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early work

05:18 Tuesday 27 September 2016 JST

I woke up without an alarm this morning because I took a big nap yesterday, knowing that I have to wake up earlier than normal to teach a lesson for Matt who is at home in UK at the moment. Train is at 6:29, so I plan to leave the house at 6am.

Better get my butt off my computer and go! Lemme just check hacker news and reddit real quick...

morning lesson

10:10 Tuesday 27 September 2016 JST

I taught a lesson this morning for Matt in Marunochi. Three students, relatively high level.

Here's my report on the lesson:

Topics included introductions (given that it was our first lesson
together), differences in culture between the US and Japan, and (after
the women left at 8:55 for an accounting class,) finance.

The students did not have any books nor topics, so it might be
valuable to have something available to give a bit of direction to the
class.

New vocab included
Inclusive, exclusive, trunk, branch

Seems like a pretty great class; I'd be happy to sub there again.

productive yesterday

04:57 Tuesday 27 September 2016 JST

After teaching in the morning, I pretty much spent all day playing with Ansible. I now have a vagrant installation that sets up ansible, git, and emacs on a vagrant box on my local machine which creates an ssh keypair (half of which I manually copy to bitbucket). I run setup and it pulls in a git repo and runs setup on that, which asks for an ansible-vault passphrase to unlock my AWS keys and gives me ansible playbooks which I can run to set up VPC + subnet + internet gateway on AWS, launch an ubuntu instance in the subnet, and install git on it.

Next steps will be to set up git the way I like (.aliases for gitl, gitd, gits), install apache2 (to replicate existing box), set up a couple of websites, including redmine.

At that point, (I will have to get from backup my redmine data, and then) I will have replicated a box on AWS with Ansible! Thank you, Travis, for the initial idea, and thank you, Ansible team, for Ansible, and thank you Justin for helping me set up Ansible on vagrant! https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/43-19-minutes-with-ansible-part-1-4

I hereby promise to release the repos once I've cleansed all the references to my workplace! (hopefully someone will still find it useful by then!) from Ansible by then hahaha)

work bluh

20:08 Tuesday 27 September 2016 JST

Bluh computer work kinda sucked today; I spent 5 hours on one thing and 3.5 hours on a different thing and made almost 0 progress on them. The second thing was futzing around with .htaccess file, and for 2.5 of the 3.5 hours it actually wasn't being read. facepalm I needed to AllowOverride All in the Apache2 directives... but do I want to do that on live server? I wonder if it's already on our live server? Anyway, once I got Apache to actually look at the file, I made an inch of progress, but nothing like what I had hoped. Blarg.