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- Dropped off, picked up.
- Tried to buy party supplies, couldn't find them, bought regular supplies instead.
- Job.
- Made dinner.
- Found a pizza place that will deliver to the park.
- Tried to buy a used copy of Gamecube Pikmin 2. Supply is low, and I'm unsure about quality and delivery reliability. So, I got it working on the Dolphin emulator.
- Dug up party favors from a party we had to abandon one (two?) years ago.
- Installed a strike plate, which didn't fit perfectly thanks to someone changing the height of the door knob one or more times in the past, creating multiple recesses in the door jamb. But it's good enough to keep the door latched against Wily trying to break into the bathroom while you're poopin'.

20 kettlebell snatches, 15 pull-ups. I’m going to start running next week. I’d do it today, but I do not want to accidentally trigger the sciatica before the weekend.

A profile of one of those people trying to ban LGBTQ books in public schools. She, of course, homeschooled her kids, they never even had to go to a school library. This story is interesting, though, because it talks about what's going on in her own family.

Now onto the yuks! Here's her explanation for why her son is gay:

“I specifically come against evil that has entered you from the movie ‘It,’” she wrote, referring to the time when Weston, at around age 10, had watched part of the Stephen King mini-series about a murderous clown. “Clown demons have to go in the mighty name of Jesus.”

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Got a microwave.
- Job.
- Emailed some friends back.
- Took the guy to get his Covid booster. He continues to be really good about these things, even if verbally, the complaining has increased.

15 pull-ups.

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Set up the Recurse meetup.
- Accounting, budgeting. One thing kitchen-redoing sticker shock will do for you is get you to get your budget updated. The kitchen-redo sticker shock did make the electrician estimate seem like a great deal, though.
- Paid some bills. Weird thing about houses with stairs: I had to go up and down the stairs three times to write a check and get it in an envelope.
- Set up stuff to have a parking permit.
- Moved some boxes and tubs to the basement. Katt pointed out that the boxes will likely be here way too long if we wait to put their contents in their proper final place.
- Met with the vermiculite removal guy. Very informative, but weirdly, he spoke from a closet the whole time.
- Client B work.
- Notified people that we moved, perhaps a little late, as several people already asked where we were already.
- Filled out some therapy search thing.
- Got a COVID booster appointment for the guy.
- Worked on the Suspension and Tower Climb pieces.
- Ordered a work table for kitchen, but I had a lot of trouble searching the literally tens of thousands of things on webstaurantstore.com, and Katt had to bail me out.

I did 20 burpees this afternoon. I meant to do more working out, but then the vermiculite guy showed up.

- Met with electrician.
- Job.
- Did some laundry.
- Talked to insurance guy. She said U-Haul's insurance has to handle our issue.
- Emailed U-Haul insurance guy.
- Vacuumed the house. The charge ran out by the time I got to the basement, but I got most of it. It didn't take that long. The Small House Advantage!
- Emailed back a friend and a mom.
- Picked up.
- Made dinner. Wow, heating up rice really sucks without a microwave. Defrosting thin slices of beef is even worse.
- Went to the music programming group. Chatted with some new folks about Pure Data and web audio. Later listened about how disheartening trying to get jobs can be (particularly take home tests). I feel for the job seekers; there's a lot of pouring effort into things that probably don't matter, but you can't know that they don't matter. Made progress on converting Flooding back into a programming-driven piece rather than a user-drawn-graph-driven piece. It seems promising that even the bugs are interesting with this approach.

15 pull-ups, 20 light (15-lb.) kettlebell swings. I guess I’m defaulting to putting the pull-up bar up, then taking it down on demand. That’s a little dangerous, though, because every time I put it up, there is a chance that I put it up wrong.

It’s early, but so far, we have not been isolated, though we are out in Medford. Today, our friends James and his kid came over for kid D&D, but the kids ended up playing Legos and making up stories about a series of train accidents caused by a variety of incompetent people. Then, we went to a local families barbecue, where the guy are three bites of actual food, then several popsicles and juice boxes.