Life comes at you fast pic.twitter.com/XZNslzX6Uv
— Jamie Stelter (@JamieStelter) September 4, 2016
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Try Restore. Fail again. Try Reinstall. — Samuel Beckett, Sysadmin.
— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) September 4, 2016
Sitting here decrufting my notes-for-blog-posts files, my email folders, etc.
I’m tired of learning new information. I want to hit the pause button, just for a week. Or a month. Or…
Major Major Major Major
Just that with the certainty that it will go on forever and never end (and nobody can/will help you) is what anxiety is like for me when it attacks.
Anne Laurie
Nah, I’m a stone introvert, I need some ALONE time. Apart from all the other stuff (personal as well as political) over the last couple months, the Spousal Unit was out-of-the-office for the last three weeks — I love him dearly, but just having another human in the house gives me brain cramps after a while.
Major Major Major Major
@Anne Laurie: Me too. I meant that wanting to hit the pause button and knowing it will never come and having no other thoughts is the form an anxiety attack takes for me.
Mnemosyne
I managed to write 1,700 words of my novel three days running. Yay me!
Mnemosyne
Also, in more cheery dog news, a Facebook friend of mine spotted a pair of senior dogs online, immediately fell in love, and showed up at the rescue org the very next day to bring them home. She has posted many pictures of them and the two old guys look very contented at home on her couch.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: That’s great!
JordanRules
A long, like 4 year pause on 1/19 would be great.
Love the cool puppy!
Davebo
@Mnemosyne: Fantastic!
If they make sense, even better!
Haven’t bought a hard copy book for myself (sure, gifts for others) in 3 years. Sell me!
Anne Laurie
@Major Major Major Major: Spousal Unit went back to work today, and I (secretly) felt great. Then he came home & told me he’s working from home tomorrow… because the plumbers who installed the new furnace are coming in to install new thermostats. Which means I’ll be trying to sleep, while the banging-from-the-basement resumes, and the idiot rescue dogs panic & claw at my face. Sigh.
Gonzo
Been reading for years, but mostly lurk. My lovely wife and I are spending this first half of Jan in lovely Mexico. Tis a much needed recharge and a welcome break from winter in Philly.
M. Bouffant
Opened this in my news feed, & directly below “I’m tired of learning new information” (I’m w/ you, esp. if it’s new info concerning something you were able to do perfectly well before the new thing.) was this asshole again:
S.T.F.U., Zucky!
NotMax
It’s the forgetfulness that comes with the years, accompanied with the extra time and effort it takes to conjure up a specific word or name, that’s the real bugaboo. All the more because the one thing impossible to forget is how much better one’s memory used to be.
Finally got enough of a respite from rain and damp overcast to allow the ground to dry up enough to permit mowing of the property. Nearly 3 hours to do it all, was exhausted afterwards.
Patricia Kayden
Hit the button and take a mental health break. No problem.
HeartlandLiberal
I loved the Samuel Beckett Sysadmin quote. I managed to pull myself out of my funk in early December by plunging myself into project to bring my own email server back online. Four weeks later, I have a really well tuned Fedora 25 LINUX prod server, a matching backup server, and know more about LINUX than I ever did in greater depth. A benefit of retirement is you have time, if you take it, to dig deeper into a subject.
Aside from the benefit in exercise to my little gray cells, this means I will be pulling my email and business back from the cloud of Gmail, into my own local cloud, under my control. FWIW, it is fascinating to monitor the logs, and see how constant and unrelenting the attempts to login to the server trying rotating made up account names and password is. I am adding rich rules to the firewalld dynamc firewall to simply drop traffic from the worst offenders permanently. One site in Ukraine had the honor of going first.
I also want to give a shout out to the four RBL (real time blocklist) anti-spam services I am using.This server replaces one that died six months ago and had been in service for over 15 years, so several of the accounts existed already, and they are DELUGED with spam email, but 95% of it is being screened by the blocklists declared in the Postfix mail daemon configuration, and never hits my inboxes. If you are not familiar with them, check out http://spamhaus.org, it is the biggest and most famous, probably. And they allow small operations like mine to connect and screen incoming email for free.
Another bottom line, this is part of the effort to also secure one’s data and email from the prying eyes of the police state. Works for me. The server has a Comodo SSL certificate, so all connections from clients for doing email, be it Webmail, my Android phone, anything, is done over reserved ports and encrypted using SSL/TLS. Oops. Sorry, I promised to not speak Geek, but it slipped out.
FWIW, I have an old Dell SC1430 server that is going out of service for my consulting, and I plan to install a third Fedora 25 instance on it, to try stuff on FIRST. I tried to install Spamassassin on the backup, and it was a disaster. For a while, I thought I was going to have to reinstall the whole damned server to cleanup the mess. I finally got it pried loose and uninstalled, but it was a reminder of why one does stuff on a test machine FIRST.
HeartlandLiberal
@Mnemosyne: Kudos on putting pen to paper (or keyboard to screen). My germ of an idea for a political thriller just lies around in my head. My wife has talked me into going to her writing group, who meet to critique each others work, to try and jump start me. I don’t play well with others, but still, I think she has the write, I mean right, idea.
rikyrah
@Mnemosyne:
Congratulations ??
BellyCat
@Gonzo: Considering same. Geographic recommendations in Mexico?
Botsplainer
@BellyCat:
I’m fond of Puerto Morelos. Fishing town 40 minutes south of CUN airport, so it is easy to reach. Sleepy place, food is great, prices low, beautiful beach, great fishing, great reef/wreck diving and within a two hour’s drive of about a dozen top notch cenotes to dive, either by main road or jungle track.
Ben Cisco
@HeartlandLiberal: Impressive.
NotMax
@HeartlandLiberal
For the deep tech averse, more convenient to use a service such as marxmail.
NotMax
@BellyCat
Possibly changed, but Isla Mujeres was pretty laid back , and easy travel to the mainland for visits to Mayan ruins, etc.
frosty
@BellyCat: San Miguel de Allende.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Gonzo:
Where are you?
stinger
@Mnemosyne: Yay you!