Sunday. 23rd. Basa bake, veggie bake and potatoes for dinner.
Then Mash and Laid Back Camp (I think it was the end of season 3). Such a delightful show. They go to such cool places and cook amazing food. Makes us wanna go motorbike camping around Japan :) Then started season 2 of Lego Masters USA. This time with Michelle from the Australians vs the World series.
Monday. 24th. Slept mostly ok (bit restless and hands kept going to sleep). Fairly busy day. Cooked up a bag of mushrooms with cream and leftover corned beef from the April club night and veggies from the June club night. Yum. Into Mash season 7. Watched an episode of Lego Masters USA. Went to read an entry of my Tasmania blog for the day I was photo culling. But my site wouldn't load. 504 Gateway Time-out - nginx. And CageFS error in Terminal. And scripts were broken. Oh no. Not again. Need to give Vodien a bowl of petunias. And so began a week of angst that I may post separately.
Tuesday. 25th.
HTTP working on the blog but scripts and terminal still broken. Busy day at work. Made "Mexican Mince" (in that I used some taco seasoning on it) with leftover peas and carrots from the club night, and made up some taco slaw as well. The sweetie went back for seconds so must have been good.
Wednesday. 26th.
Took ages to get to sleep because I was cold. Got frustrated with NRMA because they've been charging us twice (I think) for membership. Filled in an online form asking about it. And the insurance wanted us to update a couple of things on the policy but of course insurance and membership is two different accounts in totally different places on their site and it wasn't at all obvious how I could even update what they wanted. I should have taken a screenshot of what they wanted on the renewal because it's literally written in Engrish. Their help is trash too. All trash.
Busy day. Didn't do the One Thing I wanted to get done.
NRMA got back to me. Said they couldn't sort out my problem over email and I'd need to phone in. Sigh.
Also. People drama this week. In an effort to avoid drama, or indeed be the cause of it, I pushed away a good friend, possibly forever, which makes me pretty sad. I keep telling people i'm a horrible person, maybe now they'll believe me. Sigh.
Thursday. 27th. Slept ok. Another busy day at work not getting done the One Thing I wanted to do. Pizza for dinner. Montage episode of Mash. Braindead response from Vodien.
Friday. Slept ok (surprisingly, after last night's Vodien rage). Until 4:35 when the sweetie had to get up to fly to Sydney. Busy morning before work tidying up the house so I wouldn't have to spend time on the weekend tidying up the house. Relatively quiet day at work, finished the One Thing I wanted to get done from the other day, then basically caught up on a bunch of crap. House and fish stuff after work. Lego Masters. Vodien fixed cagefs and scripts but broke my access to cpanel and I realised with horror that my mysql database had been restored to a point from LAST OCTOBER. Then watched The Shape of Water .. which was .. interesting..
Saturday. Slept ok. Made this! How cool is this :) Been meaning to make this for ages (found a gif I'd made ages ago while I was cleaning out my in tray).
Bit of house stuff, bit of photo stuff, bit of Lego part wishlisting.
When the Vodien nonsense started at the beginning of the week I quickly exported my database in case anything happened. At the time I thought.. funny.. that's significantly smaller than my last backup (taken in May). But then didn't think much more of it. On Saturday I realised to my HORROR that the backup I'd made was of the REVERTED database FROM LAST OCTOBER!! I freaked out. I couldn't login to cpanel anymore (they broke that on Friday) to do a tar.gz of the site. I couldn't FTP anything (same login problem). In the end I just loaded the May/June entries in my browser and manually saved them. Then if all else failed at least I had the latest content since my May backup. I also have it in a local RSS feed reader. Although I do worry about having to ever do a mysql restore. So much potential for things to go Very Badly with my blog.
The last of my mini capsicums is actually slowly ripening all by itself indoors!
Leftovers for dinner. Second part of the Mash montage episode. Then watched The Good Son, which I'd seen once a long time ago. All I could remember from last time was the Highway Man and the cliffs at the end.
Sunday. Slept mostly ok although woke up early and started stressing about my database. Got up to find the cpanel password reset email. Cool. But cpanel was full of scary errors, terminal had different errors and NONE OF MY WEBSITES OR EMAIL ACCOUNTS WORKED!!! Finished getting ready, and thankfully by an hour later everything was working again. I went to backup my database but phpMyAdmin had this error "mysqli_sql_exception: Access denied". A quick Google said to just reset my cpanel password again so did that and it all came good. Backed up the database. Made a test blog post. Hoped like hell this would be the end of the drama. Until next time.
More drama with Rob and some club photos. Sigh.
Bit of Tassie culling but mostly just Lego parts wishlisting. Put some lamb into the slow cooker mid morning. Lunch at Pattysmiths. The cheesy chicken burger doesn't have actual cheese, just cheese sauce. Still nice though.
Then food shopping. I was worried going into Woollies that I wasn't in the right frame of mind for it. Just about every time I go to Woollies I can go in in a completely happy mood, and be wanting to kill people by the end of it. So after the terrible week I've had I knew things were going to be bad. And I was right. I took a few deep breaths before I went in. But then I was trying to find the dried fried shallots. They're usually down the bottom in the Asian section. But there was this couple and their trolley in the way and while they did move a bit, they still stayed there in front of everything for AGES and I couldn't see the damned shallots and I was getting more and more frustrated and stressed and when that happens I literally go blind and can't SEEEEE and then all these people were trying to get past in either direction and I just about had a panic attack. I gave up looking and carried on but I obviously looked distraught enough that a staff member actually asked if I was ok and I was like no because I can't FIND anything and he very sweetly went and looked for me (it took him ages to find them too). What a lovely guy. Grabbed our last few things then got out of there. Should go back to shopping at 7am, so much less stressful. Pity the sweetie is allergic to mornings. Not much else in the afternoon. Mostly Lego wishlisting. Glimmer of hope that good friend may not be lost. And now to see if I can post this...
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