Backcountry Water Update

Red Hat retired their old version of Openshift and replaced it with the Kubernetes-based version 3.  However, they also took away some features in the free plan that I was using, such as cron jobs.
So I spent the last couple weeks doing the migration.

• Replaced cron jobs with JEE batch jobs.  These are scheduled using JEE schedules.  Pretty cool.
• I still need to add the custom domain forwarding (another feature in the paid plans that used to be free).  I am looking at cloudflare as a proxy.
• The service is having problems deploying my app with storage.  I couldn't figure out the root cause so I made some services to reload the data when I deploy a new version.

Old School Computer Fix

I try to avoid household IT work these days but Bengt's computer had trouble with the latest Microsoft patch Tuesday.  The symptom was that it would start to the the "Automatic Recovery" screen then die (usually beeping incessantly).  The weird thing was that I couldn't get to the BIOS to try to boot to a USB.  I was just about to give up and take it to the local PC repair shop when I read the motherboard manual which reminded of the good ol' CMOS.  The manual displayed the pins required to reset the CMOS and after searching the garage for an jumper, the computer booted up!  Windows was able to finish the update and everything was peachy.

Signal Fires Are Dumb

Carry a mirror folks!  And mix in a map and compass and maybe learn how to use them.

Lots of Books

Lots of stuff read and listened to:

• Fleet at Flood Tide by James D. Hornfischer
• It Happened in the Cimarron Country by Stephen Zimmer and Steve Lewis
• The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah by Ray C. Colton
• Big Pacific by Rebecca Tansley
• Neptune's Inferno: The US Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer
• Mr. Lincoln: The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Allen Guelzo
• Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays and Isotopic Murder: A Journey Into the Wild World of Nuclear Science by James Mahaffey
• Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power by James Mahaffey
• Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage by Waterman L. Ormsby