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· 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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· 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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· 30 Heshvan 5780 (Thursday 28 November 2019) · 1 minute to read

Initially I subscribed to someone else’s Harry Potter film scores playlist on Spotify, but today I decided to make my own.

I did this because I wanted to include the bonus tracks from the original scores as well as the scores for Cursed child and the two Fantastic Beasts movies.

I haven’t seen these yet, and I’m still researching which streaming service they’re on, (probably Amazon), but eventually I’ll watch them.

The chili turned out very well and we’re still grazing on it, although it’s almost gone. We’re definitely doing that again. It was really good with some tostitos scoops.

There’s also still some pie left and I might get into that in a little bit.

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· 30 Heshvan 5780 (Thursday 28 November 2019) · 1 minute to read

Shoutout to all the people who are working today, especially all those working as Uber Eats and Doordash drivers, since they’re running "Tired of Turkey" and other similar promotions.

I can only imagine the kind of cajoling, enticement, or maybe even veiled threats that went into getting drivers to work Thanksgiving.

Shoutout to all those doing geek duty for your families. Be sure to block Facebook at the router level if you can, and at the computer level if you can’t.

Shoutout to everyone who’s spent all day cooking. Take advantage of the turkey-induced nap as soon as possible.

Shoutout to all those who had to go in early to your retail job because Black Friday couldn’t wait until Friday.

And finally, shoutout to all those who work the truly essential jobs, even on Thanksgiving, without which society would grind to a hault: Hospital staff, paramedics, fire and police, and the IT professionals making sure everyone’s internet is up and running as soon as possible should it go down. Oh and the people who had to handle Facebook maintenance this morning.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

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· 30 Heshvan 5780 (Thursday 28 November 2019) · 1 minute to read

We’ve decided not to do a traditional Thanksgiving and are doing chili instead, along with general snacking on other good things throughout the day.

We’re rereading the new Atlee Pine book since I fell asleep for several hours during the middle which means I missed some key parts.

Otherwise we’re just chilling.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who’s celebrating.

I hope those of you who are spending it by yourselves are doing so because you want to, and for those of you who are having a hard time, I hope you find some solace.

And for those of you who are with your biological family, and are nonetheless finding the day difficult because of all the pretend love and affection, I hope you get some time alone to reflect in your own way and to rest from the stress.

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