Given my background with MS Sql / T-SQL, you’d think it would be trivial for me to upgrade from PostgreSQL 15 to 16…but you’d be wrong! 😂 Maybe it was b/c Docker was involved but goodness, that turned out complicated than I thought.

Set up a FreshRSS server over the weekend for fun; yes, I am a nerd. 🤓

Finished reading: The Price Of Power by B. K. Cook 📚
★★☆☆☆

The last book of the series (though, the author makes it pretty clear they’ll be continuing the books), this one felt a little rushed and you could see the ending coming a mile away but it was still a satisfying conclusion.

You know it’s bad when the representative from the Insurance company tells you to try GoodRX instead of using your own bloody insurance. Ah, healthcare in America. 😱🤬

(The generic version is out of stock and back-ordered everywhere in the City and the name-brand has a 110% markup.)

Can’t get a 90 day supply of mediation filled b/c of an unspecified error in the computer system my mail-order pharmacy uses (they wouldn’t confirm if the big cyber-hack was the cause), so I have to use a local one but they don’t do 90 day supplies. 😱😡 #HealthcareInAmerica #FirstWorldProblem

A dear friend of mine would have turned 42 today, if she hadn’t passed away during the Pandemic. Rest in peace, sweet Carol…we all still miss you. I hope whatever you are, Russell is keeping you company, begging for scratches and watching you eat, hoping for crumbs to fall. 🤣😮‍💨😢💔

Morning coffee with a morning view… ☕️❄️🏔️📷

Someone else didn’t want to wake up this morning either… 🐈 🥱 📷

The perils of living with a non-coffee drinker: he walked in and asked in an accusatory tone: “why does it smell like Seattle in here?" 🤣☕️

🔗 “So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to strangers for 2nd time in 5 months

It seemed neat at first, when it was a random coffee machine or vending machine hooked up just to prove it could be done. But between then and now, we've learned that the Internet is full of relentless a$$holes (at best) who will take advantage of any little crack in security.

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IMO, stop trying. Accept that the Internet is a dangerous place. Have fun with all the smart home tech you want, but keep it local.

I love the Ars comment section, it’s always a delight. Also, this is why I have no cameras @ home. 🤣

I think I’m going to declare “bankruptcy” on my RSS feeds today…this has gotten a bit out of hand, a fresh start seems like a good idea.

🎵 I queued up this week’s episode the Vergecast and a french commercial for cat food immediately started playing. 🤨 Forgot I left my iPad “vpn-ed” out to France last night, gotta love dynamic ad insertion. 🤣

I have a complicated relationship with Valentines Day. 🤔 No, it’s not actually complicated, I just hate it. 😅

So, I was shocked to see what my Partner left for me this morning. 📷

He really is too sweet. 🫶🏻

(In my defense, we did go out on Monday to “celebrate” the fake holiday.)

Decided to escape the house for a bit of nature with the Partner; in our defense, the sun was out when we started on our walk. 🌳🌥️

It was a lovely walk, about four miles, in a local city park. 📷

Finished reading: In Clawed Grasp by Seth Richter 📚
★★★★☆

I went into this not expecting much but wow, was I surprised: this book was great. The “leveling system” is both more and less well-defined than many other books in the LitRPG genre, which is awesome. I can’t wait for the second one! 😄