Hi, friends!
I had a super fun afternoon! Our main application was dead in the water for 3 hours! And our dark environment failed so no back up.
We never learn. As to be expected, this was an entirely predictable problem. Ended up being a very entertaining emergency call.
How did your day go? Anything good? Anything bad? Anything indifferent?
Gah, I’m dealing with IT, because they locked my remote account. Apparently they were sending their password-expiration warnings to an account that they had told me was going to be deactivated.
When I left Corporate America a decade ago and went out on my own as a lowly freelancer, one of the things that worried me most was that I would have to function as my own IT department. Turns out, that was the least of my problems. Stuff comes to me however they want it, I work on it however they want it, back it goes however they want it. I do not change my own access randomly and often; I do not disable my own access by design or through incompetence; the phrase “they want us to send the files this way but fuck it, they’re idiots, I’ll send them over via WeTransfer” gets bandied about quite a bit; my upgrades are glitch-free and do not involve a central server that instigates mayhem on the reg.
When I do have an issue working in a proprietary setting a simple, “I seem to be having a little trouble with…” message is sent and then I go off and watch YouTube documentaries or whatever until, at some point, a very sheepish and apologetic communiqué comes my way and work begins again.
nothing special here..that i havent mentioned already
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me has beer and snacks 😀
Nothing can go wrong with this plan!
Test kits I found online arrived. I think I may need to test my kid just home from college but not sure, and they are completely sold out in stores.
If anyone needs one I can tell how to find, or just wait until Biden sends them out in January.
I’m halfway surprised there isn’t a run on home tests in my state by people driving to nearby big cities to make 2x or 3x markups (all the pharmacies I’ve been to have 2-3 boxes on the shelf and cartons in the back). We’re traveling for a few weeks (driving, boosted, staying distanced, masked) and are taking a dozen in the car in case we need them.
If you have not yet, try checking the CVS or Walgreens apps for online ordering in case they can route them from less depleted warehouses.
People did that with hand sanitizer early on, and some of the vultures ended up stuck with thousands of gallons of it.
Mrs Butcher went down the street and picked up a pair for $20. One of the girls is super paranoid so asked us to test before she comes down on Friday.
AWS was glitchy this morning. A more cynical person might suggest that they are moving capacity to owned use during the last minute Christmas rush. Clearing server caches was of some help. At least it wasn’t Platform randomly moving nodes. So yup, it appeared the production site was the live site and the mobile version was the desktop version for about 20 minutes early this morning, eastern time. At least it was corrected before 7 AM. I am technically off through Monday as of this second, although there will be the normal daily email triage and cashflow maintenance. @Brightersideoflife your morning sounded…fun…
It was a great day!
We don’t use AWS despite the convenience of spinning up capacity with ease. No no, we have our own stuff and it was completely overloaded on an application despite people “saying” they did all the performance testing needed. HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA
Also, both kids got boosted today, so that’s another thing checked off the list. I live in a place with high vax rates, so it’s not like all of the US, but bunches of people were getting theirs, and I ran into someone I knew who was getting her kid shot up tomorrow too. Part of the country, at least, is with the program.
Yay, glad they got boosted!!! That helped my stress levels a lot when I got boosted.
Well, I got my hair cut this morning for the court gig that I was slated to do in person downtown tomorrow. They said they’d be needing me all day, so I dipped into my PTO to cover it. Of course, I made sure beforehand to e-mail the lady from the court administrator’s office to make sure that the thing was still on for tomorrow.
Aaaaaannnnnd I heard back in the early afternoon that it was cancelled, which I probably could’ve sussed out for myself if I’d bothered to check the case listing and noticed that it was being heard by the same judge from the other day, who’s having to work from home because he has . . . “the virus.” So, not only do I get a paid day off from work tomorrow — but also the two-hour minimum for downtown court gigs cancelled with less than 24 hours’ notice. And with that, I’ll slide into my Christmas weekend a bit earlier than expected, which I have no fucking problem with at all.
Well that’s a bit of good news! Enjoy your free day!
My neighbor makes these marshmallow cornflake wreaths. I made myself a nice dinner of potato leak soup and veggies but then destroyed all that by eating a whole bunch of these:
https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/cornflake-wreaths-christmas-cookies-recipe
Good News/Bad News here, on Dad’s stuff🙃
He was fiiiinally able to get that long-delayed upper & lower endoscopy today.
Annnnd there was nothing really wrong–which is GOOD, but also not great, because it means we don’t know WHY he’s still anemic & drops his Hemoglobin so often & so much.
We have an appointment with the primary care provider on the 3rd, and he’s got an appointment with the Kidney specialist on the 14th… buuuut we’re basically in limbo for now, on figuring out what’s wrong.
It may be his kidney disease & kidney issues that’s causing the issues, there aren’t really answers yet… but of course my brain goes into overdrive, with the worry-wort stuff, and part of the constant circus in the my brain is now starting to get a good bit worried about the various cancers that can cause low Hgb, low & oddly-shaped red cells, & high eosinophil counts🙃
I loathe *not knowing,* and sometimes I kiiiiinda hate the fact that I have the medical knowledge & understanding that I do, without having gone on to doing med school, because I know enough to know when things DON’T look good, but not enough to DO anything to make anything clearer or to make it better.😕
I learned to read abstracts & journal articles years ago, with all *my* pancreas stuff, because there was so little info out there on “non-functioning neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas” that if i didn’t teach myself to understand that shit, I was only gonna find stories about pancreatic cancer–and most often adenocarcinoma *not* endocrine cancers in the pancreas…
And then, when I went back to school & got the Child Life Assistant degree, I also had to learn to read medical terminology & info–because Child Life is typically centered around kiddos who are being treated in medical facilities & as Child Life Staff, you need to understand a child’s Dx, so that you can help their grownups & family to best support the child and the staffers need to know & understand the Dx’s, so that we can support the child in the most helpful ways, and *also* don’t compound/ worsen their issues because we’re trying to “help” them in ways that are incompatible with successful treatments (i.e. we need to know if a child has light-induced seizures, so that if they get toys or are going to play with games, we don’t give them ones where there may be strobing lights, etc.!)…
It’s… worrisome tbh, to look through what I’m seeing in Dad’s lab & chart results, yet not be able to piece it all together, or really have many folks who can understand the scary parts completely. I know I’m incredibly lucky to have my two aunties who do understand his chart!!… but it’s also pretty damn lonely & scary sometimes, too.😕
Just want to say that you are amazing and that your father is lucky to have you helping him.
As always, hugs to you.
Going through some similar stuff with my dad, but I’m 1,300 miles from him, so the heavy lifting falls on my stepmom. It’s a lot of work, and I am touching base and listening as often as I can. Kudos to you for all the work you are doing.