Debugging

In order to write this blog entry, I had to shave yaks...not once, but twice. First, my Emacs functions were all messed up, and I couldn't figure out why. Hadn't I figured this out already? Then I realized I had, but on another machine. I keep dotfiles in git, of course, so it was a simple pull away...except for all the changes that had accumulated in the meantime. Merge, commit, pull, merge again and now it's working. Swear blind not to do it again, knowing full well that I will.

$WORK is busy; I got mad a while back and finally moved Bacula from one server to another, which meant moving FC cards and the tape library to the new server, and it works now but oh god did that take time and effort. It's worth it -- things are smoother now, and will be even smoother once I get job migration working. (Disk-to-disk-to-tape for the win!) But it takes discipline to keep working on it, along with all the other things I'm supposed to be working on.The next two months at $WORK look like they're going to be busier than usual, and I'm already having to say things like "I can do that for you in mid-January." I hate that; it's nothing that can't wait, really, but I still hate it. Add to that War in Heaven (buy me a beer and I'll tell you the sordid tale), paperwork catchup, mid-year changeover and the Temporal Anomaly Zone.

And so but. Yesterday, Torturedpotato sent me off to a homebrew club meeting. I was reluctant to go -- it's a fun time, but I hadn't thought about it in advance or made sure it worked for everyone. And she sent me off anyway, saying things would be all right. They were. I had some really good homebrew (plus some of my own...WAH, this year's Xmas stout is a hot mess), and got to take my mind off things for a while -- think of something other than work, computers, devops, Sysadvent, distributed in-memory databases.