Wednesday: More Mesa.

Is where I was nine years ago.

I had just gotten a Blackberry, and could finally do internet anywhere.

• I'll do links some other day.

Tuesday:

Nine years ago I stayed here in Santa Barbara.

Let's do it, Marshal!

• I hope not.
• Best doggo.
• It's a nice orbit, but no.  Also, I forget that lots of people don't think about angular momentum.

Monday: A good day.

Because not only did Julie's MSU presentation go well, but also:

Marshal came to my camp!

He sat in the couch he wanted!

He sat in the couch that everybody sits in!

Tsundere Squirrel unlocked!

Also, also: I now need to write an acceptance letter because I got a new job.

And the moon looked cool.

• Of course, the rest of the world is still a dumpster fire.
• Bear trouble.
• I think it's pretty clear that everyone should watch the new Card Captor Sakura show.

Sunday: Whoops.

I had a burger yesterday.  I should have been more creative.

I know it's dumb to make fun of later generation Pokemon, but WTF?  This is a dumb translation.

I also forgot to do more Animal Crossing event stuff.  I did watch a decent amount of youtube stuff, so that's almost like being productive.

• Fruit beetles.
• A good set of slides from one of Julie's tweets today.
• Arthur Conan Doyle.

Saturday: Better, but still not great.

Good enough to get a burger:

With cheese tots, the crispiest of cheese fries.

• Republicans should not be in charge of anything, without exception.
• "Mr. Clops."

Friday: Sick day.

Waking up, getting ready to go to work, and then realizing that I have a fever isn't fun.  I planned on doing some work from home, but that didn't really work out.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better, but if not, I at least now have a supply of pizza provisions.

• This sucks, and I hope more people lose their jobs.
• Pikachu knockoffs.
• "You can liquify a cookie."
• Yotsuba&.

Thursday: Solving things that take too much time to solve, but only when you don't see the super obvious bug.

Whoops.

What are you doing here, frog?  You're an invasive species!  Go home!

• This is a good use of a bad law.
• Why all the comics I like keep getting cancelled because the people in charge are dumb.
• Seriously, tumblr should just write all the stories now. 

Wednesday: I spent way too long doing stuff that I had penciled in for "quickly" yesterday.

Purple line.

• Good.  This story just got so awful that I don't think there was any way she could have stayed.
• And I was pretty much on board with the whole "she went to jail-did some jail time-commutation" thing, but it turns out maybe she's just an awful person.
• Ok, first up, I love the Orange Islands series.  Some of the best episodes ever.  But listing Tracey-fucking-Sketchit as the first companion to complain about?
• I was horribly confused by this as I couldn't figure out why Belladonna Blake would be about to punch Usagi, but then I saw that it's human!Luna.

Tuesday: I made a to-do list for today, and then promptly did a bunch of things I scheduled for later in the week.

Whoops.

Some birds are apparently fine standing in the rain.

Monday: Ugh. Monday. And I think I might be getting sick.

I forgot to appreciate squirrels yesterday.

And I'm pretty sure the CW DC shows are all "maybe the true treasure was the friends enemies we made along the way."  Supergirl made friends with Livewire, Flash made friends with Killer Frost, Legends of Tomorrow are basically all bad guys, and I don't care about Arrow.

• Also, squirrels do computers.
• Today I learned that we apparently made dumplings wrong for new year's.

Sunday: Another lazy day.

With curry.

And Filbert.

And I don't know if I have doughnuts still, but I hope so.

Saturday: It was kind of rainy.

So that made me not really want to go to the march, plus Filbert had this suggestion:

Thanks, Filbert.  This is why you're the best.

The news also was super great about filming it, making sure to have the longest interview with a guy.  Good job, the news.  You totally get the point.

And then I got a burger.

They need to do something to make the burgers not explode immediately.  It was good too, even though I had to pay extra for unicorn.

Friday: And that's when I discovered that mysql 5.7 is incompatible with a good chunk of our sql codebase.

If I googled correctly, I can set a sql-mode variable that tells 5.7 to back off and stop being a syntax jerk, but I didn't want to sort that out at 6:30 on a Friday.  If not, then I guess I'm spending a chunk of next week rewriting everything so that

SELECT DISTINCT a,b FROM table JOIN other_table USING(a) ORDER BY other_table.c DESC;

becomes

SELECT a,b FROM (SELECT DISTINCT a,b,c FROM table JOIN other_table USING(a) ORDER BY other_table.c DESC) AS V;

Ugh.

I did find this friend while looking through old notebooks to try and remember something.

• An interesting idea.
• Marvel doing something correctly.
• An interesting twitter thread about comic panel layout.
• There's a reason I'm a fan of Team Rocket.

Thursday: I'm never going to finish this batch of Animal Crossing challenges.

They did bring clothes crafting in, so that means I will never have enough cotton, ever, for the rest of time.

But I got chicken parm and spaghetti and cheesy garlic bread for dinner, even though it was a hassle to get there, park, and get home.

• I like how people didn't realize this was a parody.
• The guy who does random cultural segments on KIKU is a musician with a wiki page.
• "William H. Drug Overdose Doowingal".

Wednesday: There's a race condition somewhere, I guess.

Filbert is best camper.

• Mistake dog.
• A good story about pirates and a mermaid.

Tuesday: Three day weekends mess with my sleep schedule.

I propose that we just make three day weekends full week vacations.  I was also thinking earlier, and in the future, there should be more three day weekends than there are now, because famous people will still be born and do famous stuff.

I'm pretty sure this is Santa Barbara from nine years ago.

• This is the right way to deal with it.
• Caity Weaver has always been a wonderful writer.
• Black Lightning was good, and it's too bad it won't cross over.  I think watching him be serious while the rest of the gang did their usual crazy stuff would be wonderful.

Monday: MLK Day

I woke up and really wanted a mushroom swiss burger.

So.

And I evolved some things.

Round-o.

Jesus Christ, Get Those Lips Away From Me!

 Also:

Every single one.

And then what did this jerk do?

Sat on a different couch.

I wasted so much wood and cotton building you all sorts of nonsense, and you don't even play with it?  You're a jerk, Charlise.  You are never visiting my campsite again.

• Dolores O'Riordan died.
• I would love to see this happen.  I would actually watch his bloated face talking if it was a long, passionate rant about what we should be doing to terrorist-harboring Wakanda.
• "A ten year old was supposed to stop us!  This isn't supposed to happen!"

Sunday: In hindsight, it was a mistake.

I woke up early this morning because of work stuff, and then stayed up to watch two hours of youtube playthroughs of Doki Doki Literature Club.  Then I saw the latest of Julie's brunch polls, and although I disagree with the results, it really made me want pancakes.

So I got the entire poll's worth of items.

Everything was super good today, with the kalbi being extra charred.

And I took down the gym.

And had a huge team join me by the end of my meal.

And this was the mistake.  I had thought about taking some home, but it was all too good.

That kind of killed my motivation for doing anything but digesting, so I came home and watched another two+ hours of Doki Doki Literature Club on Twitch, because that's where the rest of the playthrough I was watching was located.

Also, what's up with this couch?

I timed this shot poorly.

But seriously.

Every animal who comes to visit sits on this couch.  Every single one.

• I finally sorted out how to remove the "y/" autocomplete from chrome that has been so annoying to deal with when I just want to go to youtube.
• These are world-class puns.

Saturday: The good news is, I didn't die in a nuclear explosion.

Which, you know, is a good thing.  I woke up, visited with my favorite tsundere squirrel:

He was fine.

 We made tarts:

They were delish.

And then I checked Twitter to discover that they accidentally issued an incoming missile warning, and a bunch of people freaked out, and then they cancelled it because it was a mistake, and a lot of people were angry, and I slept through the whole thing.

So if I don't send out a "Guess I'm dying in a huge nuclear explosion. #fml" tweet with the sad Pikachu gif, then I slept through being blown up.

This one.

Anyway, then I went to Punchbowl.

See?  Not blown up.

I just wanted to make a fancy fisheye thing.

And then pizza time.

Because pizza time is always good.

• The news story about how we didn't die.
• A cool Japanese memo pad thing.
• Squirrel surprise!

Friday: Three day weekend.

I discovered this today:

Ugh.

• They're all stupid.
• I like these guys too.
• This is a bit harder than Neko Atsume, because there are more words.  I'm not completely sure I've done everything correctly.
• Mr. Futon is a jerk.

Thursday: Sure, Pokemon Go. "High surf warning" is totally extreme weather.

If I was playing the game in the ocean.

Nine years ago, I was returning a rental car in Santa Barbara.

• I have thoughts, but I will save them for a future date.
• Pretty much this.
• I would be happy if thorn and eth came back into use.

Wednesday: Figured out that problem.

Instead of doing a check of the database column that contains the information, it was using the old character string search, which means it missed the fields that have the database correct and no string change.  So I have code to test as soon as I can switch back from two other development branches.

Austin, a decade ago.

• Resign.
• Why is this not something we already have everywhere?  Sweet + salty = delicious.
• Yakult level ∞.

Tuesday: Reconstructing something I did before vacation is not fun.

I think I have it mostly sorted out, and now it lives on a partition that is less susceptible to losing the RAID array.

Nine years ago I was in Long Beach for AAS.  Julie was there, too.

Also I was there five years ago, but my photos from that day don't have as many otters.

• Well, this is pretty horrible.
• Now I want to go to Medieval Times.
• I saw this comic thread earlier, and thought it was cute.

Monday: Ugh. Mondays.

They suck.

And there are new campers to build things for.  At least some of them are cheap.

• Higher minimum wages increase the pay of people who make minimum wage without decreasing the availability of those jobs.
• Spotify is apparently delusional.
• I'm kind of looking forward to this.  Exiles was one of my favorites during a previous run, mostly because it didn't tie in with other books.  Plus, it was always pretty interesting seeing the different what-if planets.

Sunday: I continued my weekend of laziness.

I did get my watch later down to 516 items, from close to 700.  So that's good.

And got a yummy burrito.

I don't know how they make it so juicy.  Pork juice, I guess?

Also, see if you can spot the mistake in the first two panels of this Ms. Marvel page:

Whoops.  Still like the third best comic in print right now.

• Now I want space ham.
• Anakin Skywalker.
• Yeah, that's not a great Brainiac-5.

Saturday: I have done nothing productive today except working through my youtube watch later playlist.

I did get a burger for lunch.

They don't have the angry chicken sandwich anymore, and the current specials didn't look that great.  So I got the bulgogi burger, which isn't super bulgogi-y, but is still good.  Also garlic fries.

And I don't feel like sorting through links today. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Friday: Looks like they fixed it.

So that's good.  Still no vinegar, though.

• It would be nice if google had better support pages.
• Doctor-X is good.
• Tumblr is still better at writing movies than Hollywood.

Thursday: I can't use pictures on blogger for some reason.

Even for things that I don't have to upload, because I already added them to a google photos album.  That means I can't fix yesterday's post to include the airplane meal (from the first class upgrade), and I can't add my photo of the Asian sauces aisle from my grocery store, confirming that Chinese black vinegar isn't available there, either.

What's worse is that I also can't upload screenshots of my google photos albums, where they've run some automatic image classification analysis on everything, and have assigned things to categories like "cats" and "dogs" that aren't those things.

Wednesday: Flying home.