Someone’s in hot water, or: A saga sequel, taking care of business, not working overtime. And a footnote.<\/p>\n
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It’s Chucky, it’s Jason, it’s Freddy … it’s Star Wars episode VII, coming 2015 or so.<\/p>\n
It’s a leaking water heater!<\/p>\n
We’ve placed towels around the base to catch any collecting or dripping water. Tomorrow and Monday we’ll check it for continued leakage … and if it’s there, back to the main office I go.<\/p>\n
Ah, poor Kenny. They might just send Dudley this time.<\/p>\n
I am amused by it; Ms. S. is frustrated. I am amused so that I don’t have to feel frustrated. At least we have hot water. Last week when my father left a phone message he indicated that the guy who installed new carpet for them this last summer did not stretch it properly; now it’s buckling. He is ‘resigned,’ but he didn’t sound frustrated. We’re not the only ones. What else can you do?<\/p>\n
That is all.<\/p>\n
My WordPress installs are sluggish.<\/p>\n
Other domains with the same hosting service on the same account aren’t that bad, and one is basically straight HTML. So it has something to do with the WordPress installs … but is is: [1] the proxy web server? [2] the MySQL backend? [3] the (shared?) PHP instance? [3] particular PHP functions or pages? [4] particular SQL queries, or [5] something else?<\/p>\n
One of the things I’m doing is consolidating; I have a number of old course websites running separate databases and subdomains that I’m collecting in a single database with their sites as subdirectories of a main site. This should reduce a little overhead, and it at least makes maintenance and cataloging easier for me. Once that’s done I’ll have two WordPress installs for myself (vs. nearly a dozen) and one for my brother. All are minor in disk usage, hits, and the like.<\/p>\n
But it feels like Spring Cleaning, though in autumn. Cleaning is cleansing; this purifying is a purging. That is catharsis … it’s refreshing.<\/p>\n
Ms. S. mourns the end of SG-1. We also now have less than a season and a half left of Oz (as we’ve watched five of season five so far, though they’re reruns for her, only new for me). We picked back up with season 1 of New Girl, which generates more laughs than it seems it deserves. Neither of us misses it when we’re not watching it, but while watching it it’s quite a relief. And we threw in the beginning of season 5 of Parks & Recreation, which Ms. S. got me into.<\/p>\n
Once Ms. S.’s production wraps up and she and I have more free time, we’ll reevaluate what we’re watching. We need another ‘anchor’ show to replace SG-1, which first ran concurrent with and then took over for TNG. There’s the possibility of DS-9; I’ve contemplated returning to BSG.<\/p>\n
It’s all about TLAs …<\/p>\n
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