3 Kislev 5780 (December 2019) – Amanda Unvarnished

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Amanda CAARSON

· 3 Kislev 5780 (Sunday 1 December 2019) · 2 minutes to read

We’ve finally reached the point of the year where things start to slow down, and I’m glad for it.

Well, at least that’s the case if you don’t celebrate Christmas.

Data Recovery 2019 has begun in earnest, and there’s a new 2TB external hard drive to help with the effort.

This is good, because the old computer is finally complaining about hard drive failure and urging me to hurry up.

We watched the Ohio State Michigan game yesterday and I at least was pleased with the way it turned out.

We also finished the Dark Tower series. I’m not going to spoil it other than to say if you like Oy the seventh book is going to piss you off in a couple of ways. We’ve started the Alex Cross series by James Patterson because I think we’re both still sore over the treatment of Oy in the seventh Dark Tower book. It’ll still end up on the reread list because of the middle books but the seventh book I think was just King doing his best to destroy the dreams of every fantasy fan on the planet.

I’m putting in some extra work today so that I can hopefully have a three-day weekend later in the week. I have several project hand-offs this week so assuming all goes well after this week things will start to taper off for the rest of the year and I can hit the ground running in January.

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Unknown Precipitation

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Amanda CAARSON

· 3 Kislev 5780 (Sunday 1 December 2019) · 1 minute to read

I’m using <a href="http://quill.p3k.io">Quill</a> as my primary posting interface for notes, and am eperimenting with using other clients for different kinds of content, and I’ve realized that Bridgy is still configured for my site and that I can control syndication from Quill, so I’m running a quick experiment to see if I can selectively syndicate things to Twitter.

I’m continuing the switch to social readers, and I’m not sure if I want all my likes and favorites to go to Twitter.

I want to be able to like things ETC. without flooding people’s timelines.

So, let’s see if this works.

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Light Snow and Fog/Mist

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Amanda CAARSON

· 6 Kislev 5780 (Wednesday 4 December 2019) · 2 minutes to read

I didn’t realize until right before candle lighting last week that I was on the last two, so I ordered some more this morning. They’ll get here on Monday, so I’m going to double-check the local Wegmans to see if they have some in stock. I think I remember seeing that they do which means I can order a couple through Instacart for this week.

I also ordered some of those little candles for Hanukah, because I have all three of the gifted hanukiot (plural of hanukiah, which is distinct from menorah, click the link for more info), but I don’t have the large one yet and I’m not sure if it will get here before Hanukah does.

This year it falls during the week of Christmas, which is just about as late as it can fall.

And no, I’m not going to get into the argument over how it’s spelled in English, since English is a transliteration of the Hebrew and there are multiple valid ways to do this, although the double K somewhat annoys me since Hebrew doesn’t have double letters.

There’s apparently at least one Jewish organization though that decided to troll everybody and take the opportunity to spell it eight different ways in English in their printed calendar this year for the eight nights.

If I find the link again I’ll share it.

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Cloudy

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Amanda CAARSON

· 8 Kislev 5780 (Friday 6 December 2019) · 1 minute to read

I’ve tried to come to terms with AMP, but just can’t bring myself to do it.

If a client insists on it, I’ll do my best to convince them otherwise, but if they continue to insist I’ll of course implement it because pick your battles (TM).

This has turned out to be a great resource for keeping up with the flaws of AMP though.