Soul-deadening weather notwithstanding I feel like a bucket of butt today. Time, again, to lay off the booze. As I discovered last week, and this was new for me, I have a hard time being around people who are drinking when I am not. That never used to be true, but I think this time it was because I had only quit for a few days. After a week or so I’d be fine. I’ve taken to my old habits of curing insomnia with 4am shots of the vodak. I hate waking up after that. But it’s strange because last night I swear I got up around 4 or 5 but did not actually do any shots. There is plenty of vodka left. So I would not have consumed any more booze than usual and yet I feel and even look like a fucking train wreck.
That was an astonishing sunset, though. Just out of nowhere was this great and clean brightness.
I gorged on Gear VR content last night. Some of that shit is just so fucking cool. I don’t use it as much as when I first got it but the headset does makes its way to my face now and again.
Just puttering around directionless and feeling confused today. Got good work done on the payphone site last night but it’s been slow going on all things in my web world. The longer I do this the more the tech stuff gets in the way of creating content. Today I made a somewhat amusing discovery. The server is on a 2TB drive. That’s an enormous amount of storage for web sites, but it’s good to have that clearance for moving tar ball files and such. For some reason I cannot seem to figure out the php error logging is logging every fucking thing, from warnings about deprecated functions to iconv initialization errors that get logged every fucking second. The deprecated function warnings are to be expected given the age of some of the web software I use. Gallery2 is old, the weather scripts are probably even older.
I found where some of the log files were getting into the hundreds of gigabytes in size before realizing this was happening, and I really only noticed it by chance. So I cronned out two error log files every half hour and thought I’d solved the problem, but then noticed that the server was at something like 73% storage capacity and increasing 1% every so often. I found that a log file under the weather section had grown to a size so huge I could not even count the number of numbers that showed up on ls -a. It was probably coming up on a full terabyte before I nuked it. That took several minutes, just deleting a file that size. So as nice as it is to have that cushion of storage (the server probably would have crapped out completely on account of this error logging were it a mere terabyte in size) it is not without its hazards. The server went from 72% capacity to 32% after deleting that one fucking file. Phew.
Such excitement.
I went out in the gloom and rain looking for more watchclocks. The ones I think I remember seeing, I seem to remember thinking they were ashtrays, which is probably all these little containers are used for anymore. I might have seen one at the storage place where I have a storage closet. That would be a sensible place for such a setup. It has to be the kind of place where security patrols tour the facility or the grounds. So cemeteries, parks, storage places, schools… a lot of possibilities but I guess many of them are going to be located indoors and not out in the open like the one I spotted. That does make the one I spotted seem all the more unusual, although I am yet to conclude that these things are actually all that rare.
Well okay then. I’m going home.
