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I joined Bluesky and I’m immediately overwhelmed 😵.
It’s been a very long time since I was active on a social network
I had a genius moment the other day when I realised I could use Lightroom to help me manage my art website studio.aeryn.art.
I’ve just spent a few more hours tinkering and testing.
Main LR catalog → export photos to → Blot LR catalog (Dropbox+Blot) → Selectively rename files to create Blot Tags
Still feeling the super low mood. It’s tough going. It been a real hard week or so. But the community centre was closed today due to staff sickness. Probably for the best as I had an excuse to hermit and self care.
I played a little bit of Foamstars today. It was a bit too full on for my taste. Couldn’t figure out what was going on half the match. But I’m gonna give it another go with my kids. They can teach me. 🕹️
I wrote a post — my first long post in a long time — about mental health, masking, and having a very bad day: A River Flowing Down a Mountain
Thankfully, I think I’ve resolved my Backblaze Safety Freeze from the other day, although I still don’t know why it happened in the first place. But might be this..
One of my external drives had become disconnected from the backup for some reason, even though I was connecting it regularly.
I spent the afternoon writing a lengthy blog post about depression and trauma. Will I post it? I am going to return to it in a few hours and see what I think.
I have a new website (in progress). And the first project is published. Fingers crossed it serves me well.
I finally caught up with the Virgin River Christmas special.
Aaaaaaah. It’s like a warm cup of tea and a duvet on a cold day.
Only 327 days..
I think I’ll have to email Backblaze about the Safety Freeze event yesterday. I have successfully reinstalled and the backup is running ok again. But it’s reporting about 500 GB less data in the backup than there should be.
I’ve checked my Carbon Copy Cloner logs for the last few days and I haven’t lost 500 GB locally.
I think I remember last year it did something like this. And then sometime later, the Backup size jumped back to the ~4TB I was expecting.
So I’m putting it down to some kind of error in Backblaze. Which I will try to report.
My landlord (the biggest in my town, I guess) emailed an Excel spreadsheet of 600 people seeking support, their names, home addresses, emails, phone numbers to the entire list.
Some of those people are vulnerable people.
I am on that list. Lucky for me, only my name and email were included. 😞
I have another Backblaze Safety Freeze1. I don’t believe I have any cause for concern but the problem with this safety feature is there is no information given on the cause of the Safety Freeze being inacted. Not even the time it happened. I just know something happened since 5am.
Resolving and restarting the back up requires manual verification/comparison of data between my local machine and the online backup. This is completely unrealistic, being that the web interface for browsing files in the online backup is extremely basic. And then I have to uninstall and reinstall the service
Please Backblaze2, give me some logs to look at, or something helpful. I do love the service but this is a bit of a headache and a faff, with uninstalling/reinstalling. This feature needs to give me more data to work with. I’m basically having to make a guess that this is a false positive.
Backblaze is a great service despite me moaning today. Get a free month-long trial here.
I picked up a guitar at music group today for the first time in years. It was amazing! I’m a complete novice but I want to learn.
When I got home, I dusted off my acoustic guitar and had some fun strumming. There’s nothing like the feeling of it. It’s medicine for my soul. 🕊️
I’ve been away visiting my parents, and it’s been a really nice break for me as it always is. But I always struggle to be back home again. I feel like a stranger in my own home. I feel scattered, distant and unsure of who I am.
