{"id":725,"date":"2011-12-07T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=725"},"modified":"2011-12-07T19:28:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:28:29","slug":"thanks-for-your-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/thanks-for-your-patience","title":{"rendered":"thanks for your patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back sucking at trivia again. But I&#8217;ve done a lot since I last left a note here.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, I&#8217;m on a new webhost. This is after&#8230; maybe fifteen years at eskimo? The timeouts were too frequent, the support too slow. I understand the reasons but it was no longer worth paying money for, so here I am. The site lives in a friend&#8217;s closet in North Carolina, up the road from where librarian.net lives at UNC. I think it will be happy there. Now that these things aren&#8217;t auto-posted to facebook, I&#8217;ll have to think about whether I&#8217;ll import them there or not in some other fashion. I get a lot of comments, people are clearly reading stuff, I&#8217;m not really afraid of facebook in any real way. But I&#8217;m also winter-lazy, so I may put it off. I had a list, called the Things You Are Putting Off list, aka the Albatross list, that had a lot of crap on it that I&#8217;d been putting of. Estate stuff, other paperwork, selling the place in Topsham, and switching web hosts. Most are done, house is still sort of for sale, I&#8217;m feeling less dread which is a good way to go into the shortest days of the year. Speaking of, here is a story in two pictures.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/mlkshk.com\/p\/A5HS\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mlkshk.com\/r\/A5HS\" title=\"can you spot the menorah in this public school display?\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(102, 102, 102);\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mlkshk.com\/p\/A6WA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mlkshk.com\/r\/A6WA\" title=\"principal delivers\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(102, 102, 102);\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As you know, I work part time at a public school. I am also more Jewish than anyone else who works there. Every year the public school does a holiday display and we get into some light-hearted ribbing about how their idea of diversity is putting up a coloring book cutout of a menorah in the holiday stocking-and-tree display. I guess I could make a bigger deal out of it, but I&#8217;m not mad, just sort of &#8220;C&#8217;mon guys, try harder&#8221; about it. So two years ago when the menorah was stolen, one of the shop teachers actually <em>made another one<\/em> (very cool) which for whatever reason the principal forgot to make sure was part of the display this year. So I nudged him. And here we go. I could live somewhere else, but I really like it here, the pervasive Christmasness around wintertime is just part of being part of a more homogenous (and religious) community than I might otherwise like. There are many other benefits. I&#8217;m thankful for both my larger and smaller communities at times like this. Next update on the blog: Solstice Bonfire. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Related: if you see anything weird happening here that shouldn&#8217;t be, please drop me an email. Still troubleshooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/thanks-for-your-patience\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to thanks for your patience\"><p>I&#8217;m back sucking at trivia again. But I&#8217;ve done a lot since I last left a note here. First and foremost, I&#8217;m on a new webhost. This is after&#8230; maybe fifteen years at eskimo? The timeouts were too frequent, the support too slow. 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