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Over the weekend I made a batch of lentils and grits, showered, and played large quantities of Factory Town. Two more days until break!

I gave myself a five day weekend! I finished the seersucker shorts for P, did some mending, trued and washed some fabric I bought for linings, and roasted a pumpkin (dubious succes; this batch of wild rice takes ages to cook and the pumpkin itself was disappointing). I finished Not Your Average Hot Guy (meh, skip it), read For The Wolf by Hannah Whitten in its entirety (lovely reimagining), and started rereading the murderbot books. Caught up on sleep too, and I’m working on resetting my sleep schedule for winter.

Yesterday I roasted some diced apple, washed my hair, and put it up in rags to dry in curls. Haven’t done that since I was very small. After lunch I picked up a draft M had written for NAACL and read it for sentence fluency and word choice. I haven’t been able to make it to advisory meetings with M since spring break, and the amount of work he’s been able to accomplish in that time is truly impressive. I will be stunned if this paper does not get accepted. I motored on that until 4, which was unwise; overdid my snack as a consequence. Pushed dinner to 6:30, but was smart and underserved in favor of a more substantial bedtime snack. Avatar and dish towel hemming, sleep, dreamt of some kind of French hypermarché and smart carts and not being able to find the crackers, then of being surprise drafted into hostessing at some kind of bistro. I stressed out about keeping track of customers until I woke up. Thanks, subconscious, I’m aware.

I finished Enchanted and started the next book, Spellbinder. A new take on faerie, enjoyable so far.

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Yesterday a report came in on additional indicator outages, so I fixed or arranged to fix those. The new F pipeline had some not-unexpected failures, and I fixed those and wrote a thing to generate the full archive going back to the start of the survey in April. I spent the rest of the day noodling around on the internet, watching Legacies, cutting out and starting work on a pair of sleep shorts for me, and napping. We did the crossword after lunch. Dreamt of kittens, remodeling the house in LT to make it wheelchair compatible, people purporting to be from the census asking about any minors in residence in 2015, stacks of wooden nickels.

Yesterday I washed the fabrics and dried them on the line. P took an early trip to geagle for bleach, vinegar, and paper towels. I washed my hair, and P cleared the spare bookshelf out of the way in the bedroom to make space for my work desk. I vacuumed, disassembled my workspace, then P moved the desk with a dolly I didn’t know we had? which was good, since the desk is a mid-century modern monstrosity that’s impossible to grip properly for lifting. We moved all the drawers and I reconstructed my workspace, and we’ll see how it goes on Monday.

Lunch, then I started in on the White electrics. Cleaned up my work area, brought up a mat and the soldering supplies. Struck out twice with multimeters and bad exploded batteries but then P found his which seems to be in working order. First was the lamp, since the parts are easy to replace if I screw up. It was a good choice, since indeed, I screwed up the toggle switch — it has lead-type terminals instead of something serviceable like solder lugs or screw terminals, and the leads are old and brittle, and I clipped them too short and won’t be able to replace them with new ones. Toggle switches are thankfully quite easy to source, and now I know not to make the same mistake with the lamp socket, which is similarly non-serviceable.

Dinner, crossword, She-Ra, snack, sleep. Dreamt of fast food joints with punch cards for free stuff, animal crackers, middle eastern dance, louvers, iterative detective agencies, second-floor balconies among beech trees.

Yesterday I discovered tiny ants in the kitchen, so P and I moved all the clutter out of the kitchen and butler pantry, and I mopped the bejeezus out of the kitchen floor. I used one of the languishing all-natural laundry tabs and some extra washing soda, and it worked great but did require a rinse pass. Exhausting but took the background stress level way down, having a clean kitchen floor.

Lunch, crossword, then reassembled the kitchen, including a deep-clean of the liquor shelves (good because it hadn’t been cleaned since the mouse problem and there was Evidence) and everything on them. Also cleaned the outside of the trash can, and a half-assed attempt at the inside lid.

Debugged an issue with a mismatch between the new F pipeline code and the reference implementation, which was pretty gnarly and felt good to nail down.

Dinner, DS9, snack, sleep. Dreamt of vegetable gardening, squash vines getting into the trees, the third floor of my grandparents’ house, ritual magic, thesis advising.

Yesterday I delivered the ID lists, and prototyped a thing that will do that automatically. I went through a couple rounds of email with legal to get all the details of what data we’re supposed to be sharing with whom for the individual survey responses, and it was a good thing I did because there were a bunch of changes nobody had thought to tell me about. We had the big lab meeting, and R had a real actual agenda and a plan for what happens next and how we do it without burning everybody out. It includes hiring PMs and engineers and hopefully some customer support folks too, so if you know anybody looking, hmu. I met with F, and nobody had told them about the changes in the individual responses release process either. It was an extremely productive and extremely short meeting, very much my style. In the afternoon I looked at the status of the IRB modification, and they had flagged the consent form as needing a change — since we’re adding two typically-European locales, we have to be very sure that participants are currently residing in the US so that we don’t run up against GDPR. Fair, but it means F has to run the change back to the translation team. After that, I chased down an irregularity with a small number of IDs, which turned out to be F’s data team misunderstanding the change to the incremental window. I spent the rest of the afternoon and a sprinkle into the evening on crowdcast. Perhaps ill-advisedly we decided to merge the two relevant git repositories at like 3pm on deploy day, so while there weren’t any critical changes to worry about (C had FAQ changes she hadn’t tested yet but those are pretty low risk) there were (predictably) some surprises with ops that took B and D until 10 to resolve. Thankfully they’re pretty autonomous; I lurked in their Slack thread to keep an eye on things but didn’t have to fuss otherwise.

Somewhere in there, dinner and crossword and DS9, and chatting on facebook, and a long hot shower. Snack, and prepped a batch of nut and seed bars, and sleep.

Yesterday I felt absurdly competent. I sorted through my dresser and clothes shelves and put together a box of donations, a box of souvenir tees, and a box of knits I can made underwear out of, and organized everything else by season. I did three loads of laundry, including the bedding and the prototype bulk bin bags. The twill tape shrinks, so the woven tape finish is the winner. I ironed the bags dry, and the napkins, and some new dish towels. Imager’s Intrigue continues; dude still hasn’t learned how to imagine other people and it’s looking like he might get away with it. I made a batch of currant cookies for P, using a new cutting technique that’s quicker and has less waste. Folded the laundry, ironed the pillowcases. The flat sheet still needs a good iron around the edges. Lunch was a minor battle, but snack and dinner were fine. Crossword, Repair Shop, snack, sleep. Dreamt of being unprepared for a choir concert, interrupted by an earthquake.

Yesterday I finished the pattern adjustments, then laid out, traced, and cut out the second chair back pieces. I finished Divided Allegiance (can we have ONE BOOK in this series without a sexual assault, please) and started Oath of Gold. I ironed a linen remnant and traced out a grid for sleep sachets. I went to my doctors appointment, even though my Zoloft refill arrived (fast!) already with the intended new dosage. A nice surprise. Anyway everything is very typical for me health wise. Not ideal, but typical for the time of year. Things will start getting better again in February. Worked on thread-tracing the grid in the waiting room, as the chalk will rub off soon enough.

P walked home after work, and I hung out with him and did more stitching while he decompressed. Dinner, crossword, Elementary, snack, sleep.

Olin trans update: better but not yet good. Not transphobic per se, but a failure to understand the fragility of the space:

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Yesterday I worked from home, and started to address the mercurial sunsetting on bitbucket. I patched the mercurial-to-git exporter to pretend bookmarks are branches, since mercurial branches are a bit too intense for feature development and we use bookmarks for that instead. I got our primary repository all converted, tidied up the primary branches, made a new git repo on bitbucket, uploaded everything, and moved over the wiki. I apparently fucked up the user access, but I’ll fix that today.

I watched mom’s choir perform in semifinals on the livestream from New Orleans, which was super fun!! They looked and sounded great.

I walked up to sqhill and got a haircut; I’m back with bangs and I love them to bits. P picked me up and we hit geagle for grapes, almond butter, corn chips, herbal tea, ice cream, and put back the sugar-free cookies that warned about laxative side effects....

Home, dinner, and did a turn through the garden and picked a tomato, a lemon chile, and beans. We’re about to get a huge flush of lemon chiles; I want to try and make chile powder from them. Crossword, Elementary, snack, sleep. Three Body Problem continues fascinating.