Caveat: Tree #959

This tree (an abstraction, admittedly) represents the status of the apache (webserver) services on my main server for the new website.
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Today was not normal not just because of software woes.

Arthur went to see the VA audiologist in Ketchikan. Mid-day appointments in Ketchikan are possible, but involve a full-day’s journey. I drove Art to the ferry this morning, leaving the house as 5:45 AM. His ferry trip embarked at 8, he arrived in Ketchikan at 11, he had his appointment at 12, he got on the return ferry at 3:30, I picked him up at 6:30, and we got back to the house at 8 PM.

Arthur was tired but, he said, they had finally helped him to adjust his hearing aids better. This is amazingly good news! We’ll see how it pans out. They also told him that his hearing had worsened quite a bit – which wasn’t news to me, but was, of course, news to him. But now maybe, hopefully, he’ll wear his now better-working hearing aids more often.

picture[daily log: walking, 1.5km; driving, 135km]

Caveat: Unscheduled Maintenance

Today has been stressful. But stress “of my own creation,” for a change – since it has been about this volunteer systems administrator role I’ve taken on for this new version of the old website.

The website crashed this morning. In a way where I didn’t understand what was going on, where we had to take it offline and study the problem with limited resources, where we had to deal with all the customers (users – these are not paying customers, it’s a free site) who wanted to know what was going on.

We made progress on diagnosing the problem, but the site is still offline. Tomorrow I’ll work on trying to get it back up and available again.

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