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Two sets of light deadlifts. Back and leg health will be observed tomorrow.

- Job.
- Took the guy to social class.
- Got groceries.
- Inquired about window estimates.
- Inquired about insulation billing.
- Went to the music programming group. Had an interesting talk with a person who studied computer music in university (and know a lot about microtonality) and opened for Éliane Radigue!
- I meant to do a bunch of stuff with Flooding, but thought I'd try the latest Junto challenge because it would be a nice chance to reuse a script I made before. I think I started by saying I'd limit the attempt to twenty minutes? It went fairly smoothly, but it still took four hours to make Eighth Gear.

I shifted my non-working day to Tuesday, partly so I wouldn't have to rearrange my non-working day to make a Monday work meeting. But it means that I start working early, drive the guy to social class, then go to music programming group at night. I think it'll actually work fine right now, as long as I don't take on a music challenge unrelated to ongoing music challenges at the last minute.

I’m the victim of a hate crime. Why didn’t the legal system do more?

This was a really clear cut hate crime. At the least, it's a really clear cut assault. The White women that committed this were given probation only.

As we saw in Charlottesville, most Americans don't care much about racist violence. You think they would, what with all the talk about how bad the KKK was, back in the day, back before racism was eradicated! They also really talk about disliking terrorism, which is the use of violence to create fear to induce a certain behavior.

I kind of don't want to spend the energy talking about this, but in order for AWS to validate a cert for a domain, it wants you to demonstrate that you control that domain by creating unique CNAME records for that domain, then it checks to see that you did.

That's fine, but of course, there are multiple amazon.com pages that purport to tell you how to do this. The first one, which I looked at on Friday, is in the user guide, and it tells you how it works. But it *does not* tell you where in their terrible UI to find the secret CNAME records that you should create. You are left feeling some doubt. Are the values in that article somehow the ones you should create?

The second one, which I found just now, is a post in their security blog, introducing this method of validation. There, they actually tell you where to find the CNAME values. Even though the screenshot is out of date, you can still figure out where to look for it, and more importantly, verify that it's going to be in the AWS console at all, so you don't have to consider other possibilities.

Once again, I leave you with my usual closing: AWS has a lot of UX and communication problems.

47?-minute run. 15 pull-ups.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Job.
- Met with therapist. Ended up talking about the core objective of therapy, which seems like getting you into whatever belief that's healthiest for you. Obviously, if you're feeling terrible, that's a good move, but it does seem like it could be dangerous. Knowing that, it's not that easy to roll with. I'm not coming to these things with that much to talk about, so I cut back on the frequency of these sessions.
- Made dinner.
- I did it — I filled up my VPS hard drive! I knew it was coming for months and planned to move things off, but I didn't. Until now! I started moving the guy's site to AWS, as much as I hate tech monoculture. The problem is that A) all the video is too much for block storage on a VPS, at least if I want to keep it cheap and B) Digital Ocean's S3 equivalent doesn't allow for any sort of auth. S3's default web serving doesn't, either, but you can (if you can bear clicking on a jillion things in the terrible AWS web app) set up a CDN that serves from the bucket, but filters every request through a simple Lambda function that checks for Basic Auth values and asks for them if they're not right. I have that part working, and later I can set up rsyncing new posts from the VPS to S3, and all the DNS stuff.
- Emailed a friend back.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Job. Thought I broke something in prod, but that turned out to have already been broken.
- Emailed a friend.
- Worked more on the dungeon synth pieces.
- Made dinner.
- Started moving stuff onto the new plastic shelving, which the guy put together for me. I think it may actually be possible to have a fairly clear floor in the basement within the next year.
- Checked on some insurance stuff.

Dag, December has started. One day of it is already over!