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Bonus Cat: [Eats my cereal while I’m cooking somethjngrlse]
The guy: Hey, you’re eating dad’s cereal.
The guy: [Continues to watch Bonus Cat eating my cereal]

I forgot my phone and made it to Newton and back without getting lost. I was weirdly proud of the kind of "feat" I used to do all the time 20 years ago.

I think I pulled something in my upper back while doing a burpee. The Oldening is in full effect.

I took a look at 4dayweek.io, and I'm impressed that there's enough jobs like that to warrant a web site, but I also don't want to do any of the things up there for four days a week. (Also, a some of those are "36-hour week" listings, which you can just get by having a 40-hour week job and stopping early each day.) That feels like it's a bit unreasonable of me, but I know from actual lived misery, that it's best for me to not get into situations I feel like that, unreasonable or not.

13 pull-ups.

From Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master:

In an interview I conducted with Matthew
Mercer, the Dungeon Master for the popular Critical
Role streaming game, Matt stated that he can spend
up to three hours preparing for each hour of his game.

I initially found that jaw-dropping and then remember that Critical Role is a multimillion dollar enterprise.

- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.
- "Fixed" (it's not the world's greatest fix) an RSS bug in static-web-archive/static-web-pick so that Anoited's and Music's RSS feeds are actually up-to-date.
- Client B work.
- Updated my resume.
- D&D prep.

Itch.io is doing a Bandcamp Friday of sorts! Everyone get Noita, then talk with me about how weird it is!

37-minute run, 13 pull-ups.

- Picked up, dropped off, picked up, dropped off.
- Client B work.
- Chatted with someone interested in getting into the ol' web development game.
- Got nephew a birthday present.
- Went to the library to turn in a book we unwittingly stole from the library. We have reckoned.
- Helped with math homework.
- Started preparing for D&D.

13 pull-ups.

When someone on a podcast says "meatier topic", I always hear "meteor topic".

- Did some macroing to convert some real estate pdf into a csv. Boy, things are really expensive out there!
- Moved Client A stuff off my laptop. 10 GB freed!
- Got back to the vocoder for the first time this month. (!) I thought there may be a precision issue. The smallest RFFT result on the Pure Data side is 2.45871729E-06. On the C++ side, it's 8.57E-08. When squared, these differences are magnified. I tried clamping non-zero FFT results to a minimum absolute value to make them more similar, but the later phases still seem to wildly diverge. There's a phase with the awkward name "carrier-fft-real-x-reduced-amp-factors" (things get really abstract at that point) in which differ by six orders of magnitude which I may have fixed, but things are still messed up. I think the next step is to rip the block that is being logged in pd and feeding it into the C++ vocoder.
- Client B work.
- Emailed a friend back.
- Emailed my sister back.
- Almost finally got MediaWiki running by ditching the Docker image and just running the PHP directly. Then, ran into some errors when I tried to upload an image. Looked at directory permissions, didn't see anything, ran out of stamina. Installed DokuWiki instead; ran into one error with CSS not getting generated (I have no idea why it has to generate it), then found out it doesn't support PHP 8. Switched the FPM to the PHP 7 one, and it worked, as far as I can tell!