In other news, my annual dryer vent cleaning is scheduled for next week. They offer our community a 40% discount off their regular (fair) pricing so it's pretty much a no-brainer.
I made two phone calls today. I'm done adulting.
Yesterday one of the tension cables for my garage door failed. I moved the car to the driveway and carefully closed the (no longer level) door.
Today I called the folks who replaced the springs ~15 years ago. They can come out tomorrow morning to replace the failed cable (and possibly its sibling).
As the sun rises over the Bay Area, it's time to get dressed and head down to breakfast at day two of
#SREcon. (And I'll be giving my conference talk in about five and a half hours, too.)
Want to get a better understanding of writing and testing disaster recovery plans? I'm talking about that in "Running DRP Tabletop Exercises" on Wed Mar 26 at SREcon25 Americas in Santa Clara!
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/simon will have slides and video after the fact.
Running DRP Tabletop Exercises | USENIX
@petrillic Perhaps so. But stop calling me Shirley.
@petrillic True since the NeXTSTEP days. I remember rigging our old NeXT cube to say something around 10pm to the only person working at the help desk that late ("I am watching you, Tom").
Last night was dinner with the family: Shrimp cocktail with homemade cocktail sauce, honey baked ham with a mustard dipping sauce, crispy parmesan potatoes, fruit-stuffed acorn squash, baked apples, and a strawberry trifle. (I have leftovers of everything except the shrimp and squash.)
A friend was kind enough to take me out to dinner tonight. We each had miso soup and salad, then we split a sushi deluxe and four rolls (California, spicy salmon, spicy tuna, and one with baby shrimp, crab, avocado, and eel, with spicy tuna on top).
