Peanuts; soft, soft ears

Yesterday I wrote up a brief spec for how to edit the new meta data table we’re proposing, which was good because it turns out a table in the database will make testing changes difficult and we really just want, like, a spreadsheet. I went to forecast eval and watched K wrangle researchers like an absolute boss, I went to team leads and presented the new menu structure options, briefly introduced the new meta data idea just to get a rough temperature (R will review it in more detail for next week), and then we got into the grungy details of how Rt’s new restructuring plan will affect OKRs, meetings, and the org chart. It was good. I spent the rest of the day planning OKRs for Engineering. This is the first time we’re doing a three-month period, and I’m a little anxious about being able to make accurate estimates. I guess experience is the thing you get just after you need it, so I’ll get better over time.

Dinner, crossword, Trinkets, snack, sleep. Long involved dreams about my Olin mailbox combination, a striker that created black fire, a wooden sailing ship, a shed that never existed getting infested with seriously brazen raccoons, and trying to get my folks’ dogs to uh take care of the problem but finding they’d been replaced by pom mixes and the size difference was just too hilarious.

I finished Record Of A Spaceborn Few and ripped through To Be Taught If Fortunate, which it turns out I barely remember. A series of vignettes about the wonder and possibilities of space travel woven into the imperfect fabric of human strengths and weaknesses. I started reading The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles, as there’s some new books out and I want to refamiliarize myself with her voice.