Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am[staff profile] mark posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

What I'm Doing Wednesday

Oct. 22nd, 2025 12:50 pm[personal profile] sage
sage: image of the word "create" in orange on a white background. (create)
books (De Nicola et al, Ben-Ghiat, Michelson, Thomson) )

healthcrap
The eye is gradually getting better but is still semi-borked. cut for mention of weight loss & nausea ) Also, I have some pain in the ass neighbors across the street who stay on their front porch day and night, talking nonstop en espaƱol, which is just on the edge of what I can't, at speed, distance, and through walls, understand. Though my brain keeps trying. Annnnd it all interfered badly with my sleep Sunday night. (I had to dig up my earplugs and I was literally *sweating* with aggravation.) OTOH, they have sort of respected quiet hours since late Monday. Trouble is, since the weekend, I'm not sleeping til after 4am now, even with it quiet. Even with going to bed at 9 and trying to read myself to sleep like usual. It's awful. I've already got a sleep disorder. I don't need this on top of it. /extended whine

yarning
Finished the calico cat stitch scarf, made a second one, sold it, and started finished a shorter one (~68-72 inches) in black (instead of taupe), cream, and orange. more yarning )

#resist
Nothing national scheduled yet. Mobilize has lots of small local things on their calendar, though.

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333

...p...p-p-PENIS?!!!

Oct. 21st, 2025 10:56 pm[personal profile] azurelunatic
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Today Belovedest had to bust the teenagers for playing "the penis game" in the library.

[You say the word increasingly loudly, in turns, until someone loses the game by being told to cut it out or being asked to leave.]

The weather's getting colder, but I have evolved myself an outfit to wear outdoors for lounging while the weather's in the high 50s F -- my slightly ratty plush bathrobe underneath my much more windproof corduroy floor length duster. And the ta'al fingerless mgloves Mama knitted for me, in rainbow stripes. They're just the thing for keeping my hands warm while I'm on the phone.

I've discovered I do enjoy cauliflower "wings", even though I don't enjoy chicken wings.

The scooter has arrived. I am plotting how best to bedazzle it. It does have its own USB power outlet! It also has head and tail lights. It's better for approaching counters than the wheelchair, since the tiller is so close to me.

[personal profile] norabombay points out that given all the poorly supervised international visitors who have been in and out of the White House, they're going to have to take it down to the studs when they refit it for #48 to use. So the general devastation in the East Wing is small potatoes as far as outrage fodder. And anywhere that the last major update was 1947-ish must really need some yanking out of the century of the fruitbat.

My legs are doing better. In part this is because I stuck ibuprofen in my nightly pill box, since I'd been waking up with aching legs and shouting knees pretty consistently.

Medication: the medication definitely has some activity. The main activity seems to be that my appetite has been fading in and out of "did we recently have chemo?!" mode. I'm tempted to give myself a week off every few weeks.

Makeup: currently waiting on a liquid formulation of the eyeshadow that promised to match the eyeliner, because the color is fantastic and I want it in a wide brush. I guess the powder can work for blending it out. (The powder just does not want to cooperate and layer on thick enough to get the color shift effect, even with a wet brush.) My skin continues to behave itself better than my ability to use foundation; there are only a few spots where I want to color correct if I'm doing Full Battle Makeup.

Games: keeping up with all the Gems of War events is sometimes tiring, but it does make winding down my brain at night much easier than other things I could be doing.

Perfume: went through my massive perfume spreadsheet and filled in the formulation for all the BPAL (which is the same except for that one spray). Cracked myself up at some of the descriptions I've left. One particular exceedingly long-lasting one
Read more... )

Complementary creators needed!

Oct. 21st, 2025 09:23 pm[personal profile] thisaintbc posting in [community profile] ds_noticeboard
thisaintbc: C6D Big Bang Art (oil painting). An image of an explosion in the shape of a maple leaf against a dark background, bracketed by text which reads "dS C6D Big Bang". (c6d big bang (explosion))
We have two works that so far have not received complementary claims for the due South/Canadian Six Degrees Big Bang. I know our extended schedule is running up against holiday exchanges, which makes signing up for this more complicated, but we have some really lovely primary works this year and I'd like everyone to get a complementary work if possible - so please, go take a look and see if there's something there that makes you feel inspired! 

The unclaimed creators are Creator 1 and Creator 6 in the complementary claims post; complementary works would be due November 21 (with a mandatory checkpoint on November 1). 

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am[personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
thisaintbc: ds/c6d big bang icon 2020. A maple leaf filled with red and green plaid, against a blue-to-white gradient background with scattered snowflakes. Text over the maple leaf reads "dS C6D big bang". (C6D big bang (plaid))
This year's big bang has an extended schedule, so complementary claims are just opening - go check out the awesome primary works we have this year, and see if there's anything you're interested in claiming! 

What I'm Doing Wednesday

Oct. 15th, 2025 02:32 pm[personal profile] sage
sage: The text no kings with a crossed out crown on a yellow background. (No Kings)
books (Osman, Kingfisher x 3, Mohamed, De Nicola) )

The Vampire Lestat NYCC extended trailer! <333


yuletide
There's so much good stuff in the tag set, it took me forever to pare down my signup. I still might change it.

yarning
so much yarning! )

rl
Speaking of spending money, I got a new laptop, as my old one is 7 3/4 years old and Win10. The old one still works mostly fine, thank Lenovo, but the Prime Day sale was too good to pass up. I've been working on getting all my old software transferred over. Slowly.

healthcrap )

#resist
This coming Saturday: No Kings Day 2. If you're protesting, please stay loud and stay safe. I'm there with you in spirit, wearing an inflatable frog suit and passing out water. (The color for the protest is YELLOW, btw, but I like the inflatables. And I look like a zombie in yellow.)

I hope all of y'all are enjoying the Fall/Spring weather, such as it is so far, and that all is well in your worlds. <333

p.s. This No Kings icon is shareable. It and tons of other protest graphics are found here. Feel free to link & share!

Dear Yuletide Writer

Oct. 14th, 2025 05:12 pm[personal profile] sage
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Thank you so much for writing for me! Please don't stress over the optional details. Write to please yourself and I'll be delighted!

Requests )

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