Done Since 2018-09-09

[mdlbear]

I guess the last week was... I don't know. Not awful? I got some things done. My new website, computer-curmudgeon.com, saw enough work to make it at least presentable; I'll want to do some more work on the content before I go public. Comments welcome.

Some other things accomplished included sorting through, and mostly shelving, a box of songbooks. There's at least one more, and the convention songbooks and other stuff without covers isn't shelved and probably shouldn't be. Damned if I know what I should do with them, though.

Friday I had a phone screen for a front-end job; we'll see how well I survive the coding test that's the next step. I don't have a whole lot of hope for that one, but it would be fun if I got it. For certain values of fun -- I still have no idea whether I'll have the discipline to pull off a full-time job again. I put in four other job apps.

I also realized that maybe my biggest problem is fear of making decisions. It's not surprising, considering how many of my decisions over the last couple of decades have been wrong, in some cases disastrously so.

In other news, things have been happening. Our new household member, L, arrived yesterday and all of her stuff is at least in the house, if not in its eventual target locations. The office, also known as "the cats' room", was the staging area and still has a lot of stuff in it. I'll suggest having (housekeeper) T', do most of the lifting when she comes on Tuesday. T' also came Sunday to move stuff in the apartment to prepare a space for the second bed box, which arrived Monday. And my Oval-8 thumb brace finally arrived, Tuesday, dropped off by the neighbor it had been misdelivered to. Cecil, the neighbor's cat we briefly took in a couple of weeks ago, is back in circulation. He's sporting a collar now, so he won't be mistaken for a stray again.

Okay, I think I have to upgrade this to a good week. How long has it been? (*goes to look*) Well, the last three have been sort of acceptable. Several don't have assessments, and there have been a few "moderately productive" weeks. The last weekly post in which I actually used the word "good" (preceeded by "pretty") was 20171008Su - 14Sa. So there's that.

In the links, a couple of programming language intros -- JavaScript for Cats and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python -- and one scary and extremely effective weather report.

Notes & links:

0909Su
  & awake 3:30
  * Up 4:30; S=4:42 ;  Thumb * o exercises  * o o goop
    S includes time trying to sleep, of course.
  * mid-morning Tandi to help prep for bed boxes
  @ JavaScript for Cats very cute intro
  * repaired 3-tier cat tree for office
  : T' found -the- _a_ box of songbooks.  There's at least one more, probably two
    Also the four Israel pictures. -> take those down to RS
  & 15min:  lots of songbook shelving.  They won't all fit, of course, but I'll get most
    of the major ones up there.  Many are warped from having been put in the box
    right-edge down -- that turns out to be very wrong.  Next time lay them flat.
  # decided, with N, to get Rosie repaired.
  % random assortment of aches -- right first finger, left shoulder.  Naproxen, and a
    heating pad for the shoulder.
  @ Dat Project dat:// p2p protocol for
    sharing and versioning large files.  Similar to the privacy model we used in Makyoh:
    visible if key shared.  dat URIs are a hash of the public key.
  * deposit Vanguard check in household account (for repairing Rosie)
  
0910Mo
  * up 7am; W=199, S=7:27;
  : looked in mail box.  Still no sign of the package $A says was delivered yesterday
  * about an hour and a half of work (planning and sync in the two Jekyll sites).
    : The cat tree worked quite well -- Desti came over to the desk for cuddles a couple
      of times but was mostly content to lie on the top shelf.
  * bed boxes -> arrived ~12:15
  * 2:30 C gastroenterology (V driving)
  * Lots of website (c-c.c) work, based on comments from N
    It's almost presentable.  Almost.

0911Tu
  * up 4:30; W=198.2, S=5:00;
  * more work on curmudgeon  Need links, and may skip writing in favor of blog entries.
  : The package containing my Oval 8 thumb splints, which was misdelivered on Sunday,
    showed up at the end of our walkway this morning, dropped off by whoever got it.
  * most of the way through N's suggestions on computer-curmudgeon.com
  % the new splint is very effective and doesn't get in the way of typing, but I'm
    definitely clumsier in it, and it's not all that comfortable.  Of course, neither was
    the old one.  Some tingling; it's probably putting pressure on a nerve somewhere.
  * a little guitar practice.  Mostly QV in D
  % 9:19 very sleepy
  * Email from GitHub - schedule a phone screen.  NDA.
  % I've been neglecting to read updates.  Looks like my Music for Cats 2 has shipped.

0912We
  * up 7am; W=107.2, S=6:07;
  * swapped ends on L's BR doorknob.  Will ask whether she wants closet keyed the same.
    Probably worthwhile getting keys duped anyway.
  & studying Atom, Coffeescript.  Install ack (could use for gf)
  * 15min: shelving books (mostly the music books)
  @ On being lost – wardleymaps – Medium (first chapter of a book in blog form)
  $ Chk#9515 $7324.85 Montrone Handcrafted Furniture - final payment for bed boxes
  @ Open Source Windows something like what I
    was trying to do with the links page.  cf tranquilcomputer/resources
    Be nice to have both.
  @ forivall/atom-hard-wrap: Hard wrap lines in atom
  @ Atomic Emacs (some) keybindings
  @ CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.
  % feeling kind of out-of-it.  Will try water + food.  -> helped?  Maybe
  * practice:  QV (C and D; D isn't reflexive yet)
  * Music lesson.  QV - turns out she'd heard it once before with N
  : Saw (cat)Cecil by the side of the road when I came home -- he has a collar now, and
    has been neutered, so he's being pretty well taken care of.
  : Power was out when I came home.  PSE's outage list says 10pm (it's now 6:56) -> ~8:30
  * Humira
  
0913Th
  * up 5:30; W=198.2, S=6:32;
  @ ActivityWatch documentation
  * 8:30 wake C
  * leave 9am -> ~9:10, actually.  Got on to the 10am ferry, but just barely.
  * 11:45 C UNW
  * lunch at Mazatlan as usual

0914Fr
  & Awake 3:20; got back to bed 4:30ish
  * up 8ish; S=5:56; shower
  * 11am phone call from Veronica Ramirez @ GitHub
    -> next step is a take-home; in Javascript.
  ~ remove light fixture on corner of garage near tank -> Mike will take care of that
  @ COMMENT: Hurricane Florence coverage shows how new media and virality can be a force
    for good | JOE.co.uk as it says in one of the pull quotes,
    " Scary as fuck weather report. First it's like, ah smart use of green screen, then
      it's like holy fucking shit. pic.twitter.com/J9SmZqTqVI 
      — Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) September 13, 2018 "
  * move stuff in garage, mostly over to the side to make a clear space.
  * Job application for GitHub: https://boards.greenhouse.io/github/jobs/1286364
    Infrastructure Software Engr
  * Received YD's wedding invite - Thursday, December 13 at Blue C Sushi
  % I think my thumb is actually getting better.

0915Sa
  * up 5:50; W=198.2, S=7:17;
  @ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!
  * 15min: songbook and mail sorting
  # ran across my old "HyperSpace Expressions" newsletters.  At least one is dated 1989,
    so they would probably have been done at home on a PC, or at ARC.  Grumph.
    AHA:  /home/steve/steve-from-cvs/Private/HSExpr/1989-90/* -- not under git control!
  * shopping.  (paper list)
  * L moving in -> foot passengers on the 2pm ferry, so leave 1:45
    -> 2 trips because UHaul didn't have the 12' truck she'd reserved.  Be a late night
  : There is a mouse in one of the metal bench drawers in the garage.  :P

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

My goodness that Weather Channel video is the best use of CGI I've ever seen.

Fortunately, you have cats for that mouse.

[mdlbear]

Unfortunately the cats live in the house, and the mouse is in the garage. I may want to consider a barn cat.