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Monday at work-so, so tired. Maybe coffee will help. Not enough.

OK, so to recap: Fri., finished work, easy home, no gamelan party. Sat., lazy, cleaned a little, don’t remember anything else. Sun., church, sold the TX, libe, Fry’s, Sonic, shop. It’s still snowy and icy, mostly because the temps have stayed low. Rainy today and warmer. Easy in-changed my route a bit-only one switch, same time. I might have to work part of next week-this is not a bad thing. New route home-missed the bus, so major pain. Dinner, M to thing, S to bed. Wash, rinse, repeat. Tue., same thing-the route home was a mess-everything running oddly. Dinner, S to bed, bed. Weds., see Tues. Took my regular route home, much less lateness. Dinner, S to bed, bed. Working through my past dream journal-currently in ’96-have to go to ’90-long slog.

Dreamed about alien visitation last night-contact, no communication-all I said was my name, didn’t hear anything. There was a little gray alien in a column of light that I assume was a transport device. I used to have these “plane crashing, aliens visit” dreams about once a month-now they’re sporadic. I think it’s more to do with higher worlds trying to connect with my waking consciousness rather than straight alien visitations, but who knows with dreams?

So, home, dinner, S to bed, bed. Woke up early, left early, to work early. Finally got the official work reorg and…nothing really changes except my boss’ boss. Left early after a nice chat with a co-worker. Home, dinner at Izzy’s, drive around, ice cream, home, S to bed. Tired, then not. Up, hang out drinking coffee, tidy, laundry, church, fondue, S to bed. Up late, S got us up at 7, opened presents, clothes for me, church, beignets, tidy, nap, dinner, S to bed. Moved my pi wordpress to the x10 site.  Watched the last Harry Potter and the extras. Up late, sleep in, hang out, tidy a little, line, shop, Whole Bowl, got some guitar references and a uke book for S. More last Harry Potter extras. Tue., fam visited Sally Showman, I cleaned, plus a little of my stuff. Dinner, movie. S to bed.

And we have the decorations out, but no tree yet. I think we have most of the presents for the kids.

Another weekend over. Pretty quiet-Fri. was home, S to bed, very tired. Asleep early. Sat., up, school meeting, E to hairdresser’s, S to friends’ and the Nutcracker. Libe, sat and read, get E, lunch at Pizzicato, browse, shop, bins, pick up S, dinner, S to bed, watch drone racing. Up Sun., skipped church, cleaned the house, watched more drone racing. E and S home, clean more-wash, vacuum, tidy, dishes, dinner, fold clothes, S to bed, and here we are. To bed late, up on time, to work, work, one of the people in our group is leaving. I discovered that E’s reading glasses work for my right eye only (my left eye is fine up close, bad long, and the right one is fine long), so I took out the left lens, and now reading, phone and computer screens are super crisp.

So, home, sis got us a Christmas gift that got recalled, dinner, S to bed, check out the Mirage (working great), laundry and dishes, bed. Up, missed bus, alternate route, work. Gonna snow tomorrow afternoon. Home, dinner, S to bed, laundry-really the same ‘ol…

And Weds. was awfully fun. Got to work, work, started snowing about 1ish. Left about 2:30, thought taking a different route home. Big. Mistake. When Portland gets snow, everything locks up, and in this case, everyone left for home at the same time-the map was a sea of red. I sat on a bus for an hour to get to downtown. Another hour to get to another bus. That bus went onto snow route, so I got off and walked to get another bus. Waited, and waited, so I walked. 3 miles in a snowstorm. Nice to have those crampons. The 3 mile walk was the shortest bit of the trip. It was nice, though, quiet, and I was properly dressed. Brought back memories of walking back from the Jadrych’s in high school. M likes it too. Saw one big crash at the bottom of a closed hill. And a jackknifed truck at the bottom of the hill by our apartment.

Working from home Thu., got the car from a friends’, shopped, home, work. The usual work from home. Going out to get a laptop for E-failed. It’s getting slushy. More work, dinner, S to bed. Woke up early, E was snoring, so no sleep. Easy in, snowy and icy, but crampons rock. Work.

I have a big list of things to do, and a gamelan party tonight.

So they said it was going to snow, but no snow. Well, maybe a little in the air, but mostly rain.

OK, so this weekend: clean, shop, church, libe. Quiet on Fri., made my bus. Cleaned Sat., E slept very late. Got the porch cleaned up-they sent us a nastygram. Pulled the xmas stuff out of the closet. Late up Sat., the thing. Church Sun., shop w/E, all over. Tired, so tired from shopping. Dinner, S to bed, work, bed, up today, no snow. Another work day, home, phone meeting, dinner, S to bed, laze, tidy, bed. Up again, another day, kind of restless, having trouble recalling my dreams-need to write them down right away.

OK, so Weds.-very cold, potluck at work-the container for the fruit salad opened all over the bottom of my bag and my pants. Aargh-had to clean it up. Work, potluck-ate too much. Hard to work, but got stuff done. E picked me up and it took an hour to get home. Gamelan-cleaning the room, drinking beer. Home, snack, bed. Up this morning, WFH. No snow until 11, then a bit, then more, then freezing rain. Got work done. Phone demo up next-done-everyone likes it. Dinner, S to bed, work on WP upgrade, changed theme. To bed, up-no school, S up early. Left early, just caught the bus, no train, got off to go to the 75, no 75, 33 to 99 to downtown, 77 cancelled, walked to the 15, just made it. E gave me crampon-like shoe slip-ons-like chains for your feet. They work great. No one else from my group is here. Got stuff done.

This is pretty cool. I like cool maps-for many years I had the State of World Atlas, they updated it, and need to do it again. I have a few things to do this weekend-the usual, but a few more, and I need to get to the tidying and pick up some books at the libe.

is barreling it’s way towards us. I have a week enforced holiday-hopefully there will be lots of snow so we can go to the mountain and ski. M and S want to learn.

Anyways, the president-elect is at it again with the Twitter, and is picking people to ruin the gov’t. The Greens are doing recounts in flipped states-like that means anything. I chatted with an old school friend this morning. I’m trying to sell all my extra music gear.
Yesterday was work, home, dinner, S to bed, computer, me to bed. Trying to diminish the number of unread printed things I have. Then on to the boxes of paper. Then more purging. I think I’m in good shape, and as the tidy lady says: first your stuff.

Hopefully I’ll end up with tidy-I read the tidying book, and maybe that will be a pointed stick. Getting rid of unused music stuff is a big start too, as it’s all consolidated into the Kronos, QY and guitar gear now. Better, because it’s all integrated and in one place-I can improve my piano, and have a place to record at the same time. The only thing left is a way to do sampling in the field-I have a 58, but it has to be attached to the Kronos-a portable recorder is in my future-Zoom or Tascam, Tascam or Zoom?

OK, so work, home, long phone meeting, S to bed, yummy dinner, bed. I wanted to practice piano, but no. Finished up 3 magazines, working on a Chinese philosophy book and one on Masonry. Up, work, home-missed bus, E on a thing, sold the QY for $40. S to bed, dinner, bed. Finished the t’ai chi book, halfway through the masonry book-it’s basically Anthro in Masonic form, written in 1922. Slowly making my way through the dream book.

“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss” The transition looks like a mess-they’re way behind Obama’s timeline.

So, gamelan on Fri., got the Kronos on Sat.-it’s a huge beast. 5 ft. wide and 50 pounds, but awesome. I’ve been playing it almost every night-want to up my piano skills. Another thing in Beaverton-the traffic on 99W was horrendous. Picked up E in the Hawthorne. Sun., church, picked up S in NW from musical practice. Got ice cream. Cleaning, shop. Mon., Tue. , Weds., gamelan, Thurs., Fri.-it’s all the same. Rainy and cold. E is under the weather.

A gamelan weekend-practice Fri. night, took E to a church thing Sat. AM, cleaning, pick E up, gamelan, pack, unpack, play, pack, unpack, party. E went to the ER with a hurting tummy during the gig, but nothing wrong. Slept in Sun., S to musical, musical, shop, dinner, sleep. Mon., work, home, dinner, fold clothes, read to S, sleep.

And now the long Thanksgiving weekend is over. No gamelan, quiet Weds., cleaning, quiet Thurs., talked to parents and sister, went through boxes, purged a few things, but not much. Shop Fri., Fry’s, rainy. Xmas craft fair Sat., no church Sun., picked up a few more presents in Gresham with E, shop, home dinner, S to bed, some work, bed, woke up a bunch, didn’t write down dreams. Up today, to work. Thinking about getting back into Anthro exercises and work on InnerDev, T’ai Chi too? We’ll see.

Really. I guess the big news is that we now have a vulgar buffoon liar con artist for president, who has never held public office. He stiffs his contractors/workers and files lawsuits at the drop of a hat. Don’t get me started on the sexual harassment allegations and actual admissions of guilt. And that just not my opinion. That’s what the NY elite have called him for years-he’s anathema in the high social circles he failed for years to break into. Multiple people who have worked with him say the same, and some of it is on tape. Now he’s in the White House-what a disaster the next four years are going to be. I have no idea what’s going to happen, but it can’t be good. And how much of a mess is going to need to be cleaned up, I have no idea either-we’re definitely going to be going backwards-the reactionaries have won. And Hill got the popular vote, but not the electoral one. Second time in 16 years, and 110 year gap between the last two times. Here’s the voting map with %’s-purple means evenly divided. It’s definitely more red/blue polarized than last time, especially in the Midwest. It’s “vote for the outsider” time, even though he is about as much of an outsider as Hill is.

2016: 2012:(sourced from here)

E is a mess because of it, and they’re in the streets here in Portland and across the country. It’s called the First Amendment, folks. And there’s a drive to get the electors to be faithless.

Anyways, work is fine, gamelan got moved to Fri., waiting on the Kronos. I have the money, and it’s just a matter of time.

We’re coming up on Halloween, my 18th wedding anniversary, and E’s birthday. S is excited, E has a costume, I have no idea about the boys…

Week is normal, wet, going to bed a little earlier. Gamelan Weds., to bed late-some hacker is trying to break into my Raspberry…cut off the DMZ access.

Weekend: Fri.-Halloween Enchantment at school-E was Lady Winter and a hit, Sat.-cleanup at school, much the same-didn’t clean much, shop, Sun.-church, cleaned a little. Mon., S to friends’ for Halloween. The usual-no one showed up in our complex…

Going to change up all my music stuff-selling it all except the QY and guitar stuff and getting a Korg Kronos-there’s one in the PDX area for cheap! We’ll see.

M is visiting U of O on Friday. Both boys have Weds., Thu., Fri. off. Gamelan, we had an evacuation…Cubs won the World Series while we were playing. Watched the game in compressed mode on Thurs. Took M to school early Fri., caught a earlier bus. Finally got my work stuff working. On to the next. Home, sleep, S is sick. Sat., went for E’s tattoo, Ikea-absolutely packed, hung out-worked on the QY for a bit. No Kronos yet (but a new one popped up!). Sun., church, cleaning. Woo-hoo! House is quite tidy. S is still sick, ear infection. Almost missed the bus, missed the second bus-walked 17 blocks until the bus came. My sis refriended me… Got stuff done-once you figure something out, it’s pretty easy to repeat, but it looks like things are changing.

Ok, it’s lame, but it may be quite true come Election Day. Trump just got hit hard by a live mike recording. Just read a very cerebral piece by Giroux.

So, another week over. Gonna come home to a messy house. Guess what I’ll be doing tomorrow??? Going to the beach and flying kites at the AKA convention? No, I’ll be cleaning. We got a new vacuum, so there’s that.

But at least I’m getting things done at work. Messy there too-the joy of IT, rather than R&D…I need to work on the startup stuff.

…and I didn’t clean much-the kitchen and that’s it. There’s a huge pile of laundry. Instead of flying kites, we went to a tattoo expo and got one each-I now have a small bee on my left shoulder. Look up the meaning of bees… I want to get the rose touched up and put a wooden cross behind it…Look up the meaning of rosy crosses…and Steiner. Church Sunday, shopping with C. Work and work and that’s it. And gamelan and rainy-big rainy and windy.

Trump is getting hammered by women coming out as harassment victims. I think the election is now over. And he’s yelling that the election is rigged. This could end badly.

E went to the ER-high BP, but pancreas stuff too. Took C to a new Godzilla movie. Weekend-cleaning, church, shopping. It was very windy and rainy too. S made a few of her weather videos. Going to try to keep the house clean. Did a load of laundry, kept the kitchen clean-those are the major bits. Weds., gamelan, a building blew up in downtown, last debate-the usual, didn’t do any house work. Woke up suddenly at 6:38, in the middle of a dream. Work, home-the house is staying clean. And it did over the weekend too. Cleaned the car, got new shoes, church, shopping, not much else.

because it’s all the same. House is staying clean-one load of wash and dishes too. E bumped the door getting gas, and a body shop wanted 3k…she went another place, and the guy shoved it back into place for free (well, for a hug). We’re prolly going back to get the front scrape protector replaced.

First debate last night, and Hill looks like the victor. The Don was true to form, and it didn’t play well. \/\/hate\/er…

Pretty quiet Tues., E went to a thing that wasn’t, watched ink masters. Dave Navarro has carved himself out a quite nice post-Jane’s career…Gamelan tonight, and WFH tomorrow-I have to fly kites for a Michaelmas thing at school. And we had visitors at gamelan, so no drumming practice, I want to ramp up the suling too. So kids to school Thurs., dishes and a little laundry, worked until 11, waited a half hour for E, hurried through setup-flew the Zero Wind Deca, should’ve flown the Minergy-ran out of gas halfway through the routine. All the ends needed duct tape-I need to get some surgical tubing to fix it. Worked through the rest of the day and evening.

Fri., tired, easy in, but a fire drill-down the stairs, up the stairs. A co-worker groused about the crappy data coming across the wire. Missed the bus, barely caught another-home, lazy, got pizza for dinner with M, to bed early. Up, laundry, dishes, off to Sat. Market, yummy himalayan lunch, shopping. Church Sun., rainy. Work Mon., I picked up S’s cold and suffered Mon. night. Same Tues., gamelan Weds., not so many people and visitors.

It’s really Fall now, with the rain and the leaves. And the sickness.

Not much else. As usual, only a recitation of events. I’m trying to stay away from politics, even though I do read some. Trying to keep it together, and barely doing it. M is having a tough time, and E is going to try acupuncture for her fibro. S is peachy, and C is trying to cope.

We’ve been seeing signs for awhile, and it’s chilly on the way to work. It was a bit rainy last week too.

Quiet week-no gamelan yet, worked hard on the startup stuff and everyone liked it. Got picked up Tue., went to a coffee place near here and bought stuff. Need to build a dragon kite for Michaelmas. E ordered one instead. Cleaned a little Sat., went downtown to look at phones, walked around, shop. Church Sun.-an old lady fell, market, gas, shop, cut my hair. Didn’t get much cleaning done-folded laundry though-the house is sort of clean…

A super smelly guy on the train this morning (Mon.). Missed the bus going home, both of them, AND the smelly guy was on the train going home-I walked to the other end of the train… Quiet Tues., E got a new vacuum, C got new glasses, I got a new Trimet transit app. Work is going fine-we’re not even to the starting line on the work, but I’m doing useful stuff and learning the app anyways-I get along with everyone too, which is nice.

I’m tired of the pres. campaign-it’s all so toxic. I’ve made a conscious decision only to read electoral-vote.com, and social media doesn’t show me much except for addicting into, truthdig, tom tomorrow and democracy now-mostly lib stuff-and I don’t pay attention to much else.

Weds.-work, gamelan. Did drumming on one, bonang on another-I was hopeless, because I don’t know the patterns, so I decided to sing instead. I have the drum pattern, so I’m working on memorizing it. I want to get the suling licks too. Watched jack bauer become president. It was chilly this morning-first day of Fall and all that. Quiet Thurs., E wasn’t feeling well, practicing the drumming patterns-Ompak down, Ngelik and intro in process, finish to go.

Pretty quiet weekend-E was away at a church thing, and no car. Up late Fri., cleaned, watched Deadpool Sat., more cleaning Sun., practiced drumming a little, E returned, to bed, woke up to the alarm today-very sleepy still. Lots of construction by ConWay, so late in.

Debate is today-don’t care.

Another school year begins-S is in 3rd grade, C in 10th and M in 11th. M is thinking about college and stuff. Don’t know about C-he doesn’t emerge from his bedroom much.

I have moved much of my stuff to the pi-need to get the dreams on-that’s the big one-I think I need a PHP script to do it…
Anyways, last week was pretty quiet, work and home and that’s it. Not much for Labor day either-it’s been rainy, we cooked out and cleaned the house. No gamelan yet, drove out and…nothing.

The usual week, startup meeting Thurs., late Fri., watched movies-Now You See Me II, Jungle Book, Dune-it’s nice with the HD tv, a soundbar and a sub. E is moving things around-lots of trash. Cleaning Sat., C to friends’, driving around waiting, and nothing. A bit frustrating, that. Tummy troubles Sat. night, church, market, pick up C, Costco, get M, Powell’s, Hawthorne, Goodwill, New Seasons, dinner, S to bed, bed. Up, not really wanting to-missed the train by that much, but the bus was late. Work is work-waiting.

Well, it’s nearing the end of August-this means school and Fall. The signs have been here for a few weeks, and we’re trying to get the kids back into school mindset.

We watched part of Order of the Phoenix, until we discovered that S played us to get to watch it. To bed, up earlyish, working on the website. I need to drop my essays and everything else that can be serialized onto it. I need to get it prettier too. 2016 theme is boring and ugly-blogger is way better, but WP might have themes that are nicer. I really like having everything on a bitty set of devices. This may make me post more often.

OK-cleaning, S wanted to join Pottermore-she’s in Hufflepuff. We’re planning to go to the fair later.

We finished cleaning and went. See the post from last year for the details-we did stay later, bought more stuff and ate crap food. We’re looking at getting a new bed. Church, market, libe today. Work week-same ‘ol-trying to get to bed early-working through a change-just finished it-went back to the original code and wrote an array sorter-nothing else-trying to keep the mayhem at home minimized. Watched half of Batman vs Superman. S’s birthday-she went to Build-a-bear with friends. More housework later, M got teeth pulled to prep for ortho. Downloaded S’s TV appearance. Keeping the website up-to-date-need to import my dreams. It’s Thursday-there was an earthquake in Italy, Gene Wilder died, hurricane headed to Florida. Shillary is still ahead, Dump is dumping. This is B-movie territory, folx.

Home late-missed my usual bus, E picked me up at the libe. Ate, watch the rest of Batman vs Superman-M has strong opinions.

Second week is over-pretty mellow. Got one thing done, and another one started. They’re pretty skittish about putting stuff out to production, so that’s that. Also, my supervisor is off next week.

Cleaned today, spent Thurs. evening at the ER with E-tummy trouble again. C got his braces. Waiting for the bullies at Hitachi-and got it on the 16th… So hot. Olympics.

I love the pi. Everything is so smooth. Plus it’s in the DMZ, so I can get to it from outside. I have Eclipse Che on it too. The one thing is that it’s on a sd card, so eventually it will die. I failed at getting a hard disk up, so I need to address that soon. I’m thinking a system backup and good notes. Sun. I got a portable 1T disk going, so it’s all good. I’ll probably put all my base storage unit stuff on there as well. The sd is only for booting, so it should be OK.

Work Mon, so tired. Aborted meeting with the startup, S to bed and me too. Work Tues., late in because of trains. Meetings, going with C to a show tonight. Show was great-Earth was fine-did an encore of Oubouros with Boris-just awesome-Boris: OK, but not 100% my fave stuff. So tired Weds., the usual, late in Thurs. Work, phone meeting, to bed, up Fri.

Hanging out on a Tuesday. I kinda like this. Did the same yesterday. It will end soon enough. Got a lot of cleaning done.

Trump is the GOP nominee, and his wife cribbed some lines from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech. Now the attacks will begin in earnest. He hasn’t got a chance in hell, and he says he’s going to leave all the heavy lifting to his veep when he’s elected. Hillary may be a neoliberal hack, but she’s been in the game for a long time, and will make a competent technocrat, much like Obama. Trump’s a novice, and he’ll get eaten alive.

More cleaning-we have mice droppings in three places. Boys to orthodontist. Watched Everest. Koo-koo, climbing a mountain where 1 in 3 make it to the top, and 1 in 50 die, most either on the way down from the top (if you’re a climber) or setting things up (if you’re a Sherpa). And it’s hideously expensive…and you’re getting shepherded to the top if you’re not experienced.

And more cleaning-the whole living room is cleaned, and the kitchen today-more mouse poop. Just found out we’re “opening” for Blitzen Trapper. Kitchen is done-got help from S. Watched Prometheus. Sun., S to pool party, home, S to camp, Outback Steakhouse for dinner. Quiet Monday, on the phone with OHP. Warm. Cleaned under S’s bed, maintenance came, fixed the bedroom light & tried to fix the freezer again. Watched Apollo 13. Went through my stuff, gave C the drum pad to play with.

Quiet week-set up my rig with an idea, but I’m not sure yet. Dems had a better convention than the GOP. Electoral-vote.com is putting Hillary ahead. Got a dresser for S, but too big, so E is using it. New Ray-Bans. Meeting with the startup today. Drove around trying to find dressers for S-got 2 $35 ones at Ikea. Bleh.

Sat., picked up S from camp, lunchish at Shari’s. Hung out, watched Harry Potter. Cooked Chinese. Got cookies and wine for my birthday.

Sun., church, off to gamelan. A thing, practice, gig, home. No work until next week. Got a Raspberry Pi for my birthday-it’set up, and sort of available from the world. More tweaking is necessary, and dropping a non-flash storage device.

Busy week-cleaning, E got rid of a bunch, practiced my guitar a bit, set up the Raspberry. Don’t remember much else-one of S’s friends came over.

Got some new clothes, went bedsheet shopping, the bins, over and over. Farmer’s market, library. Started work a little late, laptop appeared early, no admin. Played around with loading everything on a toy PC, home, dinner, S to bed, to bed. Reading Goblet of Fire now.

Up a little later, to work, walked through the setup, meeting, meeting, got admin, starting installs, got badge. Home, dinner, tired, S to bed, me too. Olympics. Up Weds., to work-making progress, lunch with team, home, dinner, S to bed, me too. Up Thurs., to work-stuck right now, and everyone is in meetings. Got unstuck, but did it the wrong way-and now it’s all working. Still need to tidy things up, but tomorrow I might be able to start being productive. And I got it all running and started work on tickets. One of the guys said it was a record. Same thing happened at Nintendo.

not very exciting around here-we may go to Sellwood for the ones at Oaks Park.

Up late. church, Milwaukie market, bins, home-got a nice pair of lawn chairs. For $10 each. To bed, slept in, quiet day. To S’s teacher’s, then the Hawthorne bridge for fireworks. C came-we had a great spot.
Up Tues, work, not much else, Weds., the same but a quick meeting to start up with a startup. Thurs, work, E drove me to an interview, dropped off S for a sleepover, dinner at Burgerville with boys, saw Independence Day 2, no boys. Fri, work, interview, E picked me up at the libe, more work, rainy.
Sat., slept in, hung out, shop later. Sun., skipped church, shopped-bought a TV and a sound system. Mon., work, got the one job, Tues., got the other-a bit of a surprise-took it. S is going to VBS this week.
Weds., work, hang out, watch the Tour, set up Apache & PHP on the laptop, redirected port 80. Thurs., the daughter of S’s teacher went with S to VBS. Work, VBS thing, Cha cha cha for dinner. Everyone is playing Pokemon Go.
Fri., work, hang out. Sat., sleep in, hang out, go to Fry’s and get a blu-ray player, Sonic for lunch, Value Village. Watch Jurassic World. Sun., church, farmers market, libe, watch Independence Day.
Spent the weekend moving my website to WordPress. Only a little bit of programming…I think I want to get a bitty Raspberry Pi and host everything here.

I could do this daily, but it would so boring and very short. I really don’t want to pontificate, and no one is listening anyways.

So, up at 9, work, wash, dishes, S home, M made dinner, S to bed-she read herself to sleep with Chamber of Secrets. More work-got the thing done. Now to test.

Dreamt about going back to 1023-there’s water dripping from the ceiling, go into the attic and the roof is all bowed from the water. Release it, get the boys to start sweeping it up. It’s huge up here, and all my dad’s big tools are here. I look down into a huge open area.

OK, so it’s now Friday. Just plugging away at this issue-I’m done, have to wait until everyone else pisses on it. This is a very chaotic development environment. I could go on for awhile about it, but it’s not worth it. I’m looking for the next thing, as I have no idea whether I’m going to convert. I like the rate, and extending would be nice, but it’s a bit of a grind. I have an onsite interview Monday, and just finished a coding exercise-had to write war-fun, one of those games that is easy to code. Ran it a bunch, and it hits steady state fast and will draw easily-I was getting a million hands easy. If you add a shuffle, it goes way down and wins easily. OK. We’ll see how that goes. Hopefully I can get something going, and not be stuck when the contract ends.

Brexit passed. I don’t post links much nowadays, but this one seems apropos. How American Politics Went Insane.

Not much else, S  had a school friend spend the night Tues. That’s about the only thing. She may stay over at another friends’ tonight. Didn’t-we went to Mike’s for dinner and she met us there. Up late-dreamt about my guitar getting all the hardware taken off it.
Boys are just jelly right now. E is busy.

Saturday-up, checked in on work, hung out-lovely day. Drove around. Up late, church, drove around-market, etc.

And now it’s Wednesday-had a face-to-face Monday, not much else except work-I’m really tired. Read the whole Harry Potter series over the past weeks. Visited a Dr for E in NE. Thursday, finished up a thing, with little response from people, finished up another one as well. Dropped E off at the train for another Dr thing, dropped S off at theater camp, an interview for tomorrow postponed until next week. Cleaning up a bit. Up, S to camp, worked on a new thing. S to show, show, Burgerville.

Sat-slept in, hung out, reading outside with E, shop-Michaels, Sally, TJ’s-my sunglasses fell apart. C has an ear thing, so E is taking him to urgent care. We were going to go to the bins…

for the kids, not for me.

Looking for a job just in case the one I’m on falls through. I’ll have enough money for awhile, but it never hurts to start now. Had a phone interview yesterday-not bad.

All the kids are now on summer vacation-that means I can sleep for a half-hour more. I don’t think anyone has anything planned, except S. Maybe M will get a job.

OK, the Senate was filibustered yesterday for legislation on gun control. Reading some good stuff. Also making a run at Synergetics. Moved a bunch of stuff to the storage unit. I’m contemplating buying a 4tb one-I usually get a new one when the price point is $100. Also a new TV-we have a behemoth given to us a few years ago. You can get a reasonable sized tv for $200.

S to bed late, a little work, to bed, dreamt about waiting for a train in downtown Portland, and letting a full one pass because there was one right behind it, also about an altercation and chase/fight behind a warehouse/office park. Finally got one task done-the next is due now, so I’m busy.  Up lateish.

Up early to deliver E and M to Pride-they’re running a booth for the school w/the handwork teacher. To target, now home and to work. Worked all day and night-“No sleep ’til Brooklyn” Got the push done, not the pull-dunno if the other guy will get it done.

Up, to Pride until 2, back, S to friends’ for sleepover, back to Pride, teardown, dinner w/boys, froyo, home. movie, bed.

Time for bed. I need to get sleep.

Endless frustration at work, still. I have no idea if it will stop. It did, for the most part-now I’m to the “figure out all the stuff” part.

The log:
Work, all the way through, got conflicts merged, pull requests done. To bed, don’t remember my dreams.
Slept in a little, work, starting on a new feature. More PR comments, I’m over. To bed, dreamt about being in a parking lot with a store underground in the middle, E getting booze for a thing and I’m pissed about it.
Up, kids to school, work, more PR stuff, got the new thing going. No gamelan until mid-July. PR reviews, got the new thing rendering, but no data. Dinner, S to bed, conflict merging went fine. Time for me to sleep. Hard to get there, forgot the dream.
Up, slept in a bit, work, new thing is going. Upstairs neighbors are evicted. Reading Harry Potter. Woke up wiggly and cold. Massage, sleep.
Up, kids to school, work. New thing is almost done-need to refine the UI and hook up the data. UI is refined, except for one thing, the data is wired, but need to do the bit to populate the collection-getting there, all I need now are 2 more bits. Got the bits, S to bed, one bit left. Finished up, now to testing-the database I’m using sucks, so I have to get some data going. Pushed a branch, sent an email, played agario.
Slept in, dreamed about trying to find a place to be alone. Breakfast, coffee, a little work. Shopping for dishes. Home, burgers for dinner, S to bed late, up late.
Slept in-too tired for church. Shop-to Ikea and environs, no dishes. Up late-ish.
Holiday Monday-slept in, hung out, cleaned, worked. Dinner at a neighbors, up late working-got the PR in, but with conflicts.
Woke up suddenly at 7:45-ack. Dreaming about listening to Todd and looking at my email on an index card-sized device. Very tired. Everyone got out the door and I went back to bed. On to work. Fixed the conflict, did some if the PR stuff, getting a new task. ANOTHER conflict, working on comments, E to hospital, very very crowded, we got home at 2.
Up, so, so tired, but a few folks at work pulled an all-nighter, kids to school, standup, to Costco for meds, fixed the conflict, but now git’s certificate is wacked. Lockdown at UCLA. Yet another conflict… Pick up kids. Talk about the new JIRA on my plate. Cooking dinner, S to bed, more work.
So tired-woke up and had a hard time going back to sleep. Kids to school, work-figured out the 2 things I was struggling with. Finish them and on to the next bit. Got it done, but a zillion comments to the PR have stalled me. Luckily some dude made changes to the new one so I can call it. Prince died of a Fentanyl OD, brought on by chronic pain mismanagement. Got paid, pulled out taxes. Boy, I’m responsible! I’ve gotten burned, so I know.

Waiting on electoral-vote.com to start up for real. Not much else to say about our crazy land. I have lotsa links, but not going to post them, music too, but no, just the log.

It’s going to be hot today, but it’s still nice and cool. For now.

Trying to get things done, I think I’m making some progress, but it’s slow going. I got help-I needed to connect to an already set up database, now it works, but I have to change the call, and it’s not working. Onward-I’m on the critical path, and I don’t like it. OK-school meeting, yummy burritos with the wife, S to bed, hang out, bed-dreamed about being in a house and looking over the cool furniture, and my old library table, which had holes in the top, go outside with mom, big storm, run back to the house, go around back and there’s a big college party with all sorts of people I knew, but it’s freshman year, so I don’t really know them yet.
Up, kids to school, work-I’m actually making progress. Still under the gun, though. It’s hot again, and E wants the doors open, so it’s hot in here now. I closed everything up and turned on the A/C-it’s better after 4 hours…Still a bit choppy working-but not stopped in my tracks. Burgers and artichokes for dinner-went to the libe, but it was closed, saw the aftermath of a flowerpot fire. Up late.
Slept in a bit, E went to a church thing. Lazed around. Up for church, shopping. S to bed, working-got it figured out, but the API isn’t working right. I think I’ll check it in, but note that it’s not working right yet.
Got it all figured out, but very late, Super tired, got stuff done, but no housework. S to bed, back to work.
Up, very tired. Kids to school, work. Going to be hot today, but quite cool now. Actually a decent day-got more done, but the next ones are missing stuff. Cleaned the house too. Dinner, S to bed, a little work, time for bed.
SO hard to get up today. E is still sleeping. Kids to school, back, all the stuff that’s next doesn’t have specs or api’s, so I’m done! Well, almost done-the three I worked on still need to get finished up. Meeting at school, gamelan, dinner, bed.
Woke up late, work. Rainy, got the stuff to auto-build, reset pull request. One more thing to do tomorrow. Dinner, S to bed, looking at old OS stuff.
It’s Friday, there are 2 gigs tomorrow, and I’m basically done with all the work I have. Nice. I had to change one little thing, and write JavaDocs for a couple. Git case sensitivity is still hosing me. The old Ruby’s on the Seal Beach pier burned-it looked shuttered. Not much else-work, hang out, get pizza for fam, gamelan.
Sat.-up, take C to a friends’, gamelan-pack up truck, unpack truck, play at the Chinese garden, pack up truck, hang out in St. Johns, go to Kenton Masonic Temple, unpack truck, hang out, watch odd first act, set up, play-we had to restart Wilujeng-so embarrassing-it’s an easy piece! Watch headliner, pack truck, back to L&C, unpack truck. Very tired-home, eat, bed.
Sun., sleep in, pick up C, drop off C, go to AlpenRose & drop off S, yummy lunch, shop, watch kids’ show, Burrito Express for dinner, S to bed, hang out, so tired, sleep. Dreamed about being on the shore exploring a WWII thing that catches marine invaders, dive down to hide, back up on rocks-perfect waves coming in, want to bodysurf, go out.
Up, kids to school, work. Still so tired. Things aren’t going well.