Monday Journal (20260713)

This is my first journal entry of the month. Like I said in the previous blog post, I'm going to give this a try for roughly a month and see what I think about it by the end. I'm writing this one in recount of events from yesterday. Starting with the morning at 6AM, it was my usual routine. I made up some oatmeal in a pot with a little cinnamon, brown sugar sprinkled in, butter, and a slice of toast and jam. After that I tended to the cats and dog, packed a lunch, got dressed up then headed out the door to work. At work, there were a few things lined up for me in the morning coming off of last week. One of those was addressing some detected software vulnerabilities for Visual Studio Code installed on a few Linux workstations. I had to figure out why it wasn't being patched, along side other missing security patches for other workstations. I quickly discovered that whoever deployed vscode to these workstations didn't do it correctly and failed to include the required APT source repo,…