{"id":9949,"date":"2026-07-20T22:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:02:17","slug":"gatekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/gatekeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My shower wasn&#8217;t great this morning, and I almost wished I had just left the old, broken head in place. When I finished, I bent over to dry off and then pinched a nerve in the middle of my back as I tried to stand back up. I was hunched for the rest of the day from that, and I could barely move without tweaking it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realized after we left the house that I forgot my breakfast, so I survived the morning on coffee alone. At least I remembered to bring my leftovers for lunch. The first thing I fought was actually the broken maintenance network again. This time I tried changing some STP priorities to see if it would prevent the far point-to-point from tripping the port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the day was spent digging through and documenting the security cameras and gate system. Heaven mentioned Charles doing something on her phone that caused the front and rear gate cameras to become inverted, and I could never figure out how or where that might be set. I spent all day tinkering with settings, but never heard anything back from Fleming about what the old password might have been. I had finally given up on trying to recover anything from the non-wiped equipment, but then I couldn&#8217;t seem to write new configurations over them, so tomorrow I&#8217;ll still be stuck working on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left work late again after messing around with the relay portion of the gate controls, then made it home through heavy traffic. I quickly fixed the leaky shower head and bruised the bottom of my foot in the process. Summer got home moments later and took a shower. I made her a sandwich and had some more Long John Silvers myself. A bunch of the lunch meat went bad, and I don&#8217;t know why I thought it would be a good idea to buy so much in the first place. We ate, and then cleaned up a bit. Eaddie was already gone to work the conference, so Summer had to finish her laundry for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer was dead tired from working in the heat, and I could still barely move. Leonard&#8217;s was closed, so I couldn&#8217;t go get the air filter we&#8217;d been needing for a few weeks. Muad&#8217;Dib hadn&#8217;t been run in a couple days either, so I decided to take him to the Neighborhood Market to get rid of some recycling. One of our neighbors had a car in the driveway with a trunk that was open the entire time we were gone, so we stopped by on the way home to knock on the door. Someone turned on some lights, but we never got a response, so I considered that the extent of my neighborly responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hobbled home and went to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Meet prep!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My shower wasn&#8217;t great this morning, and I almost wished I had just left the old, broken head in place. 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