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Yesterday I tidied the sewing room a bit, putting away the pj pants pattern and setting up a bin for compostable fabric scraps. I found some surprise muslin in a bin from deep stash, and started ironing it. Imager’s Challenge continues well. The shampoo people got back to me, and I’ll be getting a new bottle of the original recipe in the mail soon. I ordered some tapes and construction thread from Burnley and Trowbridge.

At work I fixed an issue with the reference parser, then found and fixed a nasty bug in the sempre system that was messing up how the annotated frame arguments are built. Some on-and-off hormonal misery. Home, dinner, crossword, Repair Shop, snack, sleep.

Yesterday I made another batch of nut and seed bars, attempted to contact OXO about the broken refrigerator dishes, was appalled at the state of their website and contact form, and sent email to an alternate email address informing them of both problems. No clue if I’ll get anything back; I may have to fail out to actual snail mail.

I started the next book in Deeds of Paksenarrion, which is called Divided Allegiance. Good so far, especially at showing how experience is the thing you get right after you need it.

At work I went down a small rabbit hole spinning up a free tier EC2 instance to test out the installation and tutorial instructions. Alas; SEMPRE requires more than the 1G of memory available in a free tier machine. I poked at a few possibilities for reducing memory usage, not quite to any avail.

I went to therapy and offloaded all the stuff that’s been hard the last two weeks, then spent the rest of the time telling stories and explaining the concept of mini courses at CMU.

Home, did a turn through the garden and picked lemon chiles, tomatillos, and beans, dinner, crossword, Elementary, snack, sleep. I dreamt of missing an invitation to generate inside jokes with an old friend from high school and a different friend from the SCA/beer/dance crew in pgh. Also of repeatedly absent-mindedly getting lost in utility stairwells and caretakers’ lounges. Some kind of dubiously legal activism. Smuggling. Magic shorts. A partially-expired nail polish kit.

Yesterday I found the artwork I want to show at the memorial reception, and
wrapped it for shipping. I went in early for a meeting with T, who is
pleased with my progress and wants to explore options for making the
semantic parser more robust next. I called the salon to see if I could get
in a haircut before we leave for Seattle, and scored one for end of day. I
did a pile of errands in the UC, sending off the art and also depositing a
check that’s been languishing for a while and also getting lunch at the
build-a-pasta place and a beverage at entropy. I spent the rest of the
afternoon releasing an old NELL dataset to the website, sending an email
blast about impending downtime to wipe and upgrade the cpu servers, and
starting a writeup of the issues I’m having with mod_wsgi in python 3 with
Django 1.11.

I bussed to sqhill, got an excellent haircut and caught up with my stylist
(she’s getting married! happy for them). Walked home, decompressed with P,
then dinner, internet and sleep. The formal academic drama with P’s student
is done for the moment, which is good; now he can focus better on the fun
part seeing his class present their excellent work to the client.

Yesterday I cut two handkerchiefs and three scent pillows from the inner
skirt. I cancelled our B&B trip, had a very thorough therapy appointment,
and read a bunch of Falling Free (TW child sexual abuse). At work I started
the final backup script, fielded a pile of email, and reworked a section of
the parser paper to flow more naturally and require less backfilling.

Home, sat with P a bit before he left for class, dinner (I’ve been jamming
on a chilli-spiced version of my usual rice-with-stuff, it’s gently warming
and delicious), Flash. P got home, snack, bought the plane tickets for the
Seattle trip, and then we did the crossword, and sleep.

Yesterday I finished P’s pj pants and they are glorious. We went to my
passport application appointment and it went off without a hitch, in spite
of last-minute anxiety about not having photocopies and this place is small
I thought they did photos but what if they don’t and oh shit the state
department doesn’t take credit and I’m out of cheques... it was all fine. P
had a Homestead adventure at Steel Valley Coffee and also found a legit
german immigrant bakery where I hope to remember to get streudel come apple
season.

Home, and I was totally wiped out. Late lunch, didn’t bother going to
campus for carnival things, instead finished some embroidery from last year
and made a scent pillow out of it with lavender and tansy.

Dinner, crossword, Flash, snack, sleep.

Yesterday I sewed the waistband. Just the hems and some scraps of seam
finishing left.

I cooked another batch of rice berry and quinoa.

At work I finished restoring mysql, then got the wikis working on the third
try. MediaWiki error messages are still terrible. I fielded a couple of
student requests for python issues and datasets. Under-snacked; the wiki
repair turned out to be a hyperfocus situation.

Home, dinner, then P took a walk and I set up a lucky appointment for this
morning to apply for my US passport. I haven’t left the country since you
started needing documentation to go to Canada, and have never been anywhere
else. Fraught.

Crossword, Flash, snack, sleep.

Yesterday I transferred all the adjustments to the pattern, traced off a
new sloper, and traced off a pj pants pattern (with waist half an inch
bigger than hips, room for a low wide knit waistband, and wider legs). I
made a batch of red rice with quinoa. Almost done with Long War. We picked
out a new couch and chairs for the living room on overstock (rubbertree
wood, mission style) so we can move the futon into the nest. Thought about
rugs but not in this order. P did the laundry and we folded together.
Dinner, crossword, Heart.

Yesterday I squared one end of some navy wool yardage slated to be a skirt,
wrote up a progress report for my boss, had a session with R, diagnosed and
sorta fixed the Android bug F reported, and fixed a serialization bug the
Android bug had obscured.

I was an Adult and called the doctor’s office to figure out whether I’m
supposed to change my Zoloft dosage now or wait until my appointment in two
weeks. Phones suck and the callback was super disorienting but: yes, I can
start the new dosage now.

Gladstone&c, dinner, crossword, gbbo, bed.

Yesterday I added a thing to the goodreads-clp app to look up the number of
copies and waitlist for each search result, and started a thing to
cross-reference titles against a complete series listing so I can display
results in order by series.

After lunch I called legume to confirm our reservation and dietary
restrictions for Monday, and the woman on the phone was very nice and not
scary at all. Take that, anxietybrain!

I explored a couple of options in the sempre type inference system to try
and prevent ContextFn from returning whole semanticframes instead of just
entity references like I want it to do, and found several ways that don’t
work.

I went to a group meeting to help F decide how to structure an MTurk study
she’s working on along with a PhD student from HCII. Very exciting. Also,
pilot studies are good, always do a pilot study.

After work I went on a small adventure to return library books. I’d planned
to also get a flu shot, but found I was underdressed for the weather, so I
just hopped a bus instead. P gave me a lift from the geagle.

Dinner, crossword, bed. It’s way too dark at not even 7:30.
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Entries tagged with adulting

Distressingly pleasant outside

Secret pockets, small spirits

Dreamt of fruitless searches for scrap paper

High agreeableness

Just ugh

Dreamt of reconfigurable dressing rooms

Dreamt I was a trio of washed-up child superheroes

I think I dreamt about a server? Ugh.

Seriously though phones

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