hlmauera | Reading

Worked from home, so also bsked bread rolls and dod a couple loads of laundry.

Finished sketches of how the attic looks now, and what I want to do with an upstairs bedroom and half bath, and sent it to the contractor who visited last Wednesday.

In the evening I finished the right half of my sweater alteration in progress, and cut the left side and started sewing it.

Then Keldor and I did acroyoga for the first time since August and only the 10th time all year. The problem with my right forearm seems to have cleared up enough to manage it again. Much to my surprise, we managed the transition from bird to me in bow pose still balenced on my hips on his upraised feet. That used to be almost impossible even when Johan and I were meeting for acroyoga 3 to 5 days a week, and tonight it felt quite reasonable.

kareina

Today we went to Grundet and played in the Smithy there. There were a number of Frostheim people there, and Annika came over from Finland to work on a project. But I spent more time at the forge than talking to people.

I opted to practice bending metal by making belt hook loops. In around five hours I made four of them.

mark posting in

dw_maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

kareina

We got eight hours of sleep! This is easy to accomplish when one is so tried from the road trip that one goes to bed before 21:00. I am now feeling much better, and think my brain is back on line.

I went in to the office today, since the weekly meeting happens on Tuesdays at 15:00. This week I was lucky! In the weekly meeting today they only talked about something that has nothing to do with me. So at 15:27 I asked "will we discuss anything else today? If not, maybe I can take the early bus, I feel like I don't have anything to contribute to the meeting". They said goodbye, and I went to the bus stop next to my office, and the bus came pretty much straight away.

Ironically, once on the bus I got so absorbed working I didn't notice when the bus got to Lövånger. Note, the bus turns left off the highway, then right into the parking lot, then left to pull up to the building, then, if one doesn't get off, it turns left to continue through the parking lot, then left onto the street, then right to get back onto the highway. This is the only stop on the route with so many turns, and I noticed none of them.

Several minutes later I looked up, wondered when we would be there, didn't see any landmarks that gave me a hint, looked at the time, noticed it was 7 minutes after we should have arrived. Opened google maps, and saw that we were, in fact a few minutes north of Lövånger. Oops.

Pressed the stop button, called Keldor, who had just driven past where I was. Grabbed everything, got off the bus, he turned around, came and picked me up.

In hindsight, a factor could have been the weekend's long toad trip. My bus commute to work is only 1.5 hours, which after Sunday's 22 hours, feels really short!

alierak posting in

dw_maintenance

DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

kareina

I decided to work from Skelleftehamn today, so that I will be able to return the new personal computer I had bought as soon as the shop opens (ok, as soon as I finish my meeting, which starts when the shop opens).

Why? In part because I didn't much like the propensity of Windows 11 to do things for me without asking consent first. In part because my home Wacom pen and tablet is too old to work with that type of processor (it literally wouldn't install the driver that works with that pen/tablet, as the "platform isn't supported"), but the straw that really made It easy to decide not to keep it was when I tried to copy over the documents folder from the old computer, and it wouldn't fit. Therefore, it wouldn't be possible to install any programs, either. Nope, just nope. I will take it back, and put off buying a new one till after we get back from Boar Hunt.

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

Common Kibitzing

Mauera's ramblings

Reading

Successful acroyoga after a long break

Another smithy day

Database maintenance

Staying at work longer than intended

AWS outage

that's a nope

Profile

Navigation

July 2020

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags