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The guy's instruction to me every time I cook something for him: Add as much salt as possible.Comments
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Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the then governor.
Yet another strike against monarchs.
of Canada, did not think much of Pile 0’ Bones as a name for town, much less a territorial capital. In 1883, when the railroad reached this former Indian campsite on the prairie that was about to go on to greater dim, the princess intervened. She named the new capital of the Northwest Territories in honor of her mother. -
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Should it invade Ukraine, it turns out , it turns out the Russian state is fairly well-prepped to weather blowback. Also, quite a lot of stuff has happened in order to build to this point. (Which, I guess, yeah, it always does.)Comments
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It turns out you have to do quite a lot of shit just to automatically get episode length into a podcast feed.Comments
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I'm most of the way through City of Glass, Douglass Coupland's guide to Vancouver from 20 years ago. It sounds like a chill and fun place! I mentioned it to Katt, and she pointed out that Vancouver may now be doomed by climate change. I was like, dag. Still a fun read, though.Comments
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Oh, yeah, I finished Confessions of a Crap Artist a week or so ago. It was hilarious, and I was a little stunned that there was no science fiction in it. Maybe PKD has other non-sci-fi work? I thought he was 100% sci-fi. But it's just five or so characters interacting in the '60s, each sharing their points of view in turn. It actually has a general shape that would later be shared by Coen Bros. movies.Comments
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- I wrapped up what should be the lion's share of my commitments for Client A. We'll see how that lands.
- Client B work. I did 18 code reviews this week and hit my target number of hours.
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I subscribe to notifications from Harvard about part-time jobs. It never has anything applicable to me. But you do learn when they're hiring custodians. Here's today's email:Comments
These jobs matched the criteria specified for: Part-time
1. Custodian (55928BR)
2. Custodian (55929BR)
3. Custodian B (55930BR)
4. Custodian B (55931BR)
5. Custodian A (55944BR)
6. Custodian B (56264BR)
7. Custodian B (56265BR)
8. Custodian B (56270BR)
9. Custodian B (56275BR)
10. Custodian B (55202BR)
11. Custodian A (55921BR)
12. Custodian B (56207BR)
13. Custodian B (56214BR)
14. Custodian B (56217BR)
15. Custodian A (55949BR)
16. Custodian B (55953BR)
17. Custodian B (56218BR)
18. Custodian B (56221BR)
19. Custodian B (56222BR)
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- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off, picked up.Comments
- Called about some health insurance stuff.
- Updated [basic-browser-request](https://github.com/jimkang/basic-browser-request) to address a dependency security vulnerability.
- Client B work.
- Client A work. I might be close to the end of this?
- More toilet plunging. I'm determined to keep it performing at top-level.
- Made dinner.
- Got the guy to practice some writing. I tried saying, hey, want to do some fun writing and earn a bunch of pom poms for the jar? But he said nah, so I had to make the fun mandatory. (I hate doing that because it erodes trust as well as being glaring proof of the failure of my activity design, but he sometimes literally writes one word per minute. He knows all the stuff he needs to know to do things in school, but this keeps him from keeping up.) Once he started it wasn't too bad, though.
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When Canadians talk about what it means to be Canadian, it’s often to this charter that they return as an expression of fundamental principles and beliefs. They also define themselves as a peacekeeping nation and as a nation with respect for law. “Peace, order, and good government” is how they put it—the “POGS.”
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The high school kid at around the 20-minute mark in this Daily episode sounds like he's 50 years old. I forgot there were kids in Chicago that sound like that.Comments
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- Fixed a retirement account thing. Also, I totally do not believe I'll be able to retire.Comments
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30-minute run (hills avoided), 12 pull-ups.Comments
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Welp, someone in the guy's class tested positive for COVID. It was bound to happen. This time, it wasn't someone he sits near. But I gotta mentally brace myself for next time, when it might be, and he has to quarantine for a week.Comments
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- Got groceries.
- Client B work.
- Talked to a startup CEO. I thought we were going to talk about a potential contract, but he announced that in the last couple of days that his company had pivoted from a Peloton-ish fitness company to an internal business tools company.
- Helped the guy with some homework. There was a problem that I really didn't know how to do. Specifically, how to do it with standard second-grader knowledge. We rolled with the guy's direction on this because the way I thought of involved square roots. But even to do it his way, we had to create a ruler on another piece of paper, which seemed too complex. I'm interested in seeing what the actual designer-intended solution is.
- Client A work. It's not the worst in the world, but this contract may have not been the best decision on my part in terms of pay for effort.