Amazon, I quit.

I tried, Amazon. I really did. For the last few months I tried to make it work with an EC2 instance for Gastropoda. I tried two main methods of deployment, both of which worked sporadically at various points:

Sometimes I think about what I’ve been working on in my spare time since the beginning of last year and I’m like “What the crap, Liza. You’re spending your time trying to make toy slugs. Go learn a useful skill or something.”

I’ve tried implementing a gym for Gastropoda a couple of times now. Both times I put the feature on hold not because I got stuck, but because I realized that I may not really even need a gym.

A little while ago I wrote about deploying Gastropoda to an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance via Elastic Beanstalk. Since that day I have been running into multiple EB problems. I’m sure that if I took the time to learn I would figure out why these things were happening and how to fix them. Some problems included:

Every morning I wake up to my cat Rigel wanting to play. He jumps around the bed and brings in his favorite toy ferret, purring and stepping on us until we either get up or put him outside. Then I get up and go to get a plastic bag from the kitchen before I do anything else. I go to Rigel’s jumbo sized litter box, followed by the cat who sits next to me and watches as I clean it. As soon as I’m done he steps inside and does his business. Meanwhile, I leave to wash my hands and start washing up/brushing my teeth in the bathroom. One or two minutes later Rigel turbos in, jumps full speed onto the toilet (I always have to be sure the lid is closed before this happens - there have been incidents) and then into the sink, sticking his head and paws into the water (which I make sure is lukewarm before he gets in). We take turns at the tap for about five minutes. I leave, he sometimes rests in the sink, and then the morning pooping and cleaning ritual is over.