In a grocery store on Saturday morning, I overheard two women with a small child talking about how a US government shutdown would mean that the WIC program, which helps to ensure that children have enough food to eat, is immediately suspended.
It turns out that almost exactly a decade after writing about donating to food banks during such a shutdown, I am still incandescently furious about this.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/08/charities-government-civilised-society
This sucks so much. I kept telling numerous people " #discord is NOT a forum, it is an IRC app, stop building your communities in it around stuff that needs to be found with a search engine and archived, it's a bad idea for numerous reasons including the overpopulation of server topics in an app that has a 100 server limit" but nobody listened. I hate being right.
We're about to have yet ANOTHER internet library of alexandria situation assuming this shit retroactively applies to existing stuff.
So, for my trip to Texas, I plan to leave my PC on so I can connect back to it as needed via VPN. I THINK I've got everything set up on it.
If the power goes out, the UPS runs to keep it running, and even if it runs out, once the power comes back up, the PC should as well. My main concern is if my IP changes over the course of a power outage. It shouldn't. I've never had an IP change before, but I've also never paid for a static IP.
I think my setup should work if the IP changes. My router actually has an app that will tell me my global IP on my phone from anywhere. But the VPN software is set to the global IP I have right now. I'm not sure it'll work if it changes. (I mean, my IP on the PC itself is my local IP, the router should handle the traffic no matter what IP it switches to).
Hopefully, there won't be a problem there and I'll have access to my network no matter where I am.
4AM in bed:
Jenn: We should go to sleep.
Body: No chance.
5AM in bed:
Jenn: I've just taken enough melatonin to kill a horse. SLEEP NOW.
Body: Not happening.
6AM in bed:
Jenn: If we're going to be up early on Friday, we need to be asleep WAY before 4AM, body. NYQUIL. NOW.
Body: Nope.
7AM in Bed:
Jenn: BENADRYL.
Body: Fat chan...chaa....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
6PM in Bed:
Jenn: We slept through all our alarms and I feel like shit.
Body: Just ten more hours, mom.
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