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I’ve been thinking about higher order stuff this blog interval. Not sure if anything will come of it. Had one of those “alien visitation” dreams too. Just wondering which paradigm is the right one (Steiner vs Bardo), and how we just can’t know for sure. Plus also “what’s the point” sort of thoughts. Think it’s part of the whole current shitshow we’re in. It’s hard to keep that sunny disposition when everything is dissolving. No worries-just gotta keep hanging on and saving money. Hopefully I can continue my contract or quickly find another one. Working remotely might be a plus…gotta get up to speed on React.

Does it matter how far you are, or where you have to go? No. You take this place as it is, and work your work the way you work it. As long as your awareness is clear, and you’re working on making progress, what happens is and is what happens. The Goal is the goal, and the Work is the work. Every pinnacle is the beginning of the next pinnacle. Seven inside one inside seven, forever. It’s school and not school, you learn and you bliss.

Okaaaay, that’s enough depth. Time to make music. While I’m still here. Recap: ran, worked out. M did t’ai chi. Slept OK, up 9ish. Morning, tidied, vacuumed. E & S & E-S to rally. E downtown.  M and I drank, plus. Up and up and up, forever.

Monday morning, start of sprint. Recorded a bunch of music Saturday night. M had a bit too much to drink, but did the proper prep to not get hungover-his meds magnified things a bit. Ran early yesterday, shopping in the afternoon. Pretty mellow otherwise.

Tuesday midday.  Was up late last night, so I bagged getting up early to run. It’s going to be 80° after work, so I’m debating whether to run after work or tomorrow morning.

Thursday morning. Listening to a Nat Geo thing on the ‘Rona. Ran after work on Tues. Not much else-Kamala Harris is the veep choice. Work, tidy, dishes and laundry, cooking, food shop Sat or Sun, workouts on the days-that’s really it. E goes out and shops, everyone else sits and plays on their devices. M works twice a week. I want to make more music, but… E put up a sheer curtain on the back porch-now it looks like fog or smoke.

Friday morning, in the stand-up. Glad it’s Friday-didn’t sleep well last night. I don’t think E did either. Got up early to run-going to be warm today. It was almost cold, but sunny and nice. Almost ran into 2 girls running on Fuller. Don’t feel great-maybe breakfast will help. We’ll see. Going to be super hot this weekend. Def. running early Sunday. Here’s a chart of my speed progression. Nice to have it upwards through almost 3 months.

A week, Sunday, late afternoon. On the bed, computing. Been playing a golf game on my phone a lot. chill Friday, finished some UI design stuff, one other issue is a conundrum. Mellow Sat., E went to protests, I picked up S, not much else. Forgot t’ai chi. Church, shopping, got a pull up bar and a cheap brew keg-want to make ginger beer-need yeast. Maybe I’ll get a concentrate and make regular beer too. Had lunch at a dim sum place by Wal-mart. Need to run when it gets cooler.

Monday, sprint planning day. Bailed on the run last night-dinner instead. E came to bed late-riots in Wisconsin-one guess why… Need to go over the budget and pay bills-slacked all last week.

Now Friday afternoon. E is at the freedom march. Pretty quiet week-not working out because of the heat-don’t want to get up early. Went to the ER on Tues. because of E’s kidney pain-the issue from last week disappeared and they don’t know what’s up with her pain. Paid bills, finished up my paper cranes, played my shakuhachi a little.

Monday afternoon. Busy getting stuff done. No shopping yesterday, no workouts either. It’s getting cooler, we switched to the heavier comforter. E went downtown for the fun Saturday, got a tattoo yesterday. I cleaned. S’s 13th birthday today, she’s getting a nose piercing. Mess with the right-wingers visiting our town. They caused a bunch of trouble, and no one is saying anything about it.

Wednesday, lunchtime. Trying to get stuff done before the end of sprint. Not much else-going to be hot, didn’t plan meals this week. Time to call this entry.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there (especially now).

Page 23, sentence 5: “The difference was one of perspective-the view from different frames of reference.” Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps.

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So the old, fake Chinese curse-“hope you live in interesting times” is certainly applicable. And I’m pushing 60. Wonder how interesting my kids’ lives are going to be. Anyways, “it is what it is.” Such a lame phrase for the President to say. Just goes to show you. Read a Foreign Affairs article today about how we’re experiencing all 4 risks to democracy-gotta fix that, stat. So, like last time, my life is fairly quiet but the world isn’t. There was a huge explosion in Beirut, cv19 is flying along, there’s an election looming. Definitely interesting times. The thing is, all times are interesting times, so the fake curse has no teeth.

Saturday noon. Sitting on the back porch with coffee. Quiet week-work, tidy. E & S went downtown last night, came home early. Ran and worked out last night. Going to be hot next week, so maybe not then. Or maybe just indoors. Planning dinners. Oregon took my tax refund, but I don’t owe them anything! The feds, still have lots to go.

Sunday early evening. Quite hot, but a/c is keeping us cool-we have 2 units and fans distributing the cool air everywhere. Ran at 11 and it was too hot even then-maybe at 8 on Tuesday? Ugh. House is tidy. Blazed through the Earthseed books. Chilling, that dystopia, and closer than you think. Onto the next book. One left after that. Protests continue, with support from everywhere.

Wednesday noon. Busy working. Going to be hot today-glad I’m inside and we have a/c. Not much else going on-ran early yesterday and it worked out fine. Think I’ll do it Friday too. M is working for a few hours on Wednesdays.

Late Friday afternoon. End of sprint-trying to finish up the last bits. Everyone else is too, so I’m getting tugged around. I skipped a whole week, but not much is different. 59th birthday last Thursday-got some sleep shorts, and an Artiphon Orba for myself-I really want a Gecho, but the guy is on hiatus. Busy doing production support this week, but got my stuff done. E is still going to protests, but doesn’t have a lot of stamina. Been running early, but not today. It rained yesterday. Think I’m going to call it.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there (especially now).

Page 23, sentence 5: “She and Mrs. Sims were sugary sweet to each other.” Parable of the Sower, “But for nearly five months now, we’ve had no trouble while salvaging.” Parable of the Talents.

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My birthday’s coming up-inching closer to 60. Odd, just odd. Def. don’t feel 60 most of the time. Much of everything else is the same-people are still in the streets-will this effect lasting change? Not certain yet. Didn’t the last time. It may cause the Orange Menace to be a one-term president, though, if the polling holds. It doesn’t look narrow this time, but it’s still just July-nothing matters except what happens in Nov… Seeing as we’re facing an ongoing pandemic, an economy reflecting that, and an administration with massive voids all the way through, prospects aren’t rosy, but it wouldn’t matter which party was in the White House. Anyways, my little life is OK-got work extended until after Thanksgiving… We’re in a safe place, and it’s OK!

Monday afternoon-time to stop work. Got a little done, but more to come. Pretty quiet weekend, no meal planning/shop, but vacuum/tidy and laundry, so not a waste. Good w/o’s, but no t’ai chi Fri. M worked Sat., he’s still sore. C is totally on a reverse schedule.

Tuesday afternoon, lunchtime! Got stuff done. Car is getting regular maintenance, they gave us a loaner. Trying to stay on top of keeping the house clean. S is eating our pie at random and all the ice cream as well. rrrrr. Not sure if I’ll get a run in today-been rainy. I’m definitely progressing-need to chart it.

Wednesday noon. Now 2. Now 5. Need to get this stuff finished by 5:30. Didn’t. Took ’til 7:30. Had to call the shop about the car too. I did get the run in-I’ve been using Strava to track them-pretty cool.

Friday afternoon. Hot. Time to be done with work. Ran, got almost done and strained my right adductor. Rrrrr. We get Friday dinner from a local place, and we were going to go to Mike’s, but it was slammed, so went to Roake’s. Just as yummy. The whole fam went. Having a delicious peanut butter cookie from Bob’s Red Mill.

Thursday night, bedtime. Quiet week, no meal planning. Still sore adductor. Have to redo something at work. Got ripped off for a Switch. Have a sleepy time tincture, so done.

Totally been slacking on this…and now July 13th. Maybe I’ll call this. Been same old. Couldn’t finish my run on Fri., slacked this weekend. Hopefully getting contract renewed for 4 more months. Been easing up on workouts. Still running decent pace-between 5 & 5 1/2 mph for a half hour. E’s back to going out every day. M is driving more, C is using our car from time to time. S has gone to 2 protests downtown. I’ve at least been keeping things tidy, doing laundry and dishes. Need to do taxes… There’s a comet out there. Played my guitar a few times.

Weds evening. Short of ca$h. Taxes are done-getting a refund! Woo-hoo! And M needs his wisdom teeth out. There goes the refund…plus I think they’ll probably take it for back taxes… Hot today-have the a/c on. Went up Mt. Scott with S to see the comet-no go. Have to go to the office tomorrow to return my old laptop-thing? (nothing)

Now next Tuesday. Been hot. Delivered the laptop, visited S’s teacher. Was sick Thurs-Sat. No workouts because of the heat and being sick. Went out to Beaverton to see the comet with M & S on Sat. night-it was pretty cool. Made horchata. E went to the protests-I took her and picked her up-thing! She went last night too. Had a hard time falling asleep too. I’m going to call this-a month tempo…

Links/viddys-brighter side:

https://twitter.com/humorandanimals/status/1277648839265189890?s=21

Deep breaths. Here is some #ThursdayAfternoon calming nature for you.
pic.twitter.com/Z4N1u3rBd4

— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) July 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/3005bear/status/1282329954424770560?s=21

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there (especially now).

Page 23, sentence 5: “He was bracingly clear-eyed about the New World project, and he seemed to understand better than any of his proto-American contemporaries the distorting power of wishful belief, how fantasy can trump fact.” Fantasyland.

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Well, this is a long one, mostly because I haven’t been finalizing it regularly. I blame the lockdown. Anyways, it’s been uneventful in our household, but the human world is having a bit of a turn. No idea if this will mean lasting change, but there is certainly unrest. Cv19, plus protests equals unrest and uncertainty. Troubling politics and economic mayhem doesn’t help much. In any case, it’s scary and unsettling. I’m also getting close to my contract end, which makes me nervous.

Monday morning, start of a new sprint at work. Slept rather badly last night, didn’t want to get up…but I did. Achy back from working out. I’m in good shape, but also aging and don’t recover as quickly from things as when I was younger. Pretty quiet weekend, worked out, sold my Mirage, E got food, S was up late-starts school today.

Wednesday morning-time for coffee. Pretty quiet-a bit rainy, S is Zooming for school, not really motivated for w/o last night, worked late too. Sometimes feel oddly-disassociated, and sometimes like the walls are closing in. The house is staying pretty clean, and everything else is OK.

Sunday noon, time to think about lunch. Remote church, cleaned our bathroom. Pretty mellow-w/o Friday, tidied, laundry, vacuum Sat. Not much else…

Monday, noon. The days are sort of running into each other. Getting stuff done, but it’s not easy. Bailed on working out yesterday-had to pick up our food, and it didn’t go perfectly, so tired afterwards.

Wednesday, noon. The walls are closing in. There’s an old SF short story where that happens, but it’s because of no sleep rather than isolation. Went for a different run last evening with M-better, in some ways-that last hill is still tough, though. S wants to watch Coraline tonight. Now “sun over the yardarm”-having some gluhwein-got stuff done, but not deployed-that’s next.

Friday, work is done for the week. Mostly finished…I’ve been working late, so not tonight. It’s been wet and cool. Not much else going on. It’s a rent week, so short of $$$. We now have a cushion, and more once the gub’mint money gets here. I think I’ll wait until after August to do anything. Hopefully I’ll get an FTE or longer contract. Given that we’re in a massive uncertain spell, better to have savings and wait to see what happens before jumping into a house or some such. Read Snow Crash until late last night-on to The Diamond Age, then Cryptonomicon.

Wednesday noon, working. Yesterday was a mess-a complete loss as far as work goes. Good w/o, though, and fresh tortillas. Weekend was fine-quiet, shopping was about it. C’s birthday was on Monday. Trying to stay sane. Everyone is struggling.

Monday morning-ish. Tough sleep last night, achy legs, tired this morning. Mellow weekend, food shopping Sat., church, Mother’s Day, called my mom. Hot over the weekend, cooler now, good w/o’s. I don’t want to dwell on the outbreak or the election or anything else, especially here. I’m a Green, so nothing on the local primaries-I’m absolutely NOT voting for Jesse Ventura in the main. Maybe I’ll put my thoughts down after it’s all over.

Wednesday, noon. Same ‘ol… Skipped w/o last night-rainy, no motivation. Didn’t sleep well-need to get to bed earlier, that might help.

Friday. Rushing to prep for a code review-bleh. Worked out on Weds. evening. Not much else-we got our stimulus $$$, which went straight to savings. I’m actually saving. I may pull some of it to pay off collections.

Monday evening-time for bed. Finished up most stuff for code review. Decent weekend-w/o’s, stuff for back porch, online church, but rainy. M got his new laptop, C got his keyboard. Bills paid, never ends.

Wednesday evening, finishing work on time! Worked super late yesterday. Good w/o-jump rope because of rain-ankle still not liking it. Not much else, fortunately. Getting a pretty consistent 25+ mins for t’ai chi. Need to read and practice. Maybe tonight-M is making tamales. Maybe laundry too.

Friday evening, waiting for M to go run. Tamales were a failure. Not sure why-recipe and too thick maybe? Need more practice. Long weekend. Got stuff done, one bad thing still. Maybe I’ll call this.

Lol. Another week vanished. And Monday was a holiday. Riots over killings. Slowly reopening. Work. Workouts. Yummy dinners made by yours truly. A sore hip, so restless sleep. Talked to my mom. I think I’ll call this.

Didn’t call it. Another vanished week. Protests are ongoing-maybe this means change? Not much else-work, workout, shop. Got a new to me iPod shuffle-perfect for running. Been rainy, so jump rope. Got a shiny tiny new laptop last week, and a thing. Almost all my stuff for sale is sold-4 big things left. Been remembering my dreams but not writing them down. We’ve been planning our meals on Saturday/Sunday and doing all the shopping at once, but this week has been a bit not holding to plan.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

We don't deserve cats https://t.co/H8vMfd8Lhi

— Giles Paley-Phillips (@eliistender10) May 1, 2020

And after posting that chubby bear, we wanna remind you to exercise a little during #QuarantineLife, too! pic.twitter.com/zU9wlM30kg

— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) May 13, 2020

A relaxing nature scene from Grand Teton National Park. pic.twitter.com/fmpht6cJQO #QuarantineLife #QuarantineLifeCalm

— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) May 23, 2020

"If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it…. Joy is not made to be a crumb." — Mary Oliver #QuarantineLife #QuarantineLifeCalm pic.twitter.com/mkSIculJ8O

— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) May 24, 2020

Wishing you a squeaky #WorldOtterDay pic.twitter.com/jHGNiLMote

— Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) May 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/casspa/status/1265467517037883392

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there (especially now).

Page 23, sentence 5: “A given pathway develops under the developmental constraints created by many others: none can occur before its component parts are ready, and none can be too disruptive to the others or to the overall process.” Becoming Human.

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Well, I’ve been at home since March 2nd. This is fine in some ways, but tiring in others. We’re all stuck in a smallish apartment, E goes out a few times a week for groceries, we step outside a few times a day, and M and I have been working out as best we can. We were talking about how we’re in pretty good shape-I’m still working full-time, we’re all healthy, we live in a quiet suburban complex, in a state whose leadership took it seriously and doesn’t have a ton of knuckleheads running around doing stupid things. So far so good. Everyone I know seems ok so far too. As with all things, this will pass.

Haven’t picked this up for a week…working from home, distracted. Spent it mostly at home-insane shopping on Saturday, sold my MidiVerb and iBook (wish it was working right, because it’s such a lovely piece of hardware). Got a monitor from work, and that’s about it. S is at home and sitting next to me for schoolwork-she’s doing well. We’ve walked after work twice. The complex closed the gym, so Tuesday I ran around the trailer park with S, and M and I used water jugs for weights and did t’ai chi in the living room.

Sunday evening, eating a fajita burrito from Super Burrito Express. Not quite spicy enough… Pretty quiet-finished work, ran around the trailer park with M & S-M overdid it…Watched Conan the Barbarian yesterday. Memories of college. Online church today, shopping, jumped rope instead of running.

Monday noon, on the start of sprint meeting. S is next to me, doing schoolwork. And taking apart a Barbie. Now 2nd meeting. Drinking a cup of diluted apple cider vinegar and maple syrup (no cayenne). No idea if it’s helping…I feel pretty good, though running in Friday messed up my left Achilles tendon. Not sure if I prefer Kombucha or this. This is way cheaper, though. Need lunch.

Tuesday afternoon. Busy working-glad to have work to do. S is sort of working next to me. My calves are still super sore. I started on a Coursera class about happiness.

Wednesday noon. Trying to get stuff done, only partly succeeding. It’s hard to focus. Good w/o last night, even though my calves are still super sore-I used Soothanol afterwards, and my skin burned all night-stuff works, but I’m quite sensitive to it. I filled up another 5 gallon jug, so we now have 2 8 pound, and a 25 and a 40 pound weight. That and alternating running and jump rope should work fine for the duration. S is cutting up AriZona tea cans for her constellation work.

Thursday afternoon, meeting time. S is demotivated. I got stuff done, though, even though it’s super hard to focus and keep her on track too.

Friday, after work, waiting for S to finish her week’s work so I can scan it and ship it off to her teacher. Got all the rest scanned and in a Word doc. Got a decent amount of work done. Time to work out.

Here’s Thursday. Feeling a bit stir-crazy. And work is over. Got stuff done, but f’n admins changed AWS permissions without notice. Now I’m stuck going to UAT with untested changes. bleh. Jumped rope Tues., calves are OK, but my left Achilles is achy. We’re actually doing OK with the home w/o.

Friday, noon. Now 1. Stuff is sort of stalled right now-waiting. I have one task I can work on. Not much else-stuck at home. We planned meals for next week.

Tuesday afternoon. Pretty quiet because of everything. Skipped w/o Sunday, sore ankle and hip. Not much else-it’s been sunny and nice. House is staying pretty clean.

Thursday morning. Working on a large-scale query thing to update production data. Thursday, end of work. Got the prod thing done, added a logging bit. Notified people about data issue, need resolution of another issue. Missed a meeting at 8:30. Got an extortion spam email.

Friday afternoon, time to stop working. Have to get up at 9 on Sunday to run this production thing. Trying to fix another thing, waiting on access for a 3rd. Aaaah, work. At least I AM working, so… I keep looking at CV Stats and Oregon CV. House is doing fine, C is Spring cleaning, E is shopping, all garbed up. The temp is nice, so the back door is open. Mr Duck has visited, without Mrs. Duck. She’s either brooding or dead. Our neighbor quit feeding the squirrels, thankfully. Going to work out tonight. Maundy Thursday service last night, Bible study on Tues.-E was impressed at my insights. Read an interesting study of Fortune’s The Cosmic Doctrine.

Monday morning-I think I’ll call this. Monday evening-didn’t. Maybe now. Wednesday mid-morning. Now? Busy at work on a trans-gender thing-pretty cool, that, though the implementation is completely mundane-change objects, update a spreadsheet… No t’ai chi last night, ran and lifted only. All 3 Sunday. Not much else-maybe selling the Mirage and DDD-5.

OK, so it’s Friday morning. Def. going to call this. Guy wanted a barter for the Mirage, so no. Worked late-a thing we deployed failed-I fixed it, deployed and it ran OK. Not much else.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there (especially now).

Page 23, sentence 5: “People who have this talent are great at making sure that everyone feels involved and part of any team effort.” StrengthsFinder 2.0.

Please tip the writer. Whatever amount you like-every little bit helps, and I’ll do a shoutout. We are always short of cash, especially with a big mortgage. Let me know if you or someone you know needs web design/development-my rates aren’t bad, and I’m more than pretty good at it. Java/database/AWS/UI too. ThankYouVeryMuch!

Well. Time to record this-“this is the time, and this is the record of the time” Time just keeps moving. At this juncture, it’s all about “so, you’ve been in a pandemic, what do you do now?” The answer is, of course, panic. Which is why there’s not one roll of TP on the shelves. <sigh> Not minimizing the severity of this-it seems to have a pretty high death rate, at least among old and sick people. And we’re not even 3 months in-so I’m working from home for now. Not much else-politics is much the same-we’re beginning Spring, DST, but still cold out. I need to sell stuff and go through my white bin.

Saturday morning, sitting in bed and making rice. Pretty quiet-w/o last night-lightened the load a bit, less deep on t’ai chi. Got work done, pretty decent… S got a new bed, living room is still a mess-hopefully this weekend.

Monday on the train to work. Busy weekend-shop, libe, laundry, put up blinds, stuff into the outside closet, no church, w/o. We’re planning the week’s meals. More genealogy-tracked back to more English royalty. S has a temp and is staying home-E wants to finish up her room and the living room.

Tuesday morning, trying to do stuff. We’re short of $$$ this week, but there’s a cushion. I want to keep the budgetary discipline and save more. We’ll see. It would be awesome to keep moving $ to savings, and maybe to Fidelity! Wish me luck… Coronavirus is causing market panic-maybe I don’t want to be in the market until everything hits bottom. I’d like to buy a house, too, so I need a down payment. Plus also retirement savings, but that’s next…or never. I’ve resigned myself to working until I die.

Thursday morning in scrum. All online, so I can skive…busy working, getting stuff done. Filed for TA, laundry, keeping stuff tidy. Short on ca$h for the next week too. E did drive by Ash Wednesday at church-got on the local news. Back to regular weights on w/o-I think I’ll start back to regular routines rather than the cut down one-I’m not as injured as I was… Afternoon-E is in the ER-we’ll see.

Friday morning-waiting for scrum. E had right side pain, but nothing wrong, so they gave her pills and we were gone in time to pick up M from the train. Got S from a classmates’, then got dinner. E is supposed to eat lightly. She has a neurologists appointment this morning.

A week has passed. It’s Friday morning again, on the scrum. Worked from home this week, because of the coming plague. Wait, it’s just an outbreak of bat flu. So, not much the last week-we think E had a pulled muscle, the neuro thing went well. S has ADHD, but a mild case. Good w/o’s, church, M and C are fine, C had an interview with GameStop. Not much else. Shopping, tidy-the house is staying that way because I’m home. I do a few minutes here and there-going through my boxes, white bin next, need to sell my extra stuff.

Monday, noonish. Sitting in sprint planning meeting #2. Pretty mellow working from home-S’ alarm didn’t go off and she came in at 8:08 and woke us up-had to hurry and get lunch made. Quiet weekend too-w/o-started back on the regular routines, tidy, shopping, no church, thing, binz-picked up 2 pairs of shoes-hightop Chucks and Clark’s desert boots. $180 worth of shoes for $20. Cleaned, fixed up, looks nice!

Links/viddys-brighter side:

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “Getting all anxious about them, or about the possibility of what might happen, was embarrassing.” The Nordic Theory of Everything.

Please tip the writer. Whatever amount you like-every little bit helps, and I’ll do a shoutout. We are always short of cash, especially with a big mortgage. Let me know if you or someone you know needs web design/development-my rates aren’t bad, and I’m more than pretty good at it. Java/database/AWS/UI too. ThankYouVeryMuch!

Hi, it’s me again. Back for another installment in “my exciting life”. Woo-hoo. See whining below. News summary-no conviction, authoritarianism to follow, coronavirus, Brexit, primaries (more to follow), Boy Scouts are bankrupt-sex abuse lawsuits… There’s a current events portal on Wikipedia-handy. Not really much else, trying to stay afloat, keep house tidy, save some money. As always, need to carve out some time to be creative, learn stuff. In other words, same ol’. See you next time.

Haven’t touched this last Monday. Not surprising-I’ve had much longer hiatuses…12/01-4/04 for example… Since I don’t have an audience, it really doesn’t matter. Eventually something will happen and I’ll get noticed, if only for longevity. Whatever. Anyone who’s been doing it as long as I have and hasn’t been recognized, probably doesn’t care about recognition. Since that’s probably only me and maybe a very few others…I guess I’m still saying whatever, but passive aggressively.

Ok, so sour grapes aside, another completely typical week. Except for a visit to one of E’s friends for a Super Bowl party, where we didn’t watch it. Ate, drank (M made drinks-he went to the liquor store for the first time), and played games. I fiddled with an acoustic for a while too. Worked out before, which was odd. S’s teacher’s daughter spent the night. Not much else, the usual try to keep the house tidy-E worked a lot on organizing her stuff, I finally put the Xmas stuff in the outside closet. Church, shop, M did some driving at the cemetery. He drank straight whiskey for the first time and hated it.

Weds. afternoon, busy. Figured one thing out, two others require changes, one is a moving target. Anyways, not much else-good w/o last night, C needs to gain weight. Short of $$$ this week.

Friday morning, trying to get stuff complete. E’s computer had a bad memory chip-had to take it completely apart, pulled the chip, works now, only broke one component…E did a bunch of purging. I just need to sell some stuff and repair 2 instruments for sale.

Monday afternoon, in a meeting-many meetings today. I got most things done Friday, and a mess that I fixed. Quiet weekend-shop, binz, clean, laundry, good w/o’s, a thing. No church. E is pretty close to getting all her stuff organized-I did a bit in the closet, but I need to go through my white bin some time. There’s a lot of stuff I want to do, if I have time. Want a new laptop, and E needs one too.

Tuesday, late morning. Now noon. Pretty quiet-getting things done. Keeping things clean-laundry last night, E is really getting rid of a lot-she moved my books. Practiced a little last night-went through my rolling music suitcase and put stuff into the Pod bag. I need to test out the cheap amp I have with the Pod. The rolling suitcase is now too big-if I get the stuff on my wishlist, probably not then.

This. It may be behind a pay wall, but it basically says that we’ve squandered our opportunity to make the world a better place. ‘Ya think? Known that for a long time… Foreign affairs is a good list to subscribe to, if you’re interested in politics and foreign policy. Stratfor too.

Saturday in be. Messed up my back yesterday. Need to get up and make breakfast and coffee. Sunday morning in bed, back still hurts…not nearly as bad as I’ve done before. Being in better shape helps, I guess. No w/o, no housework. Ripped cds and tried to fix E’s laptop again-gave up-pulled the hdd-we’ll get an enclosure for it.

Wednesday noon. Waiting for a job to finish and deployment config, specs on another. Back is largely better-skipped w/o again. Off Monday, shop, E’s chiropractor app’t, laundry, tidy-living room is a mess, as E & S are redoing her room, and everything is piled in the living room-the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom are tidy…I’m going to call this.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “This is surpassingly ironic because the software industry has long cherished its self-image as a pure meritocracy.” Coders.

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It’s another week and another week after that, and on and on. Nothing has really changed. Though if you subscribe to certain cosmologies, the entire universe is destroyed and created every instant. I need to get on some of my new practice/study/etc. stuff-not easy when you do a lot of housework. Politics continues its mess, Kobe Bryant and Neil Peart died (that was tough), coronavirus is causing stress. Maybe I should make this section a quick news summary too…

I’ve been slacking on this, but it’s not like anything new is going on. I am, however, getting my contract extended, which is nice-I was ramping up the search, and worrying.

Anyways, I’ve been skiving on keeping the house clean, so this weekend is busy picking up the piles of stuff that have accumulated, and keeping the kitchen clean. I’ve fully moved to my little black book for keeping track of things.

Monday, noon. Busy doing stuff. Got the house cleaned up, except for Xmas stuff back to the closet, and a pile in our room. Need to do more laundry, and E needs to put them away. She did get rid of a bunch of stuff. I need to rip a bunch of cds. I also bought a Pod HD400 for cheap-it’s cherry and sounds great. C got my Pod XT-he wants a guitar.

Weds. morning. Trying to finish up this requirements heavy program. Pretty mellow other than that-good w/o, though I sped up T’ai Chi so I could pick up M. He has new boots and they’re stiff. S is busy on a project about Sweden. Not much else-trying to stay on top of things.

Friday morning, trying to get things done for sprint end. M’s birthday was yesterday-we’re going to Gaffers tonight to celebrate-just us over 21 year olds. Not much else-keeping the house reasonably clean-E still hasn’t put away her clothes… Finished up “Fall”-long, but a fast read. Compelling, if you like your SF mixed up with your fantasy…

Monday morning-in sprint meetings. Fun. Pretty quiet weekend-Gaffers with M Friday night, the usual clean-no vacuum though, shop, no church. Went to Ikea with M and S, drove around looking at pet snails. M wants to make Moscow Mules with lingonberry syrup for Super Bowl party at friends’.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “After that, young Richard had overcompensated for his earlier naïveté by becoming hypervigilant to its onset in family members of even modest decrepitude.” Fall, or Dodge in Hell.

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so it’s been about a month. 2020 is here. The Christmas season is always busy, with not a lot of time for posts, and it’s not like I have a big following. it’s really the usual-work, home, etc. politics is still just a disastrous shitshow. The House impeached the orange menace, but that’s all. He’s flailing like a drowning man in the middle of the ocean, doing anything to distract. I have no idea how it will all end, but you can bet it won’t end well. Anyways, onwards.

Monday afternoon-had a yummy leftover lunch-no sugarrrr. E made a yummy peach cobbler from oatmeal leftovers yesterday-I’ve been doing the usual Japanese rice and oatmeal for weekend breakfasts, so… We did have Biscuits yesterday, and more biscuits when we got the brakes done last week, plus also yummy cider.

Weds. noon. Working through QA stuff-not my specialty… Got a lot done at home last night-kitchen, laundry, tidy. S had a hard time getting to sleep.

Friday, mid-morning. Getting QA done. E did a bunch of purging and the house is messy. I did get laundry and kitchen done. She also picked me up a work, even though I told her not to-it took us a loooong time to get home. Friday on the way home. Got stuff done, but it was a struggle. Glad for the weekend. Not sure I can work out…

Noon on Monday. Getting stuff done. A pretty normal weekend-no w/o because my adductor is still sore. Went to the hot tub with E-she messed up her leg. Went to Cha-cha-cha for dinner, shop. The usual, delivered wreaths to old church, church Sun., Menchies, home, laundry, kitchen, a little tidy and prep for Christmas-not really motivated to do much more. Thought about getting a massage, but the place where I’m sore is mighty intimate… E got us new silicone rings.

Weds. night-chilling on the bed. Worked out last night, pretty mellow. Still having twinges in my leg. Didn’t sleep well last night. Getting work done, though. Not much else-doing laundry…

And it’s Monday, at work. Got one thing solved Fri. Busy weekend-w/o Fri. & Sun.-still sore, so walking and super basic routine, there are a few t’ai chi moves that aren’t fun, and some stretches too. Class meeting Sat., church Sun., and cleaning-the house is back to decent. The car…not so much. The usual shop, S went to Tiffany with E & classmates for a gift, then to Peacock Lane. S’s Christmas present, not a thing, but not for lack of desire. Need to get a flu shot. Watched Dr. Strange Sat. night.

And after a week, it’s Christmas Day. Didn’t get anything of interest. We did go to the binz and filled our stockings with fun stuff. Recap: work week was busy trying to get soap going-finally reverted to soap via web. Moved other stuff forward. W/o, shop, tidy, cleaned the car, pretty usual stuff. Working from home this week.

Haven’t picked this up since, well, Christmas. And now it’s the week after New Year’s. And not much happened-quiet at work, M got a job, C quit his. M & S are back in school, a tree fell outside our building. Not much else out of the ordinary. At least in our small lives. The new library opens today. I’m going to call this-I started a new book and got my small journal begun. I abandoned the Coptic bound one as too bulky-going with a small Moleskine type instead.

Links/viddys-brighter side:. Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “A few had grown up in their suburbs as children, left for college and careers, and decided to come back.”, Radical Suburbs.

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It’s after Thanksgiving, and I’m dreading the holidays. M is the same way. Other than that, pretty smooth sailing-need to find out whether I need to start looking for a new job. Left our church, busy at work, etc. And politics is the usual horrendous mess. Reading Burroughs.

Thursday, afternoon. Getting stuff done. Out of $$$, glad it’s Thursday.

Saturday afternoon. Not wanting to do stuff that needs to be done.

Thursday, trying to get stuff done-slow going. Thursday, bedtime. Not enough got done. I did get my book binding done-not a bad job… Recap-quiet week-skipped Tuesday w/o-school meeting-bad stuff. C locked his keys in the car. The usual otherwise.

Weds. of the next week! noon. Getting stuff done. Pretty much the usual otherwise-S had 2 really loose teeth pulled, got the house cleaned over the weekend, chat with Mom, a thing. Not much else-impeachment hearings, global protests. I’m reading the Foreign Affairs emails. I decided to do most stuff on my phone now-I have to get the big book started-planning that. I want to get my storage unit available online so I can push/pull it.

Sunday, in church. Now Monday. Now Wednesday. Now Thanksgiving. Maybe I’ll write something later. “the story of life” is really weird, but the last page is glorious.

Monday, back at work. Pretty busy last few days, but got nothing much done around the house, so it’s a mess. I think I’ll call this after a recap.

So, recap. It’s been a while, but here goes… Got stuff done at work, but not everything. Thanksgiving at school friends’, ate so much. Lazy Friday-w/o…skated with S Sat., pulled my left adductors-ouch. New church Sun., no w/o because of pain. Shopping, that’s about it. C is working at Walmart. Our new library is done-opening in Jan. Need to switch to long sleeve work shirts.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

No big deal; just a guy playing fetch with a beluga whale… 😮 pic.twitter.com/PdSNgVABIu

— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) November 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/slendersherbet/status/1193114570707128321?s=21

Here's more footage of MIT's Mini Cheetahs cavorting, frolicking, back-flipping, playing soccer and generally acting fun and cute, courtesy of the Biomimetic Robotics Lab @MITMechE #robots #robotics pic.twitter.com/8ZQzDvCDVW

— Robot&AIWorld (@RobotAndAIWorld) November 7, 2019

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “However, this does not mean you should only exercise every 3 days.”, A Man’s Guide to Healthy Aging, “a new life has begun “, the story of life.

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OK, here’s the ever fascinating blog entry summary, where I describe my mood and how much politics and the world sucks. Got nothing in the brighter side links, which sort of tells it all right there. It’s all just a huge mess, and I’m tired, so nothing here other than yuck.

Monday after lunch-I’m starting to drag-didn’t sleep well last night. Work stuff is getting done, though.

Tuesday afternoon. Getting through stuff. Slow going, though. One thing is done as far as I’m concerned. Starting blind on another. I think I have my mini task book figured out-mini book to license plate book. Transfer all my other books to that. Keep art and music separate, art in my small Coke Moleskine, music in the book on the Kronos.

Wednesday morning. Not much-cleaning up some stuff. Good w/o last night. Not much else-watched drone racing instead of practicing. Practice tonight? Hopefully-there are a few tasks that need to get done, but nothing huge. Again, no TV is the key.

Thursday afternoon-I have a new IOS WordPress editor-slick! Working through new code. Diwali lunch-yummy!

Saturday morning, in bed. This WP editor is so nice. Not much-should go to school and help, but…didn’t-just not up for it. Busy Friday, skipped lunch, good W/O, no M. S’s guest left early. Not a lot else.

Monday, noon. Pretty quiet weekend, tidy, vacuum, w/o, church-E gave a sermon. S has a fort-like thing in the living room-slept there-it fell in on her last night. Played my guitar yesterday when no one was home. I have an incredibly sweet sounding rig: ’72 SG + Pod XT + ’52 Deluxe Tweed = Buttah! The Pod is a little brittle sounding, but decent for my use-I’d rather have an HD500 or a Helix, but, no $$$…and I kinda wanna Gecho more. Dave Mustaine from Megadeth is selling a lot of his gear-subscribing to the “you can’t take it with you” approach-got me thinking about what gear I really need.

I think I have my organization plan set-making a coptic bound book for carrying, everything else gets transferred to the license plate journal. Have everything except covers for the book-not sure what to use for that-heavy cardboard? E got me a book at the binz…gonna pull the cover and go from there. I’m thinking zentangled front, black back, accordion pocket on the inside back cover.

So, Tuesday noonish. Getting stuff done at work. Very windy and cold this morning. A streetcar derailed at PSU.

Thursday morning, my changes are in and I have the dev/buld/deploy/test cycle down. I still don’t quite have the test data bits so I can call/verify. Anyways, good w/o Tues., but my shoulder still can’t take weight. Been cold and windy, but dry, so I can wear leather and stay warm.

Friday morning, I think I’ll call this. I have to rewrite all of one of the things I did this week-frustrating, that. Anyways-Halloween last night-M had a suit and put on the Barong mask when kids came to the door. S went with school friends, and I had to pick her up in posh town at 11. So, to bed late-I’ll probably be dragging this afternoon. Lucky only a few people are here.

Links/viddys-brighter side: . Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “He felt a great burden and responsibility as well.”, Blood of the Cosmos.

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Mid-October, not much going on-S is excited for Halloween, and politics rolls on. Is there the inevitable end? I have no idea. Our little local life is largely unchanged. Not much to say other than that-the usual recounting of an exciting life, I guess. This will be fun to re-read when I’m old.

Friday afternoon, a few more things to do, and that’s it. Fridays are nice, wearing a floral shirt, sneakers, jeans, not a lot of people here. Got my task list for the weekend done as well-I like this process. Not getting a ton done, but at least I’m noting stuff.

Monday morning, on a call, but not involved. Pretty mellow weekend-cleaned, but not a lot else. Good workouts, but still laying off arms. E went to Ikea, C drove. He also drove Sunday to a show in North-Kenton, right next to the Masonic hall we played a gig at 2 years ago. Waited around, thought about a thing, didn’t, he got a ride home. Church Sun., that’s about it. Had a nice lunch today at the Bistro Petit Oiseau with my recruiter (and it’s closing!).

Tuesday, almost time to go home.Another busy day-got a thing untangled. Get this all checked in and tested in dev. Not much else-quiet last night, w/o tonight.

Weds, forgot my lunch, so Whole Bowl. Gonna meet M somewhere. Good w/o-ran, and I don’t feel creaky today! Good balance on t’ai chi too, but still lifting on legs only.

Thursday afternoon, watching a guy set up my stuff. We swamped the email server with a production run that generated an email for each row insert failure, and there were 30,000…ack. At least it was just our team.

Friday, after lunch. Looks like my entry got vanished. Got a thing figured out, finishing up stuff. Wrote down the plan page. I think I’ll snag a comp book for artist’s way stuff-we’ll see if I can do it.

Monday afternoon, almost time to go. I’m tired-got to bed at 12:30. E is sick. Other than that, pretty quiet weekend-w/o both Fri. and Sun., M didn’t on Fri.-gaming club. Tidied Sat., no church, C sold his amp & we drove there-he’s a pretty decent driver now. Shopping-made Chinese last night from frozen. Loaded up my phone with music-just pulled all the familiar stuff-no “one tune from each album”-takes up a quarter the size. Need to do stuff this week, rather than jelly. We’ll see-I have laundry to do tonight, if I don’t turn on the TV I might be able to get in some time. I think that’s the key…no TV.

Monday morning, not as tired as I was earlier-thanks, caffeine! It’s been a week since I wrote this. Much the same, C has his license and we have to pay $189 more for insurance, AND his gf’s car has a check engine light… This weekend, I practiced a bit, got E’s laundry done and tidied up her stuff on my side of the room, then covered it with a sheet. Also did some laptop setup for WordPress, node and Che-I think I overloaded it. Good w/o’s. House is clean. I think I’ll call this.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

https://twitter.com/ANDREW1ALBERTT/status/1182424380753756160?s=20

https://twitter.com/zonephysics/status/1182665101419126787?s=21

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “Images fill the well.”, The Artist’s Way.

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It’s fall, and very much fall here-trees losing their leaves, rain, chilly. We all like this weather-reminds me of growing up in Cleveland. I’ve been daydreaming about alternate life paths, one of which is not getting a job in London, getting one in Cleveland, buying my parents’ house when they left for L.A., and how that would play out. All sorts of dreams to remodel the house and property…marrying Judy… Anyways, a good way to fall asleep, daydreaming about that sort of stuff, and the things. Life goes on, day after day. Politics and global events are certainly fun-I’ve been reading articles from Foreign Affairs, much like I used to read Stratfor. I’m also getting daily emails from NY Times and Oregon Live so I’m keeping up, but trying not to let it infect my life-been there, blogged about it. I should pepper this with links, just because-done.

Weds., mid-morning. Got one thing done-woo-hoo! Light w/o yesterday-my shoulder is bothering me, so just bike, legs, stretch and t’ai chi. We’re trying to slow down our legs in t’ai chi. And one push move really makes my shoulder pop, plus any reaching. Gonna message the doctor-no response-just not doing arms.

Thursday morning. I’ve been waking up early, going back to sleep, and waking up to the alarm. This is hard. I retired one of my hats-a kippah from a Jewish store in Costa Mesa-had it for many years. Not much else-watched the new South Park. Otherwise, the usual…tidy, kitchen, dinner, laundry, TV.

And it’s Friday! Woo-hoo! Nothing planned, but it’s nice to not have to get up early. Time to write down weekend tasks. I should set aside time for practice and thinking/writing. Like it’ll happen. If I don’t veg out in front of the TV, it might. Starting back on cold weather weekend breakfasts-bagels in the summer, crock pot oatmeal and Japanese style rice with veg & bonito flakes in the winter. Almost lunch-got the task writing done-I love this pocket-sized notebook-trying to figure out what to do with all the notebook type bits I have. S is going to Opal Creek next week for outdoor school, so I think we’ll spend the weekend getting prepped for that. Time to go.

Monday, noon. Busy weekend, got stuff done, and S prepared for outdoor camp. Still doing light workouts. Watched Avengers: Endgame-a fine ending to Phase 3. Picked up C & J from separate shows(!) And it’s been cold, so winter breakfasts were nice. And we made Cincinnati chili from a package. Not enough spaghetti, and we thickened the sauce, so not the real thing. It was a pumpkin spice chili package-we dropped the pumpkin, but it worked great for Cinci…

Thursday, late afternoon, I think I’m cooked. The usual sort of week, but quieter because S is gone. Skipped w/o on Tues., had an MSG loaded lunch and snack, felt odd and ill. Got a few things done. Busy at work. Need to reload my phone with music-deleted everything to put IOS 13 on there-iTunes was a bastard. Reading a pretty good SF book.

Friday morning-in a meeting. I think I’ll call this. S got back yesterday, was very tired. Everything else is going fine. M is back at school, C is driving more.

Trying to stay away from politics, but this: “A Category Error”.

Links/viddys-brighter side: nothing-didn’t really look hard. Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “He constructed an elaborate glass beehive, outfitted like a palace with tiny decorations.”, In the Land of Invented Languages, “However, as soon as he has made a decision, the Warrior proceeds: He has no doubts about his chosen action, nor does he change direction if circumstances turn out differently from how he had imagined them.”, Warrior of the Light, “That was where human intuition-and theory-came in.”, Revelation Space.

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Here’s the “end of post” thoughts. I think I’m starting to shift. A new job, thinking about ways to organize things, I don’t know-time will tell this tale. Anyways, maybe it’s reflective of larger societal shifts-young activists, old people fucking things beyond all recognition, don’t know.

Thurs. afternoon. Time for lunch. Got a thing fixed, trying to get another finished. And I think I have it. Need to renew our lease-they didn’t send M and I our online renewal link. (it was in spam) Got E’s done.

Friday, noon. Pretty quiet here-just the sound of the HVAC. Trying to get things done before the sprint end, but no one is around to help me out. Lunchtime-got some of it. Made a small booklet for recording tasks, shopping, etc.

Monday, noon. Busy doing stuff. Monday, after lunch. Cramming a late task in. Pretty lazy weekend-got 1/3 of my tasks done, but all the top ones. I hurt my shoulder at some point-if I reach for something it hurts, but not all the time. Skipped w/o Sun. E went & got the car serviced Sat., usual after that. Church Sun., C did some driving. He’s fine, except for rolling through stop signs.

Tuesday, mid-morning. Working through stuff. Have an app’t up the hill about the sleep study. Back. “Mild apnea”-a nice set of charts indicate that I snore when I’m lying on my back. I could get a thing to stop me from sleeping on my back or a mouth thing like E has, or a CPAP, or surgery. Don’t know how I’ll go.

Page 23, sentence 5: “Kids have debated this question for ages.”, Unbored Games

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Monday morning, at work. Not much to do right now-waiting for task assignment, drinking coffee, folding cranes-I have all of them from when I was off work. Week end was as usual. Good w/o’s-I think I’m going to stop running completely-I’m just too achy the day after-bike and elliptical don’t do that. Tidied a little Sat., binz, libe, driving practice with both C & M-C missed seeing a turning car-luckily the car was going slow and saw C. Otherwise both are doing fine-C drove home last night. Church Sun., home, lazy, rainy. S was up late, will suffer today.

Weds., noonish. Trying to get things done, not happening. Good w/o-M only did t’ai chi-he’s stressed and didn’t eat much. Sleep study last night-woke up a bunch. Didn’t do much else-no tidying-C drove home a few times.

Thurs. afternoon-got new stuff to work on as the other stuff is blocked. Onwards. Not much else. Need a thing-not sure when that will happen-gamelan is indeterminate. Anyways. Yesterday was 9/11. Yeah, so that.

Friday morning, just out of the scrum. Now Friday noonish, got stuff done, but am blocked on the rest. Access issues-just don’t have all of them. Now after lunch-glad it’s Friday, though I’m behind. More politics-I must not let this blog descend into political commentary-it’s just too messy and crazy-making, but this.

Sat. evening, watching tv-face/off. Pretty quiet day-dishes, laundry, bins, libe, shop, dinner.

Monday afternoon, busy with SQL stuff. Skipped church Sun., lazy, shop, picked up C from Happy Valley and he drove home. W/o, dinner, bed, up this morning.

Wednesday listening to the scrum. Busy yesterday revising stuff. Watched ANW finale in Monday. One more today, and that should be it. I need to get back to my main task. Good w/o last night, tidy, kitchen too. Yummy dinner-I like burritos. Comes from eating Mexican and Chinese food from a very, very early age-in an alternate reality, my parents would’ve been beatniks. I’m an old hand with chopsticks for the same reason. If I had my way, I’d eat Chinese food every day. A wok and a rice cooker, that’s it-bowls and chopsticks. I think I’ll call it-started on another book, and that’s usually my signal to post. What’s the title?

Links/viddys-brighter side:

https://twitter.com/humorandanimals/status/1170351803923406851?s=21

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “If we settle for cheap or poor design, we pay the price.”, L’art de la Simplicité

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Pretty quiet Weds. night-brie & pâté for dinner, S went to a joint birthday party and just got back sunburned, updated my portrait animation, uploading to storage unit. Need to sit at the keyboard (didn’t happen-picked up C instead). Maybe tomorrow (if I’m not too wiped out). We need to paint S’s classroom this weekend.

I only rarely post political stuff (I used to), but this is a pretty cogent analysis: The President as Pimple.

Thursday first thing. Very tired-there was an electrical storm at 3, lasted for a good half-hour. One bolt was very close. I got up on time this morning, but bleh-really tired. Mid-Thurs., I’m dragging. Getting stuff done, but my brain is super foggy. Took an aspirin, had some chocolate-helped a bit, but I have a recurring tension headache too, hence the aspirin. Time to go.

Friday morning. Long weekend. Paid bills. Not horrendous, feeling OK, but that could be the coffee talking. I’m choosing to ignore all the bad stuff happening in the wider world. Going to paint the classroom tonight.

Tuesday noon. Back at work after Labor Day. Pretty mellow weekend-painted the classroom Friday, checked Sat, lazy-shop, took S to friends’, church Sun., pulled tape at school, tidy with M on Mon., S& E went to school for finishing up, no w/o at all during the weekend. Watched hurricane coverage-big, stalled out right on top of the Bahamas. Looks like it’s heading north now.

Weds. morning, very tired, on a scrum call. E fell off a chair at school last night while putting up drapes and hit her elbow on a bench. We spent the evening in the ER-nothing broken. Home, clean up, shower, so not in bed until 12:30. Woke up a few times-E realized she hurt her ankle too, and is achy all over. Good w/o, though, and dinner was yummy too.

Thursday, coming up on noon. Finishing up my stuff. E is still messed up from her fall. Pretty quiet otherwise-thinking about life and what the point is. Anyways, time for a “break”…and lunch, and my stuff is done. Dreamed about Stacey Royster…Woke up very cold, rolled over into the comforter and right back to sleep-aaaah, fall is coming. The storm is moving up the Atlantic coast, and the Bahamas got flattened. Went through one of those in the 80’s when I was living in the Cayman Islands-Gilbert, so I know from storms.

Friday, morning, listening to live gamelan-Pujangga Laras doing an 1000 day memorial. A sublime Jineman Kandheg. Not much else-signed up for benefits, but I’m not sure it took-need to check. I think I’ll call this-at about a week tempo. Need to practice-just keep having chores and laziness get in the way. Refactored a bit-missed two things and put in batch inserts, a few more changes as well.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

https://twitter.com/jerrypleasure/status/1167331028186234880?s=21

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “Composed of molecules called amino acids, which are the building blocks of life, proteins play a major role in every cell in the body.”, The only 127 things you need, “As members complete the Steps, Personal Power Cards are awarded (explained in Part Two, Step 6 of this book).”, The Change Your Life Challenge

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Friday afternoon, still sitting. Paid some bills-more to come to get caught up-probably be mid-September before I’m done. Trying to keep the house clean. Need to pick up my new bike-probably the 14th, buy gear the week before. Getting through books-lots on my library list, lots at home. Practicing instruments needs to happen too. I’d like to get an inventory as well.

Monday, noon. Pretty quiet weekend-good w/o Fri. & Sun., cleaning & dishes and laundry got done. Not much else-binz, no church. E has pain issues. S was up late last night.

Wednesday-I think I’ll call it today. It’s been very hot, busy at work. Good w/o-M helped with negatives. I think running messes me up for a day-my hips are sore and I’m generally achy that day after. Anyways, not much else, politics is a mess, everything else is just time moving forward. S has her shared birthday party today-not a good day for it. She get upset really easily these days when she doesn’t get her way. Boys are fine.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

Me, with my friends kids that I can give back in an hour. pic.twitter.com/iJKQ9L0Bqh

— Michelle Bhasin (@michellebhasin) August 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/mr_meowwwgi/status/1165172855778230273?s=21

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “Baah?!”, The Alchemist, “Reluctantly, he got in the car.”, The Shaolin Way.

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Friday afternoon, pretty quiet. Getting stuff done. Time to go home.

Monday noon, not much going on. Waiting on specs. Quiet weekend-good w/o’s, t’ai chi, shopping, church, not much else. Got a new pair of shoes. Got S a new ukulele for her birthday. Didn’t do much cleaning either-just sort of laid around.

Tuesday, noon, again. Trying to test stuff, not perfect. Pretty normal stuff last night-dinner, laundry, dishes, etc. Woke up 6ish, a bit tired right now. Writing tests. S’s birthday party got postponed.

Wednesday, noon. Pretty mellow-working on jUnit testing. S had friends over yesterday, got sunburned. Good w/o, but M hurt his shoulder, so no help with negatives. Shorter duration t’ai chi, balance was a bit off. My hips are a little achy today. S slept in our closet. Didn’t clean or do anything else, so the kitchen is a bit of a mess, and there’s random stuff all over the house-need to do all of that this evening plus laundry. No gamelan-don’t know when we’ll restart, as Mindy is pregnant. Also need to Sno-Seal my new shoes. The problem is that I have a limited amount of energy, and work sucks all of it up, so I make and eat dinner, then lay around until bed, AND I’m going to bed late and waking up early, which doesn’t help. Plus also not much gets done by anyone else-I’m really the only one who consistently cleans up. Need to update the “me over time” slideshow-I have my id picture… Oregon changed their tax policy-woo-hoo!

And here it is, Thursday afternoon. Busy, well, not busy. Going to get paid to learn about the environment. No worries-hopefully something will come up (and it did). Cleaned up last night-kitchen, living room, a load of laundry. S slept in the closet again.

Links/viddys. brighter side:

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 21, sentence 5: “Shorter strings or pipe organ tubes had their tops closer to the ground, so these were called the “low” notes (as in “low to the ground,”) and the longer strings and tubes-reaching up toward Zeus and Apollo-were called the “high” notes.”, This is Your Brain on Music

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Maybe I should do this more often. I was doing it daily-ish for awhile, but ran out of stuff to say, or things going on. Guess I’m either not exciting or not wordy. Or both. I need to practice my musical instruments more than I need to do this. And stop watching TV. Wish me luck. Didn’t happen.

Tuesday morning, still waiting on stuff. And it’s time to go, and still a moving target. Writing designs, things change, write them again. We’ll see.

Wednesday am, still waiting on access. Have good solid designs-I think I’ll write code, in the absence of concrete anything. Good w/o last night-change of paces are tough, t’ai chi was good too. M is working hard as well.

Thursday morning. I finally got to the database through IntelliJ-Toad failed at this…I should get in touch with Debbie, who still works there. No matter-I have code written, and can look at the database now. Pretty quiet at home-C went to a party with kids from his Micha’el 8th grade class. My arms and chest are sore-hard workout on Tues. I’m having trouble with sitting for long periods-my chair is broken and low, and the bus and train aren’t much better. Both of my work shoes need gluing. Totally out of $$$-glad payday is tomorrow.

Friday noon-I think I’m going to call this-weekly posting schedule? Maybe. Things are moving forward. Got paid, but lots of bills, so I need to figure out what to do. Paycheck will likely disappear very quickly. Not much else-just hanging out at home. Paid a few, had to change renters insurance, need to revisit two of them.

Links/viddys. brighter side: I saw one on Twitter with a teacher taking in a disabled former student. Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “”You look tired,” she says, but that’s not an invitation for me to tell her my woes.”, Way Down Dark

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Monday afternoon-time for lunch. Not getting anything done. Well, a few things, but not the core bits. Tired-been having trouble sleeping. Opinion of the day: men shouldn’t wear shorts unless they’re sportsing or at the beach or it’s very hot. Little boys wear shorts. I’m not the only one.

Tuesday, almost lunch. Spent the morning doing compliance training and nosing through git. Pretty quiet, waiting for actual tasks. I should go back to writing down my dreams-dreamed about kissing a girl… A guy from DTNA checked in on me. Not much else-easy commute, short on $$$. Tip, please. Tired of all the shootings and political messes and immigration BS.

Weds., late morning, meetings, trying to figure out what’s going on. Some young “lady” at the gym last night didn’t understand working in-I waited and waited and waited and finally exploded-need to have management clarify rules about hogging machines. Slept badly-hot and kept waking up. Weds. afternoon, ate lunch with a Micha’el dad who works here.

I don’t normally post political stuff anymore, but this from 2017.

Friday morning, scrum by Skype, four meetings. Pretty mellow-should get real stuff to do next week. Updated things on my website.

Monday-I now have tasks, but the code is nowhere yet. We’ll see. Pretty mellow weekend-cleaned the house, the usual. Good workouts, binz, etc. C to/from a show at the Hawthorne. Boys need to practice driving.

Links/viddys. brighter side: I saw one with a swarm of puppies tackling a little boy, a couple of others. Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “This collective outcome, in which a system manifests significantly different characteristics from those resulting from simply adding up all of the contributions of its individual constituent parts, is called an emergent behavior.”, Scale