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Exercise log for August Tue 8/1: exercise bike 30 laps Wed 8/2: exercise bike 40 laps Thu 8/3: exercise bike 30 laps (weight 273.4) Fri 8/4: none (oops, 7d avg drop to 25m) Sat 8/5: exercise bike 45 laps Sun 8/6: exercise bike 60 laps (back to 30+ avg) (Avg this week: 36.4 min) Mon 8/7: exercise bike 30 laps (weight 272.2) Tue 8/8: exercise bike 30 laps Wed 8/9: exercise bike 45 laps Thu 8/10: exercise bike 30 laps Fri 8/11: none Sat 8/12: none (excused: blood donation) Sun 8/13: exercise bike 45 laps (Avg this week: 25.7 min) Mon 8/14: exercise bike 60 laps (back to 30+ avg) Tue 8/15: exercise bike 45 laps Wed 8/16: exercise bike 45 laps Thu 8/17: exercise bike 45 laps Fri 8/18: exercise bike 45 laps Sat 8/19: none (weight 274.2) Sun 8/20: exercise bike 45 laps (Avg this week: 40.7 min) Mon 8/21: exercise bike 45 laps Tue 8/22: exercise bike 60 laps Wed 8/23: none Thu 8/24: exercise bike 45 laps Fri 8/25: exercise bike 45 laps (weight 271.8) Sat 8/26: exercise bike 60 laps Sun 8/27: exercise bike 45 laps (weight 270) (Avg this week: 42.8 min) Mon 8/28: exercise bike 45 laps Tue 8/29: exercise bike 60 laps Wed 8/30: none Thu 8/31: exercise bike 45 laps

More friends added: tim_wright M and I met Tim by way of Cafe Vax (eons ago!) aka_babs Also a Cafe Vax frequent flier happy_spinster I don’t actually know you, but you are a friend of both tim_wright and gregbo, so you must be good people :)

Since I have a fair number of sysadmins on my f.list, and sysadmins know sysadmins, I thought I would pass this along. This was sent to me by Phil (some of you from AV will remember him and may have already received this). Just wanted to make you aware of a great position for Sr. Linux Administrator I’m trying to fill. I’m looking for a seasoned admin with 5+ year experience managing Linux (preferably Debian). Must be strong. Have all of the usual skills that go along with the position. Experience with MySQL and Foundry a big plus. The company is a profitable technology business in the ecommerce space with offices in San Mateo. (Beautiful bay views and cool breezes). Contact me for more information. ...

Power was out from about 4:00 pm to about 10:45 pm. I believe both poly(vhostbox) and neko-base(aka box3) are back up and fine, but let me know if anything seems amiss. As mentioned before, I will start moving stuff to external hosting a bit more aggressively now. A/C had been keeping the house at 78F until the outage. It crept up slowly to about 83F downstairs, 86F upstairs by about 6:30. When it started getting a bit dark we opened the windows… it seemed about the same outside as inside. In reality it was probably still 95F outside. The inside kept getting warmer, even after dark (partly due to 3-4 candles going? hmmm). Anyway as of when power was restored it was 90F inside. A/C has brought it down 3 degrees in the last half hour. ...

power is currently out at our place. neko-hosted pages, poly pages and poly lists are down. I should have moved sites off to external hosting by now but I haven’t spent much time on it. oh well.. i’ll keep everyone posted.

According to my exercise log, both yesterday and today I have actually met my exercise goal (goal is 210 minutes over 7 days or 30 min avg per day) From this point forward I will count “good days” as days for which the total minutes for that day and the 6 previous days was 210 or more. That means I have had 2 “good” days this month. If I shoot for 45 min/day I can do 45,45,45,45,30 and take two days off, and still meet my targets. ...

Domain switching checklist High-level overview Set up new hosting environment Access control panel, set password and security info View domain configuration and FTP user info Upload files to new FTP location Test new DNS service Test new Web service Create new email account Set up mailer Verify you can read both old and new email accounts Send test email to new account Last-minute sync for any changed files Configure domain registry to point to new DNS servers Wait for NS records to update Check to make sure web site looks OK Check to make sure email accounts and forwards are (all) working Copy mail from old account Notify gconnor to remove and archive old information ...

I very rarely give in to memes, but I like the artwork on this one. Yes, I still think memes are basically ads for a web site, so I will hide this one behind a cut. What type of Fae are you? ObActualWriting: I don’t think I’m really cold, distant or violent. But I do have a twisted sense of humor. Also, looking at this gives me some ideas for my D&D campaign. (Yes, that means there’s Drow in it, but what’s a Dalelands campaign without some good, honest, well… Drow?)

Here’s the recipe to go with the pictures in the previous entry. It was based on this: Curry Chicken Pot Pie from Good Eats: Casserole Over. I made it according to the directions except for the following: More onions: about 2C diced instead of 1C More broth: 1 can of broth is 14 oz, more like 1.75C instead of 1.5C More liquid: I also added the reserved liquid from the canned chicken (2 cans of mixed light-and-dark chicken meat is about 2C but I couldn’t bring myself to toss the extra liquid, about 1.5C) More butter and flour: I was afraid by adding more liquid I would not have enough thickening power, so more roux! No curry (M is allergic) and no parsley (didn’t have any). I was going to add garlic to compensate but I forgot. ...

I have made 1 chicken pie, and with the left over filling, a dish of chicken and dumplings as well.