Kris’ family came down last week so as usual, I didn’t stream when they were here, but even if they weren’t here, I was pretty sick. I still don’t feel one hundred percent better, but I am feeling a lot better than I have been. I don’t usually get sick, even when I had Covid, I think I was at most really bad for 24 hours and then after that I was back to working normally. Obviously I wouldn’t have been if I had to leave my house to work, but when you’re working from home, you don’t need to worry about that kind of thing.
Since I am still sick, I don’t really have the urge to stream just yet. My throat hurts and I don’t want to talk that much just yet, but Black Ops 6 just came out and I haven’t played it that much. I did play it for a little bit on Tuesday and some last Friday, right after it came out. So far I have only played the zombies mode, which when it comes to Black Ops games, is usually my favorite modes, but I really want to get into multiplayer after playing the beta. I normally wouldn’t even be playing it at all, but it’s on Game Pass so it’s nice that I can. There was a few years where I bought a new COD every year, but I haven’t done that in a few years now.
I’m currently waiting for a hosting company to upgrade PHP. They were supposed to do it at midnight, but now it is 4AM and I haven’t heard anything since 2AM when I got a message that they were starting it. I’ve been up since 10AM Tuesday morning and I am exhausted. I am hoping they will email me soon that it is done so I can do some quick tests and make sure everything works, then get some sleep. I’ve spent all year working to get this done it seems. There’s been around 4-5 long term projects I’ve been working on, including server moves, PHP upgrades, file deletion, etc. If and when this is done then I will be able to focus on the last long term project, which is basically done too, I just need to run some tests.
While waiting for the server company to get back to me, I went into my own database and changed my MySQL tables from MyISAM to Innodb. I think new installations of WordPress use Innodb by default, but older ones use a combination of the two. MyISAM will lock the whole table when really you just need to lock the row you’re updating. This change alone has sped up this site a lot. It should have happened a long time ago, but I forgot about it until I had to update my database when we were moving servers. If you haven’t changed to Innodb yet, I highly recommend it, you will more than likely see a speed boost on your website.
