2018-12-22 What The Hell

This week has been a complete disaster. Everyone has been trying to
get everything done before they go on holidays and all of that work
has rolled down the hill to me. :P I have been going non-stop for the
whole week. It was even busy at my Saturday job right when we opened
but it has since slowed down.(Edit: It has been steady busy the whole
shift so it *didn't* slow down at all.)  Thank the gods! I don't think
I could have taken another busy day.

On top of that, my children haven't been sleeping properly. Between
nightmares and upset tummies, both my spouse and I have been losing a
lot of sleep over the last week. I'm hoping things will slow down a
bit and that we get some more rest. Last night was the first night in
a while that we were able to sleep through uninterrupted. Hopefully,
this is a start of a upward trend.

This past week I was listening to the "IRL - Because Online Life Is
Real Life" podcast (https://irlpodcast.org/), specifically to "Season
4 Ep. 2 - Your Password Is the Worst"
(https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode2/). At the end of the podcast
they recommended a password manager called 1Password and promoted an
offer to sign up and get the first three months for free
(1password.com/promo/IRL). I signed up because of the recommendation
and because I've been mulling over getting a password manager for a
while (the other thing I've been mulling over is a VPN but I haven't
settled on one I'm comfortable with yet). I've saved most of my
commonly accessed sites in my "vault". At some point, I will use
1Password to recommend complex random passwords for these sites and
update my entries in my vault. I just need the time to go through and
complete both tasks with the many, many websites I use.

I have also been running around five days a week for the last four or
five weeks, which is awesome. I am actually losing weigh over the
holiday season. I figured it would be better to get into a habit
BEFORE the new year, rather than starting from a crummy low point in
January.

Okay, I guess that's it for now. I can't promise too much activity
over here for the next week or so. Really, that isn't much different
from the way it's been over the last few weeks. Happy holidays
everyone!