{"id":13789,"date":"2024-09-13T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T00:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=13789"},"modified":"2024-09-13T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T00:12:40","slug":"is-it-fall-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=13789","title":{"rendered":"Is it Fall yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background has-small-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#75edf0\"><strong>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/ericmathewallen?country.x=US&amp;locale.x=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tip the writer<\/a>. Whatever amount you like-every little bit helps, and I&#8217;ll do a shoutout. We are always short of cash, especially with a big mortgage. Let me know if you or someone you know needs web design\/development-my rates aren&#8217;t bad, and I&#8217;m more than pretty good at it. Java\/database\/AWS\/UI too. ThankYouVeryMuch!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like the seasons are changing again, like they always do. Looking at this picture on my desktop. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" class=\"wp-image-7720\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cropped-KiteStack1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cropped-KiteStack1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cropped-KiteStack1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cropped-KiteStack1-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cropped-KiteStack1-1024x615.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> Memories. A lot of what Fall is about, as life slows down and contracts into Winter, getting ready for Spring\/rebirth. Been thinking about what&#8217;s next, too. Didn&#8217;t watch the debate, though the moment with Kamala self-censoring was rich. Not much else, need to paint my South wall, refill the spa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday (8\/9) afternoon. Trying to get stuff done before the end of the day, and a quick after hours bit too. There&#8217;s a fire south of here, but the air quality isn&#8217;t bad. Not like the fires a couple of years ago where the sun was completely orange. Not much else-not looking forward to working out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday (8\/13) end of work. Busy getting ready for a lot of prod deployments. I dislike this immensely. The password stuff seems so useless. Same with the certificates. Oh well. It&#8217;s cooled off a bit. Did the usual over the weekend, but got to pull blackberries on Sunday, and Matt cut down some holly. I got a cool laptop messenger bag from my fave manufacturer. Time to work out-Salem is working afternoons, and I have to pick them up at 9. Doing the full 30-10-30 routine, and I&#8217;m still a bit sore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, have big prod deploys tonight and tomorrow too. Yuck. 13 touches and 2 restarts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, last night went fine-only one job failed so far, and a few that were someone else&#8217;s who used the same username. Setting up for the deploy tonight. Had to skip gamelan because of it, but we&#8217;re taking a field trip to West Linn next week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-srtcEP7bt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">String and Shadow<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday afternoon. Almost time to quit. Should&#8217;ve left hours ago, but we missed a password change, and I had to set it up and request the change-still need to deploy. And the deploy last night had a bad lambda that caused headaches. I&#8217;ll be glad when this week is over, in like 10 minutes. Go to the gym, then drink. Like I used to at Miami. Good times, those. They had cheap Little Kings and wings at the Balcony. Drink, go home, pass out, get up and go out partying. Now it&#8217;s going to be work out, eat dinner, drink, take aspirin, clean up the house, prep coffee for the wife, brush teeth, go to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday afternoon (8\/19) Trying to get stuff done and plan for the next sprint. Been listening to Journey-mostly Gregg Rolie\/Steve Perry-era stuff. Interesting listening to a rocket just about to take off-Gregg&#8217;s voice is so warm and smooth, and Steve&#8217;s is a race car, all tight and fast. And Gregg left just as that rocket took off-14 years on the road had burnt him out-success, than back to the beginning, then success again. Though I think when they started Journey they were already playing theaters, rather than clubs-no idea how they were getting around-usually you start in cars\/vans playing clubs, then rv\/bus\/trailers playing theaters\/ballrooms\/music halls, then basketball arenas, then stadiums. Not much this weekend-working out, shopping, we had a quick storm Saturday night, breakfast with friends Sunday morning. Bought a bunkie board for our new bed frame-prolly need to put 2&#215;4&#8217;s in the middle to support it as well-I was thinking of just getting 2 sheets of plywood, but didn&#8217;t-the guy gave me a discount on a mattress.. Need to update my &#8220;me over time&#8221; slideshow&#8230;also need to get a plumber in to look at the stinky shower, and pull the carpet and fix the floor in our bedroom. And the windows. &lt;sigh&gt;-the joy of home ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday-time to be done. I hate this work with the password change-no one knows it, so I have to write the run book. I think I have it, but sometimes having a separate team do the prod runs makes things slow. We&#8217;ll see if tomorrow&#8217;s run succeeds. The other job hung too. Just endless frustration and hassles. The delivery had Erika&#8217;s old phone number, so I had to reschedule. It&#8217;s been 2 weeks of hassle, and I haven&#8217;t even gotten to the plumbing. And there&#8217;s no money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday morning. Looks like the changes I made yesterday worked, but another job failed today, and it looks like code needs to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday morning. Starting on some react\/node stuff. Yet another job is failing. It never ends. Luckily the password stuff is ending, at least for this year. Correction: a whole set just got dropped in our laps. aargh. The puppet show last night was good-Salem loved it. Took them rather than a thing. Got the bedboard too-going to do that tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday morning (8\/28). We&#8217;re broke until next Thursday-Matt had to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday afternoon (9\/4). A whole week passed like that-payday tonight! Took Friday &amp; Tuesday off, did a bunch of work around the house, worked out Fri &amp; Sun. It was nice to sleep in-our bedroom is coming together. Got the bed put up, gutter covers, a motion-activated light, washed the car, rearranged the shed. It rained hard for 10 minutes some evening, it&#8217;s starting to get cooler, but still hot-90 right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday afternoon. It&#8217;s hot-too hot in the kitchen, sitting in the bedroom, finishing up work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday afternoon. It&#8217;s still hot, but not as bad as yesterday. Trying to get a thing moving, another one hung, one thing did get working. Hard to concentrate when it&#8217;s hot in here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday morning (9\/9), trying to get stuff done. Had to ferry kids to and from Comicon at the convention center. Glad it&#8217;s not at the Expo center. The usual binz, shop, workout, etc. Went to a Pagan thing at Oaks Park-basically a witch\/Ren Faire gathering-an ADF coven was there&#8230; There was a cute autistic girl running around the binz that I fancy, but I&#8217;m married and old&#8230;Mike from gamelan was there too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday afternoon (9\/13). Time to be done. Pretty quiet week-got stuff done, several apps on the new servers, jury duty yesterday-fail. Whole Bowl too-Claire had an interview next to Powell&#8217;s on Hawthorne. Fine workout, no gamelan, found my wedding ring-it was in with the Tiffany necklace I got for Kris, along with the black coral ring. Erika watched the debate with her friends. I think it&#8217;s time to call this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Page 23, sentence 5: &#8220;Like nature&#8217;s winter, the saecular winter can come a bit early or a bit late.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1982173734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Fourth Turning is Here<\/a>, &#8220;Finally, just when Scorpio was beginning to doubt his old friend&#8217;s sanity, Clavain spoke.&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0441011586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Absolution Gap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the seasons are changing again, like they always do. Looking at this picture on my desktop. Memories. A lot of what Fall is about, as life slows down and contracts into Winter, getting ready for Spring\/rebirth. Been thinking about what&#8217;s next, too. 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