Otherwise Normal

I also got a delightful video but when I put it on YouTube it went up as a Short and I can't figure out how to embed those.

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

This is another pic taken from my balcony. Unlike the lenticular cloud in the other shot I hadn't realized there was a mammatus cloud behind the rainbow I was getting a shot of until I looked t the picture.

Taken a couple of weeks ago.

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Here's the roommate playing with their cat Grimalkin and my cat Slartibartfast! Grim loves the new place and Slarti's starting to settle in.

Trying to get back to posting. I'd post pictures of the amazing view from my balcony but I'm not sure who to use for image hosting these days. So I'll talk about my cocktail experiments.

After watching the How To Drink video about the "Earl Grey Mar-TEA-ni" a few times I got a fifth of Trader Joe's in-house gin and a box of Earl Grey to make the tea infused gin. The recipe also calls for egg white which I have been hesitant to try, but I've heard aquafaba works great in applications like this so next time I open a can of chick peas I'll be attempting it that way. But in the meantime I've made a few other things with the Earl Grey gin including a really lovely nightcap - Earl Grey gin, lavender syrup, and half & half.

I was so happy with the way the Earl Grey gin turned out I tried a chai infused rum next. Trader Joe's house brand again. I tried mixing it with some mangosteen nectar, hibiscus-cardamom syrup, and orgeat and that was kind of a muddled mess but not HORRIBLE. Last night I tried the chai rum and orgeat with some lime cordial and ginger juice and that gave a kind of falernum-like effect. Didn't quite stand on its own but I think if I added that combination to some Blood Orange San Pelligrino it'd be really good.

I definitely want to try more infusions. I got a big sack of culinary lavender for my birthday. Gonna infuse some into some (Trader Joe's again lol) limoncello, maybe some into some gin, and probably try making a lavender simple syrup. And after having the smoked whiskey cola at Happy Accidents I am thinking a lapsang souchoung infused whiskey would be good but I am not sure what whiskey to use.

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I'm a fifty-something with cerebral palsy from birth who lives in the American Southwest(I have LD, too, but there's no math on this, right? Smile) I'm a writer and progressive activist.(Weird feeling when your comrades are all "General Strike!" and you wonder, if you went on one, whether anyone would notice.)
Has been a tough year, actually, between the regime and trying to get my thyroid sorted out.

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Just realized I have not posted here since before a LOT has changed drastically.

I've been learning to love living in Albuqerque. It's definitely a nifty place. I recently moved into an apartment that I love. It's walkable and busable and has a dishwasher and in-unit laundry and a spectacular view of the Sandias.

Where are we hosting images for posts these days? I have been taking so many pictures.

I keep meaning to try posting here again. I feel so alone and unheard and I don't know what to do about it.

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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

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