Five Distinct Steps to Take After Hosting a Party
Oct 18th, 2009 by Alex
There are five distinct steps to be taken after hosting a party.
- Hydrate
- Send out thank you notes and emails
- Clean up kitchen
- Rinse and discard empties
- Patch server
The first step is obvious.
The second step isn’t required, but it’s something I like to do. Especially for the folks that left early or I didn’t get a chance to talk to as much. It’s nice to make sure everyone got home okay, particularly with the weather being crummy to drive in and a lot of Terps revelers being on the road.
The third and fourth go together. There’s a satisfying clink of glass as the counter contents get swept into the recycling bin.
And finally, the last step.
I’m not so sure about this last one, but it feels like I typically do system patching after a party. I don’t know where it’s because I’m already in clean-up mode or whether it’s that I don’t feel like moving from the recliner.
Patching from the comfort of a recliner is key.
It irks me than yum tries to install a new kernel when I attempt to upgrade python. If you exclude the kernel, the dependency resolution for libxml2-python and gamin-python fail without any clear reason. The kernel is not listed as a dependency when I do a deplist for python. If I don’t exclude it, I get the ever-classy error than the kernel I’m attempting to install is older than the one that’s already installed. I feel like I must have missed the window to install and that now I’ll have to wait until someone re-releases a never version of python whose weird dependency interaction requires a kernel version similar to or newer than I’m currently running. This is a recurring theme.
Yum is better than some of the other options out there, but there are mornings that it just isn’t doing it for me.
I thought only LAN parties involved servers.