mdlbear | Done Since 2018-11-04

Pretty good week, on the whole, but kind of a bumpy ride. My self-confidence bottomed out a couple of times. However:

N and the kids came up Tuesday evening (after appointments), and stayed until Thursday afternoon. It was wonderful to have the rest of the family here. Wednesday morning I worked on math with j; much of that evening and Thursday were spent singing with N and m (who has a lovely voice and a good ear for harmony). I had a few problems keeping up -- for some reason I kept screwing up D chords, and it's always a little tricky learning new vocals and a guitar part at the same time. But it was all good.

There was some progress on the job front, too. I heard back from 7cups on Monday, scheduled a phone screen, and did that on Friday. I think it went pretty well, though of course there's no telling whether it will go any farther. One can hope. Also, I finally finished the application to DuckDuckGo. It had some questions on it that made it difficult, but I did hear back on Friday and scheduled a phone screen for a week from Monday. So there's that.

I've managed to keep up with my NaBloPoMo plans as well. There's nothing like a well over a thousand word worth of notes once a week to keep the average up -- it's sort of cheating, but I'll take it. I also wrote the little word-count script that computes the current stats, and made some fixes and improvements in the blogging code. It's quite usable at this point, although it still requires being comfortable on the command line.

The "apartment" -- the room over the garage -- finally has working plumbing! It will still be a while before it has hot water, but it's pretty usable at this point.

On the down side, I'm still beating myself up about all the stupid things I've done, ever, and worrying about how in hell I'm going to survive the next few years after the money runs out.

Notes & links:

1104Su
* Up 3:50; W=200.2, S=5:20; cat boxes
: DST went away last night, so I didn't miss quite so much sleep...
@ foone on Twitter: "It
is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974. This limitation, which is still
found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as
old as Watergate.… https://t.co/YNbPJsnhms"; AUX strikes again.
& gave L a 500GB laptop drive; pretty much my last empty one, with the Nextar enclosure
which is also my last one.
% today it's my _left_ shoulder that hurts. Heat. tried Naproxen, but not much effect
* out to garage. Did not find an outlet box plate or any of the missing mics, but did
find the 32" TV from the Rainbow Room. So there's that.
: over to RiteAid after dinner to pull out some cash so that L could buy groceries on
the mainland.

1105Mo
* up 5:30ish; S=6:35; cat cuddle, shower
* SL: roll butter, chocolate chips, skin care products, junction box plates
* getting less and less self-confident. "What is it about you that makes you a good fit
for this position?"(DDG) damned if I know. Maybe can use PIA as my main brag.
@ pushed ssavitzky/pia-historical: original Perl and Java versions of pia-server.
* applied at DuckDuckGo
* heard from 7cups => 9am Friday 1109
-> calendly invite doesn't seem to have showed up. Weird.
and webmail over at DH seems to be wedged. Too many messages.
* put plate over junction box, removed broken light fixture
* 4pm C MAC clinic (V)
% feel like I may be coming down with something. Ugh. post-nasal drip?
# Hmm. Static sites for large blogs? Jekyll won't handle 20K posts. (Hugo might)

1106Tu
* up 5:30ish; W=199.2, S=6:53;
@ todotxt/todo.txt: ‼️ A complete primer on the whys and hows of todo.txt.
Todo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you control
one-line format; I've seen this before. Lots of community involvement.
@ Public Speaking Tips For Consultants
* finished chapter 2 of the Rails tutorial
% something's off. Anxiety?? That plus the start of a cold?
* poetry fishbowl -- family of choice. post: fishbowl signal boost
* 2:30ish go to H4H to look at mattresses; need to get to NN's at 4
=> they have four; two look plausible.
* call Skagit to get water heater connected (360) 757-6053 => 13:43 left message
=> got a call back - scheduled for Fr.
* picked up ingredients for pasta with meat sauce on the way home.
* N and kids arriving 7ish
@ Git tips and tricks | GitLab
& We went out on the front deck to stargaze -- really spectacular sky -- and who should
turn up but Cecil. I noticed him when he rubbed against my leg. M spotted him about
the same time. Took a moment until we realized it couldn't have been either of ours.

1107We
* up 6:55; W=200.8, S=7:04;
% hard time figuring what in the fridge looked like food this morning. Settled on eggs
with soy sauce and tabasco over rice. Comfort food?
: Cecil is in our front yard -- he was stalking something, and is now sitting looking
over the garden. Definitely seems to be hunting. He's gotten bigger, too.
* out with N and m getting mattresses for the king-size box.
* spent some time with N and j. played Ripple for N (on youtube. On my phone because
cygnus seems to be convinced that it doesn't have speakers). Introduced j to eliza.
(took me a while to find because the command is M-Xdoctor)
% Meanwhile nobody seemed to be doing much about dinner and I was apparently the only
one thinking about it. Kind of overloaded around 5:20, and handed off to L and m.
Not really in good shape, and not sure wny.
* Started post about meetings and filk circles; may not get that done tonight.
: DDG wants to schedule an interview
* Singing! Ripple, Lord of the Buffalo, Bells of Norwich, Ship of Stone. New harmony
part on Ship of Stone (m on descant, N on harmony.)
: 9:30ish - N and j are playing a silly card game called "The Tea Dragon Society"
* more singing! Mother I Climbed. m on lead. For some weird reason I've been messing
up D chords all evening. Growf.
* Humira

1108Th
* up 6:05; W=199.8, S=6:03;
@ Mother I Climbed -- February Sky - YouTube harmony part that I can sort of follow
@ Building an Electron application with create-react-app
@ React with Electron guide: a practical tutorial
@ React with Electron guide: a practical tutorial
* Singing: harmony woodshedding on Mother I Climbed
% I've spent most of the afternoon after N left in a combination of drifting and choice
paralysis. There's nothing I really want to do.
& a little more chord work on Mother I Climbed
: Some reading. Apparently Electron can't be used on iOS.

1109Fr
* up 6ish; S=6:37;
@ IBM acquiring Red Hat [LWN.net] many good comments
IBM to Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, for $34 Billion - NYT
* 9am - 9:30 interview with Joe Harte of 7cups Seemed to go okay - initial.
if they move forward the next step is a technical interview - code, then design after
that, then culture/fit.
<- my main question was about on-call. Apparently they don't do that (possibly
because they're US-only) PHP but moving to node/react/react native
: No audio in spite of having a working mic and headset.
~ 9:30-12 propane hookup => not done. the pipe is just sitting there with both ends
open. needs shut-off inside, and a sign-off by the county.
* schedule contact with Jaryd Malbin of DDG
Monday, November 19, 2018 10:30 AM https://duckduckgo.zoom.us/j/521290024
* call Island Disposal 360.678.5701 <- 2 cans/week -> $25.12/mo
* Chapter 3 of the Rails Tutorial.
% 3ish very restless. Feels sort of like stressed as well?
Also, cold, in spite of the fireplace being on
* install zoom for Monday's meeting. The speakers work now. Weird.
* post: sticky post: tags and off-DW pointers

1110Sa
* Up 4:50; W=198.4, S=5:03;
* 9am plumber here for water hookup and gas test. No water for ~15min.
All it needs is an extension cord out to the sump, until the electrician can put in a
suitable outlet. Inspection next week; they'll schedule Skagit for me.
-> found an extension cord. Not plugged in; wants to get routed over the door.
* post: s4s-mary-o-meara Took longer than I had expected to write.
% very sleepy 9:30-10; it is now 10:20 and I should go splat

NaBloPoMo stats:
   6590 words in 12 posts this month (average 549/post)
   1515 words in 1 post today

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