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⬅️ Previous capture (2021-12-03)
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I'm ROOPHLOCHing again. Not really by choice. There's a huge thunderstorm going on. Massive rainfall. Hope my basement escapes the fate of tfurrows' poor house[1]. It's strange that the storm is happening now. They usually happen in July and August and we didn't get any this year. I'm fascinated by thunderstorms and I'm sitting out on the porch. At the same time, I don't really like them, so I hope it ends soon. The thunder is cracking loud. Unsettling. Actually, speaking of tfurrows, he mentioned that when he recently purchased a bag of grain from the Amish, they said that if he didn't have cash or a cheque, he could mail one in later[2]. I had a similar experience in Vancouver a few years ago. My wife and I ate at a great Vietnamese restaurant (sadly, it has disappeared since) and our waitress was the daughter of the cook/proprietor. The food was great, but when we finished, they didn't have interac and didn't take charge cards. I didn't have any cash, and the waitress said, "That's okay. You pay next time." What a shock. Well, I explained that we were from out of town and walked over to a nearby cash machine to get the money, but I was floored by the level of trust. Later, my wife contended that it was simply the best way to handle a bad situation. The customer had no cash and the owners refrained from antagonizing them or worrying about it later. "It must happen a lot," she continued, matter-of-factly. "It's better to wake up the next morning not worrying about going to small claims court." I prefer my interpretation. I hope that they got a lot of repeat business because of their good faith. They would have gotten mine, had I lived there. Then again, the restaurant is no longer there, and my wife tends to be a better judge of human beings than I am. The thunder has stopped. I guess that's it for this ROOPHLOCH. Oh. One more thing. There was a brief (several hours) outage on the XMPP server and www.circumlunar.space. The Let's Encrypt certificate did not renew properly. I'm not quite sure why and it's one of those annoying problems that you only get a chance to fix every couple of months. If you don't fix it, you have to wait another couple of months to find out if your next fix works. In any case, I've added the renewal date to my phone calendar. If it hasn't renewed a few days before the expiry date, I'll just do it manually. I have to restart the Prosody server (for XMPP) and Shizaru (for the old dubya-dubya, as D. Letterman would say) to get them to load the new certificates anyways, so it's best to just pay attention and do it myself. Alternatively, I suppose I could learn to write a script with a few conditional elements. Or not. [1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7etfurrows/phlog/2019-08-29_waterproofBasement.txt [2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7etfurrows/phlog/2019-09-03_ROOPHLOCH_Entry1.txt