deathmtn

A tale told in just two seeclickfix posts:

Traffic cones have been removed (2 remain which were pushed aside). Local resident has been vocal about not liking the new pattern.

Cones are a huge waste of city resources. The are ridiculous and serve no good use to pedestrian or driver safety. However, the city insists on wasting man power to either replaces or move to the initial location. I wonder what snow removal trucks will do to these wheebles in a storm.....??????

Huh, a band named themselves Bonus Cat. I guess they’re not the worst, and we should be grateful for that.

I went outside to meet a friend for lunch. Just walking. No running. I'm now more sweat-drenched than I have been in months.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Returned ineffective dehumidifier.
- Set up gas service at new place. Had to try twice because National Grid hung up on me.
- Updated addresses for credit cards and pet food.
- Tried to find a more recent commit in upstream mdzk that worked on my stuff. I found one with `git bisect`, but it didn't get me any new features that I wanted, particularly linking raw URLs. I also published more stuff from OmniWiki, but I'm actually not sure it's worth it.
- Got together seven out of the fourteen documents needed to register at the new school.
- Fixed undo in Flooding! I also connected the tempo graph to the ticker (the tempo regulator). Messed it up; the events are all way longer than they should be, but it happened to sound awesome (if a little glitchy), so I got a free song out of it.
- Got together health forms and immunization records for camp…again.

My back got (mostly) better! I cancelled the doctor's appointment and did some stretching. It was good most of the day, but it did start to hurt after dinner (no lumbar support dining chairs, maybe), so I got up from the desk and stood at the counter, which seems to have placated it.

- Did job work. I'm far from acclimated, but it did feel kind of regular!
- Made dinner.
- Made tomorrow's dinner. (Was supposed to be today's dinner, but I messed up turning on the sous vide target temperature thing.)
- Got a doctor's appointment.
- Went to the music programming group. It was really good! Really good chat about various tools and current projects, and the coworking part was absorbing. I spent all of that time refactoring Flooding so that I could render two sets of time-controlled graphs (the second one is going to be for tempo) and two sets of undo states.

The heat sucked, and my back wasn't great, but I could sit and stand with mostly trouble only during the transitions. Also, we now have more little fans, which help a lot.

My workout today was making myself go for a walk, then doing some downward dogs.

I wrote a personal newsletter for once. (It's about back injury.) It's been over a year!

Normally, I view going to the pool as a chore for me that gives the guy something to do. But it’s super hot today, and we don’t have AC. We don’t have the window unit installed because it is heavy, I don’t want to mess up my back further, and we’re moving in 1.5 weeks.

The recommendation for back recovery is to stay active rather than lying around. So, the case was solidly established for going to the pool.

It was pretty good! (Once we got there. The neighborhood pool was closed once again, and we almost got lost going to the other one.) My back felt good in there. Now I feel justified in lying down for a bit.

I was enjoying lying down and reading Piranesi, and then I read that bed rest is bad for back recovery.

Another incident of Oldness: I was happy with myself that I ran as soon as I got up, then took the guy to camp, then went about the workday.

However, I forgot to stretch beyond a cursory stretch for a few minutes when I got back from the run.

This afternoon, my lower back started getting sensitive, then stiffened up. After sitting in a dining table chair during D&D, it has become completely stiff, and I can’t stand up straight.

It could be something else entirely, but I do think it was the lack of stretching because my upper legs are really tense, which pulls on the lower back.

Anyway, I hope I don’t skip stretching from here on out.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Got some supplies, including popsicles and a tiny dehumidifier, which may actually do nothing.
- Lawyer emailing about process stuff.
- More job onboarding. Actually got some core products working on my machine, thanks to pairing with my manager at that job.
- Stayed on hold with Comcast with half an hour while they said nothing for 30 minutes before hanging up on me. Then, later in the evening, they sent an email saying they were going to shut off service today, which is about two weeks early. So, I called them and got that corrected. They did ask why I was cancelling, and I'm sure the script forces them to try to get me to continue service. I said I was moving to temporary housing that already has internet service, and they let it go.
- Emailed the state invasive plant people about the situation in Medford.
- Made dinner.

When you try to stop Comcast service currently, you ask them to call you about it. When they call you, they put you on hold. I've been on hold for six minutes so far.

The step they take that's just a little more aggressive than normal is that they don't have hold music. Instead, they play very quiet static so that you feel uncertain whether the call is still going and then hang up.

38-minute run, 14 pull-ups.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Met with the flooring guy and got another peek at the new house. It's looking good. There were some outlets that didn't work during the inspection that now seem to be fine! The realtor met with us, and apparently, the market has slowed waaay down. People aren't selling.
- Job onboarding. It's been one of the smoother onboardings I've done, and still I've reached a part where I have to debug why something isn't running as it should, despite (probably) having followed the instructions correctly.
- Made dinner, though it was just hot dogs and some sous vide carrots I made earlier in the week because it's just too hot to do anything else.
- Packed a couple of boxes in the basement. It seemed to take forever to decide what to put in which box.
- Did some laundry.
- Caught my fork of `mdzk` up to the current upstream, hoping to catch some sweet free features. Now it won't build my omniwiki site at all. So, I filed an issue in the hopes of getting some clues.
- Tried to cancel Comcast, but of course you still have to do it over the phone. I at least got the credit card and autopay out of there.

30 burpees. Not doing great at fitting workouts into full workdays!

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Rescheduled the guy's dentist appointment.
- Job onboarding.
- Deleted a bunch of stuff to make space for all of the Docker stuff I have to run for the job.
- Made dinner.

While it was happening, I thought of the day as being pretty chill because it was typical first day of a job stuff, but afterward, I realized I was actually sort of tense. I think it was maybe an unconscious clenching in reaction to being in a "regular" job situation for the first time in a long time?