2021

My paternal grandmother loved to tell jokes. She would be called into service at any holiday for the latest good stories. They were usually pretty dirty.

When I’d visit her house, we’d listen to listen to old comedy albums and watch SNL. But before that, we’d watch Golden Girls.

Anyone else install a bunch of new iOS Safari extensions when they launched and then over the last few weeks remove them because it turns out you really don’t need all that crap running for the same reasons why you don’t need a ton of them on the desktop?

Just me?

Confession: I’ve never seen Die Hard.

Before now.

My three year old gives near zero fuchs about Santa’s naughty or nice rules. I think he’s decided to just call his bluff.

There’s few things as frustrating as a three year old trying to gaslight me by saying “I didn’t poop my pants!” while I’m literally wiping it from his ass. 💩

If you need help getting your vCenter mitigated against #Log4j2 then we have a Python script posted that automates that process.

You can run it against manually fixed systems to validate. Also 6.5/6.7 have new services mitigated that the script will do.

kb.vmware.com/s/article/87088

Don’t worry I’m sure the bad guys are waiting for you to get those change orders filed before you patch. #Log4j2

Workarounds and patches are available for multiple VMware products that are exploitable by the log4j2 issue — including vCenter, Horizon and the Unified Access Gateway.

Implement. Now. vmware.com/security/advis…

Let’s just go back to sending letters and making phone calls.

Has anyone ever remote exploited a fax machine?

Little children don’t seem to comprehend that a single well time poop joke can be hilarious, but hearing about poop all day can be infuriating.

Nothing in streaming services work tonight.

No worries I’ll watch something on my Plex. Except latest update seems to have caused audio and video to go out of sync.

Maybe I’ll read a book. Problem is I don’t think my Kindle is charged.

Yeah so I’m like two weeks post-booster and feeling good about all this COVID stuff again so if we could please stop talking about Omnibus or whatever this new bullshit is that would be great.

I’m both incredibly jealous of everyone going to #reinvent2021 while also happy to not be going to #reinvent2021 right now.

My kingdom for an updated iOS 15.2 beta. The auto-brightness bug on the iPhone is killing me.

My three year old is going to trigger me to a murderous rampage.

How’s your Sunday going?

Had an urology appointment in preparation for a vasectomy. During the exam he asks what I do for a living, I said I work for a software company. He asked “what kind of software?”

So I proceeded to explain what a hypervisor does while he squeezed my testicles.

How was your day?

University of California, San Francisco, did a study gathering health records from 87 health care centers across the country. It found that people taking antidepressants were up to 28% less likely to die from COVID-19.

In other news my anxiety has dropped up to 28%.

Everyone in our immediate family is vaccinated. Everyone we associate with is vaccinated. We wear masks everywhere, aside from when we’re outside. We don’t eat inside restaurants as a family. There have been no sleep-overs or unrestricted play dates.

This shit can still get you.

Everyone else in the house is doing fine, including our 3 month old. We have all tested negative, multiple times, since Thursday. We’re hopeful it stays that way.

The only things our kids have done since last March is school, where they are masked at all times, and play soccer.

On Thursday my oldest came home from school with symptoms of COVID-19. We took him directly to urgent care to get a test, which came back positive.

He’s been in our basement bedroom in total isolation. His fever lifted today, and only remaining symptom is difficulty speaking.

I just want to sleep until next week.

I don’t usually give a damn about college football but winning is kind of nice. Thanks for the experience, Texas.

Me: Why are my tweets just sitting there with a “sending” spinner on the website? Is Twitter having issues?

Also me: Oh yeah, I subscribed to Twitter Blue for a month to see what it was about, and “Undo Tweet” is a thing, even though I almost always use Tweetbot. 🤷‍♂️

Watching the most recent episode of The Morning Show…

Wife: “There’s just too much going on, first this happens, then this happens, then there is COVID now too?”

Me: “… do you not remember what life was like in 2020?”

Booster Day + 1: Sore arm, otherwise normal. I’m not sure if it’s good or bad that none of these have done anything to me as far as noticeable side effects, but I’ll take it.

I do some of my best work at the last minute.

I love being able to hit one button in the Home app and updating all my HomePods at once. I only wish the Apple TV was in there as an option too.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 have their first Pfizer shots scheduled for tomorrow! 💉 💉

I feel like an idiot.

I didn’t know I needed this. youtu.be/BwPL0Md_QFQ