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I can admit that we’ve done the invomniac, the butt-erfly, the pillow of heaven, the cold war, the hair monster (oh, the hair monster!!!), the cat block, the cliffhanger and the human braid.
The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck

As part of my normal website maintenance, I have a cron script that backs up my whole website and wordpress database. I have now noticed that the file backup hasn’t been running since mid-november. That shouldn’t normally be a problem, until the time when you make a typo in a unix command that, instead of deleting files with a ‘_backup’ tag DELETES EVERY FUCKING FILE IN A DIRECTORY. I managed to kill the command before the whole lot of my new galleries got killed, but I lost four. Two were in a previous backup, one I could rebuild in short order. The last one will need some serious digging around to find the original files.
So kiddies, lesson for today is MAKE SURE YOUR BACKUPS ARE UP TO DATE!

Reminds me of this gem, which always makes me giggle: https://www.flubu.com/blog/2013/03/27/the-piano-is-like-a-woman/

Somebody didn’t do their market research…
The children of Bean’s school had a Christmas sing-along last monday. It was very cute, even if Bean was yawning his way through it (it was late for him) and he looked slightly bemused at times ;)

The owl and I have been co-opted at work. We are now Mac users. If I’m being honest with myself, it’s a lot better than what I remember it being, from the last time I used it (which was, admittedly, in the late 90s when I was doing my masters). Still, the keyboard quirks take some time to get used to, and the jury is still out on the single-button mouse. Having said that, compared to the monstrosity that is the standard corporate brick..er..laptop, it’s sooo much better!
C Am7 Dm7 G7 Fuck Christmas It’s a waste of fucking time C Am7 Dm7 G7 Fuck Santa He’s just out to get your dime Em C Dm7 G7 C Fuck Holly and fuck Ivy And fuck all that mistletoe Bm7 E7 Am D9 G7 White bearded big fat bastards Ringing bells where’ere you go Am Am7 Am6 And stupid pratts In Santa hats All going Ho Ho Ho! C G7 C G7 It’s Christmas fucking time again C Am7 Dm7 G7 Fuck Christmas It’s a fucking Disney Show C Am7 Dm7 G7 Fuck Carols And all that fucking snow Em C Dm7 G7 C Fuck reindeer And fuck Rudolph And his stupid fucking nose Bm7 E7 Am D9 G7 Fucking sleigh bells tinkling Everywhere you fucking goes Am Am7 Am6 Fuck stockings and fuck shopping It just drives us all insane. C Am7 Go tell the elves To fuck themselves Dm7 G7 C It’s Christmas time again.

I’ve been trying to login to the github repo at work when I see this. Seriously??
