yesterday was a really shitty day. first of all, i was awake until almost 5. then when i woke up to feed the pups, there was a gift right at the bedroom door – someone had puked. i couldn’t handle it so early, so left it and went to soak casper’s food. i let that soak for like almost an hour and then fed them. casper canNOT eat slowly and I think that’s what’s been making *him* sort of regurgitate. It’s not quite vomiting because it looks like he burps and the gets reflux which then ends up on the floor. (and jfc it stinks!)
i had every intention of sleeping too, but i got on the computer and … well, that just means i lose track of time and space and sort of go spinning into the geek ether.
so anyway, it took me a couple of hours to figure out how to do a swarm stack for wordpress with my particular setup. of course there were a few stops along that rabbit hole sink. i.e. docker volumes, swarm service vs compose container, docker secrets, networks in a swarm environment, ssh keys, backups … well, you get the idea.
once i came out the other side, i decided that this can’t be a brand new blog, so i went ahead and imported all the pelican posts from the old blog. that was a chore in and of itself because it was importing markdown text and then converting it to wordpress editor format. (how is it that wordpress has not added support for markdown editing natively yet? or has it and i missed that somehow?) once that was all done and working, i changed the url to the “right” one, set up the dns propagation process, and sat back to wait.
dns propagation took some time because i am kind of in the middle of moving off DigitalOcean. why? cos DigitalOcean is a USian company and i don’t feel comfortable trusting USian companies right now. fun fact? if you had your nameservers pointing in one place and then you move it to another place, the propagation tends to fight a bit. i watched as the ip address kept going back forth to the values i had in DigitalOcean and the values i had in my new domain registrar. i ended up changing the values at DigitalOcean to make sure shit went more smoothly. when it finally settled down, i checked to make sure the site still loaded properly and setup ActivityPub so my posts go to the fedi.
anyway, while all this was going on, draega starts puking. like a lot. like i mean A LOT. i sat in the recliner almost all day DREADING having to get up and clean it all. i just sat there, being nauseated. hungry, but nauseated… (yeah – it’s a thing). it got bad enough that i sort of expected i was about to start hurling as well… that didn’t happen, thank the goddess, but when the hubster got home, he had the bright idea that it might have been the water. see … draega drinks a TON of water. she always has. it was a problem when we didn’t have a dog door cos she’d lay at the water bowl and drink and drink and drink until she pissed herself. she still drinks a TON but the dog door means she can go out and pee when she needs to. but it also means that if it is the water, then her cleaning up after herself all day means she keeps re-ingesting whatever it is that’s been upsetting her. so yeah – that happened.
i made chicken and rice and fed her and casper with it tonight. i think i’ll keep doing that until i casper to the vet tomorrow. draega won’t be with me, and i am almost tempted to take her along anyway if this keeps up. but at least we won’t have casper’s regurge to clean up as well. small victories, i guess.
honestly, i loathe going back to wordpress. mullenwhinge is a real asshole and i am severely disappointed in his behaviour in the last couple of years. but there is no denying that blogging on wordpress is LOT easier than it is with pelican. there is even a mobile app. and if all that fails, i can set up email publishing (although, the last time i used email publishing, it was a bit of a cluster – the formatting and so on. that might have changed, but it is still a last resort for now.) the main goal is to just get blogging again.
today is a big day too, btw – primary care provider visit in the morning, legal aid afterwards for my will and a couple of documents to deal with mom’s shit back home, and then an eye exam at noon. this will likely post while i am out and about cos scheduling babee … 🥳 goddess help me if the pups are still puking tonight. i will end up with 8 hours sleep over 3 days if i am lucky.
oh – and they want me raiding (WoW MoP classic) tomorrow night too – as if i don’t have enough on my plate.
ya know … it’s pretty fucked up that all these things i used to do along with cooking and a full workday before now… now just one of those things can potentially send me into PEM. fucking me-cfs anyway.