{"id":1144,"date":"2020-04-17T00:04:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T04:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2020-09-02T17:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:22:50","slug":"the-long-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/the-long-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I started work on rewriting the term rewriter I thought &#8220;Here&#8217;s a fun project I can work on occasionally.&#8221;  That turned into almost never, thanks to a number of factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul><li>My kids became fascinated with Minecraft and I had to build complex Redstone contraptions for them, which has been fun!<\/li><li>My kids became fascinated with Roblox and I had to build complex Lua scripts for them, which has been fun!<\/li><li>I was running 10 (ten!) different projects at work.  This was less fun, but actually, I have an awesome job and really, really love being a researcher.  ORNL is a wonderful place to work.<\/li><li>I decided to start teaching graduate classes for Tennessee Technological University on automated reverse engineering of compiled software because I love teaching.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So the rewriter took a back seat to everything else, and time passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a surprising event, I actually <em>lost data<\/em>!  This will be shocking for folks who know me because I am obsessive about backups, and backups of backups.  I didn&#8217;t lose much data, but my hosting provider turned out to be&#8230; less than good.  I have since switched to a new hosting provider.  This meant I lost a lot of design work done in the Wiki on the old site.  So ist das Leben.  Anyway, that further discouraged me and I&#8217;ve been slow (over a year, man!) to pick up the thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I build a pathological backup system (partially detailed in articles I wrote for <a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/building-a-file-server-on-a-raspberry-pi-with-seafile-d972bad14688\">Medium<\/a>) that sits in the corner and quietly backup up all my sites (and the kiddos Minecraft servers!) and then replicates data off-site.  Everything is straight replicated, then checked into a git repo for tracking and then the repo is replicated.  Spinning disks are cheap.  Data isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-26-10.14.26-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1149\" width=\"402\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-26-10.14.26-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-26-10.14.26-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-26-10.14.26-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-26-10.14.26-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-26-10.14.26-2048x1536.png 2048w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-26-10.14.26-1200x900.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 85vw, 402px\" \/><figcaption>What to do with all those spinning drives?  Build a NAS, of course.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh.  We also bought a new house and moved.  Yeah, that too.  The kiddos all need their own bedrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So basically no real excuse until our rescue dog got cancer.  A round of chemo left him in complete remission for six months.  Now he&#8217;s starting another round of chemo because the cancer is back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-23-14.05.48-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1148\" width=\"404\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-23-14.05.48-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-23-14.05.48-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-23-14.05.48-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-23-14.05.48-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-23-14.05.48-2048x1536.png 2048w, https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2019-11-23-14.05.48-1200x900.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 85vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption>Little S&#8217;more, on our couch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I am slowly starting back on rewriting the term rewriter.  We&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is short, and the world is wide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stacyprowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}