Been playing computers with the kid for a while. Multiplayer games more recently. Copious amount of OpenTTD and Minecraft.

More recently, got them hooked on Civilization IV.

Today’s milestone was completing our first multiplayer co-op together, a nice Science victory to crown the day.

Meeting with neighbours today, talking about children etc, and one said a mantra that resonated well: “Try”.

It might have not sufficed for Yoda but life is not a Hollywood movie.

Today’s little victory is reminding ourselves that “Trying” is a great step.

At the day job we use Amazon Route53 Resolvers for some DNS access from cloud environments back to the datacenter domain controllers.

These work fine but Amazon does not do a great job on monitoring. The only CloudWatch metrics they expose are about traffic reaching from the various EC2/ENI instances on the VPCs that want to go to the Route53 Resolver Outbound Endpoint, not whether the endpoint was successful in getting something back.

It might be cheesy but, cherish the little victories, every day.

My wife told me that, and I might do just that. Write a quick reminder of something nice that happened on each day, and why not write here?

Like any other story, it all starts with lots of pamphleteering and a cost saving opportunity. Local FTTH broadband provider pushes pamphlets every other week for months, enough to have you thinking… why shouldn’t I?

Your contract with the big telco selling Internet and phone to you is reaching an end, but inertia means you are very likely to just renew. By the last week or so, you call them for renew as the website doesn’t show you any renew options. Something is wrong in their system, you can’t renew. Their suggestion? Cancel, sign-up again, and by the way your telephone number will change.

Introduction

I have been thinking I should write more. Perhaps today is a good start.

Back to BSD

Moved my home server from CentOS Stream 8, as it is EOL in a month’s time, and installed FreeBSD 14-RELEASE. Fun times learning the ropes again, last time it was around 7.0 or 8.0. Hopefully, the recent years using Mac for work mean that the muscle memory for GNU tools isn’t going to get too much in the way!