Notes – Amanda Unvarnished

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| Monday 29 May 2023 (9 Sivan 5783)

Afternoon fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

It’s in the mid 80’sF here, so we’re staying inside with the air conditioner. I still have to call Digital Ocean about the Fail2ban issue, but I’ll get that done later this evening. Oh and we’re keeping up with the baseball game. Otherwise, not much, although we are rereading the Quinn Colson books, and I have a question.

Most of the characters in this series are on the low end of the income spectrum. And yet, they all somehow manage to have cowboy boots. Which are expensive. So, I’d like to know how they managed to end up with them.

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Amanda CAARSON

| Sunday 21 May 2023 (1 Sivan 5783)

Afternoon fedizens, we’re doing sunday. I hope all of you are having a good one.

I slept last night, but not very well, so I’m tired today. On the other hand, it’s supposed to get to 75F today, so that’ll be nice.

We have lots of sportsball today. My Braves play in a little over an hour, the Rays start ten minutes later, and my Vegas Golden Knights start at 1500. We haven’t decided yet if we’re just going to keep the book going, or listen to one or more games.

Speaking of books, John and I have been rereading some of the Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport books. Those have established spots on our rereads list, and we’ve been enjoying randomly picking a book and rereading that.

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Amanda CAARSON

| Friday 19 May 2023 (28 Iyyar 5783)

Afternoon fedizens, we’ve made it to Friday, and we’re a good chunk of the way through it on top of that.

Not much has gone right today. I’ll have to find a way to get in touch with a human at Audible because somehow my Audible account is no longer merged with my Amazon account, and when I attempt to re-merge, I can’t complete the second step. So as a result, Audible thinks I’m not a member, although I can see my library if I log into Audible with my username instead of my email address.

I found out all this when I was attempting to pre-order the new Stone Barrington book that’s due to arrive on 6 June, and the new book from John Grisham which will be a sequel to The Firm coming out on 17 October. So hopefully I’ll get this sorted.

I’m definitely going to make time for a drink later on this evening since today’s been such a not good one.

In sportsball news, my Vegas Golden Knights play game one of t he conference finals tonight, the Florida Panthers won last night’s game in quadrupal overtime with a score of 3 to 2, and both the Tampa Bay Rays and Atlanta Braves play baseball tonight.

Oh, and the weather’s great again so we have the windows open.

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Amanda CAARSON

| Tuesday 16 May 2023 (25 Iyyar 5783)

Good afternoon fedisons, we’re doing Tuesday.

Before I go any further, by "fedisons", I mean all my people using Mastodon and any other ActivityPub powered software, plus the O-status and ActivityStream folks, and let’s not forget everyone using #indieweb building blocks like webmention and micropub.

Anyway …

John and I both had soup for lunch, and we have pleasantly full tummies. We got a very late start this morning. Neither of us got up until after 9, and I didn’t get on the computer to do any work related stuff until after noon. I’m not quite sure I’ve had enough coffee, but it’s approaching 1400 hours and I don’t need to sit here all day and drink coffee.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to really try to make my move goal or not today. I don’t really feel like it. The weather is great though, and we have all the windows open. We’ll probably keep them open for a couple more days since it’s supposed to be clear.

Conference finals for the NHL end on Thursday night, and John and I are both looking forward to that. Go Knights!

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73 °F Clear Sky

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Amanda CAARSON

| Monday 15 May 2023 (24 Iyyar 5783)

Morning everybody, we’re doing Monday.

I slept in until 08:30 this morning, which is amazingly late for me. So I guess that means I’ll be up later this evening.

Windows restarted without my permission sometime during the night, so I’ve spent most of this morning getting everything properly restarted and relaunched. Thanks, Drew, for the ctrl+shift+t command, it saved my bacon for the first time this morning.

I’m hoping to get some outside time today. For some reason this morning I’m feeling like I really need to get outside. It’s supposed to be get to 75F today and we’re supposed to have no rain, so I want to take advantage of that.

In sportsball, my Vegas Golden Knights won last night with a score of 5 to 2 against the Oilers, and they’ve taken the series. Now we just need to wait for the Stars and the Kraken to be decided. The Braves and Rangers game is coming up at 20:00 tonight, and I’m looking forward to having that to enjoy for the evening.

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