Done yesterday (20100611 Fr)

[mdlbear]

0611 Fr
  * 4am-ish YD will need picking up from school
  * home ~4:30.  Think I'll stay up.
  @ Researchers Discover Genetic Patterns of Autism - TIME
    Where the Disabled are not Welcome 
    Disability: When Accommodations Are Imperfect
    (via saffronrose) 
  % 6+-15 or so: hot bath really helped with the kinked-up neck and shoulder.  
    Dozed a little.
  & the usual blog reading; twitter & LJ userpic maintenance
  * post: thankful thursday
  * went to passport office but discovered renew-by-mail is easy, cheaper.
  @ ThinkGeek :: Awesomesauce Hot Sauce
  @ 10 Ways to Keep Data Private, Secure on the iPad - Security from eWeek
  @ Young Men More Sensitive than Women to Relationship Quality
    Interesting.  May explain a couple of things.
  ~ 11:30 YD weight loss class -> Monday 1:30
  @ How to keep someone with you forever (via osewalrus et. al.)
  @ 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted | Cracked.com
    (via solarbird)
  * Broke test server config; at work until 8pm or so fixing it.  Changing the
    userID the web server runs under is a Bad Idea.  Doing so and then
    forgetting the fact compounds the badness exponentially. 
  % physically ok, but thoroughly brain-fried.
  * bath 11; bed 11:30; snuggle

Friday was a very long, busy, draining day, but I got through it without getting frazzled or freaking out, which I think is more than I could have done a year or two ago. It started at 4am, getting up to pick up the Younger Daughter from her Grad Night party. It ended with a whimsical IM conversation (I'm brain-fried... Fried brains are tasty to zombies...), a nice hot bath which got many of the kinks out, and comfortable snuggle.

In between, I learned that I'll be needing to move my office, or at least the stuff on my desk, from Menlo Park to temporary quarters in Cupertino. Monday. I cleverly decided to take advantage of the fact that I was going to have to bring the test server down anyway, and do some cleanup.

Haven't I learned not to do anything "clever" on a Friday afternoon? Apparently not.

Three hours later (that's 8pm) I finally found the line in /etc/apache2/envvars that was telling apache to run as something other than the default user www_data. Which, in turn, was playing merry hell with suexec, the error messages of which are a little too obscure for a tired old bear working late on a Friday evening.

Lots of good links under the cut. With awesomesauce.