deathmtn

I cleaned out our physical inbox. It involved a lot of shredding. There was mail from June in there.

5x5 deadlifts.

- Did four hours of work for Client B. Maybe it's because I'm new to it, but four hours of reviewing code can wear you out. I misread something on the next to last review.
- Communicated briefly with Client A about something I needed to add more tests.
- Made carnitas for tomorrow.
- Took the guy to climbing.
- Did some Christmas shopping.

12 pull-ups. Shit got away from me today.

I'm at the part of the Kickstarter union podcast in which a case gets intercepted by someone from Trump’s AG office. That's gotta be crushing. I'm glad I know how this ends.

Today, I had lunch at 2. The needle is shaky!

Whoops, that last post should've gone out last night.

- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.
- Worked a few hours for Client B.
- Worked for half an hour on Client A.
- Chatted with someone about whether or not it's a good idea to get into front-end web development and the extent to people with diverse skill sets are valued. Also learned a lot about how font development works. It's rough! On one hand, there are very few font developers. On the other, most font foundries don't make it. They tend to not really break even with the $40/month licenses but put them out to get their stuff a reputation. Then (this is generalizing), they hope a big corporation asks them for a custom version of their font.
- Made dinner.
- Got Jack playing audio from apps that do not specifically support Jack. I've wanted this to work for months. The practical effect is that I can now watch lecture videos and use Pure Data at the time, which is huge for being able to act on what I hear right away. All I had to do was follow this, but it only had one upvote so I ignored it in the past. My friend Joseph said it worked for him, and that's the only sign I had that it was worth trying. Never trust the Internet!

For one of my clients, all of the work is reviewing code. In situations in which you're reviewing code written by customers, a lot of the work is figuring out how to phrase things diplomatically, not on spotting problems. I spent around half the time on the last review I did trying to sound direct while avoiding as many possibly upsetting angles as I could while suggesting that a basic approach created a lot of problems.

Wow, no nearby CVSes or Walgreen'ses have booster shot appointments open in the next two weeks.

34-minute run, 12 pull-ups.

Object removed from the house today: Frozen monkfish that we don’t want to try to cook. We got it maybe eight months ago, back when we got fish in our meat share.

- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off. We took the car in the morning so I could get groceries right after dropoff, and we were lucky with parking. However, that meant we were there ten minutes before doors opened, and it was raining, so we waited in the car watching videos.
- Got groceries. Unloaded the dishwasher early.
- Worked half an hour for Client A.
- Worked an hour for Client B.
- Read Chapter 5 in the Puckette book. Did not really get a lot of it, but tried to do the homework anyway. I felt I understood more or less how FM modulation worked, but my patch just did not sound right.
- Made dinner. It turned out extremely OK.
- Went to the electronic music study group. Someone else did finish the homework, and it sounded awesome. It has never occurred to me to change the timbre of an event during the event. The modulation part definitely did not have two cosines, so I'll have to watch the video like he did.

12 pull-ups.