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· 28 Tammuz 5783 (Monday 17 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

I slept in, so no morning minyan. I feel like I still need some sleep, but don’t want to screw up the sleep schedule I’ve finally gotten back on track so I dragged myself out of bed.

It’s going to be another hot one today, it’s already 71F/21C with humidity at 76%, and we’re supposed to get to 85F/29C. Air quality is also on the not good side at 60 for now. Let’s see where it goes.

So I’m generally planning on staying inside today, and of course getting work done.

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· 27 Tammuz 5783 (Sunday 16 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Sunday.

So this weekend’s been interesting. On Friday afternoon we got a very severe thunderstorm which seemed to come from nowhere, which resulted in a five-hour power outage. So I started the reboot all the things process Friday night since I was already up, and continued it yesterday morning. At least for my stuff. John’s computer still hasn’t gotten the treatment, and I’ll do that when he decides he wants it. Then, we had thunderstorms again last night, and fortunately I got my computer shut down in time. I’d like to put some UPSs in here, but this is an old building, and I have concerns about UPS batteries, specifically what’s been done since 2010 to ensure they don’t catch on fire when paired with older electrical infrastructure, because let me tell you UPS battery fires are fucking bad and I’d rather we not experience one of those. So I need to do some looking and then figure out which stuff should be on a UPS. Probably just the computers and router/modem.

In sportsball, the Rays won yesterday, both games, which is awesome. And we get baseball in the afternoon today.

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· 23 Tammuz 5783 (Wednesday 12 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Wednesday.

Today is usually busy for us since we have to put out the laundry. So I did that, and even made sure to get up earlier than I wanted to in order to do that.

And then, I spent an hour and a half fighting with Windows after it went into standby again after taking on updates. There’s got to be a setting I’m missing somewhere to tell it just to do a full restart.

So anyway, I had to restart twice, and I’m putting off t he Jaws updates until later because I don’t want to spend more tome on that.

And also my email is just annoying me today.

I think we should reset Wednesday back to its defaults and then restart it.

In other news, it’s really nice outside right now, and if I can and I’m not too tired later I might go outside for a bit. Mostly because my computer is also annoying me in general.

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· 22 Tammuz 5783 (Tuesday 11 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Tuesday.

I slept in too late to attend the morning minyan so I’ll catch the evening one later. My braille display is acting weird though so I need to sort out why it’s just randomly scrolling through everything before I can actually use it. I’m hoping there’s a firmware update that’ll fix this.

We don’t have regular baseball until the weekend, and last night at least we didn’t listen to the Home Run Derby, although I’ll check to see how things turned out.

Oh, and we’re waiting for some groceries.

Other than that, it’s just another normal work day.

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· 21 Tammuz 5783 (Monday 10 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

And this one is turning out so far to be a very typical Monday.

Windows decided to go into standby at some point during the night, which means I’ve spent a bunch of time restarting and getting everything launched properly, because of course nothing quite works right after standby.

One of these days I’m going to nuke this thing from orbit and install some variant of Linux. Because I don’t have these problems with Linux. It just fucking runs.

No, of course I’m not going to do that, because there are apps I need that only run on Windows, and see also: Accessibility on Linux. But still, I can swear at Windows, can’t I?

I haven’t checked to see if we have any baseball games yet today, but I’ll get to that in a bit. And of course coffee.

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· 20 Tammuz 5783 (Sunday 9 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Sunday.

This weekend has been pretty quiet. Alternating the air conditioners seems to be working and seems to be a nice compromise between everything leaking all over the place and roasting.

Also, this weekend has contained baseball for baseball’s sake, since the Rays are playing the Braves and we like both teams so it doesn’t matter who wins except for standings. Which, by the way, the Braves have traded places with the Rays, at least last I checked.

We’re reading the last two Jesse Stone novels today and we read the last Helldivers book yesterday.

And of course, coffee.

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