18feb19 We get president's day off. Any market holiday, basically. Went to Patty's in Bothell for breakfast, where I was delighted to listen to some old white men discussing why AOC's understanding of economics is wrong and getting Amazon to cancel their new york expansion
17feb19 Breakfast at a newish place in Bothell; was pretty good. Stopped at toy store on the way home. Wrote more code. Open sourced it. Didn't feel super well, so skipped a birthday party. Going to bed super early.
16feb19 Slept hard but not well. Defeated the telnet protocol! By reading the inetutils source code. That stuff sucks. It's amazing how badly formatted so much of the source code our basic operating systems depend on is. But, I got it working. I can telnet
15feb19 Woke up way too early. Short circuited a pointless meeting. Learned some more Crystal. Hated some more telnet protocol. Dinner at Dumpling Generation. Shopping at Yankee Candle. Rereading Accelerando
14feb19 Rearranged my desks a bit. Having three monitors on my primary workstation was proving to be an issue, as I couldn't read things at the outer edges. So I've swapped down to two, and moved the spare to the gaming rig, upgrading it from
13feb19 Power came back overnight. Didn't sleep enough. Still no heating oil. Meetings. Sent out a newsletter, most of which was written a year and a half ago. Just realized I erroneously said 30 months in the email. Sigh.
12feb19 (written the morning of 13feb) The power was out. Went out at 18:30ish on Monday evening, came back Wednesday morning. It got cold. Ogre did manage to get up the driveway in the evening, after a failed attempt in the morning, so dinner was warm food! (Mod Pizza,
11feb19 It's cold. Posting early so I can hide under a blanket and watch tv for the rest of the evening. Sound Oil was going to try to make a delivery, but didn't manage it before the snow started again. Closed the windows in my
10feb19 Woke up to find the furnace wasn't running. No way to get fuel delivered right now, so, space heaters. Played some video games, then gave up on my office and hid in the (warm) bedroom. Much Stargate.
9feb19 Woke up way too fucking early. Got up around 5. Played video games for a while. I've got a fairly successful Foundation village going. Cleaned my office a bit. Found
8feb19 Another snow day Fighting to get the project I've been working on merged. Can't find people to code review, can't get thru CI because the branch I'm trying to merge
7feb19 Twelve hour day. Oops. Was trying to deal with some data problems and got wrapped up in it. Made it thru SG-1 season 7, have finally made it to Atlantis.
6feb19 OK, I have to admit, having the time-to-blog reminder go off when I'm in bed watching TV doesn't enthuse me to do it. Nor does the editor's tempermental behaviour on iOS. Anyway. Went into the office today. Meetings, lunch, etc. Not much to report.
5feb19 I really wish there was a Ghost client for iOS. Decent day at work. 11 hour day because I was able to actually focus. The regular 7am meetings are finally cancelled.
4feb19 The power went out at 5am. Came back a couple minutes later, but I couldn't get back to sleep. So I got up around 530. Made breakfast, started work. A little after 7am, while I was on a conference call, the power went out
03feb19 Trying to get back into this daily blogging thing. We'll see how well I do. I've been poking at getting various services running on, then transferred to, a docker cluster running on a tiny stack of ARM boards I put together (the Pleiades cluster)
