Shuffling

Yesterday was P’s birthday! He enjoyed the woodworking books (on hand planes and traditional door- and window-making) from me and some lovely finishing salts from his folks. For birthday treats he had a chocolate cornet from the Bulgarian pastry place. Mellow but satisfying.

I called HR to clear up some confusion that stemmed from paperwork I filled out not making it into the hands of the person who needed it; our interminable hiring process for our F1 intern is unstuck once more. I went to the team leads meeting where we discussed the CMU CMS, a long wishlist for changes and additions, and the wording for the new indicator to be released this week. I went to the viz meeting; we’re getting some volunteer testers from a local young women in tech group which I’m excited about. I met with Indicators briefly since everything is on track for both the point release this week and the normal release cycle. I met with L about process anomalies. In the cracks I merged the issue date changes from E, rebased to clean up all my WIP commits, and submitted a PR against the feature branch in the primary repository. I pasted in E’s notes on how to run the migration script and how much memory it uses, which was substantial even for just a 7-day test period. Next time I do a complicated rebase like that I need to remember to save a copy of the todo plan and any intermediate commit messages so I don’t have to keep replicating work while searching for a rebase order that doesn’t generate conflicts.

Dinner, crossword, DS9, snack, sleep.

The electrician is coming early this morning to replace the bad light fixture over the sink. It’s been bizarre to wash dishes in the relative dimness but it has also inspired us to do more food prep out on the back porch, which has been quite pleasant. We may continue doing that regardless.