opties

SERPENTINE BELT done. I looked up and confirmed that it is indeed the thing that’s making a not quite normal noise. I also found out it could be the cause of the AC not working well.

STACK
RESOURCE
ADJUST done a while ago. Most of the work was writing the load tests so I could make sure the client was really understanding what they were getting.

D&D
SCHED.
START done. Calendar looked at, Doodle filled out, email sent.

NAMES PLAYER done yesterday. It’s here.

Work thing done sometime in the middle of last week.

READ MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH DOCS done. I asked for these maybe a year ago, and the math director sent them right away. I finally read through them.

Seems fine? There’s no separation by ability in school from what I’ve seen, which is good for the most part, but I did wonder how you get kids to calculus or statistics or what have you by 12th grade. The answer is that you do start to divide the kids in eighth grade.

FLOODING RECORDING done. I did this so I could evaluate the piece away from my computer. The good news is that I don’t hate it. (I started a break from it a few months ago because I started to hate it.) The bad news is that I thought of changes to make to it.

REGISTER FOR NEXT YEAR PIANO done…ish. This should have been simple, but the listing for semi-private piano says “every thirty minutes from 9 to 2”. Is that random? Do we get to choose? Or do you choose? We can’t make some of those times, so I had to put in an if-then note about switching to group piano if the times don’t work that I hope they notice.

Also, Tufts makes you pay via a separate site from the registration site, so you have to hope the correlate payment and registration.

MATH CIRCLE
ROUTE done. This week it’s at Harvard, which is relatively easy. Next week, it’s at MIT, so I looked into public transit options. Spoiler: We’re driving, sadly, despite the rough parking situation.

It’s either take the 94 to Davis, then the red line to Kendall, which isn’t the worst, but easily 50 minutes, or have one of us drive the rest of us to Tufts, take the green line, then walk for 30 minutes from Lechmere. In normal weather, that walk wouldn’t be bad, but it is not normal weather.

Work thing done.

GOOGLE STT WORD CUTS
done, a couple of weeks ago. I tried Google speech to text to see if it could find word boundaries in a piece of audio any better than Whisper did. They’re both bad enough that it’s faster to just go through the file in Audacity manually.

WRITE TO client done. I meant to write to my original client about a project left unfinished for months. Well, a few days ago she wrote to me, and I replied, so it ended up done accidentally.

PRINT BOARDING
PASSES, GET
PARKING AND BUS PASSES (actually bus tickets) done. Travel is very expensive for something that’s an ordeal.

D&D SCHED. done. Well, mostly. I did my part.

I always try to make myself also write the recap for the previous session, but what ends up happening is I don’t do that for a week and then skip the recap and send the Doodle poll.

POKER STRAIGHT
COUNTER done. For a reason I can’t articulate, I had trouble accepting the mathematical explanation for determining the chance of drawing a straight, so I wrote a program to go through all the possibilities. Yeah, it came up with the same answer, so I can go back to my issues with the math again.

HEAT PUMP done! Meaning I emailed the company found by the group buy guys about getting an estimate.

HOME INSURANCE COMPARISON done. Offer was only $35 cheaper per year with $50K less dwelling coverage.

DEMONSTRATION SHARED CODE FIX done. Both games work with the code. Factories in Demonsteration seem to have become edible again, but close enough.

TRY WHISPER FOR NAMES done. Probably would have been faster to find my Google Cloud account info and use Google SST, but I didn’t want to figure out the account stuff. Results seem OK, though I haven’t checked thoroughly.

INSURANCE PCP LOOKUP done. The web site was actually done, and I requested a PCP that was closer than Plymouth.

RENT CELLO is done. Instrument experimentation will continue with the fifth instrument!

ORDER LAMP done. I got into Wirecutter and various broken commerce sites and somehow ended up with an $80 lamp, so I asked Katt what she thought. It turned out we had an unused bendy neck lamp upstairs we could just put on the piano, which illuminates the sheet music well.

Before trying it, I forgot that I even cleared space on top of the piano and assumed we’d have to get something that clipped above and hung down.

WRITE
TO MAYOR optie: Complete.

This is where the opties are stored. The opties are my options for things to do on the computer.