Don’t usually drink as much coffee as I want in order to keep the tolerance manageable. Today kinda got extra coffinated and still feeling some jitter while laying in bed. Ugh. Would rather sleep…
Category: random
Very minor server changes
Over the weekend there were some very minor server configuration changes at Pambulon HQ. Now that the ISP seems to have rectified whatever issue they were having that was making the site unreachable I anticipate things will come up Milhouse from now on.
whut
Websites and sshd not working properly, don’t know how I got this far. Seems like a port block, presumably from the ISP. Let’s see if this posts.
EDIT: almost certainly from the ISP side due to intermittent access without changing anything from my end, wonder if they’re cutting off access to inbound ports for residential customers now. I can reach the VPSs just fine from the LAN so my local servers appear to be running normally. Also tried changing some of the listening ports to what should be “residential ISP safe” values and reconfigured the hardware firewall and still have issues.
EDIT 2019-10-26: Working better now, perhaps resolved? Wonder what was going on with the ISP then, eh.
Improving somewhat of dainty oat porridge
The new oat flour porridge method: mix 1/4 cup oat flour with 5 ounces milk, microwave for 55 seconds, and this is the key part, STIR IMMEDIATELY after cooking to integrate the mixture. Without immediate stirring the result will be a chunky mess, precisely the problem this process is intended to avoid. After mixing the porridge, both 32 grams of peanut butter and 1/4 cup of applesauce can be added and thoroughly mixed. Then, to finish the shake, the remainder of the milk is gradually mixed with 1/2 serving protein powder, then the oat/PB/applesauce porridge is added and mixed. The result is a smoother, tastier protein shake, although warmer from the microwave.
EDIT 2019-10-21_0816: For the oat porridge, 44 seconds in microwave, whisk thoroughly, then another 21 seconds and whisk again. Even better result! Tomorrow will try 30 seconds, whisk, then 30 seconds and whisk again.
Not really alchemy
This morning I decided to cook the oat flour in my shake. I mixed 1/4 cup oat flour with maybe 4 ounces of milk and popped it into the microwave for 60 seconds. The result was a thick paste that didn’t mix well, resulting in globs of cooked oat “dumplings” in the shake. However, the shake was still thicker than usual and the taste was indeed a bit better. The alchemy now comes into perfecting the cooking of the oat flour resulting in a smoother porridge with better mixing qualities.
head spasm
Buzzed my head earlier and when cleaning the little bits of hair off the floor had a twinge of that weird back-right head pain I had last Monday. It’s been intermittently jolting on and off since and has even become a bit worse in intensity. Weird that it went away only to return today, can’t think of anything I may have done to get it to start up again. We’ll see how tomorrow goes I guess.
EDIT: just realized I did some back planks earlier, maybe that exacerbated this?
weird things are afoot
I hate it when the sole of my foot itches because when I go to scratch it it’s also ticklish.
Happy anti-Christmas
If my math is correct (barring a fencepost error because counting is hard), June 26, 2019 at Noon, will mark the halfway point between Christmas 2018 and Christmas 2019. What better way to celebrate than to do nothing special?
In December of 2008, the team of the KLKN Channel 8 Eyewitness News invited viewers to send in pictures of their Christmas decorations and each broadcast they would select one of the pictures to be shared on live television. I think they called it the “Spread the Holiday Cheer” promotion.
I didn’t have any decorations of my own but I did have this grimy TV which would show the decorations on the set of the Channel 8 news so on 2008-12-02 I took a picture of the TV showing their 5:00 PM broadcast since their set decorations displayed on my TV were my actual decorations displayed in my room. I sent it in hoping that they would select my picture of holiday cheer to share with their viewers in Lincoln and the surrounding areas thinking it would be totally meta and funny and definitely not stalkerish and psycho. Unfortunately my “cheer” was not selected in favor of some little baby wearing felt reindeer antlers and I’m pretty sure my email address was blacklisted from the klkntv.com servers to boot.
Years later I saw Rod Fowler (the anchor on the left in the picture above) behind me in line at the checkout at the now defunct Village Market. I was tempted to bring up this “holiday cheer” incident but I looked rather disheveled and I daresay deranged at the time and didn’t want to disturb the man since he had a news program to anchor in a few minutes.
Still sorta wiped out, but for other reasons
Haven’t slept well the past few days. Yesterdays’s Wednesday workout didn’t go particularly well, only did 2 chin/dip/hamstring sets and called it a day. Gravity was high and energy was low.
But not all was lost! Got Stargate SG-1 seasons 1 and 2 from the library, and “Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series” which I hadn’t heard about before yesterday. Looking forward to watching it but think I’m going to wait until I watch the original Twin Peaks again then the follow-up movie Fire Walk With Me to put everything into its proper context.
Aujourd’hui, j’ai réussi…
Today I succeeded. Did four half-plus-two sets of everything. Felt pretty strong everywhere but still feel like I had a good workout. The ab-wheel rollouts are improving, definitely feeling it in the right places this time, that is, in the ab muscles rather than the spine and in a good, non-injurious way.
Probably undid anything good by eating Long John Silvers for dinner though. Speaking of which, while I was waiting for the three “Two fish, two hushpuppies, fries and coleslaw” platters I remembered that LJS used to put their kids’ meals in a cardboard basket container shaped like a boat, and you’d get a cardboard pirate hat. It was weird sitting there in the restaurant remembering that, like it was a more significant and important memory than it should have been.
Apparently they don’t even have kids’ meals anymore, at least not at the Pambulon Heights region location.