i, North Dakota, Minnesota,<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2024/11/01/check-one-more-state/">Continue reading <s

<p>States Visited:NevadaArizonaNew MexicoTexasLouisiana September started out in Las Vegas, then we headed to Louisiana. We were grooving along in Lake Charles when they announced that Hurricane Florence was headed straight for us and class was canceled for Tuesday and Wednesday. So, we sat in the hotel and enjoyed two bright, sunny days while Hurricane Florence<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/our-first-grown-up-conference/">Continu

<p>States Visited:FloridaTexasKansasNew Mexico Man, the beginning of the month feels like a lifetime ago, so let me try to remember who I was&#8230;. Oh yeah! We moved into Chiefland, Florida just as Hurricane Debby hit the coast. So, we spent our first day of class sitting in the dark, listening to the rain. Then, just<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/goodbye-to-baby-sister/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;

<p>States Visited:GeorgiaAlaska(!!)New MexicoTexas When we left you last month, we were about to leave Georgia for our trip out west. We spent the 4th of July in Albuquerque, watching the fireworks from Balloon Fiesta Park. We also got to visit the Abrams Abruzzo Balloon Museum that weekend. It was a really cool place to spend<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/ho-for-the-yukon/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220

<p>States Visited:LouisianaIllinois (Michael only)TexasFloridaGeorgia We left New Jersey and taught a class at a prison in central Louisiana. That was a new experience for Michael! After Louisiana, we had a week at home in Texas, then Michael left me to head to Illinois. I stayed behind to help with my sister&#8217;s bridal shower! After 3<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/together-again/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-t