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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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Work has been a little frustrating because being over in the more isolated building, I feel like my colleagues and I are being forgotten and left out of the loop and then treated as being at fault. It doesn't help that one coworker damn near refuses to put anything in writing. The whole "come find me" visit in the absence of being willing to accommodate that I have about a third again more steps to traverse in a day because of my situation.

But this year we're getting a half day "work from home" as well. Mine is on Wednesday morning starting tomorrow. It's kinda exciting in possibility but I'm too anxious to make full use of the evening. I guess I'll have a better sense of it next week. I'm most excited about it because I won't have to spend as much paid leave on my bi or tri monthly doctor's visits.