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The week started out with an excellent dinner at Gordon's on Blueberry Hill, in honor of N's birthday. Almost all of my spare "project" time was taken up with readings in category theory and functional programming, mostly Category Theory for Programmers by Bartosz Milewski. I definitely can't claim to have understood the whole thing, but there's a lot of fun (if somewhat mind-boggling) stuff in there -- I'll write about it at some point.

Aside from the reading and a couple of very short programs, almost the only thing that got done off my new schedule was guitar practice. But I did do that, quite consistently; I've been doing about half an hour per day, in two chunks to build up my calluses.

Well, ok; I did write a haiku:

Wanting poetry
I try to write a haiku
But nothing comes out.

I've been hanging out a little on Genius.com, which is all about annotating song lyrics; I've started putting in some of the songs on CC&S. (One of the trivial programming projects was the one-liner that converts songs from my lyrics format to plain text without chords. See Monday's notes.)

We have acquired a new house cleaner -- the old one, T, had to quit because she turned out to be allergic to our cats. T' (their names start with the same letter) is a keeper.

I still haven't connected with a therapist. That's been on my list for at least three weeks now. I did find the email I used last time; I don't have an email address for the one I want to contact this time, but I can either plug it into a web form or use it to script a phone call. Ugh!

( Notes & links, as usual )