Done Since 2018-04-22

[mdlbear]

Public Service Announcement: RainbowCon 2.1 is next weekend! It's our second annual house-con (last year would have been just before we closed on selling Rainbow's End). Details at the link. Come visit our island paradise. It'll be awesome.

I seem to be finally, gradually, getting off my arse with projects -- I've installed Elm and cleared out some space in my working tree -- though not actually started coding. Probably later today.

No progress on finding a job. I've noticed that I have a strong tendency to ignore problems and paperwork, apparetly thinking they'll go away if I don't look at them. I think I have to try -- again -- to get myself on a tight work schedule, with set times for job search, coding, and music. I suspect that the Pomodoro Technique -- 25-minute sprints -- may be about right. It's probably time to start using a "25min" tag.

Tuesday I cashed out my Amazon 401K. Net after taxes and transferring the Amazon shares to my brokerage account was enough to cover the rest of the remodeling, and maybe a month or two beyond that if nothing goes seriously wrong. I'm also getting a pretty substantial tax refund, mostly from the electric vehicle credit. I'll get another once I find the rest of the receipts for the work we did on Rainbow's End the year or so after we moved in. That will make the sale a pretty substantial net loss. :P

It's still a slow-motion trainwreck.

Cashing out the 401k required five phone calls -- I was a total wreck most of the afternoon.

In other news, our cat-lock -- a sliding gate across the entryway that keeps our cats from dashing out the front door the moment it's opened -- has become useless. Bronx (of course) learned that he could jump over it. Even turning the gate (a re-purposed whiteboard) 90 degrees to make it four feet high instead of three didn't work. N called Bronx "an agent of Chaos and Cuteness."

Notes & links:

0422Su
  * up 5ish; W=203, S=5.5;
  @ Tiny house | Made in Italy | M.A.DI. Home
    Cozy Off-Grid Home Can Be Built In 6 Hours And Costs Just $33K (ysabetwordsmith)
  @ Angular might be an alternative to React.  Uses TypeScript (superset of JS with types)
  @ CoffeeScript Wikipedia
    Type inference, list comprehension, pattern matching, lambdas
  @ CoffeeScript vs Elm detailed comparison as of 2018 - Slant -> elm is better for
    most things; more complicated if you're using a database
  @ A Brief And Partial Review Of Haskell In The Browser
  : Spring has definitely sprung -- it was downright hot today.
  @ EditorConfig
  @ Monads, Haskell, and Elm: A Socratic Dialogue – DailyDrip – Medium
    State - elm-state 3.0.0
    Why did you switch to Elm from JavaScript? - Quora
    Thinking (And Choosing) Elm sample code including login and setting page url
    Elm-Hedley, App Overview
  -> should use Elm for both apps, and _maybe_ rewrite one in something else later
  -> Bootstrap for the first, and maybe for all, website makeover.
  : Bronx is now finding it easy to jump over the cat-lock gate.  He goes there to play
    with the shoes, because he has a leather fetish.  And maybe a shoe fetish.
    
0624Mo
  * up 6am; S=7.1; cleanup
  * tracked down checks to deposit.  Need to do that ASAP.
    -> Property tax due at end of month; >$1000
  @ The Best Checklist App Ever Created? 13 Tools To Try Today | Process Street
    Process Street | Checklist, Workflow and SOP Software seems pretty close
    React native.  Have a couple of remote jobs, but they're mostly lowballed (15-40K for
    full-time react native?)
  @ Pomodoro Technique - Wikipedia 25-minute sprints
  % tested car charger to make sure it fit the socket I bought yesterday; re-injured my
    left arm unplugging it.  Applying heat, but it's only helping a little.  Seems to have
    been a significant setback.
  * wallk with m.  Up and down Nautilus; back via Middle.  About 25 minutes.
  * Deposited checks.  Several have expired; I'll have to go back to the issuers and beg.
    : late car payment taken out of savings, which was overdrawn.  :P
  : N insists that I should make an appointment for my torn muscle.  Can't do it online.
  & checked and made sure that I was taking my increased dose of bupropion (it's in two
    tablets because they don't make a 45mg one).
  % failed to contact Vanguard.  This is getting serious
  % failed to do anything job-hunt-related.
  # should try a 25-minute (pomodoro) timer
  % took 2 naproxen for the muscle tear.

0424Tu
  * Up 5ish; W=201.2, S=5.7; 
  ~ make doctor's appointment -> already had one for Thursday, so no need
  * Grocery shopping
  * Vanguard -> called; got everything from email and Schwab's website except snail address
    called Schwab: 1958 Summit Park Drive, Suite 400, Orlando, FL 32810.
    call 2 to V:  have to go online to add my Union Bank checking account as a destination.
    	      	  they won't transfer to Schwab because it's not a bank.
    call 3 to vanguard need fax# contact# and contact name
    call 3 to schwab fax#877-824-3817  877-328-0276  Charles Schwab Asset Transfer Service
    call 4 to V interrupted by N and m leaving with instructions for T'
    T':  laundry inside room clean; put away. whole room thoroughly vacuum because pill
    : In the middle of all this Chaos and Rabbit were trying to arrange a visit; I tried to
      steer C away from the next two weekends but failed; N needs this weekend free.
      ... this[,] Chaos[,] and -- both comma positions valid.  Not associative.
    % total wreck.  N and m told me to take 5.  Should have had something to eat but
      couldn't even handle T' offering to make a sandwich.
    : moving the $A stock should have been done a year ago - now I will need to wait until
      next May to sell.  The basis, about $6K, is taxed now, the gain when I sell.
    call 5 to V, 13:48  Conf# 11447 476 38T  2-3 days for funds to clear, 5-7 for stock
  * $603 electric bill will be charged to BECU household account Tuesday
  @ A hacker stole $31M of Ether — how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum
  @ Mike’s Cryptosystems Manifesto - Google Docs 
  % 4:32: still pretty wasted.  Adrenaline crash, I suppose.
    ! despairing.  Not finding any jobs that are a good match.  All the back-end stuff
      wants database and/or AWS and/or Ruby; all the front-end stuff is out, period.
  : Rotated the cat-lock gate 90 degrees, so it's 4' high.  Bronx got over it.  Flipped it
    around so that the whiteboard was facing the hall instead of the cork.  We'll see.
    -> well, so much for that idea.  Maybe full-height bifold closet doors?
  % 7pm still depressed.  Made burgers for dinner.  I think my body must be hungry, but
    I'm having trouble finding anything appetizing.  Maybe that will change if I eat
    -> Don't know.  Tastes... bland?  That's with onion and hot horseradish
  % 19:11 B=150/82 (148/63 x156/94 149/95 x138/79 153/89)
  : Call from Mom.  helped a lot, actually.
  @ Introduction · Django Girls Tutorial (Mozilla)
  : kittens -> N's room for the night.  Much less hectic.

0425We
  * up 5:30; S=6.1, W=202.8;
    : mask fit only 75% - must have slipped off or gone badly out of adjustment.
  @ PagerDuty Security Training
  @ Infrastructure Secret Management Software Overview (cf $A's Odin)
  * 10am j DBA
  @ Web Literacy - Mozilla Learning
  @ MDN Web Docs
  * Phone message in to Bayview Pet Resort (Clinton);
    email to The Dog Wood Pet Resort (Oak Harbor)
    Misty Vale Farm has only a contact phone number, and it's non-working.
  . Cat boarding
    Bayview Pet Resort: bayviewpetresort@whidbey.com
    -> DAMN DAMN DAMN some of the cats' vaccinations are expired!  Call for appointments
       ASAP.  OK, so I'm officially an idiot.  But we knew that.  Can get j to help haul
    -> (Th) callback from vet; they're up to date but haven't had feline leukemia vaccine
  * good music lesson.  Sang The Mary Ellen Carter, Ship of Stone.  I've been singing "of
    men"  too low, I need to take another listen to the actual intervals.
  : sounds like gunfire somewhere in the neighborhood.  % discomforting
  % I seem to have gotten to the point where I'm so far behind some people's fiction that
    I have no hope of catching up.  I may dip in occasionally, but there's going to be a
    lot of context missing.
  % 9pm I appear to be anxious and restless, and I have not eaten much in the way of
    protein for several days (though I did have half a tub of tofu for lunch).

  o job applications: noredink, x gitlab(requires ruby), github? consensys
    https://new.consensys.net/careers/?gh_jid=610008 (general)
    https://new.consensys.net/careers/?gh_jid=1044434 Sr full stack dev at Pangea
    https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/1068447#.Wt6qA3WnFhE github
    https://jobs.lever.co/sunbasket/9bf2fee4-1730-45d2-ad54-ed25ceb8caec java close match?
  o mount g's whiteboard.  Mounting hardware in file cabinet.

0426Th
  * Up 5:30; W=202.4, S=6.5, B=129/80;
  @ BabyDuty or: How PagerDuty Accidentally Prepared me for Fatherhood | PagerDuty
  * 8am Dr. Rochier
    <- muscle tear L. arm; bruise btw. L thumb and forefinger
    -> prescription for meloxicam (NSAID 1/day); back in 2 months for depression followup
       and annual wellness visit.
  * Looks like Bayview Pet Resort will work
  @ Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency | Ars
  @ Cryptocurrency and the IRS | Linux Journal
  @ UnShared Space | Margaret Price (jesse_the_k | Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader ed Jos Boys)
    Employment | Mental Illnesses | Temple University Community Inclusion
    Promoting Supportive Academic Environments for Faculty with Mental Illnesses:
    Resource Guide and Suggestions for Practice     A Practical Guide for People with Mental Health Conditions Who Want to Work
    -> I need to write "Depressed Is Disabled", don't I?
  @ Subscription Services on the Blockchain: ERC-948 – ConsenSys Media 
  * 5:30ish Tandi coming to mow lawn -> Got the North side done, road to sheds
  % 10:45 sleepy

0427Fr
  * up 5am; S=6;
  * 7:50ish with N & m to Seattle
  * some work on vv/prj.  Moved MakeStuff
  * some work in steve/Songs.  body-text

0428Sa
  * Up 6am; W=204.2, S=5.9;
  ~ upgrading raven.  17.10; the upgrader to 18.04 isn't out yet.
    -> gnome flashback is totally unusable.  Fortunately xmonad still works.
    -> it recognized the second monitor!  Looks like I may even be able to have both
       HDMI and VGA.
    -> the cursor doesn't show up in the Wayland-based desktops.
  : Bronx jumped off the fridge onto the counter, knocking over the dish drainer and a
    full mug of coffee.  N called him "an agent of Chaos and Cuteness".  That.
  * 11:20 - G arriving on 11:30 ferry; leaving with j on the 5
  * install elm (sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy; sudo npm install -g elm)
  * order 2 sets of ToGo Ware bamboo for Rest Stop.
  @ eeue56/elm-flat-matrix at 4.0.0
  : call from Mom.  She can contribute $500/month if necessary.
  @ hakimel/reveal.js: The HTML Presentation Framework

Comments

[jcfiala]

Oh, man, five phone calls? I hate having to make phone calls. Brrr.

Happily, my wife doesn't mind them.

Oh, if you didn't know, you can use google as a timer. Just type in "25 minute timer" and there will be one right there in the search results.

[mdlbear]

Same here. Unfortunately it didn't seem to be something Colleen could handle; I had all the context.

Pretty cool about Google -- I use them as a calculator all the time. Search engines in general, actually -- my browser is set to use Duck Duck Go by default.

[amaebi]

:/

I'm glad to hear you sounding energized despite the slow-motion trainwreck, the chaos and cuteness.

[mdlbear]

I'm not sure "energized" is the right word, but thanks