Saturday: Ok, so today was a bit lazy.

I did laundry last night, and I got trash bags at Target today, so I picked up trash today, but it still doesn't seem like I did much.  No idea what I'm doing tomorrow.

I forgot Firehouse existed.  It's over by Target, so it was a decent place for lunch.

I also dumped 123 candies on my favorite Haunter today.

• There will be a new volume of Spell on Wheels.  :)
• Do we really need a movie for the Joker?  The backstory in Mask of the Phantasm is unlikely to be done better.

Friday: Long weekend.

Because of the regular weekend, plus the holiday, plus I'm getting my brakes fixed on Tuesday, plus no one is here next week.  "You probably should have taken a proper vacation," yes, I know I probably should have taken a proper vacation.  I bought Assassin's Creed: Odyssey instead for now, and I get to run around and stab bad guys and call my horse and my bird and make them do helpful things.  Yay for sales.

Yay for "WTF are you doing way over there?  How did the spin radius get boosted to like two in-scale meters?"

• And I've gotten to the point of this series where they give characters sad backstories to make you feel bad, but they could just as easily not have done that.
• Christ, what an asshole.
• Charter schools are bad.
• Goose game is coming.

Thursday: I'm sleepy.

So sleepy.  One more day of trying to figure out what needs to be fixed on this project, and then a three day weekend.  Woo.

Finally moved to the next stage of this quest.

• I wish people understood what's best for them.
• I wish Jen would get better writing.

Wednesday: Almost 100%

Plus today was planning at work, so I now have a decent idea of what I'm working on for nearly the entire rest of the year.  Double plus, there's no conference in December, so I won't have to rush to end Thanksgiving.

This seems new.

I finished Castlevania Season 1 today, and I can't wait for the next season to come out.  Very well done.

• Too bad the rest of the world is awful.
• A good list, because they got number one right.  Yes, I get that they're probably trying to be satire, but they're bad at it.

Tuesday: I wish my ears would stop clicking.

It's the "there's still gunk, so swallowing makes clicky sound" issue.  It sucks.

This moth has been outside for the past two days.

• Generate your own nonsense AI text.
• A good list of banned words.
• Medical papers are bad.  Do you have a formula, or a useful set of covariance parameters?
• I hate that this is necessary.
• "Panther a always, panther a once."

Monday: Being back to work means being distracted by random things.

1) Stardew:

Oh geeze, I don't know?  This seems awfully fast, and I'm not sure I'm old enough to have a video game kid.

This, this isn't helping any!  Yikes.  Way to ramp up the pressure, Leah!

2) Twitter, lists, and those being used by bots to target attacks.

I saw this tweet yesterday, which made me think about how easy it should be to automatically block everyone who has put you on a list, and I was able to slap together this:

#!/usr/bin/python3

import twitter as tw
import time

api = tw.Api(consumer_key=CONSUMER_KEY,
             consumer_secret=CONSUMER_SECRET,
             access_token_key=ACCESS_TOKEN,
             access_token_secret=ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)

mm = api.GetMemberships(screen_name=SN, count=200)

ff = []
npage, ppage, new = api.GetFollowersPaged(screen_name=SN, count=200, cursor=-1)
ff.extend(new)

while npage != 0:
    time.sleep(1)
    npage, ppage, new = api.GetFollowersPaged(screen_name=SN,
                                              count=200, cursor=npage)
    ff.extend(new)
    print(npage, ppage, len(ff), ff[-1])

print(ppage, npage, new)
for idx, r in enumerate(mm): # .sort(key=lambda r: r['id'])):
    print(idx, repr(r))
    resp = api.CreateBlock(user_id = r.user.id)

which has key variables removed (for "don't spread your access tokens and secrets on your blog" reasons), and I think doesn't work due to incomplete testing (because I didn't want to auto-block however many people accidentally;  most things up to the block bit work fine if need to be rate limited more), but it seems like someone else would have come up with this already.

3) I hate when libraries don't have what seems like a critical function.

No comment.

4) How common was this?

This floorplan (along with a lot of others on that tumblr) have "maid rooms" included.  That made me wonder how often that happened.  From here, it sounds like 20-60%, depending on where in the country.  This says closer to 10%.  Still, wow.  Also: racism.

5) Other stuff.

• Shiny eeveelutions aren't great.
• New enlightenment.  I'll have to update soon.

Sunday: I think I might actually not feel sick tomorrow.

Everything has faded into a weak ear ache and a small sore throat.

Yeah.  I've been sick.  You don't have to rub it in, Android.

I think it was today's ramen that helped heal me.  Or something boring like "time".

• The Castlevania show is good, although I've only watched one episode.  I'm also sad to learn that my season 1 bluray only has four episodes because that's all there are in season 1.
• That's ridiculous.
• I like filler episodes.

Saturday: I've gone through a box of kleenex today.

Which sucks.  But I bought four more today, so that's something.  Really wish this cold would fuck off now.  I learned today that if one ear is clogged, but the other is fine, you get dizzy, probably because your brain has to try to sort out two completely different balance signals.

So that's it, today was pretty crappy because I didn't do much other than get groceries and feel like I'm about to puke.  Ugh.

Oh yeah.

One of those piece of shit Koch brothers died, so that's one fewer billionaire alive today.

Friday: I finally went to work.

I'm still not 100%, and my ears are still clogged, but I had to get out to a new environment.  Plus, I needed to do some shopping, as I was out of ibuprofen and kleenex.  I answered emails, and did travel expenses for my three conferences, and did some minor work.

This is a busy travel time for me, based on my historical photos.

• I miss old Gawker.
• This should really be part of all grad school orientations.
• Huh.  My local grocery store is moving slightly farther away, but will be taking over the empty place, and will hopefully have even more cool stuff.

Thursday: I'm going in to work tomorrow.

If for no other reason than to get a change of location.  My cold/death has moved up into my ears, which means things sound weird, and I occasionally don't do the "balance" thing as well as I'm supposed to.  My hope is that this is finished tomorrow.

I did work today, so that's something.  Maybe I'll even get a successful build instead of randomly having things crash in an unrelated bit of code.

• I also finished CCS, and it occurred to me that I'd never seen any art of grown-up Sakura.  Still haven't, it seems.
• Hugo awards.
• Does Apple make anything that isn't a joke anymore?
• :O

Wednesday: Three days at home is how long it takes me to go from "yay naps" to "fuck this shit"

I did head out today, mostly to see if cough syrup would help.  Maybe?  I'm hoping tomorrow I wake up and feel all better, because I have things I need to do at work, and those things are hard to do when you keep falling asleep on the couch.

I was able to call into the weekly meeting, although I had to croak out "I can hear you, I just can't speak" when it was my turn for things.

Did I know they sold Topo Chico here?  I didn't get it, because it wasn't on the list.

I like when my comics are political, even when this is an issue that shouldn't be.

• Why it's important that all countries have leaders that don't suck.
• Changepoint detection.
• L-1 filtering.  I should probably implement this for the spectrum code.
• It's Kelly Thompson, so I'm not that worried.  I kind of hope this arc involves punching Jennifer until she turns back into regular She-Hulk.
• I should probably go to my local library.

Tuesday: I am over being sick now.

It's be nice to be able to get up and go to work tomorrow without feeling awful.  I'd also like to not have to sleep all day.  Let's try harder to get better, immune system.

Ducks.

• This is stupid.
• I can't wait to have a government that isn't stupid, inept, and dangerous.
• Ok.
• I tried to do science today, but failed due to falling asleep.
• Bolometric corrections.
• GC catalog.

Monday: Sick day.

I ordered groceries late last night, and they were delivered today at 10:30am.  My phone woke me up, I put things in the fridge, and then went back to bed for another four hours.

Then got clean and took a nap.  And then made food and took a nap.  And now I think I might want to take a nap before going to bed.

The point being, that being sick is actually just shutting your body down so it can fix things.  It kind of sucks, and I feel like I wasted the day instead of doing much of anything for work, but that's how it goes for today.  I'm still not sure about tomorrow, but if I do stay home, I really need to do some sort of work.

I'm super happy I had leftover chili in the freezer so I had a meal ready to go.

It would have been better if I'd remembered to order an avocado, and I also forgot to order arugula for sandwiches at work this week.  Also doritos would have been nice.  Or just some tortillas. I think the point is that I should probably not order groceries late at night while sick.

• Why people are awful.
• Did I mention that people are awful?
• Just awful.

Sunday: Being sick.

It sucks.  Coughing sucks.  Sore throats suck.  I hate everything involved with this.  At least it's not as bad as the strep throat I had last year.

I almost took a picture of this again this year.

• Good.  I've been enjoying the Wayfarers series a lot this month.

Saturday: Flying home, being sick.

Ugh.  We'll see how tomorrow feels.

Breakfast burrito.

 With no cheese? WTF?

Airport pretzel.

It wasn't as good as usual, because it wasn't greasy.

Friday: The end.

Which is good, because I've been feeling worse as the day went on.  I'm starting to cough and be snuffly, so I think "con-death" is very likely.  I'll be glad to be home tomorrow.

Where I'll hopefully not wake up at 5:30am.

I did get my rebase to finish and build, after a lot of help and a lot of C++ deciphering.  It probably works, so I can finish the rest of the packages Monday, and get this bit out for review.  And then get the next project going.  And get documentation out for both of those and a third one I mostly just want to have an opinion on.  And maybe do outreach/education science stuff.

Or just hide in bed until I feel better.

• Monster Factory.
• This looks like a good comic.
• Authoritanism.
• Unions are good.

Thursday: So tired.

It's been a long week, and I still have one more day to get through.

The fact that this game went on for like four hours didn't help.

• These people are bad at their jobs.

Wednesday: Only half over?

That doesn't sound right.  I'm pretty sure I've been at this conference for forever at this point.  Still interesting, still learning stuff, still using things I've read about to make cool figures:

I can't figure out the transform code to flatten the orbits down into a plane, but I'm probably over looking something.

BBQ for the Team Dinner.  I like BBQ.

The gym.

And then some Codenames, which we lost the first game of because my team overthought.

• Look at me being surprised.
• Squirrels.
• Another game that might be cool.

Tuesday: "it’s not a special forces attack paras."

Second day of the conference, but the first with real sessions.  Plenaries, a session about the educational outreach (which I should probably sent suggestions and code pointers for), one on how we're going to handle calibration products (sanely), and one about calibration (which had no chairs).

Then there was the "banquet", which I ditched out of early because it was hot, loud, and full of people.

I saw a lizard as I was leaving.

I then took a quick nap, and then looked into how hard it would be to code up some simple cuts and cleaning for PS1DR2 data.

Turns out, pretty easy.

I didn't implement a background source removal, but that's not super-too-hard to do (generate likely contamination probabilities by comparing source counts per sky area per plot area, and then selectively show sources depending on that probability).  Also, white dwarfs are more orders of magnitude fainter than I remembered.

• What.
• Oh, also this paper has some useful target lists.
• Everyone should have a union.
• Pokemon.

Monday: First conference day.

I think I had a witty title, but I forgot what it was.

Not much science today.  I did learn about some of the other parts of the project, and the current status.  Tomorrow I need to help work through the CPP stuff, which hopefully will be similar to what I would like it to be.

There's a gym here.

 But the gym sometimes refuses to cooperate.  So sometimes you waste your raid pass trying to get into the raid, but everyone else got into the other raid, and so you can't beat the stupid air snake.

I helped kill that air snake.

 But then there were board games, with semi-illegal outside food, because there are rules this year (????).

But they did not put cilantro on everything like some kind of monster, and were cool with my "no beans, plz" note.

 I also discovered that none of the payment things are easy to set up or use.  Why can't I just transfer money into a generic google account that I can use to buy things from google in the future?

And we played "Chaos in the Old World," which I did not win, despite everyone claiming I was totally winning the whole time.

I also did not win the Alice in Wonderland parade game, but I spent the first game organizing dinner orders.

• Tumblr was sold again.
• For less than three million dollars?  They could have just done a kickstarter if that was the sale price.  I would have kicked in money to buy a small part of the site.
• I only know her from her short time at Rooster Teeth, but this doesn't seem right.  All jobs should pay reasonable wages.
• A 14th century nun.
• I'll need to read this more fully in the future, but a) what an asshole; and b) the system is supposed to prevent things like this from happening.

Sunday: Travel. Blech.

Especially travel that starts so early it's yesterday.  The surprising thing was that I was not the only person to book this terrible itinerary, which was reasonably nice.  There were also a half dozen other people who were arriving at the hotel at 10am.  I did get the upgrade for the DEN-TUC leg, which included a better seat and a muffin.

I would have preferred a more mountain-y view, but given that I'm unlikely to be in my room much other than today, I guess it doesn't matter.

And there's a gym, so I could do the "do a raid, any raid, even the raids against ice trash."

I probably could have worked better to get more contrast to show the nice sunset, but there were bugs, and it was hot.

• What?

Saturday: Ugh, travel.

Ugh.  Breakfast for late lunch, then "the rest of my uneaten cheese, but sandwiched" just now.  Trash taken out, dishes and laundry done, so almost everything will be clean when I get back in a week.

I think I like evening flights the best.  Those seem to have the minimum of stress.  Early morning is clearly the worst, and "so early I'm leaving today even though it's technically tomorrow" the super worst.

I kind of like the "here are all the Pikachus you never found" event.  Although I now have even more Pikachus I'll never need or use.

Now to play Bloodstained for two hours before putting on travel clothes and waiting for my car.

• I shouldn't say anything, probably.
• We all know what to say to things like this.
• Hotel map, in case I want to look it up.  Online check in puts me in building 3, which I think is where I was last year.

Friday: I probably should have packed.

Instead I was lazy and did nothing.  I did schedule my car for tomorrow at 2:30AM.  I figure it'll take about a half hour to get there, my flight is at 5, so probably boards around 4:30, so that gives me a half hour to get through security and an hour for slack.  Maybe breakfast, if they have anything open.  I need to never schedule an early flight like this again.

Also today was like 90% telecons, which I never want to do again.

Team Rocket isn't very scary.

• Peace.
• Not really the scariest country, right?

Thursday: Five years ago, my flight was cancelled, and there was a hurricane.

Security closed.

• Have I posted this thing about pet squirrels before?
• This needs fixed.
• Maybe don't break the terms of service?

Wednesday: It turns out the problem was that I was dumb.

And the thing that I needed to have wasn't being set until after I'd passed the thing that holds it back out.  So the new stuff wasn't saved right.

A new fish!

• These people are just awful.
• I don't think I've read this.

Tuesday: Ok, solved two other issues. I guess this means I should do the main thing for work tomorrow.

The first was a dumb config error in the spectrum code.  Now it works as intended, and I only had to fight it for like two hours.

The second was stuff I can probably put a PR for at some point into a public library.  I also think that it probably covers most of the stuff I will need for the presentation this Friday.  Which I should probably think more about.

Iao Valley.  Nine years ago.

• Hard drives.
• Today's episode was good, because it resolved the Yukito-Sakura relationship in a satisfying way.
• I kind of want this farming game.
• Maggie Haberman is a shitty "journalist."
• Was anyone going to tell me that Austin has an art museum?
• I need more books.

Monday: I think this technically means I've beaten the game.

Although I think I have to go for 100% completion.  I kind of wish it had a NewGame+, so I could carry over some stuff (like, even just my greenhouse would be nice) and start kind of fresh, but I think I'll just stick with my main game.

Besides, I'd kind of feel weird about marrying someone else now.  On that topic:

I finally got married in SV, beating the end of year two by one week.

I think someone should have told my new wife, however.

"Yeah, sure!" And then I ran off to reorganize the greenhouse and plan out the farm for the next year.  Then: fishing and clearing the quarry.

Oh.  OH.  OOOHHHHHH!  😲

 I wasn't expecting that.  Another thing I wasn't expecting:

WHAT?

WHAT!?!?!  I'm married, Abigail!  I have a purple star when I talk to my wife, which I'm pretty sure means that she's still in to me.

Let's check in on the other main married family in town.

Um

wow.  I somehow don't think Demetrius has the purple star going for him.

JFC, Demetrius!  Does anyone in your family not hate you?

Good to see you're taking things seriously.  Are you even in charge of the trees and rocks in public?  I assume the mayor would make the rules about that.

Then, on the first day of the new year, after giving me that blushing wink face above, Leah ambushed me as I was leaving our house.

The Art Show!

The Art Show!

The Art Show!

I knew she had an art show event that triggers after you reach an N-heart relationship.  I guess the show can only happen when it isn't winter, so if you turn on all the dating things to rush your relationship before the end of year two, you get things out of order, and the Art Show happens after you get married.  Which leads to the weird ambush.  And this letter:

"Leah!" I shouted from outside.  "I was right there!  You couldn't have told me this while we were having breakfast?"

Nope.  Because the game assumes we didn't just have breakfast.  In any case, I then went on my way to do some fishing at the river.

Where I was again ambushed by my wife into a surprise picnic.

Where her ex showed up, telling her she should leave town and go back to the city.  Excuse me, Jerkface, but we're married now, and I'm committed to keeping that purple star.  I punched Jerkface out, and then Leah said we should flee the scene of the crime, but that we should find someplace "more private".

You know we're married, right?

• So Gannett's going to go bankrupt because all their money is going to pay the people who bought them out, isn't it?
• I didn't know that Niven was an awful person.  Guess I'm glad I've never read any of his crap.
• I had the thought today to look up other books that I might like based on the books I've liked so far this year.  Here are three that I should probably look into, once I've burned through my backlog.
• Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh
• The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin