We saw the first bears on the #AppalachianTrail on this day in 2013, about three miles after entering Shenandoah National Park. After spending the previous month in the incredibly rugged terrain of New Hampshire and southern Maine, Virginia felt like a super highway.
I had an old Linksys router in my IT junk box. I pulled it out to see if it supported extending a wireless network. Out of the box, it did not but after I flashed the firmware with DD-WRT it developed super powers. I can run ad blocking, custom DNS, network attached storage and a VPN through it.