If you’re a reader of this blog, or if you follow me on social media — hell, pretty much if you interact with me at all, you’ve heard about Sammy. Maybe you’ve seen some pictures of her, maybe in one of the talks I used to give, back when conference speaking was kinda-sorta part of my job. Sammy joined our family late in our first year in Salem, after the two elderly cats that had been with us for…
Flew down to Austin Sunday afternoon, and was there all week for work. Work was work, 'nuff said — some wins, some …let’s say “not-wins”. So it goes. Austin was hotter and more humid than I like. I stayed downtown this time instead of out in the Northern boonies where the office is, and that was a distinct improvement on available evening options. Had some decent food, found the place that would…
meta This was a long, dragging week, but I’m also somehow struggling to remember much of anything specific. sigh did Sunday I did my semi-annual wooden utensil oiling. It was pretty satisfying Got paged out for work around 0230am Tuesday morning, and ended up being up much longer than necessary for reasons I’m not even going to get into Friday evening we went out to Bryn Mawr Vineyard for the…
meta I had kinda lost track of how load-bearing my typical Sunday afternoon at the local is — I do a good chunk of “weekly review” type stuff, cleaning out my email inbox, closing down open tabs, reviewing stuff in OmniFocus, etc etc. This Sunday I blew that off to meet up with a HS buddy and his family up in Portland, and holy crap I was just totally off-kilter in my personal life for a solid…
meta Another week of fingers-crossed hoping for no production outages, along with a few new work project aimed at making the environment more resilient (and no, of course we’re not pausing anything we were already doing, don’t be silly…) did Tuesday, got back into the gym for the first time in a while. Regretted (or, rather, my thighs regretted) that for most of the rest of the week Wednesday,…
meta As I mentioned in last week’s note, I got paged out on the evening of the 4th and ended up staying up until around 4am Sunday morning. The whole rest of the working week pretty much felt like recovering from the hangover of that production incident. I think we’ve got things into a better place, but a whole lot of the week was just periodically watching logs and holding my breath waiting for…
meta Thursday we got up kinda early and took Mx19 up to the airport so they could fly back to school in New York. They’re still on crutches, and their suitcase weighed in at 47 pounds, and to say TheWife and I were a little apprehensive about them doing this by themselves would be a colossal understatement — but in the end, they got back to their dorm without incident (or, at least, without any…
meta another week, another week note. still lots of fire-fighting at work (and not much time or brain space for much else). meh. did I followed up last week’s auto-twooter work with a bit more, extending it to support automatic skeeting to Bluesky as well as tooting to the Fediverse Mx19 was here all week, there was lots of hanging out. It’s nice to have them back home but they’re already chomping…
I updated the little lambda that auto-toots when I post so that it will also auto-skeet — this is a test of that functionality!
meta Short week for me; Juneteenth was a work holiday and I added on a couple days around it so I could have a nice long work-free weekned (which I was sorely in need of…) did Sunday I spent a little bit of time updating the little lambda that watches the feed of this blog and toots something out whenever there’s a new post — converted it from the EOL’d Node v20 to Node v24, updated some of the…