Rough week. Feeling doomed at work; things aren't coming together as
quickly as they need to, and I'm not seeing things that should be
obvious. Getting old, and I don't like it.
I thought leaving the Starport was hard. This is going to be worse. I
guess it's like getting old -- I have to do it, but I don't have to like
it.
If I haven't grown up by now I don't have to, right?
We've been doing a lot of sorting. Colleen and I have been through our
closet (though there's still a lot left) and bookshelves (about half
done), and I sorted books in the Great Room with Naomi. We'll probably
have to do another pass.
There were a few small triumphs. I managed to track down the lyrics to
Naomi's song "Staying Home Tonight", which had gone missing -- we'd
performed it back in 2007. Took grep-find on my home directory (including
both mail and LJ archives) to find it.
The emacs grep-find
function is wonderful. Basically it
searches for a pattern in the contents of every file in your current
directory tree, and flags every hit the same way it flags compile errors,
so that you can visit each one and do whatever investigation or fixing you
need to at that point. You can run the same thing on the command line,
but then you don't have the convenient integration with the editor.
Back to small triumphs -- Monday we had (new Honda Odyssey) Rosie towed
down to the dealership in Tacoma where we'd bought her, to have her
blocked fuel line fixed. Got her back yesterday. And I surprised and
delighted Naomi last night wth The Pharos Gate, which I'd just finished reading and
which she hadn't known existed. Hmm. Should do a review of the series,
shouldn't I?
A comment on last week's post has inspired me to write up my journaling
system. It looks like what's now called a "bullet journal", but predates the
eponymous fad by at least half a decade. Hmm. Should put together an
emacs mode, or see if I can tweak org-mode
for it.
A Wikipedia dive starting at Irregular Webcomic!
#3594 led me to the article on Slouch hat, which in
turn led inevitably to the Tricorne and Bicorne hats. Does that
make the slouch hat a unicorne?
( Notes & links, as usual )