Wed Aug 28 06:00:01 UTC 2024 ======================================== Slept from eleven to seven without waking. Partly cloudy late in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Mostly cloudy early in the morning. Patchy fog early in the morning. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent. # Work * 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM NIC Portal call with Albert Ahr * 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM uncoverned IT categories fro IRM review # Home * [x] August 28 06:00 PM dinner with Yvonne, Kate, Rob, kids at Orchard Cafe Thai place * [x] package to UPS * [ ] build Pi-hole for home network * [ ] exercise for ten minutes * [ ] car oil change * [ ] schedule dentist appointment * [ ] schedule optometrist appointment Read more of The Bezzle. Twenty-minute walk in the morning. Starting to get hot and humid. Partly sunny. The damage from last night's brief but intense storm was minor — hardly any branches blown down. Hmm, it seems that systemd can activate services on connection, inetd style, which might be something I want to do when running a bunch of microservices in a little VM. I guess the microservice would have to know when to shut itself down.... https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/systemd-socket-activate.1.html https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdSocketActivationThoughts Washed dishes, took out trash. Dinner was fun. Great to see everyone. Isla's still doing Irish step dancing. Kate says the restaurant is still trying to find its feet. Stopped at their place on the way home, and Rob gave me some peppers from a neighbor's garden. Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 0/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 4/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: sausage, egg, pepper, tomato Lunch: coffee Afternoon snack: salami and cucumber wrap Dinner: Thai 309