Done Since 2018-07-22

Not entirely sure why I put down "odd" as my mood, but it's what popped into my head, so it's more likely to be accurate than anything I could come up with by thinking about it.

So, ... Okay, it's been a week. I've been continuing to have pain issues: a little on the lower back, and more with the left hand, which if anything is getting worse. Grumph. Meanwhile, I've written a couple of curmudgeon posts and started (at N's urging) working on a total revision of my business website. If I'm going to be trying to get hired as a consultant, and it looks like I'll have to, it needs to be more like a brochure than a resume. It's not clear that GitHub Pages is the place to host it, but I'm going to go with Jekyll in any case. For other sites, Ruby and plain Liquid templates look plausible, and they'd be a better match for the way my sites are currently structured.

Part of the thinking behind my move toward consulting was an hour-long conversation Monday with someone who I was referred to (by a recruiter at Google) as a possible employer. I decided over the course of a couple of emails that I wouldn't be a good match for the position he was hiring for, but offered my services as a guru. Whether or not that works out, we had a great conversation ranging over a few high points of my career. Just a few. (You can see the list in Monday's notes.)

I also realized that it was a good start on a memoir. So that is a possible thing, too.

A lot of what I did this week was web work; I also worked on the old Starport site, which has gotten very decrepit. It's still decrepit, but at least it doesn't have two copies of the Interesting Places site, one from before I moved it to places.to, and the other untouched since I moved it back. Sheesh! Most of the work was prompted by wanting to add a couple of new links people have sent me over the last, um..., nevermind.

A little more music than usual, in part because N came up Saturday to watch the first of our two bed boxes getting installed. They are absolutely flat-out amazing. They -- a second is in the works -- are each basically a bedroom turned part-way inside out and stuffed into a roughly cubical box, providing a cozy sleeping and living space inside an otherwise mostly empty room. Like, wow. Baltic birch plywood, which is gorgeous stuff.

Anyway, until next time, enjoy the links.

( Notes & links, as usual )