I woke early, grabbed my phone and bluetooth speaker, and headed toward the shower. Let the water warm, see what’s new in the podcast queue, and pop open the email.

Huh… a few of the routine automated things were missing.

Pop open Tusky. Pop open Element. Refresh.

Timeout.

Hmmm… the websites?

Bad gateway.

Shit. I know what this is. I’ve politely chastised clients for this… and I do know better. I forgot to set a calendar reminder. The CRL expired. The vpn logs confirmed it.

Fixing it was not a problem. Tedious, but not a problem. I use OpenVPN to separate and proxy some front end access from some back end services. The parts are always moving, so I revoke certificates from time to time – just not that often. Find the box with the PKI data, decrypt and mount volumes, generated a new CRL, etc.

Somehow, the rest of the day followed suit: Not hard. Just tedious. At least I was able to handle the unexpected hiccups.

I also set a few calendar reminders. :-)