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Yesterday I found some weird behavior in the cases and deaths signals, went to the all hands led by C, which went great and we’re going to try rotating the meeting chair from now on. The afternoon went primarily to one on one meetings, which continue to be a delight. Got to meet and chat with P, our user experience researcher. Late in the afternoon D found a bug that’s causing integration tests to fail in the main branch of the API repo, though for some reason it didn’t stop auto deployment nor seems to be affecting behavior of the system in production. I’ll be picking that up on Monday.

Dinner, then we did a Zoom call with P’s folks (they’re all doing fine, though they’re having to carefully limit their news exposure, which is understandable).

The crossword machine had been acting up for a while, and P took it in for service on Thursday. Turns out the battery was bad, and the way they fix that is to just swap the whole device out for a new one and have you restore a backup onto it, then the old one goes in for recycling. The new iPad was ready yesterday, so P picked it up and it spent the rest of the day updating itself and installing the backup. It was ready just in time for crossword before I start turning into a pumpkin. Friday puzzles are getting harder, but we made it through with just a couple of sticky spots.

I watched more Tales of the City, which is still lovely and heartwarming and models good consent and handling of bids for attention without losing the context of relationships which are sometimes messy and people who sometimes make mistakes.

I finished mask #2. Not sure if I’ll make another.

Snack, sleep. Dreamt of some kind of complicated problem solving but the details have faded.