This is going to be pretty random. I spent much of the day agonizing over ( Read more... )

It has not been a good week. Between a synagogue mass murder in Pittsburgh yesterday, filk fan Harold Stein (
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Public Service Announcement: RainbowCon 2.1 is next weekend! It's our second annual house-con (last year would have been just before we closed on selling Rainbow's End). Details at the link. Come visit our island paradise. It'll be awesome.
I seem to be finally, gradually, getting off my arse with projects -- I've ( Read more... )

Public Service Announcement: RainbowCon 2.1 is happening here the first weekend in May.
Word of the week: Trumpery. noun, plural trumperies.
1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
2. nonsense; twaddle. (h/t to ysabetwordsmith)
Another bad week. My finances are dangerously close to the edge; if I ( Read more... )

NOT a good week, modulo a couple of things. It started at bedtime last Sunday: I asked Colleen whether she was ready to go to sleep and she had trouble answering. I tried a couple of times and a few more questions, and after five or ten minutes decided to call 911. Good call.
Apparently mental confusion can be a side effect of a ( Read more... )

A lot going on, most of it not good, but not really something I can talk about right now because it's mostly other people's stories.
The financial trainwreck is still going on; the crash is getting closer ( Read more... )

Well, I'm officially looking for work, for Reasons. Economics isn't called "the dismal science" for nothing.
PullRequest -- code ( Read more... )

Things got done. Sorting the mail, enough to find the tax forms. Putting CDs on shelves. A sleep study (rescheduled from the 23rd). Making a budget spreadsheet. Finding out where the money has gone. Getting stomped by the elephant in the living room. Slacking. A lot of good reading research (c.f. [Lehrer53]). That kind ( Read more... )

I think I did quite a lot this week: some good debugging, a significant amount of writing (Meltdown and the Spectre of Speculation), some system administration (updates: see above; also getting my mirror drive back in operation), updated the project list, ordered a file cabinet and a shed, ...
My new schedule (see last week's Meta ( Read more... )

Not a bad week, I guess. Right now I'm feeling pretty down and hopeless, partly because of this article about Trump plus the fact that my family's economic ( Read more... )