Thu Feb  4 07:43:20 EST 2016

Slept from after eleven to before seven. Woke once in the night, briefly, without getting out of bed. I feel fairly rested, despite going to bed a little late.

There's a dusting of snow on the ground this morning. High of thirty-two today. Scattered snow showers.

Took an interest in my electricity bill this morning. $39 for 218 kWh. That's $0.178 per kWh.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-price-of-electricity-in-your-state
"The average price people in the U.S. pay for electricity is about 12 cents per kilowatt-hour. (Context: A typical U.S. household uses about 908 kWh a month of electricity.)"
Although that data is from 2011, my household certainly seems to be among the highest electricity prices in the country. Hmph.
Looks like my average usage for the year is around 217 kWh per month.
My highest usage is during August and September.
My lowest usage is during May and November.

Goals:

    Work:
    - Follow up with Pitney Bowes
      Done.
      Ron says he'll have someone call me shortly.
    - Work on thin clients
      No.
    - Start VOIP notes
      No.
        - Outline of a VOIP call
        - Components of Asterisk

Twenty minute walk at lunch. Snowing but not too cold.

Huh. `dd if=foo of=/dev/sdN -status=progress && synx`. Thanks, Arch wiki. Didn't know about "progress". Seems to be a GNU thing.

    Home:
    - Work on DO vm. Verify PHP to MariaDB works.
      Done.
      I'd like to make a big push today, and get everything moved.
      1. Set root pw for MariaDB
         Done.
      2. Create databases
         Done.
      3. Create database users
         Done.
      4. Restore databases
         Done.
      And more nginx configuration:
      1. Create .htaccess
         Done.
      2. URL rewrite
         Done.
      2. Create access restrictions
         Done.
      paulgorman.org/blog seems to be working. Nice.

      Still to do:
      - Set up ttrss
      - Set up wp
      - Move latest files over (diary and technical)
      - Set up backups of inky
      - Close Dreamhost account
      - cron jobs?

    Backup on inky:
    - /etc/
    - /usr/local/etc/
    - /usr/jails/*/etc/
    - /usr/jails/*/usr/local/www/
    - /home/
    - /root/

Saw the new Star Wars movie. I liked it. Way better than the prequels.