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27 june 2024

Today did NOT start well - I spilled my water bottle when taking my meds, and as I was trying to remove stuff from water, I also spilled my coffee bowl. Thankfully Pierre helped me clean up stuff and we're back, but. Later today I also stained my jeans by dropping food on them, and I dropped my laundry basket on my foot. Not my day!

A little while ago, I fucked up my bluetooth/pulseaudio stack on my work laptop. The only usage of that bluetooth thing is to listen to music with my BT headphones. I can actually do that perfectly well with my phone - the pairing is done, and the phone interface is not worse than the browser interface. Why oh why is my brain screeching at the idea of doing that, even when I want music? Makes no sense.

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26 june 2024

Saw Paula for training session this morning, and it was really good! I'm tired, but that's to be expected, and in a good way, essentially. Today's training session was two circuits. First circuit (repeated 3 times) was

Second circuit (also repeated 3 times):

Tomorrow is DOMS day :P

I finished processing my DSLR Denmark pictures! Now I need to combine with the phone pictures into a nice album, add some captions, and be happy. I also want to make a paper album, but that's also another large chunk of work...

Therapy today went well. I am making definite progress in being more aware of what's happening to me when it's happening to me, AND making more progress with giving myself more slack around that - both as a result of said better awareness (it's easier to give myself some slack if I have some idea of how my internal state is) and as a more general approach of "work with the horse you have today".

Also there was an interesting point about how much of my behaviours can be linked to the need for a "safety buffer".

Well, I actually managed to finish the Denmark web album. It's here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2VdgocunBvaKHJzcA And I'm quite happy with it! (And with the fact that it is done less than a week after coming home.)

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25 june 2024

Books

I finished Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. It was actually amazing. I'm incredibly impressed by her ability to make me see images of contexts I do not know (something I'm not typically very good at). I was a bit afraid, at the beginning, of getting lost in proper names, but I finally got the gist of it (it may or may not have me search for a map of Gethen, which helped a lot.)

Vague spoilers (skip this section if you don't want spoilers)

I must admit I would have loved a HEA. It was fairly obvious from a few chapters before that it was probably not going to happen, and that ending got me frantically turn pages with a "no, no, nooooo" in my head, and it probably delivered a more emotional/memorable ending this way... but I would have loved a HEA.

What's next

I think I'm going to give Cal Newport's Slow Productivity a try - I'm a bit wary, considering what I read about this book, but the title makes me very curious/interested. We'll see. (Worst case, it's a short book :D )

I did manage to call my doctor's office to move an appointment that was planned during Wikimania (which I plan to attend) - victory! And I also did manage to pat myself on the back for doing it despite it being hard than berate myself for it being hard.

Watched half of Bridgerton S03E05 (will watch the second half with lunch). I really do like Penelope, but I wish Eloise would stop brooding for a minute :P

More meta-commentary: I was thinking under the shower that I really really like the TTBP/feels workflow, but that I'd like a bit more features on the web display front. And also: I really really like the tilde.town internal integration of feels, and I don't want to lose that. BUT looking at the code the other day, I can get the best of both worlds! I can roll out my modified TTBP engine for my stuff, and still rely on the global TTBP to continue working, as long as I don't touch the internal file structure. Mmmmmh. I sense some additional Python hacking in my near future (including integrating my current "paginated.py" in said personal fork, rather than relying on thinking about executing it after modifying/creating a post.

SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. (exciting!)

Work was okay, I guess - didn't feel like I achieved much, but I talked to people, and I have (unrelatedly) more understing of language variant handling of wiki titles.

Other than that, went to the burrito popup place for lunch, and my hunch was correct: I enjoyed the same food better as bowl than as burrito.

Still managed to do the 5120 steps (don't ask me why that number, Garmin got stuck on it, it seems), although I was just shy of 5000 when coming back after our evening "let's have my steps" walk.

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24 june 2024

Mostly quiet day today. Back to work after the holidays, so it was mainly catching up with stuff and people, which is perfectly fine. Also watched the meetings that I missed, and all that sort of things. All in all, I'm essentially ready to restart where I left things before the holidays, which sounds about right. And I still managed to do some code review - not a much, but some, so there's that.

After work I went for a walk - my current objective is to keep my streak of "more than 5000 steps a day" which I accidentally started over the holidays. Hey, we've been back on Friday and it's still alive, I'll take that as a success. I do need to get up more during the day, though, probably (which, well, is also kind of a Current Goal). That may be the one thing I miss by not going to an office: actually going there and walking AT LEAST A BIT during my day - it's pretty hard to make it an habit otherwise (this is not the first time I try), and it's very easy to deprioritize it (whereas when it's part of the commute, well, I actually need to go where I'm going!) Hopefully the weather will help a bit (although tonight's 26°C was almost too hot, if I'm perfectly honest :/ )

Oooh and the day ends well - officially, MediaWiki core is not moving to GitLab, and we're keeping both Gerrit and GitLab for the time being (and, as I understand it, staying on Gerrit for the use cases that are currently relevant to me). Wiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Migration_status This is not necessarily a huge surprise, but it is a large relief. I do like Gerrit a lot, I'm used to it by now, and I was definitely not looking forward to changing my current workflow.

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23 june 2024

There, the web version of this blog has a paginated version with five days per page! It was indeed pretty straightforward. It's not super pretty, but it works (although it's not fully featured yet, and I need to write a bit of doc for, like, the headers & the placeholder vars. But the MVP is visible here :)

I have reduced my set of DSLR pictures from 609 to 147! Well, that was the first selection anyway. Now - processing and more reduction, probably... and integration of the phone pictures in the final album.

Had a large steak lunch with family today, so we skipped dinner, but still watched the latest Doctor Who. Overall a very enjoyable season, both from a "writing" perspective and a "Doctor" perspective. Went for a walk after dinner to Keep The Streak - I've been hitting 5000+ steps every day during the holidays, and it feels like I should continue trying doing that.

Edited 37 pictures out of (now) 141 - well, that's progress made, I guess.

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