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moving hakyll.robnugen.com to dreamhost

##13:36 Wednesday 10 December 2014 JST##

I eventually want to have a cloud server on which I have root access, but right now, especially for this site, I don't need it.

On Dreamhost, I killed the DNS entry pointing hakyll.robnugen.com to my EC2 instance, then asked Dreamhost to host hakyll.robnugen.com, but the DNS doesn't seem to have updated yet.

HI!

I had a custom DNS record pointing hakyll.robnugen.com to an IP on Amazon AWS server. I want to use Dreamhost instead of Amazon for the server, so I killed the custom DNS record, and asked Dreamhost to host hakyll.robnugen.com

On https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.manage
I see a record of hakyll.robnugen.com in my domain listing: "Fully Hosted with PHP 5.4 User: hakyll"

However, after the happy Dreamhost robot created the new user `hakyll` and the domain, I noted there was *NOT* a directory created on Horus at /home/hakyll/hakyll.robnugen.com

I created the directory by hand and populated it with data.

Unfortunately, https://hakyll.robnugen.com/ says there's no site there.

Do I need to tweak something? Do you need to tweak something?

Please let me know, or make the tweaks and enjoy a great day!

- Rob

state of my life address

##16:00 Wednesday 10 December 2014 JST##

1. TLDR: I've been a lazy bum recently. And I love it.

1. Maybe the coolest thing recently: Mutsumi introduced me to

Funatsu-san, who liked my art and asked if she can put some in a show in January!

1. I've been teaching a few lessons per week with a language school,

but other than that, doing a lot of Minecraft, and drawing a few mazes. With the news above, I'm more excited to make some art!

1. Lin and I live in Kawasaki with our two cats, Ted and Jennie, who

are currently not allowed to go outside nor sleep with us at night. I'd love to let them outside, but Lin agreed with the shelter that she will keep them inside. We had let them sleep with us, but one of them urinated on Lin's comforter so they've lost their bedroom priveleges.

1. I'm arriving now at a train station where I need to change; I might

forget about this entry.

1. I've just moved from AWS to DH. Due to a blip in Dreamhost's DNS

something something, I had to write to them to get the site activated; I think it's working now, and I Stopped the EC2 instance.

1. Because I'm using markdown to mark up my journal, I don't have to

use the actual number when creating numbered lists.

1. I'm sitting in the driver's seat of a driverless train on the

Seaside Line, heading to 福浦. (I guess that kanji is correct.) This is what driverless cars might feel like, except my insulated environment (in the train) is inside an insulated environment (elevated roadway with limited public access)

1. Hmm. I don't see a way to make multiple paragraphs within one

numbered section.

1. From this train, I can see a large wind turbine, which I htink is

the same one I could see from our previous apartment (in 朝日町ハイツ)

1. Oh shit I see the line splits; I hope to goodness that I'm on the

right track!!! Ah, I guess that's not for public use; the line drawn on the map is just a straight line with no branches.

1. This is more like a stream of consiousness thing instead of a State

of My Life.

1. I'm still using my iPHone 4S which I've had for a while. The

battery has been draining a bit faster than I'd like. I thought I had all the energy-drainers turned off, but maybe not. Maybe the battery is just getting tired. My phone number is the same one I've had for years in Japan.

1. Main work projects: unpaid iOS work with Tariq (though we are

hoping for some sales with our latest set up updates)

1. Every time I use my computer for longish periods of time, my hands

get cold. Especially my mouse hand. I imagine taht's a good reason to not do computer stuff for longish periods of time. Is it my body's way of telling me to stop it altogether? Or shall I just set up a more ergonomic setup?

1. I need to convert AB's EC2 instance to two instances: one for DB

and one for the website. I'm guessing the DB can be behind a firewall; I don't know the optimal way to set it up, much less the optimal way to transition to that new configuration. I'll basically just rtfm, and maybe some toots, and hopefully it will be all good. AND I'll document the proverbial shit out of everything I do.

1. I've got emacs set up to create journal entries, though I don't

have the final touches set up. I mean I can type C-x j to start a new entry, and it will even ask for the title, tags, and let me overwrite the date if needed. However, if I do overwrite the date, I'd like it to put the date I enter and add a note saying the actual date the entry was written. I don't yet have a keystroke way to insert a new date in the middle of the text, but that's not as high priority as having entries named "dream" automagically get class='dream' divs wrapped around the text. I had that kinda stuff set up before, but I don't know where the code may be hiding. It could even be lurking around on my current local drive, but I'm not sure.

1. I haven't written any automated stuff to have Sublime do journal

entries, partially because I haven't registered (paid for) Sublime yet (and therefore don't use it much).

1. Lin and I went to the Tokyo ET Contact group in November, and plan

to go again in December. I'm hoping to attend most of the meetings; I want to foster relations between our civilizations. I want a degree in intergalactic diplomacy (or at least intergalactic relations)!

1. I'm scheduled to go to CPC clinic in February; not sure if I'll do

it though.

1. Lin and I are planning to take a reasonably

vaguely long bicycle ride during the new year holidays. No specific plans yet.

1. I need to go to 二子玉川 to get (one of) her Christmas

present(s). (I promised her a Harrod's bear each year that we don't have kids.)

1. I've been using some of my free time to meditate more and maintain

awareness of consciousness. I haven't noticed any "amazing" experiences, not that conciousness itself isn't amazing.

1. Been working with Soness a bit to help get her paperwork sorted.

It's fun to chat with her more often than we had been for the past
couple years.

1. I ain't really talked with Dad in a while, nor with Ma. Nor with

Fred, for that matter; he and I used to talk just about every day
for a couple months there.  I sent him a present and it's been
chillin' at the post office in Austin (I can tell from the
tracking website); he must be busy!  I sent him a reminder and he
was like, "oh yeah!!"

• - - -

From my perspective, at a larger scale:

1. We still live primarily in a fiat currency based system. Some

crypto currencies have been developed on "the blockchain"
(Bitcoin, Litecoin, probably others), and some other similar
currencies have been developed, my favorite being Dogecoin.

1. We still primarily burn fossil fuels for energy. There are

whistleblowers online saying free energy is possible, but hidden
from public access.

1. We still primarily use "conventional" methods of

transportation. There's not even a specific word that I know of to
describe transportation not via teleportation.

1. Extraterrestrial life has not been publicly acknowledged by (most?)

governments.

1. Earthquakes are officially not predictable. Weather is not

particularly changeable (that I know of, except by cloud seeding
to make it rain)

stopped my ec2 instance

##15:59 Wednesday 10 December 2014 JST##

It cost me about $13 last month I think. Apparently the "free" instance only applies to new accounts.

that was a fun party

##16:39 Wednesday 10 December 2014 JST##

I've seen this truck each time I come to the lessons in Fukuura:

##20:26 Wednesday 10 December 2014 JST##

The party was fun; lots of conversation, plus an emcee up front leading some pre-planned competitive games, then a raffle and bingo. People mostly stood around tables covered in drinks, candy, snack foods, tangerines, and some more substantial food, including 焼きそば plus おでん.

Games included a mini version of sumo wrestling, where the participants were butt-to-butt on a chair cushion surrounded by mats. The first person off the cushion lost; it usually took about 0.5 seconds per round! I mentioned to Ashley (the guy for whom I'm taking over classes) that we had a much more balanced game with players face-to-face, and only allowed to touch with hands. He said he had seen a similar game, possibly in Japan.

Another game was a mini drinking competition, but instead of 3 liter bottles, or gallons of milk, they used 12 (or maybe 16) ounce cola bottles, and instead of chugging, they sucked it up through silly straws shaped like glasses (while wearing them).

Ping pong played with non-standard paddles (slippers, pans, bottles, etc) seemed easy enough, but the winning team only got a volley of 14 hits (whereas one team only got 3!)

For the first 1.5 hours, Ashley and Jessica talked shop (they've worked together for a while) and I lurked around them, admiring their Japanese skizzles. (Man I gotta learn me some Japanese as well.)

Just arrived at 新杉田 so gotta go.

##20:43

I'm on the 京浜東北線 now, and there are plennnty of seats! That's one really nice thing about this particular class; I can pretty much sit down all the way both ways.

Hopefully I can snag this class on a permanent basis. Just gotta tell JB that I can do it.