Karel P Kerezman @greyduck@x0r.be

Random playlist today is a lot of Mono Inc, Pink Floyd, Midnight Oil, and Depeche Mode.

Not sure if there's a theme or trend here, but I'm amused nonetheless.

While @djsundog is reveling in a Prince-ly day, I'm medicating my brain-weasels situation with a lot of A23, Mono Inc, and VNV... which gives you an idea how I'm doing today, hooboy.

"I bless the rains in Portland-ia...."

Had I at some point taken up alcoholism as a hobby, today would absolutely be a day-drinking day, thanks to ConnectWise and their products' absolute inability to actually do what they say they're going to do, coupled with their inability to record any reasons why they can't do what they say they're going to do, in addition to their support staffers' inability to explain why their products don't do what they say they should do.

Ahem.

Someone convince me it's a bad idea to try to source and/or build a NUC-sized Linux box to play around with audio streaming.

It's not like I need more gadgets attached to this tiny apartment's home network.

Back from vacation. Some things at work improved while I was gone, while at least one thing is now more annoying than before, so... meh?

MediaMonkey randomizer isn't messing around today. Started with Pet Shop Boys' "What are we going to do about the rich?" and followed that with Genesis' "The Knife."

Well then.

I spent a couple hours yesterday taking pictures of the ducks. I have a lot of them! (I'm... missing some? Not sure how/why?)

Mind you I don't know what the plan is for all of these "glamour shots" takes. The point of the exercise was the practice, and getting familiar with the new camer and the new light tent, but... eh, I'll keep the pics around for whatever.

Random social media pick-me-ups, if nothing else.

Well, we got the promised rain, out here in Hillsboro OR... at 3am, for an hour or so.

This is... not quite the "clean out the air and lower the AQI" kind of event we were counting on, not even remotely. Ugh.

Well, the AQI is down under 200 here in Hillsboro OR... so merely "unhealthy." Woohoo?

On the downside, the smog is actually THICKER this morning. Sigh.

All weekend, we held out with the knowledge that by some time Monday the air would start to clear.

So of course today the tune has changed: Now, it will start to clear up on Friday... gradually.

I'd scream, but that'd be a waste of the limited decent-quality air that the purifier's been able to scrub so far.

I think I have the new camera dialed in the way I want it. The "light box" arrived today. Everything's in place and tested.

Looks like the "ducky glamour shots" project is a GO.

Playing with Linode's Object Storage (an S3-compatible thingummy) and successfully configured my primary WordPress site to backup to it. Yay? (Now to lather/rinse/repeat with the other sites...)

I'm amused that since my primary Linode is in their Fremont datacenter but their Object Storage site in the US is in Newark, I'm backing up the west coast to the east coast.

... so they went with Pink Floyd for the (inevitable, ugh) "slow moody reinterpretation of an old song" thing for the new DUNE trailer.

Huh.

I mean I still despise the trope but it's a helluva choice in this case. Conflicted, I am.

Vacation: Approved.

Photography Aid Device: Shipping.

Project: Salvaged from the ashes!

It feels weird to ask for time off when I never go anywhere and won't go anywhere on my time off and I'll spend the entire time in my "office" anyway, but... I need some time off.

I know that retail therapy is all retail and no actual therapy, yet I feel compelled to buy the light tent rig I've had my eye on. I have a new camera, I haven't abandoned the project I started (when I discovered the old camera had died), and I could certainly use a personal project to focus on for a while.

Especially now.