1/7: 2 things

From the morning:  While eating breakfast, I watched a video of Mary Beard's lecture for the Friends of the Bodleian.  A former student had sent me the link.  It was about the representation of libraries as places of danger and mystery (in, for example, fiction).

From the evening:  When I went to post this week's Heron Tree poem, the site wasn't accessible because the security certification installation process got stalled.  Needless to say, that wasn't good.  But after a freak-out / melt-down, I contacted the folks at DreamHost, and it got sorted out.  The relative quickness of the sorting-out was good.