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tracker7One week leads to another.
Things are on an even keel right now, but in this case, that means there's no forward progress. It's very much my own fault - I'm not doing enough to look for real work. I'm going to start taking a laptop to work, on weekends at least, to make better use of that time. Working six days a week and having to be mentally and socially "on" on my day off is tiring, but I shouldn't use that as an excuse to not put forth some amount of effort to improve things and justify grad school and that ginormous expense.
I mean, right now, at 11:15AM, I've been up for about two hours. Had breakfast, put away one load of laundry and have another coming out of the dryer in a few minutes, and I've unloaded the dishwasher, but I just want to go back to bed for a couple of hours. This is a symptom of things, and I have to figure out some way to beat it and make use of the time.
Wikipedia tells me that today is the 40th anniversary of the Vela incident. This has always been one of my favorite bits of historical weirdness. The theory that it was a South African/Israeli nuclear test has always been my preferred answer - it fits geographically, and South Africa was known to have had an active nuclear weapons program at the time.
Finished reading Ultramodern 5 last night, and I'm not too impressed. It has good ideas, and about half of them are reasonably developed, but the constant typos and editing gaffes made reading it a pain. Plus, the pointless border artwork interferes with reading the last few lines of text on the outer columns of the layout.
Things are on an even keel right now, but in this case, that means there's no forward progress. It's very much my own fault - I'm not doing enough to look for real work. I'm going to start taking a laptop to work, on weekends at least, to make better use of that time. Working six days a week and having to be mentally and socially "on" on my day off is tiring, but I shouldn't use that as an excuse to not put forth some amount of effort to improve things and justify grad school and that ginormous expense.
I mean, right now, at 11:15AM, I've been up for about two hours. Had breakfast, put away one load of laundry and have another coming out of the dryer in a few minutes, and I've unloaded the dishwasher, but I just want to go back to bed for a couple of hours. This is a symptom of things, and I have to figure out some way to beat it and make use of the time.
Wikipedia tells me that today is the 40th anniversary of the Vela incident. This has always been one of my favorite bits of historical weirdness. The theory that it was a South African/Israeli nuclear test has always been my preferred answer - it fits geographically, and South Africa was known to have had an active nuclear weapons program at the time.
Finished reading Ultramodern 5 last night, and I'm not too impressed. It has good ideas, and about half of them are reasonably developed, but the constant typos and editing gaffes made reading it a pain. Plus, the pointless border artwork interferes with reading the last few lines of text on the outer columns of the layout.