There's something comforting about knowing that during a flight you won't have an Internet connection. For that period of a few hours you have to entertain yourself the way you would have before web browsing and smartphones.
Who am I kidding? Having wifi on a plane fucking rocks.
A little disappointed that I didn't get into one of the sessions Eat the Reich or Spire (I had submitted both sessions for each) for , but otherwise I think I got a good lineup.
Holy shit, I submitted my wishlist for #GenCon the instant the button became available and I'm #12329 for processing. I don't know if that's good or bad. I'd hate to see what it would be if I hesitated.
I'm feeling pretty good right now. We had an ultra-successful test run of failing all of our #SQLServer instances from the LAX LZ to the OR AZ in AWS. TBH, I just want to be done with all of this because next week we're having a cool onsite, and after that, there's lots of cool work to be done.
I guess my #PowerShell scripts for our #SQLServer migration might be something of a hit. We'll see how they fare with 50-ish failover clusters here in a bit, but the tests with 10 or so were smooth as silk twice earlier today. I know this doesn't sound complicated — it's just failovers amirite? — but there are stumbling blocks that have to be accounted for including network latency, SIOS mirroring, Windows pending reboots, AD, DNS...y'know all of the usual wrenches getting thrown in the gears.
@valthonis Test run was a resounding success. Next week we have an offsite in L.A., then coasting to the real deal in June. Then with that feather in our caps moving on to more cool projects.
Tomorrow at work is a test run for the migration from a local zone to its parent AZ, where we'll land back where we started until the real deal in June. I'm not worried about it, our SQL failover clusters are solid. I just want to be done with it. I'm looking forward to our offsite next week.
I gotta admit that I'm disappointed to hear that Dire Wolf Digital will be supporting their board games at #GenCon and not the #CortexPrime or #TalesOfXadia#TTRPGs. It seems like a wasted opportunity.
@MikeFerdinando The license didn't kill enthusiasm, or at least for those it did that's misplaced. People made a lot more hay out of that than was warranted.
Fandom dropping all support for Cortex months before the sale to DWD is what did the most damage, and DWD continuing radio silence for more than a year is just continuing to do so.
@rivetgeek I know the commercial license terms made me balk at Cortex game design and take a "wait and see" approach. I took my Cortex game idea and have been working on it using Paragon instead. Its license seemed far more friendly to work with, and much more in the ethos of the indie RPG circles I kick in.
Other that Tales of Xadia, the only other commercial Cortex project I'm aware of is the supers game Lifted by Mad Jay Zero. (I backed that KS.)
Fuuuck. The airline changed my connecting flight coming home from Indy in August from being at a good time to departing 8 hours before my first flight arrives. I booked everything though Hopper and luckily got the missed connection insurance, because getting hold of anyone at the airline is impossible. I may just have to fly on the day, invoke the missed connection guarantee, and get a new flight booked then. But it's stressful as hell. Luckily it's coming home and not going, maybe?
Gary Numan was really good. He played the entirety of The Pleasure Principle, which was great because a lot of his newer stuff I frankly find tedious. He brought his 3 teen or young adult daughters on stage for one song, which felt a little forced.
Soft Cell was likewise great. Marc Almond had a performer onstage named Christeen who was...interesting. Kind of like Genesis P'orridge. My step daughter was kind of weirded out by it.
#DuranDuran last night at #CruelWorld24 was fantastic. But I've come to the conclusion that Simon Le Bon is beginning to look more and more like Malcolm McDowell.