infryq | Pretty, but heavy

Yesterday I went to the claims data meeting, and my computer froze, which was terrifying. Seems okay after a reboot. I extended the widget I wrote to figure out how the inpatient/outpatient data changes over time as more data trickles in, with the somewhat alarming result of some regions and dates changing by more than 200% over the course of 60 days, while the median change is never higher than 22% or so. Best we can do is deliver guidelines based on the median and include a caveat about the outliers.

After lunch I ran the last Engineering meeting of the year, reviewed and merged pull requests, and diverted B&B from the logging infra to testing the meta cache speed-up in staging. I ran the last GoS meeting of the year, and chatted with T a bit about the talk I signed up to give them in January, dogs, and fabulous job titles.

Dinner, trash. It snowed all day and we seem to have got 6-8 inches, so P shoveled us out so the trash can had a place to live. Crossword, SG-1, snack, sleep. Initially-lovely, then horrid and stressful dreams about joining a vegetable and grain-growers co-op and makerspace, with some kind of mystical protection, and the mean people we needed protection from, and the complicated low-tech paperwork that kept it all going, and then I went to find someone a towel and wound up getting completely lost in a “basement” that turned into a maze of 90s atrium malls and convention centers, one of which was hosting a fantasy kung fu competition in the hallways. Couldn’t find my way back.