Karel P Kerezman @greyduck@frell.co

Hey, friends. For the last year and a half I've been writing about animation and music that has brought joy to my life. This year, the music posts include 30-second sampler mixes so you can get a feel for the record I'm writing about.

You can check out the archives here: https://greyduck.net/category/3wa

Please give a look and a listen, and let me know how I'm doing. Thank you.

...cache clear fixed it.

If I have a fatal flaw, it's that I panic first, then figure out the solution after.

Razzafraggin... Rebooted server to take advantage of the Linode free upgrade, now the web UI won't load. Not even the usual error page.

Look, this is one of the best pop-rock albums of the 1990s that nobody knows about, and I'll sing its praises to my dying breath if I must.

Well, type out its praises. Anyway.

This week's writing project covers the sole release by Toy Matinee. Enjoy, won't you please? https://greyduck.net/journal/2970

Excellent: VP!Boss is due to be in the office all day today, so Ops!Boss gave me the thumbs-up on the half-day off.

Probably gonna just go home, do dishes, work on my gallery migration some more, and play video games. But hey.

I might push for that comp time I was promised last week, today. I barely made it through yesterday (and that, mostly due to dorking around with my website's gallery stuff).

Then again Microsoft may actually call today and offer useful advice. Who knows?

Save me, Extreme Pizza. You're my only hope (for a box of comfort food we don't have to prepare ourselves).

(Menalto Gallery to Piwigo to... ???)

Anybody have good ideas for what to do when the gallery software you installed on your webhost to replace the defunct gallery software you used before that has gone defunct?

I mean, I could slap a gallery-type plugin on a WordPress install, but... meh?

Part of me wants to see if I can make a performance-art process out of entering time in 15-minute increments that all read simply, "Waited for Microsoft to call me back."

So tempted to crank up Scooter's "Shake That!" in my office. So tempted.

I won't. But.

On the upside, years down the road HP finally released security software for the EliteBook running Windows 10 that actually makes the fingerprint scanner work.

On the downside, I have to run HP's security software for that to happen, and it's almost enough to make me say "to heck with it" and slap Kubuntu on that thing.

Microsoft Support: "Yeah, can you just reboot your production database server to Safe Mode and futz with some driver files?"

Me: *looks to nonexistent camera a-la The Office*

Today I did three loads of laundry, one load of dishes, one project post, and a whole heaping lot of Diablo 3.

I almost feel mentally stable again now. Close to it, at any rate.

aaaahahahahaha the database server at work melted down and somehow I'm the only one "available" to deal with it, and I'm not a (Windows) server guy, this is going to end in tears.

(To be fair, the date night thing was decided yesterday, given she's still unwell after a nasty cold and I'm coming off of a week of lousy sleep. But hey, I couldn't resist joking about it.)

Well, I may have to work a bunch tonight but at least my date canceled!

...wait.

😑

Oh yeah, speaking of:

You may not know her name but if you've watched a lot of anime you've heard her music. No, it's not Yoko Kanno... it's Yuki Kajiura. I wrote about her kind-of-a-best-of, FICTION, for this week's weekly writing project:

https://greyduck.net/journal/2967

Enjoy, won't you please?