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TTW you start writing, realize you'd kind of like a Martini, get up to start making it, get the vermouth out of the fridge, start idly clearing space on the counter to mix in while ruminating about writing stuff, finish clearing the counter, go back to writing...

...and then 15 minutes later you realize the vermouth is still sitting there on the counter and you still don't have a drink. 🤦🏻

Now I have to get up again.

(That's a PITA when you're over 50. #OldFart)

For my sad birthday my wife gifted me with an Orbital concert over the weekend. They play in Brno in the summer, so obviously we went to Maastricht.*

Jokes aside, the show was special in its focus on the green and brown album. The latter was what I grew up on, looping Lush and Impact about a million times. Having two old farts blast acid to more old farts got me a little emotional.

* This nasty Brno joke was brought to you by the classic GUADEC conflict.

Still feeling sick as a dog. (Why do we say that, BTW? How are dogs sicker than any other animal?) A nasty headache has added itself to my symptoms. (Maybe it's sinus pressure? Maybe it's dehydration? Fuck it, I dunno, maybe it's Maybelline. #OldFart)

Anyway, I'm gonna take some NyQuil and try to fall asleep ASAP. Yeah, way before midnight, I don't GAF. Today's been sucky, and I'm ready for it to be over.

G'night, Fedi.

As if I Needed Another Reason

I don’t need another reason to want to work from home more and work in the office less, but I have one. A good one.

There is something about the lighting and the mirror in the men’s room in the office that really points out how much grey there is in my hair. Especially around my temples and right above my ears. The grey hair really just leaps out at you.

Yeah, that’s a damn good reason to want to work from home more and work in the office less. As if I needed another reason, right?

Years ago, I stopped by a supermarket after a gym session. I was wearing a tank top and my shoulder tattoo was visible. I was looking at something or another on a shelf when an elderly man got pretty close to me. I assumed I was blocking something he wanted to get at, so I shuffled out of the way. Then I realized he was looking at me, not the food.

His lips were pressed tightly together, and he was shaking his head in a tsk-tsk sort of way. "You're a woman, you have a tattoo, and that is not--"

I interrupted him cheerily. "Not your body. Not your business. Bye!"

I left him there all judgy-faced without a target. I guess he had the sanctimonious equivalent of blue balls. Boo hoo.

Later on, I told someone about this, and they chided me for not taking a tongue-lashing from that old man. "Fuck that," I said. "That's how I spent my first twenty years. I don't owe that to anyone."
#judgmental #OldFart #MyBody #tattoos #GenderRoles #ExJW

One thing puzzled me slightly over the last couple of days. Watching the auth logs I see login attempts with the following user IDs:

2024-11-30 SSH ALLIN1MAIL
2024-11-30 SSH PDP11
2024-11-30 SSH PDP8
2024-11-30 SSH TELEDEMO
2024-11-30 SSH DECMAIL
2024-11-30 SSH DECNET
2024-11-30 SSH SYSMAINT
2024-12-01 SSH SYSTEST_CLIG

which to this #oldfart #greybeard sounds very #DEC #VAX-like.

Anyone else seeing this? Or is somebody out there actually running an Internet-accessible VAX somewhere?