Daily Post #10

Worked from home. Reinstalled solr in a directory that isn’t /tmp, figured out how to do mod_proxy and mod_rewrite so that both GET and POST requests redirect happily. Check it out @ http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/arclight/caoSearch/ ! It’s still got some kinks to work out, but it’s getting there. We’re really happy we were able to copy the index from the old/faulty installation of solr to the new one. It took a long time to index the 7000+ EAD files the first time and we weren’t thrilled at the prospect of doing it again.

I also vetted the “download an EAD file and edit it” assignment for Thursday’s class. It was straightforward. We’re probably going to a more asynchronous format — students’ lives are are more complicated nowadays and they might not be able to make a set class time.

In personal life, I finished off the leftover macaroni and cheese. I’m looking into getting cheese powder to make my own sauce–it might be more customizable than off-the-shelf mac&cheese. It might also be cheaper.

I had 3 hazelnut m&ms and one cherry cordial kiss. They’re very tasty, but not worth a trip to the store, so I should make them last.

Elvis is still really into the feather flirt pole. I eventually put it away slightly out of his reach and he huffed and whined until he figured out how to get to it.

Chris bought me a copy of Tabletop Simulator and we tested out playing Hanabi over the network. It went pretty well.

I’ve been listening to the Saga Thing podcast. I just finished the Egil’s Saga episodes, so I’m sadly nearly caught up.

Healthwise, I feel fine. Still a little congested. *jazz hands*. I coughed once today.

Fairfield County has 546 laboratory-confirmed cases. Danbury itself has 63.

Daily Post #9

Today I told webfaction to migrate my websites to a plan with more memory. Hopefully this will free up enough space for solr to function happily.

We had our first online class. It went decently–there were some hiccups with technology, but we got over them. One of the students was very frustrated by their ancient laptop.

Chris and I trimmed Elvis using Chris’s beard trimmer. He looks much smaller.

Elvis with short hair

Elvis and I also discovered the flirt pole. He enjoyed catching the feathers-on-a-string-on-a-pole.

Fairfield County is up to 384 cases, 29 of which are in Danbury.

Daily Post #7

Today was pretty quiet. Chris and I went out to the communal mailboxes. We wore gloves, face masks, and long sleeves. We brought Elvis, our dog. While we were out, we turned off the key-seeking thingie in Chris’s Prius so it wouldn’t drain the battery (I’d done mine on Friday but forgot to do his).

We got mail and a box of Soylent.

When we got back in, everything went into a plastic bin. The soylent, the mail, all of our clothing. Then we took showers. Elvis also got a bath. I labeled the bin’s lid “Do not open until Wednesday afternoon”.

I worry I’m being paranoid, but I don’t want anyone to get sick.

I also sat on a webpanel about the filkarchive. I’ll find a link to the video later (I think we recorded it)

Other than that, we tested out TableTop Simulator by playing Diamont. It went ok.

I’m in the market for a corded headset that doesn’t contain latex. I have a nice bluetooth headset, but keep forgetting to charge it.

Symptoms

My breathing *feels* a little wonky, but I’m fine on oxygen. I don’t know what is up. Maybe anxiety.