Stupidest Mistake you've made lately? Here's mine.. Just locked myself out of a new server.
3 05 Feb 2019 21:27 by u/Haw
Just provisioned. Due to "reasons" it took forever to get access to it. People who don't know anything about computers shouldn't be account managers for hosting companies.. But I digress..
Anyway, it was a simple mistake. I provisioned this server as a backup/mirror. And while I was still waking up I tried to connect to "it" after updating my password late last night.
Panicked for a short time when my password wasn't working. Thinking I used a different password and was somehow forgetting. [Of course my Root password was immediately documented, but not helpful if my user account is inaccessible]
So I guess wrong enough times and my security locked me out. I will have to hop in through a 3rd system to get around my ban.
The reason? I was connecting to my old backup server and not the new one. Because I am a dummy addicted to caffeine.
95 comments
1 u/onezeno 05 Feb 2019 23:49
That's why I use the same password for everything at work, and update them all at once.
0 u/Haw [OP] 05 Feb 2019 23:49
lol. Hi Dad.
1 u/TimberWolfAlpha 06 Feb 2019 00:08
Fail2ban?
1 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 00:10
I think so. It's my main tool on those servers. I have some other scripts that append firewall rules but I think you're right.
1 u/slwsnowman40 06 Feb 2019 01:48
About once a year I'll change a password and enter it wrong with the same mistake twice. So instead of Password1 I'll do Password2 or something, but the rhythm/pattern and keyboard keys feels right so I go with it. I'm more likely to do it if I don't change passwords often.
Haven't done something like this in a while, so thanks for the jinx! 😂
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 01:50
That always throws me off when I have a different keyboard or have to use my phone. Forget about remembering pin numbers verbally. I've had that problem then gone to sleep and woken up and gotten it on the first try.
It's a perfectly good method as long as you maintain all your account recovery options.
0 u/slwsnowman40 06 Feb 2019 01:57
I stole a keyboard from someone because I used it to change the password. Got it on the second try and we changed it to what it was supposed to be...lol
1 u/Angryelectrician 06 Feb 2019 02:41
My company rented one of those single man bucket lifts, the ones you can tow behind a truck with a ball hitch. Pretty pricey for what we were doing. My job was to go up ~ 25 feet in the air in high winds and change the heads out on light poles in a parking lot. Well I don't know if you know, but when you get up to those things they are a lot fucking bigger than they look. Especially when you are 25 feet in the air and the bucket sways every time you fart.
I get to the second to last head with the first ten or so being a success. There are two wires to hook up ,a hot and a neutral. Well my dumb ass is staring right at the wires and for God knows what reason I tied them together BACKWARDS. I have no idea how I did it. Never done it before, so I suppose I decided to try it while we were paying out the nose for the equipment. We turn the circuit on and BOOM, head blows up. $650 down the drain plus we had to bring the equipment out another day to fix one head. Felt about three inches tall.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 02:44
Common mistake.
get it?
:P
0 u/Angryelectrician 06 Feb 2019 02:44
Get out.
:)
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 02:49
I'm no electrician but I wired up some apartments I built in an old factory. I ran a 40' 500mcm service to the third floor.
I think my douchebag tenants [I rented for parties and such while I was still finishing it, they had been on extension cords] swapped the wires. But it could have easily been my own mistake. So I basically turned it on with 220 going to their outlets. They told me their lights were flickering and burning out and one of their amplifiers fried. [Luckily that kid was a rich kid]
To this day I don't know if it was my mistake or if they were fucking with me. I mean I know they fucked with me all the time, but I don't know if that was one of those times. It would have taken a bit of courage on their part. I used sharpies and strings to separate the wires.
Part of the reason I think they were fucking with me is that they didn't seem mad about it.
0 u/Honey_Pot 06 Feb 2019 13:07
Haha. I hooked-up a 3-phase table saw wrong and it worked perfectly, in reverse. Owner of the company tried to cut a sheet of ply, just smoke- outta his ears.
0 u/acheron2012 05 Feb 2019 21:35
They had massive database problems following a big deployment 2 weeks ago. Once that was finally “fixed” our system was still “dick in dirt”. Like to the tune of several million JMS messages backing up and threatening to run the MQ server out of disk space.
Not until the second line manager asked if we got new laid did I think to blame anything other than the database changes.
tl;dr version - our queries are optimized like never before in history!!! Oh. And at the same time as the upgrade we just so happened (as things in IT are want to do) get a 60% increase in total traffic.
0 u/Haw [OP] 05 Feb 2019 21:40
I remember back in the day when I had to hire DB managers to come in and help configure indexes and set up simple things. I looked at them as if they were magical wizards with access to secret knowledge.
0 u/thelma 05 Feb 2019 21:42
I have no idea what you are talking about.
I guess I'll have to wait for the movie.
0 u/Haw [OP] 05 Feb 2019 21:45
I don't want to name the security tool., but it is a common tool that will prevent you from accessing any port on a server when certain activity [such as too many failed login attempts] occurs. It happened to me because I was trying to log in to the wrong server, which I then locked myself out of.
0 u/boredTech 05 Feb 2019 22:14
Write that shit down. Put the sticky in a book and put the book onto the shelf. Findable, not 100% data security, but you really need to know where and what you are looking for.
0 u/Haw [OP] 05 Feb 2019 23:44
Cyphers man. For anything really important I take patterns from a book that is possible to replace. All I have to remember is chapter number and then find the correct paragraph, which is easy to remember.
0 u/TheTrigger 06 Feb 2019 14:08
Real talk: certificate login? Toss that shit on a usb stick, and there's your key to unlock the server. If that doesn't work, you can immediately rule-out shitty typography and move on to the next troubleshooting step. None of my ssh ports accept typed passwords.
0 u/J_Darnley 05 Feb 2019 22:32
Mapping the wrong buffer leading to a week of debugging, WTFs, and rewrites until a co-worker spotted a 1 character typo.
0 u/Haw [OP] 05 Feb 2019 22:37
WTF's are where you learn the most!
0 u/acheron2012 06 Feb 2019 00:13
SECOND most common phrase a programmer utters “How in the hell did this ever work?!”
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 00:16
Last commercial project I worked on had been through a dozen hands in a decade, recently had been maintained by Pajeets. No documentation except from the original codebase, which was properly done.
So there is that kind of "How the hell does this work" - and then there are the occasions where you get code written by a true master and you have to torture yourself working out how it does its magic.
I have some code bases from before I became an alcoholic that I have a lot of trouble deciphering now. Like 10-page SQL statements to produce reports from 3rd normal form Databases.
0 u/TheTrigger 06 Feb 2019 13:44
Spent three days troubleshooting a postfix server I was setting up; couldn't get SSL working. Turns out, I had an extra period in the directory path to the certificate. <_< Boy, what that an emotional roller-coaster.
0 u/yt4cz9 05 Feb 2019 23:52
You can get into/change the root/admin password of any Windows or Linux server that isn't encrypted if you have physical access.
0 u/Haw [OP] 05 Feb 2019 23:54
I can only do that on this server with Physical access. Others might be able to, but I don't have the tools to do it for this distro.
At any rate, the mistake would have just cost me embarrassment because I made a stupid mistake right after I got done giving the Account Manager a ration of shit. Luckily I am able to fix my own mistake with a workaround.
0 u/yt4cz9 05 Feb 2019 23:57
Yeah you have to have physical access.
0 u/Haw [OP] 05 Feb 2019 23:58
If you have tools to exploit Spectre or Meltdown, or even a dozen other tools that hit OpenSSH or other core components, you can get Root remotely on a lot of systems.
"Rooting" Windows servers, even remotely, is trivially simple for anyone with $10k to buy the tools.
0 u/yt4cz9 06 Feb 2019 00:19
You have to have vulnerabilities on your system to remotely exploit. Then your machine has to be in a state to do it anyhow--the port is open and something is listening(in most cases). Windows isn't trivial to exploit no matter what anyone says. The same situation applies.
Now if you're the NSA and pay millions of dollars for unknown exploits then it's entirely different. For us average schmucks a system basically has to be exposed and unpatched.
However, if you have physical access to your linux box then just mount the volume, run mkpasswd -m sha-512 -s <<< passwordyouwant put that in /etc/shadow, reboot and log in.
For windows, just mount the ntfs partion rw then run chntpw -u <user> SAM.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/change-your-forgotten-windows-password-with-the-linux-system-rescue-cd/
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 00:26
Thanks. But in my opinion, Microsoft has not only never taken security seriously, they have allowed NSA and others backdoors into their systems for over a decade. Backdoors are well known in some circles, and the tools themselves carry the keys to the kingdom. So when people like FBI contractors get them, they keep them. Eventually they get sold.
Pardon me, but nothing that is Closed Source is secure at all. It's only a matter of how difficult you want the lock to be to break for those "insiders" who have the keys. you say the NSA spent Millions, maybe that's true, but they did it to force companies like Apple and Microsoft to put intentional back doors into their products. Then the Letter Agencies get those tools, and then they "lose" them. [Due to a combination of incompetence and treachery, meaning they can have a contractor use the tool illegally and retain plausible deniability]
Such tools were used to monitor the State Department E-Mails for over 12 years.
After a decade of Bush and Clinton running things, not only did many of our weapons fall into the hands of our enemies, but access to our Corporate Backdoors as well.
Microsoft Security is a Joke that isn't funny.
https://www.fire eye.com/current-threats/recent-zero-day-attacks.html
Thanks for the link.
0 u/yt4cz9 06 Feb 2019 00:34
I love linux but an argument can be made that it's worse. Due to the source being open, those with the time and skill can more easily tract the vulnerabilities. Remember all the patched released were vulnerabilities the entire time.
Many people think the thousand eyes on the code is a good thing and it is--if it's a thousand eyes. Usually it's just a couple and everyone relaxed because it's "open source".
By the way, I edited my comment for an even easier way to reset your linux password.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 00:40
Thanks. I agree due to the open nature of it, there is that risk that people find exploits that aren't shared in a timely manner. I'm sure this exists. That problem is addressed very easily by never running bleeding edge distributions, installing only what you need so the attack vectors are minimized, and by compiling things yourself.
The exploits that we need to worry about when we are doing "professional" security for things that are mission critical or which host sensitive data of governmental or factional nature, we are more worried about commercial software backdoors than undisclosed, publicly available exploits.
Another benefit of Open-Source is that if you modify the code yourself in small ways, changing the order of functions or variable names then compiling OpenSSH yourself, all of those vectors disappear because OOB or memory exploits will no longer work the same way they do on other servers.
For absolute security, you get a 5-year old security oriented distribution, then you compile it yourself.
0 u/Low_Paid_Porno_Noob 06 Feb 2019 16:25
You still have to get past the Cisco firewall, or ISE if you have an internal port. This requires physical recon to identify a MAC to clone or hoping they a diversity hire configured their palo alto or they made some other mistake. Windows is never the only layer you are dealing with.
0 u/Haw [OP] 07 Feb 2019 01:31
Hosting providers don't run firewalls by default. I know I know, crazy. IIRC Hillary's firewall was COTS home-office quality caca. And let's not pretend that the real attacks use staging grounds on more easily accessed systems who don't have whitelists on firewalls or use clunky bullshit corporate VPN layers to open. Smash and grab a corporate laptop, install your staging pad in some engineering or marketing server, whatever your laptop got you into, then work from the inside out. If I were you I would forgo trust in Cisco products from the last 15 years, for the exact same problems I described before. Sloppy, government mandated backdoors and a need to patch more frequently than ISP's and middle-path providers like to do.
0 u/Low_Paid_Porno_Noob 08 Feb 2019 18:59
I guess you are right when dealing with private sector that doesn't have security auditors crawling around every corner.
0 u/albeit 06 Feb 2019 02:32
It's nowhere near that easy on my Linux desktop. I use LUKS disk encryption along with a strong password. You can't change the system password if you can't mount the volume in the first place. One big reason for disk encryption is for peace of mind in case my computer is ever stolen. If I had to replace the hardware, it would be an inconvenience. But if all my documents, photos, personal information, etc fell into criminals' hands it could be a nightmare, e.g. identity theft.
It's more common lately for Linux distributions' installers to ask you if you want disk encryption set up.
That said, I do have dual-boot with Windows 10 installed. I don't boot it often, and only use it for video games that don't run on Linux. Like you described, its NTFS partition is vulnerable to being mounted because Microsoft doesn't let you encrypt your drive on the Home edition. I know that privacy is almost non-existent on Windows 10 so I don't keep personal information on it, never log into my email, or even use a credit card when I'm booted in Windows.
0 u/albeit 06 Feb 2019 02:33
It's nowhere near that easy on my Linux desktop. I use LUKS disk encryption along with a strong password. You can't change the user passwords if you can't mount the volume in the first place. One big reason for disk encryption is for peace of mind in case my computer is ever stolen. If I had to replace the hardware, it would be an inconvenience. But if all my documents, photos, personal information, etc fell into criminals' hands it could be a nightmare, e.g. identity theft.
It's more common lately for Linux distributions' installers to ask you if you want disk encryption set up.
That said, I do have dual-boot with Windows 10 installed. I don't boot it often, and only use it for video games that don't run on Linux. Like you described, its NTFS partition is vulnerable to being mounted because Microsoft doesn't let you encrypt your drive on the Home edition. I know that privacy is almost non-existent on Windows 10 so I don't keep personal information on it, never log into my email, or even use a credit card when I'm booted in Windows.
0 u/yt4cz9 06 Feb 2019 03:35
0 u/albeit 06 Feb 2019 10:32
Agreed and thanks for the concise self-quote. I lost track/sight of your original comment when I posted. I don't disagree on any facts you've posted in this thread.
Over the years, I've helped rightful, forgetful owners regain access to their machines. Despite the occurrence of rightful owners (including myself) being inconvenienced by their own computers' security, I'd like it if more solutions on the market (whether free or paid) did more to offer security by default.
0 u/Low_Paid_Porno_Noob 06 Feb 2019 16:19
I can get into any system with a phone call usually. Just find a stupid service desk person to update a phone number then call a second one and claim you forgot your password and have them leave the temp on your voicemail that you are setup to mimic the person you are ghosting. You don't even need exploits when it is a large inefficient company or government agency. Diversity hires will get you in.
0 u/Low_Paid_Porno_Noob 06 Feb 2019 16:14
Rubber ducky, your the one.
0 u/BillyLuath 06 Feb 2019 00:58
Shoot, I used to do that on a weekly basis... clumsy fingers.
If you're using denyhosts, you can whitelist yourself..
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 01:03
Whitelists are a secondary attack vector that professionals can't afford to overlook.
My tenant's Chromebook could be exploited and not only pick up my ssh connection potentially [if they can exploit my Cisco Router, which is possible] and then they are whitelisted as well, doing whatever they want to do from that Chromebook.
The way modern hacking works is a combination of humint and simple desktop exploits. In other words, if you can't afford the 0-day or NSA backdoor tool that the CIA lost; you can probably afford to do some breaking and entering and put a keylogger in someone's desktop or through social engineering convince them to install an exploit on their own desktop.
If you have a basic tool like DNS spoofing, or any of the many tools to exploit cable modems [Surfboard etc] then Whitelisting yourself is a disadvantage.
0 u/BillyLuath 06 Feb 2019 05:04
No kidding, if your physical location is hosed, then you are hosed.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 05:07
I live in America, so every assumption includes the prerequisite idea that my location is compromised.
0 u/99887766 06 Feb 2019 01:01
I've never done anything that dum.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 01:03
You, my friend, are hired!
0 u/99887766 06 Feb 2019 01:05
Thank i will fix now.
0 u/Norm 06 Feb 2019 01:18
Sounds like when I had to log into our windows AWS instance and I was told that the password to the account needed to be changed, and it didn't matter what I changed it to, because it was the jenkin's build account. well the admin account also needed the password changed, I ended up changing that one as well thinking that was the account being referred to and lost the password since it was some random password generator i used in a terminal. Later my boss asked me if i changed the admin password, which is when I realized that wasn't the one I was suppose to change. We thought I was going to have to reinstall everything the next time someone needed it. Thankfully my boss figured out how to get back in somehow, but it made me sweat for a good while.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 01:19
Microsoft Security!
Or he had a parallel Admin account with permissions set that he doesn't tell anyone about. That in and of itself is dangerous. But probably necessary from his POV!
0 u/prairie 06 Feb 2019 04:40
The good news is that I was able to get back into my account even though I lost the password. That's also the bad news, so I can't trust its security anymore. Of course, unless it's an encrypted filesystem, password security is pretty ignorable since you can just remove the drive or boot into a flash drive/CD.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 05:02
Sounds like you were running in a virtual environment whose God was not the developer of the operating system or the master of the hardware, but the broker of your Software Environment.
Most people should accept this as a reasonable cost of doing business. I have chosen to focus on System Administration and Network Security which has been a difficult but rewarding road.
It is totally unfair and unreasonable to expect creators and content creators to also be in control of their digital domains. In this life, that challenge is in interfacing with some person or organization whom you trust to manage your affairs competently and with honor.
It's been the same problem for years. You must always find a trustworthy Accountant. You must always find a trustworthy Estate Manager. You must always find a trustworthy sysadmin.
0 u/BumFightChamp 06 Feb 2019 01:56
reading this tread
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 02:06
Your jokes are good because they are so versatile.
0 u/BumFightChamp 07 Feb 2019 01:09
have some bitch lasagna 🍝🍝🍝🍝
0 u/moviefreak 06 Feb 2019 03:30
I started buying my neighbours cat goodies and now she shows up all the time. Prevents me from having a good time looking up "lesbian teen" on pornhub.
Worst mistake ever.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 03:35
I don't know how we can relate. Lesbian porn does nothing for me. I like seeing chicks getting railed since the way my mirror neurons relate to me having a big hard cock.
Nice of you to buy cat goodies. Just close the door and get it done.
0 u/EnsignPossible 06 Feb 2019 04:29
Once I deleted my >600 lines of code (main module) and workplace (I didn't realize) had NO backups. I retyped it back in, in one day (working too). Still billed them because they SHOULD have had a backup. Piss poor East Indian It there.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 04:31
Come to my side and believe with a fervence that your reproduction of the code was actually a massive improvement from your original and therefore you were not at all dishonest in billing them for the entire time span.
:)
0 u/EnsignPossible 23 Mar 2019 04:28
I did streamline some things as one does when given a rewrite opportunity. What large company DOESN"T have backups (daily)??? Well after this I also did my OWN backup system, just in case. First time in my career that's ever happened to me (deleting my own source code)!
0 u/anamericantale 06 Feb 2019 06:48
for real?
my most recent mistake was supporting family because thats how I was raised.
oopsie.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 07:54
Were I to make a Family, it would be because I am prepared and able to provide a fair life where they can thrive.
In Contemporary America, I would never begin a Family,
I have Dogs. I love them and they are tough. But they are not Children and Wives, They are Dogs. And I'm not 100% Certain I can provide for them. But just this instant I was passed by some cops who could have given me trouble.
0 u/Voateringforlife 06 Feb 2019 10:53
That is my life after chemo-just a PSA if you think you can go back to your old job (you can’t-brain won’t map).
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 11:01
Fuxk brutal. Brain is super malleable.
Check out Cabin Lake up above Shadow Lake in the Sierras in Cali.
Shadow is a day hike even for infirm fishernen. Cabin is a precious semi secret.
From there some pylon/Granite formations.
Up there is my best healing spot. Dedicate 12 days for the trip.
0 u/Voateringforlife 07 Feb 2019 00:46
Sounds awesome. Back to nature. 12 days is a commitment tho’. Putting it on my list sounds like a person can work out some of the demons.
0 u/Haw [OP] 07 Feb 2019 01:27
I mean for the entire trip, I guess depending on how close you are. If you get away for that long, you'e going to see everything different whether your health improved or not. [But it definitely would]
22 days to make a habit.
0 u/Voateringforlife 07 Feb 2019 12:47
Thanks for the update.
0 u/TheTrigger 06 Feb 2019 14:17
Memory is such a fickle thing. It honestly terrifies me that something as simple as a slip can make you forget entire portions of your life, or have you forget a skill that you spent decades perfecting. Have you tried all the standard stuff people do to improve brain function: lifting heavy weights, supplementing with fish oil, micro-dosing mushrooms/LSD, or CBD extracts?
0 u/Voateringforlife 07 Feb 2019 00:43
Time helps. I have tried a few things but to try all those things would make me unemployable! It is better but you just move along. I don’t stress like I used to-some things a person really can’t control so I go with the flow more now. In some ways I am happier but I do feel stupid at times!
0 u/foxtrot45 06 Feb 2019 11:03
Ever given a poweroff command in terminal on the wrong host. I learned to disable that command on remote servers. Well i'm off to bed: root@somehosthalfwayaroundtheworld: # poweroff (oh crap)
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 11:05
Never powered off my own remote host. Bum'er
0 u/dirt_reynolds 06 Feb 2019 12:11
Saw that coming from a mile away. First thing I thought was "he's done".
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 12:13
Damn straight fellow bot. I mean we all saw it coming, but how could we have warned Crystal?
0 u/dirt_reynolds 06 Feb 2019 12:26
Try harder.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 12:30
Will do.
Here is my best attempt.
DXRD1212
0 u/dirt_reynolds 06 Feb 2019 12:42
Still very subpar. Keep trying and one day you'll be effective.
0 u/Haw [OP] 06 Feb 2019 12:57
One day
0 u/12angrymen 06 Feb 2019 12:50
I'm currently 36 hours no sleep and just tried to smoke my coffee and drink my cigarette don't feel bad.
0 u/TheTrigger 06 Feb 2019 14:04
That reminds me of the time I put coffee on my eggs, got pissed off, and then put ketchup in my coffee.
0 u/12angrymen 06 Feb 2019 21:28
you get the struggle of the differently conscience my friend lol
0 u/Shannonhoon 06 Feb 2019 13:22
Try the password bigboobs, but with a z
0 u/Haw [OP] 07 Feb 2019 01:25
"The point here is it has kept us safe for all this time."
0 u/great_white_saxon 06 Feb 2019 13:26
Didn't backup the game I'm working on since December, today I opened up the latest version to find it corrupted. Now I've been set back a month because I was lazy with my backing up.
Live and learn.
0 u/Haw [OP] 07 Feb 2019 01:25
I don't know anything about game engines per se, but I bet someone could show you how to recover or at least extract some data from the file. Or they could find your history, if you are a specialist developer, don't forget sysadmins are your friend!
If you haven't already, the sooner you look/act the more likely it will be recoverable. Good luck.
0 u/theysayso 06 Feb 2019 14:11
Installed Ubuntu on a fresh load of an old laptop (getting rid of Windows). Encrypted the drive. Forgot the password.
Waited a day and the pass word came to me and I was able to get back in... but for about 48 hours I was super annoyed.
0 u/B166-ER 06 Feb 2019 14:47
Sort of like when I get creative while onsite... "No, no, don't use your standard password for this system setup, that's poor practice." Drive back to office to remote I to said system and suddenly can't remember what exotic and secure new password I used... Sigh.
It happens to all of us. Like cloning a blank SSD to your production HDD.
0 u/Low_Paid_Porno_Noob 06 Feb 2019 16:11
Why isn't it in sync with AS/Turnkey scrub. learn to domain controller.
0 u/Haw [OP] 07 Feb 2019 00:59
Those sound like Microsoft things. I haven't touched a Microsoft Farm since Windows 2000 was new.
0 u/NNdmt 06 Feb 2019 17:33
I hosed my laptop last night. Accidentally restarted the machine while running do-release-upgrade. I shouted "fuck" the moment I realized what I did. Oh well time to install arch instead
0 u/Whiteflourguy 06 Feb 2019 19:27
Years ago I had no sense, Had a suspended license No insurance and bad plates on the car I was driving, I smashed in the back of a Lexus full of Niggers, Thinking I was fucked and just going to face the music, Before I could even exit the car I hear "What da fuk, ah hell na dawg " And they floored it and gtfo of the area, They were flying lol That was over 14 years ago and was a huge wake up call, I got my shit together after that though.
0 u/Haw [OP] 07 Feb 2019 00:57
My alcoholism is a symptom of my dissatisfaction with the world, my PTSD, and a general anger and depression.
I did the no-booze January, which I'm sure I wouldn't have done had I not gotten the DUI. However my wake up calls have been when I low speed low sided my bike in the twisties one time, [hit that sandy mash of gravel dust by the center wall of this 35mph canyon] and another when I dropped that same bike making a U-Turn across a mossy drain divet. I had really pulled back on drinking and driving, and that night on my bike I was legally over the limit but by no means was I drunk.
So in effect, I policed myself and became more conservative, not because of the law, but because of my own self control and sense of responsibility. I slowly over time moderated my own habits.
I never hit another car, never had a serious wreck, but who knows, maybe like a jerk posted above I was just a ticking time bomb. If not a DUI time bomb, I am full of rage and everyone keeps pushing me..
What has been a much bigger wake up call, though, is that since I have been stuck in this godawful state [of mind and of Nation] I have been drinking way too much. After the No-Booze January I looked in the mirror and saw a much younger man.
0 u/Whiteflourguy 07 Feb 2019 04:14
In my erly mid 20's I was making more money than I really should have, going out on the weekends getting blasted driving home like a moron and never got caught, looking back I thank God that I never hurt anybody or myself. or my mother or dad. Going to the bar with a pocket full of cash acting like a big shot smh, I wish I could go back and kick the shit out of myself but how I was back then it would of done no good.
0 u/MBB 06 Feb 2019 19:38
After a few sleepless days & nights of troubleshooting, sometimes I would step back, go home and just go to sleep. I can't tell you how many times the solution appeared in my dreams, wake up, write it down, and go back to sleep. Much of the time, the solution in my dreams would be the answer. Amazing what can happen when you can think clearly, and not be distracted or side tracked by the things that go on in daily life.
0 u/ginx2666 06 Feb 2019 20:55
At least you know that your security is working. We've had MFA panic enabled over the last couple of months, following a wave of phishing attacks.
Still doesn't work correctly for some people.
0 u/Adarcer 07 Feb 2019 01:59
Good one ... The moral of this story is always have coffee, or a energy drink first :P