jack

Today at work, I wanted/needed a faster way to collect particular events in the Microsoft Windows event logs. I had the obvious way to collect them from the gui, but I needed something better. I decided to try powershell.

Click to read the powershell code and follow the small adventure...

I had no idea beforehand that the log source name in the gui is different from the one accessed by powershell. It took some googling to figure out the right mix of parameters and clauses, but it worked. Sort of. Here's the code I came up with:

Get-EventLog -LogName System -Source Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General -After (Get-Date).AddDays(-10) | Where-Object { $_.EventID -eq 1 -and $_.CategoryNumber -eq 5 } | Out-GridView

It definitely found the appropriate events from the log. It did not, however, provide the appropriate message about the reason for the log entry. Instead of the rational reason that the gui showed me, this script was telling me:

Possible detection of CVE: 2025-11-15T20:31:07.5402125Z
This Event is generated when an attempt to exploit a known vulnerability (2025-11-15T20:31:07.5402125Z) is detected.

Whoa. That sounds bad/dangerous. After digging into other properties of the software object I was given, I finally noticed the purple note in the official Microsoft documentation that this command has been deprecated! Argh! I was probably getting CVE-similarity notices because I was still using this deprecated 32-bit command.

I switched to the new powershell command, and it again took me a while and several consultations with Google to hammer out the new (and actually better) command:

Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{ProviderName='Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General'; Id=1; StartTime = (Get-Date).AddDays(-10)} | Where-Object { $_.Message -match 'Change Reason:.*time zone.*' } | Select-Object TimeCreated, Message | Out-GridView

Note to self: In order to get the html <pre> text formatted correctly in this post, so long text wraps to a new line, I had to create the tags like this:

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"</pre>

Finally! This new powershell command shows the correct reason for the log entry and the directory path to the program that produced it. That's exactly what I needed. Yay, although I'm clearly out of practice with powershell. After collecting data, I opened a ticket to have our next tier of IT take a look at my computer and find why this particular event keeps showing up. Something is changing my timezone (to the wrong timezone) throughout the day, even after I manually change it back to the correct timezone.

torachan

1. That rain is really raining, but I did get in three walks today. (I usually get four on Saturdays but skipped the farmers market as I had already taken one pretty wet walk and the rain didn't let up much until after they were closed.) It was drizzling when I took my morning walk and I did take an umbrella, but it really didn't seem too bad, so I decided to stop and get bagels and lattes, but it got much rainier and windier after I got my stuff, and the cup holders they have do not have handles (just those four cup cardboard things), which made it very awkward to carry, especially with an umbrella. And the tread is mostly gone on my shoes, so I have to walk carefully on wet pavement and couldn't even hurry home. D: Carla was very happy about the surprise bagels and lattes, though, and I enjoyed mine as well.

2. It's still looking like tomorrow will just be cloudy with a small chance of rain, so we're planning on Disneyland in the morning.

3. I think I've got the Christmas tree branches all pulled apart and fluffed out. We still have our old tree skirt (Winnie the Pooh), so I put that down and will start on ornaments at some point. It's been so long since we had a tree, I don't even remember all our old ornaments, though I do know there were a lot of penguin ones.

4. One of the cats sat on the bathmat too soon after peeing and got pee on it, so I had to wash it, and after washing, I just set it in this basket rather than putting it back on the floor, and suddenly it's the most popular spot.

hrj

There were a lot of items where I said, "After retirement, I'm going to try doing X." Most of them were things I was already doing, but I wanted to do more regularly or more intensively.

One new items was: I want to learn how to knit socks, which also involves learning how to read knitting instructions.

You see, although I learned how to knit at age 10 and have been knitting regularly since then, I mostly "reverse-engineered" stuff. This includes reverse-engineering how to do cabling and moebius scarves. (I also focused a lot on doing charted color patterns on garments with not much shaping.) But socks--socks need a bit more intentionality.

The first step, over a year ago, was to learn to read knitting instructions, which intersected nicely with making a baby blanket. I found a book of blanket square patterns, so I could do 16 different knitting patterns in one project. Very useful.

Now I'm starting my first pair of socks. And, just to complicate things, I figured I'd try a toe-up pattern, knit both socks at the same time on a circular needle, and do a lace pattern on the uppers and legs. Easy peasy.

I'm not sure that the specific "create the toe" method I followed is the most intuitive (though the reverse-engineering idea I got would probably work best if working on separate needles, not the circular). And there are only a couple places in the process where I found I had the wrong number of stitches and just fudged it with a random decrease. (That hasn't happened since I moved on from the toe to the foot.) I'm not entirely sure that the sizing will be perfect, but hey, they'll be socks. (They may be a smidge large around the foot, but maybe not?)

Anyway, I'm attending an online conference today and making good progress on the socks.

musesfool

When I was a kid, the Italian bakery in my neighborhood had all the usual types of fancy butter cookies and pignoli and tricolor cookies etc. but they also had a selection of less fancy cookies - like sesame cookies and S cookies and anginetti etc., and what we used to call chocolate sprinkle cookies, which may have started out similarly to butter cookies but were sturdier/crumblier, piped in a swirl, and covered with chocolate sprinkles. That bakery closed a long, long time ago (though you can still get frozen pasta with their name on it at the supermarket), and I have been trying ever since to recreate those cookies, with little success.

Today I baked the butter cookies from the Dolci cookbook (pic), though I didn't bother with sandwiching them with jam, and instead added chocolate sprinkles, and 1/2 tsp almond extract in order to try to recreate the taste of those old cookies. They are pretty close! They might need to be slightly less sweet, and probably cook a couple of more minutes, but they're the closest I've come so far. Also, I had the correct piping tip AND you don't chill the dough until after you pipe the cookies so it's a much easier proposition all around.

I also made the King Arthur small batch focaccia, but it never rises as much as they say it should during proofing. Still rises nicely in the oven and tastes great though.

The timing all worked out really well, even though I didn't plan ahead. Sometimes I get lucky since timing is generally the hardest part of cooking for me.

Ha! The announcer was like, "low event hockey, with only 5 shots" and now the Blue Jackets are getting a penalty shot! Igor stopped it though.

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Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: Rangers vs Blue Jackets on tv

flemmings

Totally nothing day with monsoon rains and thunderstorms, following on a broken night of insomnia and hideous heartburn. Conclude I can no longer drink wine chiz curses. Also owies because I decided to see what doing without ibuprofen for a day was like and what it's like is crippledom.

OTOH find I have lost 2.5 pounds in the last fortnight which is not as much as I'd hoped but is still a win, being at an age when lising weight is difficult.

rebeccmeister

We have several groups of plants in the house that have plant lights on timers. One of the timers is currently set to turn the light on promptly at 4:30 am, which is when I have been waking up to go to rowing practice. I have to say, that light turning on works as well as any auditory alarm clock!

To rewind slightly: this past Wednesday, I overdid it on Romanian deadlifts during a strength training session; parts of my lower back on the right side have been talking to me about that decision ever since. I didn't trigger a full back spasm, but things are tender enough that I ultimately decided against trying to go to rowing practice this morning.

Instead, I got ready for an otherwise busy morning. The main project involved going back to the boathouse to take all of the hardware off of all of the dock sections that have failed and are cracked and had filled with water. There are always a hundred side projects at the boathouse, though, including gathering up even more oars to continue the oar repainting project.

I also wanted to get in a trip to the bank to deposit some reimbursement checks, to the Asian grocery to buy more squid tentacles for the horseshoe crabs (at work), to the hardware store for miscellaneous hardware items, the grocery co-op for groceries, and to the pet store to stock up on cans of cat food.

Given all that, I drove.

Teammates were super helpful with the dock project. In this photo, my teammate L is sitting on top of the furthest back tall stack of dock pieces, unbolting one piece from another:

Some of the failed pieces had hinges attached to them. When the dock pieces were originally acquired, the hinges were attached with massive carriage bolts. That was fine, until the time came to remove the bolts. These are not proper carriage bolts that seat into the material they are securing, they rest flat on top of a washer on top of the material they are securing. Since these things live in a very wet environment, the nuts tend to seize, and there's nothing on the top of the carriage bolt to hold onto to loosen things up.

It was a good thing I brought along my angle grinder again!

We cut off the sides of the top of the bolt head, which then gave us enough surface to hold onto and unbolt the hinge piece.

When we put this hinge back onto a replacement dock section, we'll use hex-headed bolts. We'll put the bolt in through the bottom, with a nut or two on the top. We have to be careful to make sure that the new configuration isn't a trip hazard, but we've done this on a number of other hinges already. Aside from that it is helpful to put the bolt in from the bottom instead of the top because then it's extremely obvious if the nut has loosened to the point of falling off. It isn't cheap to replace the nuts and bolts, but it's better for the dock overall if we catch things when the nuts work loose (and we may use nylock nuts, but also you'd be amazed by how much jostling this dock experiences because power boaters around here are idiots about dock etiquette).

We also got a bunch of miscellaneous reorganizing done. The most satisfying part of that was that we managed to completely empty one of the three storage containers we've been using during boathouse renovations. Here are our sweep oars in their new home in a different shipping container from before:

Emptying out one of the containers means we can return it and stop paying monthly rental fees. Hooray!

Even better, my teammate K helped me to get a fresh wheel onto one of the tow dollies where the wheel bearings had failed.

Those bearing cartridges were press-fitted in there so tightly! So now there's just one remaining tow dolly in need of repair.

I ultimately made it to all my destinations except the pet food store. A headache started brewing during boathouse tasks and I just didn't feel up for that part of the trip. Folks, it is just not pleasant to run errands by car, even if it is faster. I bought a couple cans of food at the grocery co-op, which will tide us over another week or two.

Tomorrow will be an at-home day, which will be nice because it's supposed to be pretty rainy.

neotoma

Almond croissant, 2 gruyere-bacon wheels, a dozen eggs, mild bratwurst, ground pork, turnips, potatoes, a head of garlic, a quart of apple cider, granny smith and stayman apples, shallots, yellow-eyed beans, brussel sprout stalks, a cabbage.

My plans this week at to make an apple-shallot tartin, turnip soup, braised cabbage with bratwurst and apples, and white chili with pork and hominy.

shadaras

mm, Things! since I wanted to complain about this first thing and therefore I will remember to talk about the rest too. xD

1.
Apparently at some point in the last month-ish the CVS I pick up T from changed their computer refill phone tree so that you need to respond with your voice instead of being allowed to just input numbers on your phone's keypad. Rude, honestly. This doesn't take longer, it's just annoying.

2.
That I'm actually keeping up with Critical Role: Araman astounds me. I have, however, determined that I'm more prone to listening to it as a podcast than watching it as a video, and for all that they're actor-people who like using their bodies and showing off their pretty battle maps, I do not feel like I am missing that much. Probably someone will tell me if there's an important visual moment I should look at.

3.
I've spent the last like two weeks reading the first four volumes of Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is overall very fun and makes me want to read more LitRPG stuff just so that I can have more thoughts about how LitRPG and Infinite Flow overlap in form, because DCC is exactly the kind of thing I expect from an Infinite Flow novel. xD It's pretty much gen, though, with background het vibes and if there's any queerness it hasn't pinged like at all to me, which tbh is a shame but not super surprising. It's fun. I care more about the worldbuilding about the setting than about the plot or main character, in a lot of ways, but hey I am having a great time with the secondary and side characters. And with the general goal of "fuck this system, it's fucking us over and needs to end".

4.
Oh yes the last time I posted here was just before my friend took shodan! That test went great, it was so fun, I think they could've just taken nidan but that wasn't what they wanted. I got thrown around a bunch. At some point I should get a video of the test, which I am excited for, since seeing the test and being test uke are different experiences.

Also while I'm in aikido mode: I should be taking my nidan test at the end of May at my dojo's 50th anniversary seminar! This is very exciting for many reasons!

5.
The consequences of missing the afternoon classes for my friend's test are as follows:
- had to take two online quizzes for a total of like maybe an hour of work (this is what welding did last time)
- spent the part of today's CAD class I otherwise would've spent doing basically nothing (or possibly working ahead) making up work for shop
- I guess it counts as an absence but I lost absolutely zero information via doing this so whatever

6.
I have a lot of feelings about ttrpgs via the three-shot

hafnia ran over Halloween season (horror is when you are made SAD about existential implications and must do terrible things because any other choice is worse) (also it's so fun playing with a new person and immediately finding a fun dynamic that proceeds to be a central axis of the game) and also prep for the 5-session short campaign she's planning to run in the new year.

aka: I have too many feelings about Eberron as a setting and I can pull more information out of my head while I'm supposed to be in class than I think. xD Love to infodump about something that was absolutely a bit of a special interest for my childself and which I still adore but haven't had reason to re-up knowledge on recently.

7.
I would like to protest that it is DARK out now and I do not like this! it is WINTER and also daylight savings happened and it makes me go UGH about how little I get to be free of work/school and able to be in the sun.

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House Call Gone Wrong
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 3 of 3, complete
Word count (story only): 1597
[last days of November/first days of December of 2016]

:: During Elisabeth Finn’s maternity leave, she makes time for a follow-up appointment with her six-week-old patient. When the mother doesn’t show, Doctor Finn sets out to make a house call. The trip is disrupted, but may have VERY positive results for her new acquaintances. Written for the November of 2025 Magpie Monday, from a prompt by

siliconshaman, and posted for everyone to enjoy, with my deepest thanks. ::

Back to part two
:: Thanks for reading! ::

“Would you know who to sell it to?” Herb asked slowly.

“I can ask a friend in the hospital’s pharmacy; they order for one of the hospitals in my hometown. The blue chamomile leaves have to be processed, and my farmer friend can help explain the process to me. That part is outside your wheelhouse unless you’re interested.”

The older man hummed. “So, it’s just like growing lettuce for grocery stores. A cleaning station on site will bring better prices, but that’s expensive, especially now.”
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Current Mood: awake

shadowkat

I grabbed it from dirtygreatknife.

The rules: bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you tried but couldn't finish, and underline the ones you loved. (I changed it from intend to read to couldn't finish, because intent changes on a daily basis).
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I've read a lot of them, can't remember half of them. And many I was assigned to read in school.

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Title: clark x alicia - run away to mars
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pegkerr

About three or four months ago, I started feeling a vague pain deep in my right hip. Not a muscle problem, not an arthritis bone-on-bone feeling. It just...hurt.

I kept trying to exercise, but it kept getting more difficult. I vaguely thought, "I should see someone about this." I had my usual yearly appointment set with my doctor for several months away, so I waited.

I probably waited too long.

I have been walking around Lake Nokomis regularly but by the time the appointment came up, I had been reduced from walking all the way around to managing only about one-third of the way around, limping.

Then I realized I was starting to feel pain in my knee. And my lower back.

And then I realized it hurt just lying in bed.

My doctor sent me to an orthopedic specialist and I met with her this past week. The diagnosis: Gluteal tendinopathy, along with some mild osteoarthritis in the right hip and tranchaneric bursitis in both hips. What a mouthful.

Action plan: start physical therapy, and if that doesn’t help, will consider cortisone shots.

image description: a view of a pelvis portion of a skeleton with a muscular overstructure on one side. Lower left: close-up of one side of the hip, showing the IT band. Right: picture of a woman sitting on the ground, with legs pulled up close and forearms covering her face. Lower center: a cane.

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shadowkat

1. Watched part of the Public Theater's presentation of Shakespeare's Twelth Night that premiered at the new theater in Central Park, this summer.
Didn't see it - for two reasons: 1) there were lines at all locations at 4 am in the morning and 2) no time. Also, I've seen Twelth Night about five times? And I'm not crazy about it. It's among Shakespeare's famous comedies, although I like "As You Like It", "Much Ado About Nothing", and "Midsummer Night's Dream" more.

It aired on Great Performances around 9pm, and will most likely be re-aired at some point, also on PBS Passport.
( brief review )

2. Fall is creeping along in NYC - we're experiencing a late fall. There are still green leaves and yellow leaves on many of the trees outside my window for example, there are still flowers about, and red leaves. It's pretty actually. It's normally not until after Thanksgiving that the leaves are gone, and snow arrives.

Struggling with blood sugar issues and balance issues today for some reason. I feel just a little off or dizzy.

3. Angel and Buffy Rewatch

I've completed the four episode Faith Arc now that arcs through Buffy S4 episode This Year's Girl/Who are You to Angel S1 episodes FivebyFive/Sancturary.

The Angel episodes are better - but that's mainly because Angel S1 has a better arc than Buffy S4, and there's no Adam. Also, Faith works better with Angel and Wes than Giles and Buffy, partly because Angel and Wes are trying to redeem themselves, while Giles and Buffy aren't.

The best of the four episodes is actually the last one, which is co-written by Tim Minear and Whedon, and unlike Whedon, Minear gets the whole redemption angle. Whedon struggles with it and slips into Daddy Issues or Mommy Issues. Minear doesn't. So in Angel, we get a little less of that - although it is readily apparent in Five by Five, which isn't Minear's episode, but written by Jim Kouff and possibly Jeanine Renshaw. The difference between the two episodes in regards to writing - is night and day.
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4. Finished reading Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik finally - and, the writing style didn't work for me. I liked the story and characters well enough, jus got bogged down by the writing style (which I've discussed in previous posts). Too many first person point of views.

Moving on to The Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem.

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We got a puzzle lamp for the elbow! Yesterday Jan and Dick called with a tech emergency. On my way down there, I spied the new puzzle lamp. A long time ago, the floor leader, who is generally, down to her last marble, sent out an email asking if we wanted a puzzle table and lamp for our elbow. I responded, immediately, YES!! Turns out, I was supposed to gather the floor together and take a vote. Whatfucking ever. I like my way better. But, anyway since she's rarely right, I figure it was an exercise in email anyway and would never turn into anything but, now we have a lamp! And it's VERY helpful.

And Jan and Dick's issue was fairly easy to noodle out. People who don't use right clicks miss out on so much in life.

Volleyball was good again this morning. It was a good group of players.

Elbow coffee is next. And then, nothing planned til next week which turns out to be kind of busy. I do kind of have this idea of organizing my yarn but that idea might never see the outside of my head.

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