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Do I have to do this?

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Doing the equivalent of making a commit purely to make a CI thing run. Again!

I have a ham radio.

I feel like I've been very disciplined about my tasks most of the week and ran out of steam toward the end. So, I'm giving myself a break trying out this Webmention/IndieAuth stuff I've been hearing about, even though it isn't related to Big Goalz.

10-4-4-4-4-10. My workout has slipped to the end of the day all this week. Gotta (yet again) get stricter about doing it early. I was oddly better about this when I was sleep-deprived and depressed a few week ago because I dreaded work.

Bandcamp's waiving their share of the revenue from sales today, again! Go give money to artists! If you want something "chill", I recommend Sarah Longfield's new one.

TFW you have to edit someone's CSS in order be able to scroll to the button that allows you to pay your bill.

The USA has sort of infected Canada in a different way.

Note the American flag paraphernalia; he was Canadian but seemed to adore all things USA.

22 people killed.

It was hard to get things done today. Got 7/13 of the things I wanted do today done. Workout was 10 pull-ups. I did pick up the guitar and write a riff, though, which I haven’t done in quite a while.

A friend mentioned that meringue (as in the food) reminds him of music, so I went and looked up almost-homonym music genre, merengue. I put this playlist on out of curiosity, and I'm four track in now, no skips. It's really dense, satisfying stuff!

Testament talking a bit about how they wrote and recorded Titans of Creation.

Apparently, they work remotely! All of the members are a minimum of two hours away from each other. They email each other wav files and dry guitar signal parts.

They got together in the studio for about a month, it sounds like. There, the vocals were written. The instrumental parts are rerecorded.

It's an interesting counterpoint to new school band Blood Incantation's way of working in which they rehearse together regularly and record everything live. Of course, part of why this works for Testament is likely that they have a decades-long working relationship.

Ran 50 minutes. There were long stretches in which there were no people, so I was able to pull my scarf down without potentially spreading anything. When I did see people, I found that the key to keeping it on easily without fiddling was to hold the ends of the scarf tight with a hand.

10 pull-ups.

IF developer/author Andrew Plotkin made a puzzle game in 1989 using just directory structures:

It was originally a bunch of files and directories living in a shared Unix filesystem at CMU. You'd look around by typing ls; the room description was just a blank file with a long name! The room showed you puzzles, and you could enter answers by running a program which lived in that directory. If you answered correctly, the program would notify me and I'd add you to the access list for the next directory. Yes, manually. It was just my friends at CMU.

That's incredibly elegant! He also writes about an interesting server-side (because that was the only side you could do this on in 1995) database search app for finding verses from an extremely long song about religions. Wonderfully weird.

Ran for 15 minutes, did ten pull-ups. Not the greatest workout of all time. My excuse is that fiddling with my mask (a scarf) threw me off. (It’s now mandatory to wear a mask outside here.)

10-10-10-7-4. This is a personal best, which I wasn't actually going for. The nice thing about only doing five sets is I got to skip a set of burpees.

Hey, I put out a new episode of Small Findings. I feel like I'm making progress toward making this a habit.

It took me an hour and half to dig up various documents needed for a refinance. It's weird how long mindless stuff like that takes.