deathmtn

I’m becoming kind of a service business isolationist. Which is a problem if you need to use services.

I wonder if that angry UPS Store guy has been affected by the floods in Pakistan. I guess I can’t know, so the best thing to do is to try to completely avoid that whole situation.

- Got rid of another eight or so cubic feet of cardboard.
- Took the guy to his audiologist appointment.
- Tried to pick up the package he ordered with his own money. Got screamed at by this guy. I oddly wasn't bothered by the screaming while it was happening, but afterward, the guy said it was scary.
- Called UPS (you have to hit 0 literally dozens of times) to report the guy at the UPS Store and to try to get the package taken somewhere else. They said someone from corporate will call me. We will see.
- Made dinner.
- Took the guy to Cub Scouts. I thought it was boring, but he said he liked it so far.
- Drove to a CVS to try to pick up another package from CVS (never do the access point thing on UPS Choice; I turned it on for complicated reasons). They didn't have it, but they did actually check and did not scream.
- Emailed a couple of friends back.

It was not a great day. I was hoping to sneak in a little project work, but I failed to sneak.

I just noticed that Dollar Tree sounds like idolatry, and I kinda wish Jack Chick were alive to use that in a tract. Maybe he'd have some wayward teens that love savings more than they love the lord use an app called "iDollarTree". (The developer behind iDollarTree would be Satan.)

15 pull-ups.

- Job.
- Emailed speech pathologist to find out how that's going.
- Started implementing the new update/render loop idea in the game.
- Mailed a check.
- Made dinner.
- Put together another loop.
- Fixed a domain rewewal problem.
- Emailed small job client.

There is quite a bit more I wanted to do, but it is now past midnight.

10 burpees, 20 kettlebell snatches @ 30, 20 swings @ 20, 20 presses @ 20.

- Wanted to change one thing about a bot and had to relearn how they worked. I didn't even know which computer the web screenshot-based bots (Land of Contrasts, Dem Bones, etc.) were running on. I thought they were still on my cloud VPS because I remember it was impossible to get headless Chrome to work on my Raspberry Pi. Like, it would not compile there. It turns out is running on the Raspberry Pi. Sort of! I guess two years ago, I slapped together Snapper so that the VPS could run a headless browser (Webkit, specifically), and the Pi could do the rest. I've been thinking lately about arranging and simplifying my stuff so that I could still use it after I begin cognitive decline, and this is a good case for that. Presumably, I'm not yet in significant cognitive decline, and I had completely forgotten how this worked. The problem as always is that I'd rather work on something new.
- Job meeting.
- Call UPS and Target (Target's site said to call UPS, UPS's CSR said I have to call Target) to cancel a shipment that went to my old autosaved address. This is the second time I've been bitten by this. I need some kind of safety lock to prevent me from ordering things until I've checked the address.
- Called about our old insurance somehow not actually being deactivated which somehow prevents our current insurance from doing some things.
- Took the guy to social class.
- Settled XP; wrote a D&D recap.
- Went to music programming group. Talked about live coding, worked on my decomposition thing. Got some FFT stuff in there. It didn't work. Someone in the group brought up that she used FFTs to implement low-pass filters and then I realized that I could probably find a reference implementation of a bandpass filter as a guide.
- Put together Stockholm for Looptober.

Via Eric: Former Russian LEGO Stores now replaced by World of Cubes shops

Just an amazing step forward in the world of euphemistic genericization.