Monday: So sleepy.

I've been sleepy all day.  So sleepy.

Look at this jerk.

• Maybe this is the NFS issue?  The simple solution didn't seem to fix anything, so maybe I need to do something else.
• Grown up memes.

Sunday: I go away for a week, and I guess summer ended.

Probably not really, but it was definitely "windows open" instead of "A/C" weather today.  That was a good reason for me to cook a long simmer meal for dinner.  Plus, cooking long meals during the week isn't that easy, so I thought it'd be good to get it done today.

But I needed lunch first.  I haven't had Qdoba's brisket before.  It's good.

 Cooking brisket would take a long time.  Maybe next weekend.  I also got groceries, which only went to twice my nominal budget.  I also got a new toothbrush and a couch pillow at Target.  Pillows are good.

In any case, chili:

Chili.

I used my own recipe as the base, although I skipped the stew meat and the bacon.  This batch is really good.  There's no major heat, but by the end of my bowl I was sweating a crazy amount.  It also doesn't stick around, which is good.  It's hot while you eat it, but it's fine ten minutes after you finish.  I had thought about taking it for lunch this week, but I don't think I will, given the amount of sweat involved.

Tomorrow I want to have it with rice, since I finally found decent rice.

I guess this trip put me into the "two free bottles of water" class.  Look upon my works, ye mighty.

• I had planned on connecting my old main computer today, so I could transfer data off of it.  Unfortunately, when they packed it, they didn't include the power cable, so I couldn't do that.  Instead, I popped out the main data hard drive and put it into an external drive case.  Somehow it had this issue, with the reported size being one byte larger than physical.  `resize2fs` did fix the problem.
• The other problem I've been having is that my rsyncs were running slow.  It looks like the problem is something to do with NFS.  I'm doing direct network runs now, and that's going much faster.
• This show sounds better and better.
• Today I learned that doesthedogdie.com has other kinds of information about content.

Saturday: Saturday? I guess so.

Too much travel.

Then yelp lied to me that the close by McD would be open until midnight.  It closes at 10.  There are really no good late night places here.  That's terrible.

I loaded up AC:PC.  I feel like I abandoned them. :(

Breakfast was ok.  The sweet potato fries were cold.  So that's not great.  Also: no hot sauce? WTF?

A travel pillow.

The important thing is that I made it home, and I need to check that I have clothes for tomorrow, and then tomorrow I need to go buy groceries.  That means I probably shouldn't sleep until 4pm.

Friday: The end of the conference.

It was a good conference.  I learned a lot, and I have a pile of questions for next week when everyone is back in the office.  Now all I need to do is get home tomorrow.  That should be easy.

Since the conference ended around lunch time, I spent the afternoon catching up on news and internet stuff I've been missing.  I also discovered that my tumblr queue was empty, so after some git dancing, and some refactoring and testing for an updated system, I now have a functional RSS-to-tumblr queue snek script.  I have to do a bit more work on it for it to be completely finished.  I'm abusing a few things because I was lazy, so those should get fixed up.  As it is, though, it correctly goes through the RSS archive (by increasing date), determines if the link is to tumblr, and if it is, likes and reblogs.  Finally, the RSS entry is unflagged, removing it from the archive for the future.  Running the script now takes about a minute, compared to much longer to manually spawn the link in a tab and click through to queue it.  Yay increasing my internet reading efficiency.

It was a fairly nice day.

 I didn't like lunch, so I planned to get a big dinner.

I think this was cilantro butter.  I could never live here.  The soap flavor would kill me.

A big steak.  I would have preferred better veggies, less cilantro sauce, and a "prickly pear steak sauce" that emphasized tart over sweet.  Still, it was a good steak, cooked to a great level.

I've realized that I'm going to need to go out and get groceries tomorrow night when I get home.  Ugh.

• F the P.
• "We’re not in the crossover this year". UGH.
• I should read this article more fully.  It seems interesting.

Thursday: I don't think I've won a single board game game yet.

But I won a raid.

Dumped a Mareep into a gym.

 Learned a bunch about a major system at work, even if I'm not 100% on board with the new changes, because I'm not sure they go far enough for me.

I then watched an excellent talk. Oh, then more board games.

Today's dinosaur was more abstract.

Tomorrow is the last conference day.  Then another travel day.  Ugh.

Wednesday: I...I'm lost on conference land.

It didn't help that I spent like five hours playing board games this evening.

Put my rainbow sludge in the gym.

This is always what's here, in the board game room.

Board game quesadilla.  I should make chorizo quesadillas at home.

I tried very hard, but didn't come in last.  Taking all the "unique" blue bones for my dinosaur, and then converting them into a petrified halo was a saving grace.  My strategy of "one creepy long arm" wasn't as successful.

WTF, Arizona?

Oh yeah, also I learned a good amount about ML methods for deblending, and some interesting optics discussion about PSFs.  And I didn't break the git repo, so that's always good news.

• What the absolute fuck is wrong with these people?
• I finally switched my webserver over to https.  Yay, super secure crap password!
• There's a board game PAX now?

Tuesday: Ugh so sleepy

Breakfast had bacon.  The sessions had science stuff.  Lunch had pasta.  More science.  Dinner had tasty ribs.  Then board games.  SO sleepy now.

This is a good place to put people in the gym.

Desert sky.

With lightning, as it's been doing that since I got back to my room after board games.

Gifts.

Shiny muk is pretty awesome.

 I should have used an egg/

Fire chicken.

Questionable Character Design.

That Looks Painful.

Death Hug McSpines.

• I was able to help my team win Codewars by remembering Churchill's speech.

Monday: Tomorrow starts even earlier

At least tomorrow I won't be confused about what time it is, because I will remember that my phone is correct, and my laptop (along with all the computers I connect to (that aren't in Hawaii)) are three hours ahead, not two.  Arizona doesn't do DST, but not because they're in the middle of the ocean by themselves where it doesn't matter (like Hawaii), but because of reasons.  I guess.

The mountains are cool here.

 I spent a good chunk of the day doing cleanup work on three tickets that I want to finish this week.  Tomorrow I should ruin people's weeks by asking for code reviews.

Mexican Coke?  In the better Medio Litro version?  Yes, please!

 And then conference stuff, and then there was board game stuff, along with a lot of meeting people who I will likely have trouble remembering names.   I am bad with names.

Finally caught this jerk.

As I was returning to my room after board games,  I saw this thing in the outside hallway:

No.  Unacceptable.

No thank you.

• Wakanda forever.
• This was one of the games, and I couldn't remember if I'd played it somewhere or if I'd just watched Wil Wheaton play it.  Turns out to be the second one.

Sunday: But at least it all went well.

I was, in order:

1. Not murdered by the stranger I paid to drive me to the train station.
2. Able to buy the correct train ticket without trouble.
3. Step onto the platform at exactly the right time to greet the train going my way.
4. Slip through security with only minor "how do people with this little sense of how to do things get pre-check" problems.
5. Ate a egg/ham/cheese croissant that wasn't sulfurous and bad.
6. Fly to Houston.
7. Eat a salmon BLT with avocado, even if I had to convince the incredulous waitress that I in fact, wanted zero mayo, no matter what variety they had.
8. Fly to Tucson, and due to the wonders of "packing light," didn't have to gate check my bag.

Part of that last one is the fact that flying to SFO for so long that I eventually just bought an alternate wardrobe made me hate flying with bags.  The fact that the Honolulu gate agents were super strict with the carryon policy didn't hurt either.

Aforementioned BLT.  A nice herby focaccia as well. 

I have never been to Tucson until now.

 It's the desert.

Except it's monsoon season, I guess.

Which means cool sunsets.

 And then dinner, which I didn't take pictures of because I didn't want to look crazy.

But then to my room, which looked like spies had tried to find where I'd hidden the diamonds.

Except I hadn't been to the room yet, I don't have any diamonds, and it's probably just that the cleaning staff forgot to finish cleaning it.  A quick phone call, and I'm in a different room that's all clean.

• Based on the SFO tag, I was there for 148 posts/days.  Between the first date and now, there are 1357 days, meaning I've spent almost 11% of the last four years visiting California.
• I am grumpy how this book made the series I've been reading since I left Hawaii.   I think I have two more books already bought, and the eighth in the series comes out later this year.
• I don't know, a tumblr thing.

Saturday: I don't like travel

Although it's getting increasingly simple to pack for things, probably in part because I need to bring fewer things.  It's too soon for me to have a fully working private cloud system running, but all the parts are there.  I'm even tempted to not bother with a laptop next time I visit someplace for not-work.

Well, maybe not quite yet.

Also I cleared out another four boxes of books.

I think.  Something like that.  These two shelves are now full, and the two I shipped from Hawaii have a few shelves full.  One of those is dedicated for oversize books, and the other I've been loading with personal notebooks.  In any case, I need at least two more of these shelves, which also implies that I'm going to have to shuffle a bunch of those books to the new shelves.

Tomorrow will be a big day, since I have to get up early to catch my ride to the train station, where I'll have to catch a train to the airport, then two flights, then another car ride to the conference hotel.

• I'm curious who will win.
• Good.
• Train schedule.

Friday: I need to start packing.

And figure out the best way to get to the airport.  It's not quite the same, since I no longer live close enough to see it.  Ugh.  At least I'm reasonably sure all the food that will go bad is gone.

I usually don't capture new Pokemon.

• This kind of looks good.

Thursday: Eight terabytes of free space

192.168.1.10:/mnt/md0/media  7.3T   36G  7.2T   1% /data/NAS/media

Ok, so it's 7.3 when you convert from fake numbers to base 2.  But still, that's a lot of free space.

It also doesn't quite fit where I planned to put it.

I'll have to move it at some point.  Four disks, 4TB each, RAID 10 to stripe and mirror for safety, and then an evening of configuration to make sure it allows ssh connections in, that it allows NFS connections in, and that it serves DLNA data to the local network.  The ssh and NFS work through the wifi firewall, so I have no clue why that never worked with the old system.  Speaking of which, I'll need to plug that in soon so I can rsync data off before decommissioning it.  That picture above shows the current main computer.  One box running the RAID array and storage, and a tiny box running the firewall and services.  The NAS runs linux as well, so I could set that up as the service backup, but I think I'm likely to get another tiny box.

I didn't finish reading the internet, and I need to start panicking about travel tomorrow.  Yay, fun.

Wednesday: Four boxes.

At this rate, I have about a week's worth of unpacking left to do.  Except I can't keep doing that, since I leave for Arizona this weekend.  And tomorrow I have to do computer stuff because I really want to decommission my big old computer as soon as possible, so I spent $700 on new computer stuff today.

Because no matter what, a brand new computer is always going to be "like $1000".  At least now I'm switching to a more distributed, cluster-like system.

Anyway, this is basically what four boxes of books looks like.

I think I need to shim one of my bookcases to keep it from tipping over before I load it up with more books.  It should also go faster now.  I think all of my books have been inserted into the catalog at this point, and although I still have some that are missing LOC numbers, the majority do.

• Squirrels.
• I'm going to need to do this at some point, so I need to get vinegar.
• Hopefully I'll be able to rip all my DVDs with this new system, so I can have always-available video without having to get off the couch.
• Instructions.

Tuesday: I finally have stuff again!

Followed immediately by the thought: I have too much stuff.

I mean.

So I'm going to take it reasonably slow, and unpack things as much as I can, and figure out which things I don't need.  Most of those boxes are full of books, and I've started out by organizing bookshelves.  They were super dusty and cobwebby, and now both are clean.  I still probably need another four shelves, but whatever.  I'm also going to try and properly sort things into correct LOC classification.

After getting my new TV, I decided that I should get a Roku for my old TV as well.  Drop $50, and it now can stream a bunch of stuff without me needing to rent another stupid cable box or deal with Comcast in any way.  Given that my new TV has been used for Youtube 90% of the time, and I've been watching NHK the other 10% (which I can get on Roku without trouble), this seems like the best idea.  Eventually I'll sort out my media storage, and I'll be able to stream my own stuff via DLNA or something.

I also correctly chose which box had pots in it, so I was able to make dinner tonight.  I think I'm going to try to do bento for work lunch after getting back from Arizona.

• Well that's pretty horrible.
• Library of Congress categories.
• I'll have to write a program to download my kindle library information so I can include that in the book database.

Monday: Reading APIs and sorting through schemas isn't a lot of fun.

I'm going to have questions, too.  I'm pretty sure there are things missing from the database stuff.

But I also had a bunch of good news today.

I officially have health insurance again.

And my moving reimbursement has been processed and should be in my account tomorrow.

Plus, tomorrow movers come with my stuff.  Finally.  Almost ten weeks later.  But at least I'll be able to make rice!  And spaghetti!  And mac&cheese!  And I'll be able to finish cataloging and organizing books!

Except I fly to Tucson on Sunday, so a lot of this is going to have to wait until I get back.

A bunny!  Outside, doing bunny things!

• Maybe don't do crimes.
• Yeah.  Beth Fukumoto.
• Betsy DeVos is a garbage person, and has a garbage house.

Sunday: I legitimately didn't do anything today.

I did take two different naps, though.  Today just felt like a nap day.

• This looks like a decent recipe to reproduce the garlic noodles I always got at that place in Alameda.

Saturday: I did basically nothing.

That's not totally true.  I cleaned the bathroom and got the trash ready to go out tomorrow.  But I also woke up, went to get lunch, came back, and took a nap.  Doing nothing can be exhausting.

Also I got like everything at Panera.  I wanted soup and sandwich, but the M&C kept calling to me.

• I just like the first gif.
• That's cool.

Friday: And then I crammed all my productivity into one day.

I wrapped up the big ticket I've been working on for weeks, and merged it into the master branch.  It's done, and I can move on to other things.  Like the other ticket, which I discovered today won't work easily due to choices already made.  So we'll have to see how it goes next week.  I have a solution that's not pretty, but is probably the fastest and clearest way to get things done.  Plus, it has the benefit of having the program be data agnostic, instead of forcing N programs for N data sets.

Also my backup hard drive arrived at work.

With the crappiest pop-free bubble wrap ever.

But the day was successful, so it was time to celebrate.

With a burrito!

 And a trip to Target!  I bought new towels, cleaning stuff to keep my apartment clean, and snacks.  Also an xbox.

So I can play Bloodstained, which is by IGA, who made the greatest game ever.

 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

Which is also available.

And I got a few other games, some of which were free (so they probably want money later for things), some of which I've just wanted to play for awhile.  It turns out years of not playing video games has made my hands slow to do games.  I think SotN will help with this, as I know that game backwards and forwards and upside down.

• I should look at the Hawaii races to see who I would have voted for.  Beth Fukumoto?  Maybe.
• Good.  DIAF.
• A cat, because I have no third link.

Thursday: I don't feel like I've been productive this week.

Which makes me feel like I should be extra productive next week, but I might be getting my stuff delivered next week.  And the week after that is Tucson, so that's not going to help, either.  Ugh.

Also for some reason I've been extra hungry this week.  I had a big dinner, then ate a bunch of ice cream, and I kind of want to eat all my dinner leftovers now.  That would give me a reason to eat out for dinner tomorrow, but I probably shouldn't.  Maybe I have something snacky.

• This is dumb.
• Because this is funny.
• Too bad this realization didn't hit two year ago.
• I also kind of want creamy mushroom pasta.

Wednesday: New computer day!

New computer day is always good, because it means that I can bring my laptop home, and that doing work is going to be much easier.

Satellite dish not included.

The case is much smaller than my old computer, but rotom is much better than threes: 12 cores instead of 4; 32 GB RAM instead of 8; something like eight generations newer; half size hard drive, but it's an SSD.  I enjoy having far more desk real estate, so I can have multiple windows open, stretched to a reasonable size, and flip between them as needed.

Now I'm deep in the process of sorting through old files and programs so I can come up with a proper git repository for my things.  I have a lot of junk in my CVS hierarchy.  A lot of that junk is really poorly advertised.  One good thing I discovered is that my rsynced CVS repository copy is missing a lot of things, so I have no clear way to reconstruct a master branch.  So that's going to be fun.  I also need to decide which things deserve isolated repositories (probably robospect and superking).

• Converting CVS to git.
• I mean, I don't want to come off as insensitive, but you literally cannot get lost on Oahu.  Are you walking uphill?  Stop, turn around.  You're making a mistake.  Have you walked so far downhill that you're at the ocean?  Look around.  Find the nearest hotel.  You are found.  Sure, Wahiawa is the middle of the island, and the central plateau is pretty flat.  It's still not that hard.
• Should I get an Xbox?  It seems like there are more than zero games I would enjoy.  Plus, according to this, I don't need to lose an HDMI port to it.