Preparing for isolation protocol

Yesterday I was unusually tired in the morning, so I let myself sleep an extra hour and a half in place of my normal early-morning routine. The aggregations segfaulted, and it took a bit to figure out, first, that the culprit was probably an OS security update causing a silent library conflict, and second, which packages to recompile before they get could run again. Got it done though. Spent the morning drafting brief job descriptions to bring to the team leads meeting, and helping contextualize some misbehaviors in the script B and E were using to generate the data versions for the new issue date system from the daily database backups. Went to the team leads meeting, got the okay to start the approval process with the Provost on all the remaining positions we want to hire for. Lunch, helped A figure out some details of the individual response files, helped AB figure out some details of the validation system versus the API versus the multiple kinds of sample size calculations we’re doing. Met with Engineering, decided to file the compositional cases and deaths signal in with the indicator-combination data source, cleared away the last few details before the weekend. Wrote documentation for the cases-deaths signal, fleshed out the demo, posted it. Spent the rest of the afternoon fighting with Rstudio and wound up down a rabbit hole of openMP support for clang so data.table would run properly on my laptop.

Dinner, crossword (tricks that hard to guess before you finish the puzzle are not my favorite), submitted the farmers market order, DS9, snack, sleep. Dreamt of vegetable gardens in schools, tromboncini and asparagus except made out of sweet red pepper, walking home through Schenley, a class on human nutrition, shushing F to keep her from getting in trouble, and I’m sure other things but they’ve disappeared in the cloud of bombastic Sousa medleys spewing from our clock radio. I’ll take it.

I listened to the Ologies episode on moss (Bryology), which interviews the author of Braiding Sweetgrass — it’s excellent and you should go listen to it.