Nothing says “Good morning!” quite like a bare foot and cat vomit.
Category: Daily Life
Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
Zoinks! My daughter took my picture.
Let’s play “Will he touch it twice?”
On today’s episode of “Hot things are hot” we have our special guest cast iron!
Day 1 of Empty Nester Trial Run
Overslept. Why wouldn’t I?
N.b. I can play my audiobook as loud as I like!
When the children are gone, the parents will play
Evan within 5 minutes of departing for Barcelona cuts all communication. I’m sure we will hear from him when he needs money.
This week for Cathy and me: Test run of being empty nesters. Look out! The rents are unsupervised!
Know Your Juggler
Today’s productivity music
Today’s simple goal is to close out or get close to closing out 3 projects. I want to go into next week with a fairly clean slate. To that available, I sacrifice some hearing as I turn up the cyberpunk in the name of productivity! Hack the planet!
Extrovert to introvert conversion
I’m trying my damnedest to stop talking but the words keep coming out. My goal is to become that old man who grunts once a day and then dies with people wondering what decade they last heard him say something.
Believe it or not, I’m actually making progress on this.
Just stay awake
Went to sleep at 1am.
It is 4;15am and i am mostly wide awake. If I simply stay up my day will be productive and far less stressful than this soul crushing day promises to be. Yet I feel the gravity of the bed pulling at me.
Oops. Wrong number.
My theme this week seems to be “send text messages to the wrong people.” I don’t think any will top the time years and years ago I sent nine photos of panties to my friend’s wife. Of course, I covered with “Which one do you think Cathy will like?”
Why are you hard of hearing?
“Why are you hard of hearing? Did you work artillery? Construction? Machine shop?”
“Software development. Headphones. Cyberpunk. Loud.”
Back in Business!
I use Redmine to manage all my clients and their information but I run it locally on my machine since I don’t need to share any of that information and keeping it local provides a little added security. However, when my laptop died, so did my access to that information…single point of failure yada yada. Tonight I installed Redmine 5, new versions of Ruby (keep your 2.6 Apple), and discovered how rocking Puma is for application serving. I may just have to dabble in some Ruby and Rails development.
All your database are belong to us
Woot! Success! In the Fall of 2022 when my ancient MacBook Pro’s logic board gave out the ghost, I thought my career had ended. Friends and family came to the rescue and I now work on a Windows 11 PC for my Microsoft development and an iMac for my creative development. But since the processor changed from Intel to ARM, I’ve had to reinstall all my applications. I accidentally installed MySQL8 when I’d been working on MySQL5.7. Neither ran. No matter the configuration or uninstalls and reinstalls via Homebrew or by hand, I could not get MySQL to run. Today I overcame that and have MySQL5.7 running. I will be upgrading to MySQL8 after I make sufficient backups etc. and debate whether or not I want both 5.7 and 8 running so that I can switch between them (don’t really see the need). Next up: Ruby.
ps. There sort of problems are so much easier to fix when you read the documentation and error logs.
So you want to be a programmer…
The caffeine wakes me.
The caffeine wakes me.
The caffeine wakes me.
The caffeine drives me.
The caffeine drives me.
The caffeine drives me.
The caffeine makes me unfocused.
The caffeine makes me unfocused.
The caffeine makes me unfocused.
The Xanax calms me.
The Xanax calms me.
The Xanax calms me.
The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.
The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.
The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.
The caffeine wakes me.
The caffeine wakes me.
The caffeine wakes me.
The caffeine drives me.
The caffeine drives me.
The caffeine drives me.
The caffeine makes me unfocused.
The caffeine makes me unfocused.
The caffeine makes me unfocused.
The Xanax calms me.
The Xanax calms me.
The Xanax calms me.
The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.
The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.
The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.
The …
So you want to be a programmer?
Sometimes to solve a problem, we have to distract ourselves. When my Macbook Pro died, friends and family came to the rescue. I now primarily work in Microsoft’s domain so a Dell Laptop (a loan from a good friend) saved my career. I still do my side work and creative work on an iMac (a gift from a family member) but OS13 Ventura and the M1 chip changed much. My development environment hasn’t worked since the upgrade. I haven’t had much time to give toward fixing it. During today’s mental break from my work, I succeeded in getting PHP8 and DNSMASQ working! Thanks to this guide: https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-ventura-apache-upgrade-homebrew
Part 1: https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-ventura-apache-multiple-php-versions
Part 2: https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-ventura-apache-mysql-vhost-apc
Next step is to get MySQL5.7 working so that I can migrate my old databases to MySQL8. Then I’ll need to get Ruby working and make sure that I can use Redmine again. What a pain.
