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It’s been another week! How? WHY?
*ahem*
Good Things
- Had an interview that felt like it went well
- Went to Snoqualmie Falls with some friends. Report: there is a lot of water. End report. (It’s also very pretty.)
- Some good polycule times in general
- My novel opening-part re-write is closing in on being done. I think it just needs a few thousand more words, and a re-read to make sure I didn’t bork the continuity between the rewritten scenes and the couple of original scenes I left in.
- Have a lead on an RPG game to run, once I finish reading the rules. (Reading an RPG! What a concept, in that I haven’t done it for a while.)
- Mastodon continues to be a cool place where I’m befriending neat people.
- I’ve slowly been finding my love of computers again. To the point where I’m actually hestitant to take a tech job if i happen to find one because I don’t want it stomped out again. I like slowly learning how to build little standalone things for myself and experimenting with new programs. I’m much less enthusiastic about the idea of building huge systems to support the tech-advertising process.
- On that note, I finally finished my Bash script that lets me use my laptop in tablet mode properly! It’s a bummer that Linux doesn’t seem to detect the sensor that tells it which mode the laptop is in, so it can’t be automatic, but finally getting the solution ironed out at all, even on manual, is super satisfying and makes me actually feel a bit competent at this whole “computers” thing.
- On that note, I finally finished my Bash script that lets me use my laptop in tablet mode properly! It’s a bummer that Linux doesn’t seem to detect the sensor that tells it which mode the laptop is in, so it can’t be automatic, but finally getting the solution ironed out at all, even on manual, is super satisfying and makes me actually feel a bit competent at this whole “computers” thing.
Not-Good Things
- Only got in one workout this week
- Had to clean out a collapsed roach colony. Some survivors were extracted, but it was pretty grim in there. Have another dead colony to clean out still, though this one is much older and mostly I just need the container back to start a new one. I’m not good at taking care of these, apparently. I need to get some more automated systems set up to keep them happy, I think. (Mostly humidity and temp management, since those are two obvious starting points for why some colonies were way happier than others.) Also need to figure out their food rotation, and where to keep the colony so that it’s easy access to swap food out so I don’t put it off for too long. (I feel very much a failure about this stuff, y’all.)
- Didn’t hear back from the interview, and they closed the job listing, so I’m not super hopeful. :\
- Two different dates cancelled on me. For legitimate reasons! So it’s fine, I was just lookin’ forward to ’em.
- I continue to have trouble getting to sleep on time and waking up when I want to.
- Really just everything in my previous post.
So that’s the week! It looks like a lot of downs, I know, but at least the back half of the week was pretty nice. Plus I get to play in a fun RPG today, so that’s neat!
How about you all? Regale me with tales of your weeks in the comments, if you can. 🙂
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