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angrbodaWe went to opera cinema today. This time the Met offered us La Somnambula (The Sleepwalker) by Bellini, which was rather thin plot-wise but I'm going to want to listen to the music again.
This was also the second one we've seen where they've had the general manager of the Met say a few words at the beginning and both times, without mentioning him at all, it was abundantly clear that he is NOT a fan of That Guy. You know the one. This time it was a bit of a greeting/dedication to "those who are marching, those who have marched and those who wish they could be marching." I have decided I rather like him.
We have also put in the calendar our first go at Opera on the Sofa and we'll see if we can make that a thing. We will stream one or procure a disk or something (almost certainly stream one, we have sources), and we will get some cheese and some biscuits and some goodies and snacks and maybe I'll make some little sandwiches, and we'll have a brunch-y nom to go with the opera. Bit like we do with the concert from Vienna on new year's day. It's a bit of a test run. If it does become a thing that we do from time to time, we might try out the Met's own streaming subscription and indulge in more of their stuff, and then we can also see the things that aren't going to work out with the cinema. Husband, for example, was quite disappointed that Tristan and Isolde isn't going to be possible for us to go and see.
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In other non-operatic news, we are making good progress on wall paper removal in my room. We are well over half way at this point. Not a lot is likely to be happening next weekend as we're going to a wedding, but we'll probably be close to finished with this step then.
Have also received the fabric for my new curtains, but there's no haste in sewing them yet.
This was also the second one we've seen where they've had the general manager of the Met say a few words at the beginning and both times, without mentioning him at all, it was abundantly clear that he is NOT a fan of That Guy. You know the one. This time it was a bit of a greeting/dedication to "those who are marching, those who have marched and those who wish they could be marching." I have decided I rather like him.
We have also put in the calendar our first go at Opera on the Sofa and we'll see if we can make that a thing. We will stream one or procure a disk or something (almost certainly stream one, we have sources), and we will get some cheese and some biscuits and some goodies and snacks and maybe I'll make some little sandwiches, and we'll have a brunch-y nom to go with the opera. Bit like we do with the concert from Vienna on new year's day. It's a bit of a test run. If it does become a thing that we do from time to time, we might try out the Met's own streaming subscription and indulge in more of their stuff, and then we can also see the things that aren't going to work out with the cinema. Husband, for example, was quite disappointed that Tristan and Isolde isn't going to be possible for us to go and see.
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In other non-operatic news, we are making good progress on wall paper removal in my room. We are well over half way at this point. Not a lot is likely to be happening next weekend as we're going to a wedding, but we'll probably be close to finished with this step then.
Have also received the fabric for my new curtains, but there's no haste in sewing them yet.
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mark in dw_maintenanceGood morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!
2025-10-20 10:11alierak in dw_maintenance
alierak in dw_maintenanceDW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.