Reading thru the work chat backlog:
Severin: from where I sit, I can only see the back of her Stormtrooper monitors, so it’s funny to hear muttered curse words come from them, throughout our overlapping shifts
Severin: “omfg, this guy is retarded”
Severin: sometimes I think I hear her say stuff in Samuel L Jackson’s voice
Benny just published a post on her site about WP and caching. It makes me chuckle to think about, because essentially the web has come full-circle.
The web was first populated by sites that were all static html pages.
Then, someone thought of using databases and a whole bunch of other neat things to make websites “dynamic” – meaning, you didn’t have to spend hours tediously re-writing static html to make a change across your whole site.
Then, these dynamic sites were great, but if the site was popular, then you needed to back it up with a shit-ton of hardware and load balancing and etc, etc in case you had a lot of visitors.
Now, caching (turning the dynamic site back into simple static html) keeps sites light and serving to millions of visitors.
Strange, innit?
Over the last couple of weekends, I’ve managed to go through some of the excess clothes that make up the Stuff that we own but don’t use. In doing so, I found a few items I can still wear, so those are going “back into rotation.” The rest got put into boxes and one of those boxes got dropped off at Goodwill today. Two more boxes will be going tomorrow. I still have several other totes to go through, and I’m sure I’ll have more boxes to get donated in the next couple of weeks. Just glad that I am finally making progress on Reducing the Stuff.
I’m also feeling accomplished about cooking at home more often. The last few weekends I’ve managed to cook at least 2-3 meals at home each weekend. While that doesn’t sound like much, its huge for us because 3 meals cooked at home equals 1 meal going out, in terms of cost.
Speaking of costs, I’m also revisiting getting a solid budget put together. Its hard to do, especially when your $outgo exceeds your $income every single month. Since before I started working at LW I have not been able to make it one month without adding to my credit card debt, and that is really sad. However, with the help of some unexpected extra $income I got about a month ago, I may be able to break that trend. May being the keyword here. We’ll see.