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Three sentences about 2025-11-02

Happy Standard Time! Now I can finally stop being annoyed at everyone at work who says "EST" when it's actually EDT, for a few months at least.

Still feeling kinda discombobulated, although I don't think the timezone change had much to do with it, but I guess you never know. I slept in this morning, played a game or two of Magic with Quentin, and picked up Juniper from her usually Sunday morning babysitting gig, so she could drive home; she walked there, and can walk home, but wanted to get home quicker today. I went for a nice walk after that (it was a beautiful day), and then Junie drove me and Quentin to his D&D game, then picked up a friend of hers, and then she drove us to Alewife so they could take the T into Boston for some shopping and hanging out. I shopped on the way home for ingredients for dinner, once of the recipes from a Trader Joe's cookbook we'd gotten from Michelle & Eric for Xmas last year, from these people I believe. I don't see the particular thing on their site, but despite not having much experience cooking fish, and really not knowing at all what the heck I was doing with the asparagus, I managed to make honey mustard glazed salmon with roasted potatoes and asparagus, and it was pretty good. :^ ) Caught up on random online things after dinner, and now I've stayed up too late, oof.

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Three sentences about 2025-11-01

It feels like the last 48 hours have been like three or four days long, I'm not entirely sure why, just lots of different stuff going on. I slept in this morning, then ... something for most of the rest of the morning, and then played some Magic with Quentin. (We finished the Bloomburrow box, and had played a bunch of games directly out of it, and have now decided to shift to deckbuilding. I have a Frog deck, it says ribbit. He has an Otter deck, it says shit goddamn I'm complicated.) I then headed out for some pokego, Gigantamax Garbodor battle day, and that went pretty well, except I optimized things somewhat incorrectly, but it worked out ok in the end. Came home, ordered Sweetgreen for dinner, played another game of Magic with Quentin, enjoyed tasty Sweetgreen. Took Juniper and a couple of friends to a second-day-of-Halloween party, watched the Wonder movie with Quentin and Amy, and now it's super late and I'm so, so tired.

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Three sentences about 2025-10-31

Bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip.

Happy Halloween! The teenagers (teenagers! two of them! they are wonderful) went out with their friends, various combinations of trick-or-treating and parties. We got about half a dozen groups of trick-or-treaters on our sleepy side street. I went for a pokewalk at like 20:30 or so, and it was nice. I checked various bowls of candy that people had left out for after-hours visitors; they were mostly empty, or full of Twizzlers, but a couple had peanut butter cups, yum.

I should try to remember that the answer to "should I go for a walk, even though I don't feel like it?" is always "YES, dumbass".

(And also, that the answer to "should I eat this thing that I've claimed I want to stop eating so much of" is always "NO, dumbass".)

Database maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!