Rollercoaster month
Witness the witness.
Welp.. This last month has been a mess to say the least.
A month ago I had just finished recovering from an issue with my server, upgrading stuff and getting drives and storage sorted out properly.. only to have a power cut nuke it all a few week later.
Now though I have a UPS backup, I've sorted out my storage configuration and got it all working, Things are going a lot smoother now and my server is currently replaying the blockchain and getting set up.
Normal witness services will resume shortly. ETA is a week at most.
Why be a witness
To be honest I really enjoy doing stuff at system admin and server things. At least when things don't go completely wrong, but then again I do like the feeling of acomplishment when it's actually running properly again.
That's the main reason, It's fun for me and since I have the hardware already I might as well use it. Sure it costs me a lot of money in energy bills, which a portion is covered by the earnings from being a witness but it's hardly a profitable endevour outside of the top 50 witnesses.
The second major reason that keeps me going is the fact I run everything from home, away from datacenters and other centralizing entities.
Only way I can really be stopped is if my ISP cuts me off really.
I feel like that's a major positive that my witness has over other witnesses, Granted I don't have as much redundancy as datacenters (yet) but it's not impossible to build up contingency plans and backup systems at home.
But what about life?
Well pretty much the same as always a miserable sod bearly managing to keep things together.
Or well.. That's how a felt a while back anyways. My server breaking really hit me hard because it's just been one thing after another.
Spent a few weeks stressing over the car, which was fixed and sold by my brother for a good ammount, and also we managed to find a pretty nice car to a decent price, ofcourse this mean more debt though.. another £3000 to pay off at some point.
There was also a death in the family, which I've not talked about yet and don't plan to really. but that.. is there still.
Another thing that is a constant source of stress and intrusive thoughts is my dog zorro is basically on his last legs... though.. he doesn't seem to have gotten the message. He's basically got congenital heart disease, if he gets to excided he passes out. He can't really do a who lot of stuff, it'd be nice if he would just chill and lounge around.. but no he still tries acting like a puppy..
The intrisive thoughts tend to be about having him put down.. He has some pretty bad weeks then there are weeks where he's perfectly fine. The worst thoughts are the ones that say 'just put him down so I don't have the stress anymore' and I'm like... 'no brain... that's just stupid'..
But yeah.. the past week has been rather good though, Been feeling a little more energetic and been in a better mood, I think this is primarily from some good interactions I've had over on xeenon.xyz
That and finally getting some decent sleep and stuff. It was probably the week and a half of naps on the recliner that sorted that out.
Anyways I'm done rambling for a bit. Might make this a month thing assuming I can remember what happened the previous month.
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