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There’s a madness to my method. 🥸

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jerry , to random
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My manager had a regularly scheduled all hands meeting, which included a lot of people. He ambushed me (in a good way) with a tribute to me. It started out with the intro music to the def sec podcast and a slide with some funny things I instituted/commonly said at work. There was a parade of people saying nice things and then he asked me to say some words. I held it together for about 30 seconds and then, me an oversized, over the hill seasoned vice president of a Fortune 500 company, broke down crying in front of several hundred people.

Anyhow, I hope your Thursday is good.

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry Aww. They are really going to miss you. You made a positive impact. 💜

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I just left the building I helped design (ISS HQ, now the IBM Atlanta office), which is the reason I moved to Atlanta, for the last time.

Peace out.

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry May your future be filled with orchids, kitties and relaxation. 😊

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I haven’t posted many pictures of Cruzan, but now that he lives with me, you’ll be seeing him more on #caturday

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geekgrrl ,
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@jerry What a good boy! Very photogenic too.

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Look kids, a baseball game. Lots of these in my near future.

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry Have you ever considered…. Bringing an orchid to the game?

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Onix came over for a visit. My hand for some size perspective. He’s ~3 months old.

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geekgrrl ,
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@jerry He. Is. So. CUTE! What an angel. 😍

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Happy Father’s Day, my friends ❤️

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geekgrrl ,
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@jerry Happy Father’s Day, Jerry! Hope you have a great day. 😊

jerry , to random
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On more time with light from the side.

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry Very dramatic. I like that one a lot.

jerry , to random
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Maintenance alert for infosec. and fedia. services**

On Monday, July 1, I will be performing some disruptive upgrades to the various infosec.*and fedia services.

Notably, I will be upgrading to postrgres 16, upgrading the memory in the database server, consolidating infosec.space onto the infosec.exchange server (this will not change how either instance operates), de-container-ifying pixel, consolidating fedia.social and infosec.town onto the container server, moving fedia.io to less expensive hardware, among others.

The intention is to reduce costs by consolidating, which should not pose a problem since the current hardware was intended to handle growth, and we're experiencing contraction.

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry Thank you to Jerry’s Stupid Employer for forcing RTO, so we get ourselves a full-time, Fediverse-loving, optimizing-for-performance, let’s-try-this-thing admin! WOO!

Thank you Jerry for all you do. We appreciate you. 💜

jerry , to random
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Update on my dad...

For background, my mid 70's parents drove from ATL to Michigan on Thursday to attend my neice's high school graduation. Friday morning, my dad wasn't feeling well and he kept feeling worse. After convincing himself that it wasn't just indigestion, he went to a local hospital ER. While there, he started developing intense pain in his chest. The ER docs hooked him up to an EKG and ran an enzyme test to see if he had a heart attack. They came back clean. But the pain was worsening. The doc administered some morphine, which apparently did nothing. They hooked him back up to the EKG and monitored him for a bit. While monitoring him, he had a heart attack.

The docs rushed him into surgery where he needed 3 stents to open up an artery that was 99% blocked.

He was moved out of ICU into a regular bed today and expects to be discharged tomorrow. He has to wear a defibrillator vest for the next 3 months, while he is assessed for futher treatments. My dad describes the vest as a "bra with metal pop-tarts all the way around his chest". I had a chance to talk to him today and he says that he feels better than he has in many years, other than the pop tart bra.

The doctor told him that the only real reason he was able to survive was that it happened while he was in the hospital. Apparently this sort of heart attack is not one that people commonly survive otherwise.

I am immensely grateful to the doctors, nurses, scientists, janitors, clerical staff, and so on, that gave me and my family the incredible gift of more time with my dad.

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry 💜

geekgrrl , to random
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I returned to find 400 new posts again. Luckily, 300 of them were @jerry, and they were pretty quick reads.

geekgrrl OP ,
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@jerry Only teasing you, good sir. Only teasing. 🫶 Also, I heard someone added AI to the cyber nap. 😳

jerry , to random
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Crazy story - my dad went to the hospital with chest pain he’d been having for several days. The ER docs ran blood work and ekg and concluded it wasn’t a heart attack. He started complaining that the pain was getting a lot worse, moving into his jaw. The docs gave him some morphine and he said it wasn’t doing anything for the pain. So they hook him back up to the ekg. While they are watching the ekg, he has a heart attack, which they then confirmed with bloodwork.

So yeah. Hope your day is going better than that.

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry When morphine does nothing, you know it’s a big problem. No better place for him to be when it happened though. Hope he’s doing better. 💜

jerry , to random
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No pressure on that jury...

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry I do not envy them. Their identities are almost certain to be revealed. They’ll be harangued by both sides for whatever they do or don’t do. 😬

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Memorial Day weekend Florida style

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geekgrrl ,
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@jerry What am I even watching? Is he in a lawn chair? On a boat? With what appears to be dry ice? I’m so confused.

geekgrrl ,
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@jerry Thank you for the enlightenment. 😆 Florida Man be crazy.

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Lacie and Cruzan having a moment this morning

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@jerry Is Cruzan in a jersey? Such a fashionable feline. 😍

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