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Fri May 6 09:05:03 EDT 2016
Slept from ten-something to almost seven. One once or twice in the night, briefly.
Sunny and seventy.
Work:
- Schedule printer install with Mrs. H
Done.
Monday at four.
- Remove lockbox duplicates for Crystal
Done.
Went to Meijer at lunch to buy a mother's day card. Decided to get lunch at the Mediterranean place, but had to stop at a new Chinese place when the shop girl waved at me so hopefully. Not bad, but they need to dial back the salt a couple of notches. Also, a big carb/MSG bomb is probably not what I needed, given that I've been feeling a little low-energy today anyhow.
Home:
- Buy mother's day card
Done.
- Ask mom about mother's day
Done.
Lunch on Sunday.
- Think about vps
Done.
I actually fired up an OpenBSD instance on Vultr.
- Clean apartment
Done.
Vacuumed, wiped kitchen and bathroom counters, dusted, mopped the floors.
I like the idea I read the other day (which I'm sure I've heard before) that the original D&D saving throws are so idiosyncratic because they're descriptive of the sort of dangers found in that world. Reminds me of a small epic catalog, like the lists from Homer. Accordingly, I'm working on saving throws for Zerapis:
- Science Zaps or Space Pox
- Volcanoes or Toppling Monoliths
- Bad Trips or Cranial Explosions
Shoot. I kept being frustrated that there weren't FreeBSD packages for Let's Encrypt. Then I realized that I hadn't run `portsnap fetch` in a long time, so `make search name=letsen` wasn't returning the TWO FreeBSD Let's Encrypt ports that do actually exist.
What do I want to change when I rebuild my vps?
- Less complexity.
- Use Apache rather than nginx. I'm just more comfortable with Apache.
- If I use jails as extensively again, make the jails more service-based rather than platform-based. E.g., run one instance of php-fpm rather than one instance for each jail that needs php.
- Really, I probably don't _need_ to use jails at all.
- Get Let's Encrypt working.
- Even though I understand it more than I did, I still dislike ipfw. I should consider using pf, even if it's the older syntax. I really wish FreeBSD would put in the effort to port a newer version of pf from OpenBSD.
- Maybe I should go with OpenBSD instead??
- It looks like there _is_ an official Let's Encrypt packages for 5.9.
- Or maybe just Debian??
So, the number one thing for my vps rebuild is to simplify.
I set up a vultr account.
https://paulgorman.org/technical/openbsd-vultr-runbook.txt
Actually, got quite far with the basic OpenBSD setup.
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