Done yesterday (20100206 Sa)

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Somehow it felt like a merely "good" day while it was happening, but it looks more like "very good" in retrospect. Not complaining.

A good walk, 3 times around the Rose Garden. A good housefilk at Kanef's -- it took a while to ramp up, but by 11:30 I was sorry to have to leave. And I got to set up two Kanef parodies, and got a request for Desolation Row. Which doesn't happen very often, for some reason.

But the really big thing was finally pulling the Big Switch on my email, and moving thestarport.org over to Dreamhost. There are, inevitably, some bugs left, though hopefully mostly in my internal DNS where they won't make any difference externally. And spam is way down. If I'd done this a year or two ago... I still have to get outgoing mail to work again, of course. But that's been broken for the last year.

Anyway, that was a big one. Odd... I'm not feeling much of an emotional reaction; I feel good about it, but not much more so than I do about having made a tasty dinner on the spur of the moment. Isn't a major accomplishment supposed to feel different? On reflection, that may be part of my problem.

But anyway, a very good day.

State of the Starport

As of yesterday, all of my (operational) domains are hosted at Dreamhost, and thestarport.org's email has been moved over as well. (So far only steve and colleen have mailboxes there; since it's been overrun with spam for the last year and I'm the only one still reading email there, I don't think that's a problem.)

Tasks still remaining include:

• make email posting work. I may be able to do that just by setting the appropriate smart host.
• Finish configuring the new gateway/router
• Downgrade my account at rahul.net to something minimal, upgrade my AT&T UVerse connection to a static IP address, and dump my DSL account at sonic.net.

All this is stuff that should have been done at least a year ago. Possibly two, in the case of moving the hosting to DH. Better late, and so on, but...

Is it normal to feel down, maybe even mildly depressed, after accomplishing a long-delayed, scary task? I've been listless all day. It was certainly easy enough, and nothing went wrong that I couldn't handle quickly. I suppose some of the reaction might be coming from knowing how long I've been putting it off and how foolish it was to have done so.

So instead of feeling productive, proud, and accomplished, I end up feeling lazy and stupid. Could that be part of why I keep putting things off? Probably.

Culinary misadventure of the day

The YD went to thaw out some berries to make herself a smoothie. The bag looked like it contained either raspberries or strawberries.

It turned out to be borscht.

(Earlier, Colleen turned up The Apache Cookbook in the cookbook section of the Kindle store -- that turned out to be about the web server, not the tribe of Southwestern Native Americans. At least, as Naomi pointed out, it wasn't the helicopter.)

QOTD

context: the cookbook section of Amazon.com

Colleen: ... The Cookbook of Rudyard Kipling

My immediate response: I didn't realize he was an ingredient.