Why was your child mad at you this week?

Let the kid decide what sort of bath they take (normal bath, bubble bath, or shower). They decide on a shower. But first they run into our bathroom for something. I hear rummaging and they come back masked. One of those little paper masks, but toddler sized. I removed the mask. Threw it away.

They threw a tantrum because I wouldn’t let them waterboard themselves in the shower.

Fight the kid to bathe them, wants mom. Wrap up the bath time with me as mom tags me back in. Get them out, get dressed, time for PJs! Cooperation and excitement. I feel gaslit. Hugs and affection. Something’s off. Finishes off the milk we gave them after I handed them over to momma and hands it over to me. Usually for a refill, I ask for confirmation, shakes head no. We’re shocked. But I mouth that I’ll refill it anyways.

No books are even mentioned yet and they are heavy eyed already. They curl up into the blanket with mom and start to close their eyes. I ask if they’re ready for the light to be cut off. Nods tiredly. Mom’s wary. I flick off the lamp and head out. Shut the door.

I can hear the excitement in their voice after the door knob released. “Mom, I want books!” Cue laughter. And that refill.

Parenting is difficult. Kids communicating their feelings effectively is more difficult. Something to work on for sure.

Kiddo is in the twilight of their ‘put down’ days and all they want is their mama to do it. Crying, /screaming/ for her. Heart breaking as dad. All you want is to be seen as your kids hero or at least an equal parent in their eyes.

Finally, I get a few words in while they’re screaming to troubleshoot the situation. “Am I mean?” Nods yes. Ugh. I get mom.

After mom gets back out we find that my being mean equates to me setting boundaries by telling him ‘no’ or saying ‘stop’ more than mom does. Before that nugget however I was upset and questioning everything I was doing as a parent in our dichotomy in how we’re raising them that I’m seen as a villain.

This kid, y’all.

New CRM requests have died down and so I’ve finally gotten some time to dive into automating some alerts between my RMM and ITSM platforms.

Im able to parse the outbound webhook from the RMM service and transfer that into my ITSM’s API so it’s ingested as a ticket. Needs a little more data. Hoping I can match the inventory tools to assign the asset to the ticket without much effort and then assign the proper requester.

Then lastly is getting my SNMP tool to do the same for printers. Been emailing myself the URL and typing the requester’s name like a pleb to fire the request tickets.

Soon I shall finally have time for all these meetings!

When your kid asks you what the flash card reads and you get it right, and they respond with an enthusiastic “yeah, good job, dad!” It just corrects the course for whatever wrongs the world set in my way today.

Guess I should clarify these are their flash cards. Not mine. My 2yo cannot read CCNA flash cards. Yet.

Can confirm, this is still a bug (or a feature?) in GoDaddy's "Full Domain Privacy & Protection" plan.

Domain Privacy was set to use newer proxy info, and it pulls mostly correct data on WHOIS requests publicly. But any changes I was attempting for DNS updates were routing through old manual WHOIS directory info which was an old (before my time) proxy service. They were sending 2FA to an email address that wasn't fulfilling any forwarding as it was a shuttered service. While WHOIS was being fulfilled by the new proxy data, the old manually typed email address was handling some things. Fuuuuu.

I was told by their support to go through some recovery process - which I did. Involved sending copies of my boss's and mine IDs and then selfies with our IDs for verification. What fun. All that did was put the *account* in my email address. Nothing about the old WHOIS that I was trying to update so I could get the 2FA emails to deliver. Much ado about nothing.

I get in to work today to find this gem after beating my head into the desk for 10-20m and all of last week and a half with these folks to find that:

-1. "It's an old code, but it still checks out." They use Imperial Star Wars rules when validating their OTPs. *i.e., They don't expire*
-2. That's not true at all, any random 6-digit code will validate and let you make the change(s). *Confirmed and made my changes. The codes are made up and don't matter.*
-3. If you ever do have a valid email working, it could take up to 10m for delivery. *Haven't had to test this yet, but other admins are confirming that this is painful when making infrequent changes.*

I've at least finally updated the Admin email so it can be technically correct on the backend of that one domain. Now to play this whack-a-mole game for all the other domains.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webflow/comments/1ahkhha/godaddy_is_starting_to_ask_for_verification_every/

This is an old Airguide Barometer (broken) and Ships Bell Clock my grandfather received for 20 years with his company back around the mid to late 80s. Manufacturing marks on the barometer state 9-85, so it's a little older than myself.

I received this from my grandmother after he passed. It's one of the few possessions of his I wanted. I need to get the barometer in working condition and replace the glass. But the clock runs and the bell chimes.