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Database maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

AWS outage

DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

It's truly silly...

So far this year, I have read or re-read 217 books.

And part of me is mad at myself, because I want to hit an average of a book per day this year & I am behind schedule.

I know how ridiculous this is. I am even proud of myself for being at 217.

But dangit, when I was in college, reading 1-2 books every single day was effortless. I don't expect to remain 20 forever, I know my limits have both expanded & contracted in numerous & diverse ways since then, but I didn't want this particular limit to contract!