So this is my first Christmas without Colleen. I've already gotten ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• My kids, E and R, and their respective SOs.
• My sister-of-choice N.
• LWN.net - Linux Weekly News. I've been ( Read more... )

It's been a week. I'm not sure what kind of week. At least I'm not having to deal with Log4j, beyond upgrading the Linux boxen that don't upgrade themselves automatically. Whatever OS you're running, upgrade now. It might not be the worst bug ever (so far), but if it isn't it's close.
Still don't feel like I'm getting much ( Read more... )

I guess I got a few things done this week. And I learned a name for a ??feeling: languishing. So that's something.
It probably says something -- I'm not sure what -- that I can claim that ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• Unexpected gifts from my family of choice, and the ability to reciprocate (sometimes on short notice).
• Coincidences of location that greatly simply a trip with two destinations.
• Having man-handled a heavy box without noticeably damaging myself.
• Off-the-shelf diclofenac gel and electric heating ( Read more... )

It's been a week. I guess. Current earworm is Phil Ochs' version of "The Highwayman", because it came up in #filkhaven. I'm not sure what that particular earworm says about me. If anything.
It being Hanukkah, there has been fried food in moderate abundance ( Read more... )

Welcome to December, 2021!

[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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As the title says, this was my first Thanksgiving without Colleen. Not the first time we were separated for Thanksgiving -- there have ( Read more... )

I actually appear to have gotten a few things done this week. Very little of what really needs doing, but at this point I need to mark whatever small gains I can make. (Not clear how much good that does but I'll take what I can get.)
Omicron is very worrisome. See Friday, where I've also put some ( Read more... )

I'm not too good at rating things, but I think it's safe for me to say that this past year was even worse than the previous one, which I called pretty awful last Thanksgiving.
Looking back,...
ls ../2020/12/*thankf* ../2021/*/*thankf* | wc -l 45
... so I missed seven weeks, which is pretty poor compared to three last year ( Read more... )