Monday. 2nd. Not backdating for a change. But it is running pretty late on a Sunday afternoon when I still have two dinners to prep/cook. And that's without even doing the Captains Flat post. hrmmm. Awake for a while in the middle of the night, but otherwise slept ok. Tony helped me with a greenwaste run in the morning which was very nice of him. Then Lego inventorying and jigsaw but not much else. Apple is so retarded. I told it to trust my phone the other week. It still doesn't and I still need to enter the password every time I want to back it up. Tuna casserole for dinner.
Left is "brown". Right is "reddish brown". According to Bricklink, the radar dish doesn't exist in brown, only reddish brown. I beg to differ. 
Tuesday. Took ages to get to sleep - hot and restless. Have I mentioned how hot it's been the past little while? Ok day. Procrastinating at looking a new proxy product by catching up on life. Watched the first episode of Twin Peaks, which I've never seen, although I have known whodunnit for over thirty years.
Wednesday. Took ages to get to sleep - hot and restless.
Halloween cupcakes by a-cakes
Went to reply to an email of Mum's in the evening and it wouldn't send. First up I was getting TLS failures. I'd already updated a couple of the dlls for Eudora a couple of years ago, but found updated ones from the Hermes project so got past that fairly quickly.
Great. Except now I get:
the SMTP server (mail.internode.on.net) said:
550 mf-505: Sender Policy - Relay Denied
*sigh* F$*%ing internode have broken their SMTP server (moved it to AWS). Previously you could always use their SMTP server if you were on their network. Now.. they're like nope, screw you. So much for an internet "service" provider. Got literally nothing else done tonight.
Thursday. Took ages to get to sleep. Cranky with everything and everyone. Fighting with proxies most of the day. Busy drinks (old farts drinks). Pizza for dinner (although not much because too much pigging out on snackages).
Friday. Fighting with proxies in the morning. Gave up because the thing won't block an executable file if it's been renamed to .txt. Did decom work in the arvo, because Fridays. Ahsoka in the evening.
Saturday. Awake in the middle of the night for two or three hours. Sigh. Had breakfast at The Scottish Restaurant then did food shopping from a couple of places. Was nearly midday by the time we got home. Sigh. Afternoon alternating between cleaning the house and finishing the jigsaw. Roast beef for dinner and had Chris and Glenda over which was lovely. Played Battle of the Sexes in the evening. The questions were fun but the rules were pretty confusing and the gameplay was a bit retarded.
There was roast beef and potato bake and other veggies
Glenda brought pavlova!
Sunday. Awake for a little while in the middle of the night but not as badly as last night. Spent the ENTIRE MORNING fighting with SMTP.
Had a go at connecting to Vodien for authenticated SMTP.
Firstly had to enable "esoteric" features in Eudora so that I could see the ports. Ended up setting the SMTP port to 587.
Started off with errors like
535 Incorrect authentication data
Can't send to ''. The server gives this reason: '550 SMTP AUTH is required for message submission on port 587'.
I was able to get Thunderbird to authenticate against my kazza.id.au host and send, so then spent ages fiddling with configs in Eudora trying to get it to work. Eventually after MUCH hacking I got it to work.
But then my SPF record needed to be updated. Gmail was rejecting with fun errors like
"Messages missing a valid Message-ID header are not accepted"
but even that was inconsistent. Eventually after much hacking and googling I settled on
include:_spf.syrahost.com include:all._spf.ds.network
which as it turns out was buried deep in cpanel as well.
Of course the problem is now I can't send emails to Stu's domain, or to David's domain, because I have those in my cpanel account for web hosting, and now it thinks it owns them and delivers the mail to me not them. Sigh.
The afternoon was then music, weeding and blogging. And I haven't even finished catching up on blogging. Sigh.
I need a weekend to recover from my weekend.
kapgar
I feel like backdating is all I do anymore. I'm a bad blogger.
Kazza the Blank One
I'm worse haha. I set myself up for failure by aiming to blog Sunday afternoons with a beer or glass of wine. But too often Life Happens and it doesn't work.