I’m amazed that one can bribe a 46 year old to ignore that many years of neglect with coca cola and crayons.
Still, I guess 42 years of fending for himself in a pizza place must have played hell with his personal development… 
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To be fair, Godfather’s had pretty dang good pizza. I expect he did okay. Not a tooth in his head by the time Smokey and the Bandit came out, but otherwise okay.
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It would either give him the skills to be the world’s foremost pizza maker, or give him an aversion to all things pizza due to the traumatic memories.
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My SO grandpa, grandma, and great-grandma were on a road trip and stopped at a gas station. They were 5 miles further down the road, when grandpa said to grandma, “Where’s your mother?” Went to use the bathroom, turned out.
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Is he still there?
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On quiet nights your can still hear him eating pizza and wondering when his family will return for him…
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Don’t worry, everyone. He’s fine and living Chicago, tending bar near Wicker Park.
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I guess I didn’t think hard enough. 
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We are not unkind. Additional chances will be given as necessary.
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Because y’all failed to keep me from failing.
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I’ll take a chance, if you don’t mind.
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Apropos of nothing, but does anyone know of a service that monitors site uptime and notifies if, say, the site is down or unresponsive. Ideally this is a free service, or at least very low cost. Asking for a friend…
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I find this handy, but you have to manually check. AFAIK it won’t notify you if a site is down.
They have this bookmarklet thingy.
Today, when I tried to access the cafe, the gears would grind for a long while, then the URL would show in the address bar, but with a blank page, as if the site was up but without content.
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It seems like nginx was up, but the discourse instance it was proxying to wasn’t responding. I went ahead and upgraded discourse after rebooting, in case that’s relevant to the problem.
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I was getting occasional 405s - most of the time the request was just timing out.
This might be useful:
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I’ve signed up. Their free tier looks like it will work just fine for me. Thank you.
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Hey, I didn’t even have access to the Internet at the time. You can’t blame this one on me.
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You can check the Elsewhere Twitter too 
. It’s not automatic, but members sent tweets for both of the recent timeouts. If you have the Elsewhere Twitter set up to send an e-mail when someone @s it, that would at least be a semi-automatic notification.
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