deathmtn

17-minute run, 15 pull-ups. I don’t think I can get up at 6 every day, but it is important to run when times are stressful, and we’re in another stretch of 70°F low days, so I should try a few days a week.

- Made above-minimum effort breakfast.
- Moved some boxes downstairs.
- Cleaned out the Litter Robot tray (because I forgot that I had pulled out the tray and drifted away without replacing the liner, and a cat peed directly in the tray).
- Client B work.
- Job. The going was a little rough today. I'm deep into trying to guess at conventions.
- Asked my optometrist about eye massagers. My mom wants to buy one, and they sound like a scam at best, dangerous at worst?
- Emailed both a TaskRabbit guy and a reputable moving company about moving the treadmill out of the old place. The TaskRabbit guy is expensive and may not be able to handle the parking situation. The moving company is basically charging close like the cost of a full move by saying three people are necessary. I found this depressing and stressful.
- Emailed a friend back.
- Emailed a colleague back.
- Emailed pet sitter.
- Made dinner.

Today, the guy was home the whole day and did a great job with self-entertaining via Pikmin, Lego, stop-motion videos, and books. He ran out of self-entertaining steam around 3:30 or so, but I thought that was really good, considering. We even went outside briefly a couple of times.

Ten burpees. I don’t trust myself to do stuff with weights right now.

- Flew back from Illinois.
- Job.
- Realized the kitchen and dining room windows are actually fine. You can push the top window pane up to get the windows to lock. Sure, I should feel kind of dumb for not realizing this earlier, but mostly, I feel like I've saved hundreds of dollars.

In the “giving credit where credit is due” column: Burrito Beach has decent tacos for an airport place.

I think everyone in every retail space we entered in Rockford was peopled entirely by unmasked people. Maybe this is because their case numbers are great, but I couldn’t find an easy way to find out what they were. The exceptions were:

- One guy in the indoor mini golf/arcade/bowling/etc. place. He had a face shield and seemed a bit off, though.
- Basically everyone in the Half-Price Books Outlet except for one person.

Infrared OS X Aqua-ifies Jupiter.

On a related note, remember when Macs were good?

How a town designed by one guy turns out: Not terrible, actually.

Parents’ house visit log:

- Found the basic cable channels on the smart TV the bought because it was on sale at Sam’s Club. (It was no mean feat, for me, technically-accclimated modern person.)
- Dumped out and sprayed the wasp hives growing in their unused grills.

A thing that's bothered me for about two weeks: Ubuntu 20.04.4 got rid of title bar autohiding. I finally reinstalled this extension and have a little more breathing room on what is a tiny screen by 2022 standards.

120 EUR seems like the cost of a commercial air purifier, but I still find this DIY air purifier neat.

Sorta nice, but long-term bad for the MBTA: They didn’t actually ticket me.

Since I usually complain about the MBTA and about apps in general, I thought I’d give the MBTA mTicket app credit. I was able to get the app installed in seconds, then buy a commuter rail ticket in under a minute. And it’s $2.40 for a ticket from West Medford to North Station. I assumed all commuter rail tickets were a minimum of $10.

- Dropped off, picked up early. It was the last day of camp, which is sad, not just because it's inconvenient. The guy genuinely liked it. In the beginning, we thought it might turn out like the YMCA camp and that we'd have to bail.
- Opted out of Verizon's "relevant online advertising". I'm only noting this because they (accidentally?) made it so hard to do. Every time I try to log in to Verizon's site, they say my information does not match what they have on file, then I have to try logging in again until they make me reset my password. This is even in Chrome, with no tracking protections. (It may have to do with the uncaught exception I see in the browser console.) Anyway, I was tempted to let it go, but tracking at the ISP level is just too insidious.
- Job. Progress isn't explosive, but no setbacks so far, either!
- Did some laundry.
- Emailed a friend back.
- Talked to another vermiculite abatement company, scheduled an estimate. Then found out they don't work with Mass Save and wanted to cancel on the spot but decided to think about it. Now I have another thing to do.
- Put together some shelves. I'm a big fan of this plastic shelving! It purportedly holds 750 lbs. (though I'm not going to test that), and the little bit of give that plastic has makes it really easy to assemble. I do feel bad about the amount of petroleum involved, which I assume has worse impact on the environment than metal or wood.

I remembered that "playing a good game feeling", which I haven't thought about in a while. So, I guess I should play one sometime! A tabletop one, that is. I did play Pikmin 3 with the guy, and we completed the Olimar's Comeback side game. That was fun, but also something completely orthogonal to that feeling I'm talking about.

15 pull-ups, some yoga, some tennis ball rolling.

Medford Public Schools has a new web site, and it's weird to say, but I'm excited about it. Just last week I was looking around, and there were so many navigation paths that ended in either nothing or a .docx file. I can actually tell when things are and what they're going to try to teach now. Web design!

- Dropped off, picked up.
- Job. Worked at the library this morning. It was a nice change of pace. Someone asked me for nail clippers, but even that was a peaceful interaction. Also did a little night work, and I kind of hate that that went better than the work during the hours when I should be keeping all the work hours in.
- Picked up some frames from Goodwill for our hanging drawings.
- Checked up on the insurance issue. I guess it's progressing?
- Emailed another vermiculite abatement company in hopes of getting another quote. While looking around, I noticed that Sam (who I already got a quote from) has multiple sites that land in the first page of search results and pays for ads on Duck Duck Go.
- Client C work. Decent progress; hoped to hit a milestone this week, but probably won't.