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There's snow out! I don't know why I'm surprised.

Robert Johnson's Wikipedia article makes for really good reading, due to all the mystery in his life, even putting aside the devil myth.

I enjoy how the skeltal guys on "Scream Bloody Gore" are enjoying each others' company so much.

10-4-4-4-4-4. Last two reps were crappy; spaced out a lot between sets. But I got them done.

27 ºF is kinda nice – not so cold that you don't need to open your jackets (I had two), but enough that really clears out the bike path.

I've been good about getting up early and working on stuff lately. Today, I'm up to do day job stuff. Using this hard-fought-for-time for that feels gross.

It's ugly right now, but I implemented filtering in Observatory (an app for viewing project data). Here's all the stuff I've written to run in the terminal. Here's everything that's either art or an app or both.

The Cambridge Public Schools lottery is just that: A lottery. There are a bunch of things you can increase and decrease your chances for particular outcomes, but nothing is certain.

And so, explaining it is fraught and explanations seem like they're bursting with flop-sweat. I do not envy the author of A Guide to the Kindergarten Lottery.

You may want to think about what combination of choices will be most likely to result in a
Mandatory Assignment. For example, if all of your choices contain one of the following risk
factors, you may want to switch one of them to a safer choice
...
Every family will have your own priorities and preferences – there is no “right” way to
participate in the Lottery

After months of deliberation, I think we're almost settled on our choices.

Despite initial success, this possibility has landed.

Hesitated to do that before because I wanted to the avoid the possibility of him getting out of bed to turn it on and off all night.

He got up me up a few times tonight because he was upset that none of the three levels of brightness on the clock's night light are satisfying enough to him.

Katt is sick, so I did all the childcare today. Since I've been having this career crisis lately, it's actually been really helpful. It's gotten me out of my head, and doing something engaging and fun. Though, of course, I'm now exhausted.

On a related note, we read the chapter in The Hobbit tonight in which Smaug is killed. I was thinking that possibly on this readthrough (it's our second), I'd acknowledge that Smaug was killed. (The text does not involve the words "killed" or "dead", so it's easy to avoid.)

This morning, the guy said that good guys can chop off bad guys' legs. So, I'm hesitant to get into how brutal "good guys" are allowed to be.

He asked why it "was the 'end of Smaug'", and I went with that since Smaug fell into Lake Town, and then it all fell into the water, it put out Smaug's fire, and Smaug probably won't feel like scaring people anymore now that he doesn't have fire. After a few questions, he seemed to accept this.

I don't know if I'll be able to pull this off on the next readthrough.