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.

I am the best big brother.

Just texted my kid sister: Happy Birthday! You're now officially "in your forties."

It's the thought that counts. The snarky, pesky thought.

Hey, remember when CrashPlan didn't suck? I do! Too bad they suck now. They annoyed me so badly today that I blogged about it.

https://greyduck.net/journal/3279

Sure enough, the bosses made sure to allow enough stacked PTO (plus client on-sites) on one day to ensure that there aren't enough bodies for the pre-holiday rush of support calls.

Bao down now before me!

Added Masto instance and @pixelfed links to the sidebar of my not-a-blog, getting rid of birdsite/LJ/etc linkage. Toward the future!

...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.