What I'm Doing Wednesday: Earth Day edition
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gnu MinoanMiss/Rubynye
update on Ny's cause of death: she had an asymptomatic covid infection, which caused the heart attacks, which caused the brain edema.
Covid: Speaking Out About Rubynye (1268 words) by werpiper
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work, Public Health - Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Me | Fanwork Creator(s), Rubynye
Additional Tags: COVID-19, Death
Summary:
( books (Cline, Cline, Jackson Bennett, Puhak, Kingfisher, Wodehouse) )
yarning
2 kickbunny orders! one green and one gray. Discovered late Saturday that I didn't have enough light green or enough gray yarn to finish either bunny. I got the green at walmart, but I had to order the gray from Amazon. (Evil empires either way, but cheaper than any other option.) Still putting them together, slower than usual, due to busted thumb.
healthcrap
Tendinosis in my left thumb again, from distal all the way to the wrist. Really super annoying. Almost as annoying as going to the allergist for a shot and being denied one because I'm having to use albuterol with my symbicort at night to stop me from coughing all night. And there was no earlier appt for me to move mine to (a month out), so I guess I'm not getting back to maintenance dose after all. She did prescribe me some nasal antihistamine I forget the name of, and they're delivering it, so I don't have to drive all the way over there again. SIGH.
( astrology )
#resist
May 1: No Kings 4: the general strike
I hope all of you are doing well! Happy Earth Day! I hope y'all can enjoy a bit of nature today! <333
gnu MinoanMiss/Rubynye
update on Ny's cause of death: she had an asymptomatic covid infection, which caused the heart attacks, which caused the brain edema.
Covid: Speaking Out About Rubynye (1268 words) by werpiper
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work, Public Health - Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Me | Fanwork Creator(s), Rubynye
Additional Tags: COVID-19, Death
Summary:
Dearly loved fandom artist and author Rubynye died of covid, at age fifty.
She was a precious friend to me, and I talked about this at a memorial held for her online six weeks after. These are my notes.
GNU Ny.
( books (Cline, Cline, Jackson Bennett, Puhak, Kingfisher, Wodehouse) )
yarning
2 kickbunny orders! one green and one gray. Discovered late Saturday that I didn't have enough light green or enough gray yarn to finish either bunny. I got the green at walmart, but I had to order the gray from Amazon. (Evil empires either way, but cheaper than any other option.) Still putting them together, slower than usual, due to busted thumb.
healthcrap
Tendinosis in my left thumb again, from distal all the way to the wrist. Really super annoying. Almost as annoying as going to the allergist for a shot and being denied one because I'm having to use albuterol with my symbicort at night to stop me from coughing all night. And there was no earlier appt for me to move mine to (a month out), so I guess I'm not getting back to maintenance dose after all. She did prescribe me some nasal antihistamine I forget the name of, and they're delivering it, so I don't have to drive all the way over there again. SIGH.
( astrology )
#resist
May 1: No Kings 4: the general strike
I hope all of you are doing well! Happy Earth Day! I hope y'all can enjoy a bit of nature today! <333
Search maintenance
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dw_maintenanceHappy Wednesday!
I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!
Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!
Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.
What I'm Doing Wednesday
Apr. 15th, 2026 07:09 pmsagegnu MinoanMiss/Rubynye/Ny
The memorial was so lovely. I cried a lot. I miss her so much.
books
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer. 2006. Imperialism is so gross.
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer. 2013. These guys were such jackasses. I only knew about their Latin American horrors, not the rest of it.
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. 1934. My Wodehouse is all over the place and I didn't keep track of what I read when, so I'm rereading. This was cute and fast-paced.
The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 1 by P.G. Wodehouse.
Thank You, Jeeves: Really pissed off at Bertie's repeated "n-word minstrels", and the disaster blackface, augh, though Jeeves at least uses "negro." SIGH. I guess it was 1934, but GAH.
The Code of the Woosters: a bit tedious. Needed more Dahlia. 1937.
The Inimitable Jeeves: Needed more Jeeves and less gambling. 1923.
healthcrap
Had an allergy shot Monday and I need one more to get back on maintenance after falling behind.
taxes
I tried twice today to free-file my taxes, only to get to the end of the long long long process and have then say, no, this isn't free after all. So I paid a semi-random amount and got an extension. I think I got an extension. Did I get an extension? Now I need to double check. Gah.
#resist
May 1: No Kings 4
I hope you're all doing well! <333
The memorial was so lovely. I cried a lot. I miss her so much.
books
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer. 2006. Imperialism is so gross.
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer. 2013. These guys were such jackasses. I only knew about their Latin American horrors, not the rest of it.
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. 1934. My Wodehouse is all over the place and I didn't keep track of what I read when, so I'm rereading. This was cute and fast-paced.
The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 1 by P.G. Wodehouse.
Thank You, Jeeves: Really pissed off at Bertie's repeated "n-word minstrels", and the disaster blackface, augh, though Jeeves at least uses "negro." SIGH. I guess it was 1934, but GAH.
The Code of the Woosters: a bit tedious. Needed more Dahlia. 1937.
The Inimitable Jeeves: Needed more Jeeves and less gambling. 1923.
healthcrap
Had an allergy shot Monday and I need one more to get back on maintenance after falling behind.
taxes
I tried twice today to free-file my taxes, only to get to the end of the long long long process and have then say, no, this isn't free after all. So I paid a semi-random amount and got an extension. I think I got an extension. Did I get an extension? Now I need to double check. Gah.
#resist
May 1: No Kings 4
I hope you're all doing well! <333
Was it really fun while it lasted?
Apr. 12th, 2026 10:14 amromanticalI am currently being terrible at getting started. I have many things to do today - buy more stuff to make earrings for the booster club. Do sales tax for booster club. Make sure husband has done our taxes. Go to Costco to get stuff for snack bags for bb!hockey road trip. Make said snack bags. Laundry. Pay bills.
Getting back into the routine after a week off is going to be tough, I tell you.
Speaking of bb!hockeys - we're up 2-0 in the 2nd round. They are doing so well and I'm so proud of them. Also it's hilarious watching them trying to grow playoff beards. One of the guys has a good one. I'm so proud that some are actually able to make facial hair.
Spring break hasn't been great. I did something to my neck and it's been killing me since Tuesday. It's finally started to loosen up, so I can turn my head to the side. That's pretty exciting. I'm sure it's partially because I wasn't as active during the week and I spent some time (not enough) reading.
Okay. Must human. (aren't you guys thrilled that I'm trying to post more. you forgot how boring my life is, didn't you?)
Getting back into the routine after a week off is going to be tough, I tell you.
Speaking of bb!hockeys - we're up 2-0 in the 2nd round. They are doing so well and I'm so proud of them. Also it's hilarious watching them trying to grow playoff beards. One of the guys has a good one. I'm so proud that some are actually able to make facial hair.
Spring break hasn't been great. I did something to my neck and it's been killing me since Tuesday. It's finally started to loosen up, so I can turn my head to the side. That's pretty exciting. I'm sure it's partially because I wasn't as active during the week and I spent some time (not enough) reading.
Okay. Must human. (aren't you guys thrilled that I'm trying to post more. you forgot how boring my life is, didn't you?)
The case of the missing notifications
Apr. 11th, 2026 11:58 pmdenise posting in dw_maintenanceI keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.