Thu Jan  3 08:06:11 EST 2019

Slept from eleven to six.
Woke briefly once in the night.

High of thirty-six and cloudy today.

Work:
- Unit rent changes
  Done.
- Review PO's
  Done.
- Check out https://netplan.io/
  Done.

Half-hour walk at lunch.
Mostly sunny, and rather pleasant.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/have-plan-netplan
https://netplan.io/faq
https://blog.ubuntu.com/2017/12/01/ubuntu-bionic-netplan

So, Netplan is an abstraction layer.
Netplan lets us configure the network with one or more simple YAML files in `/etc/netplan`.
For the moment, Netplan is an Ubuntu thing.
The "why" of Netplan seems to be that the workstation version of Ubuntu uses NetworkManager, while the server version uses networkd.
Netplan lets us use one type of config, regardless of the backend.
Netplan calls the backends "renderers".
Netplan currently only supports two renderers — networkd and NetworkManager — but it could support others.
It's OK, with some potential gotcha's (e.g., pre-up, post-up hooks).

Home:
- Do something creative

Ten-minute walk after work.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/02/why-guys-like-mitt-romney-dont-scare-donald-trump-223617

> At important junctures of his public career Romney—like many or perhaps most politicians—has revealed himself as a supremely transactional figure, flexible in altering his words and his positions to align with self-interest as the occasion demands. If Trump is the more transactional figure—boasting about his deal-making savvy rather than trying to defend his gyrations as rooted in some higher morality—this is only a difference in degree, not a difference in kind.
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> Once the debate leaves the field of principle and moves to the field of results, there is no denying which of the two transactional figures is better at the game. Thus Trump’s rejoinder Wednesday: “I won big, and he didn’t.”
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> Well might Romney recoil at a comparison between him and Trump. The former Massachusetts governor has been prominent in national life for a quarter-century, and rarely during that time have people who know Romney raised their voices to say that—on personal matters—the reality of his life is different than his Boy Scout image. Who has reason to doubt that he is not a devoted husband and father, a caring friend and neighbor, that he keeps his word with business associates?
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> But in his public career Romney has shown a willingness to do what needs to be done—a willingness to subordinate principle to self-interest that is the essence of one familiar Trump critique. Trump was in favor of abortion rights before he opposed them. So was Romney, as he moved from running for office in liberal Massachusetts to establishing his conservative bona fides with national Republicans. He ran for president in 2008 boasting of passing something very similar to Obamacare in Massachusetts, then ran for president in 2012 assailing Obamacare. In all his campaigns Romney has emphasized his record of professional achievement and business success more than his ideological consistency—a pattern that has also marked Trump’s rise to the presidency.
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> Romney has been similarly itinerant in his language on Trump. He accepted the New Yorker’s endorsement in 2012. Then in 2016 he said on Twitter, “I would NOT have accepted his endorsement” if Trump said then, “the things he says today about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled.” He called him “a phony, a fraud.” Then, after Trump’s election, Romney praised his “message of inclusion” and signaled that he might be willing to serve as Trump’s secretary of state. Then, this year, in his race for Senate in Utah, he accepted Trump’s endorsement. Yet in the Washington Post on Wednesday he bemoaned Trump’s treatment of allies and the parade of senior officials out of his administration and concluded, “his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions last month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.”

Ouch, yes.

Servings: grains 0/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5

Breakfast: carrots, banana, orange, two eggs, avocado, coffee
Lunch: apple, carrots, orange, tomato, yogurt, coffee
Dinner: pizza

141/90