Happy Hollandaise! I’ve done my holiday time – and now I can enjoy a three day weekend. I didn’t do anything too special; I worked on a future video, played a little NieR Replicant, and did a little photo editing in Krita. I’m looking forward to a few days of giving my ankle a chance to stop yelling at me; it seems to get angry once in awhile about the fact that I accidentally took a small spill down the stairs a few years ago.
I hope everyone is having a good holiday!
I’ve prepared my baked goods for the yearly Christmas Eve ritual. They’re all packaged and ready to dispense to co-workers tomorrow! My Cranberry Nut Muffins were a hit at work last year, and I figured why not a repeat? Then I can spend a three day weekend letting my muscles rest. My ankle has been giving me trouble for the last week and it doesn’t show any sign of letting up. Just being able to rest it for a few days would be a nice gift.
Too tired to post. The closer it gets to the holidays, the more drained I become. The only bright side to this week is that it’s only a four day stretch ending with a three day weekend. Unfortunately I didn’t even get to send my gifts off, the lines have been extending out into the parking-lot whenever I even have the chance to go to the post office. -_-
Over the weekend I donated a small bit of my time to getting the new webserver up and running. I spun up a new Droplet at DigitalOcean with an image of AlmaLinux, and after some trial and error I had a barebones lampstack setup within minutes! Then came setting up the new Mumble server, and tomorrow I might play with getting a wiki up… for fun.
I’d like you all to meet Chuckie! He’s been jumping around all over the place, and he can’t stop dancing! He came from the same litter we were supposed to adopt Archie from, basically a lighter orange twin but without the floppy ears. Still quite the extremely cute bugger. He’s already climbing over barriers and causing a ruckus! 😛 Stewie and Morty haven’t warmed up to him yet, as expected. In time though I’m hoping Morty realises that Chuckie is just as playful as he is, and Stewie won’t target Morty as often.
I remember playing this at work one year before we opened, and it was so loud and horrible that a couple people from the otherside of the building came over because they thought someone was dying.
I don’t have much to write. Just enjoying some green chai and eggnog, all the while working on some animation. I still have a bit to go, but next December’s videos are coming along quite nicely! I’m working on the third installment currently, and there will probably be a fourth. I’m actually moving along at a decent rhythm. I’ll probably be done with this particular saga by the end of the year, just in time to start on another project(s)! I’m planning to return to working on the Amnesia one, which is appropriate because I forgot where I left off on that particular one! Fortunately, I kept notes before moving onto the more wintery stuffs.
Sometime in the not too distant future I will be upgrading my Linux servers, both my webserver and my game servers. I’m currently running all of my servers on CentOS 7, which is getting its support dropped at the end of the year along with CentOS 8. I could upgrade to CentOS Stream, but it updates far too frequently for me to run it as a server distro. So far I’m leaning towards switching to AlmaLinux — I should be able to follow the same procedures used to setup CentOS 8 to get everything back up and running on new builds. I’m prepping to do the webserver first, so if anyone happens to see a blank void where a website once stood, fret not. I will always return in the evening to complain about dependency hell.