Month: February 2024

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Listening to: Pete Yorn

A paraphrase from a Pete Yorn interview:

“My music is written to be listened to in your car, while crying.”

With that thought, here you go.

Lyrics
In the time, I got to know herShe revealed she was weirdBroken nails, I would neverTry to leave something real
And I told ya conversationsNever went anywhereAnd I know it’ll last foreverShe can’t quit it, she don’t care
She got left on the side of the roadNo one’s gonna take her home again, my babyGot left where no one knows I never thought I’d see your face again
There was lightBig explosionsWe believed it was realThen she’d ice never talk toAnyone that she knew
And I felt her devastationWe were lost in the fightAnd I knew I couldn’t leave herI would love her through the night, oh
Got left on the side of the roadNo one’s gonna ever take you home again, my babyGot left where no one knows I thought you were a better friend to meMy friend
Got left on the side of the roadNo one’s gonna take you home again, my babyGot left where no one one knowsI thought you were a better friend to me, my friend, oh
I’m looking for youSee ya tonightI’m looking for youMaybe tonightI’m looking for you
Got left on the side of the road No one’s gonna ever take you home again, babyGot left and no one knows and no one’s gonna tell you where to goMy friendGot left on the side of the road No one’s gonna ever take you home again, babyGot left where no one knows, I thought you were a better friend to meMy friend
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A random day in February

Nice day. Made spaghetti – we make enough for more than a few meals later, so it’s a half-day effort. The whole upstairs smells delicious, but I couldn’t eat another bite.

Ran a new network line to Christina’s new office – this required 2 panels cut into the drywall, and one hole drilled in the floor. Turned out really well, and not a chaotic mess. Now only the kitchen and living room lack network cables, but our wifi mesh is pretty good, so that’s not a today kind of task.

Also finally decided on a larger synology NAS to replace my storage server. Moving from a server to a NAS seems counter intuitive sometimes, but other than a few apps that will run as docker containers, it just needs to store things, and NAS devices to that well. Plus they tend to be quiet, and the hotswap bays are nice.

It IS going to mean some future server rack re-org, likely removing EVERYTHING from the rack, then adding once at a time — an early summer project perhaps, ’cause that’s a whole day of downtime, guaranteed.

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Alan Watts

I stumbled across the text for this a little while ago, and I know it will be a joy to come back to and read again later.

To be a human being you have to love the light, but you also must trust yourself to the darkness. Be able to let yourself go in the faith that you’ll arrive back all in one piece.

Now, it’s alright. The ground is going to hold you up. So just just lie down. And there’s nothing else you need to do, because the ground is firm and it will hold you there.”

“Look, do you know what you’re doing? You’re trying to hold yourself together. As if your skin weren’t strong enough to contain you. And you’re doing this all the time to keep yourself from falling apart. Why? You think, do you, that if you don’t hold yourself together you’re just going to go bleah and disappear into some kind of frightful green jello? No, you won’t.