If you have been here long, you will notice I have turned off forum discussions on my blog. Maybe I did not have the right tooling, but I got tired of spending more time clicking away trolls than approving comments. I am sorry if this is a feature you desired, and I game-ended it. The least I can do is give you an Amazon Associate Link to something to dry your salty tears. I appreciate you enough to ask you to help me steal nickels from Jeff Bezos, and I know in a week, when no one has ordered any, I will order a pack of these for some tears of my own.
So, what is this week’s topic? You know what? There isn’t one. I have this big pile of Post-its on the bottom of my immoderate forty-nine-inch monitor, and I am choosing to buy myself a week of blog backlog extension by doing none of them. Consider this some sort of perverse blog treatment of tech debt. I would invite you to comment on the sagaciousness of the idea, but I have turned off the comments. I hope you do not unsubscribe, mind you, if you indeed possess some kind of subscription to gaze upon these word-collections.
I have moved from Rocklin to Tustin in the past couple of months. I have children attending Southern California institutions of higher learning, and this move keeps me within helicopter-parent distance. Part of the move includes a downgrade in size and recency of the house. On the one hand, we have less square footage than we did previously, and on the other hand, the house is not so recently built that it has excellent air conditioning for the California summer. The net-net is that I had hoped to save some benjamins on AC costs, which has not manifested itself. We have also run into some interesting quirks that have me conducting experiments to mitigate our distance from the heat-death of the universe.
I am happy to discuss some of my interesting domestic tasks in detail. Ask away if you have questions! I have learned many things involving heat control, product assembly, and, of all things, multiple uses for Loctite. That we have reached a steady state and are no longer fully at war with all parts of the house is probably the important part of that story.
We are glad to be back within driving distance of several preferred vacation destinations for the kids and multiple restaurants I enjoy. We keep telling ourselves this, and maybe it is true.
Now that I am almost deep enough into the blog to hit the publish button without any outrage, I should reveal the sinister motives behind writing about nothing.
For starters, I have hit two million words processed by Grammarly. Hooray me! That is a lot of words for someone who does not write books. Okay, I did write books, but they were mostly bad. Two of them were boredom avoidance while commuting on a train; that is my story, and I am sticking to it.
Also, I had a regularly scheduled one-on-one meeting with my boss today, which was reasonably freeform. Usually, one or both of us have an agenda with several robust topics for discussion. Today, we just meandered through the universe of conversation like it was a classic episode of Star Trek.
And that is okay.
Yes. Sometimes it is okay to wander around conversationally instead of sticking to a formal agenda. I used to take some percentage of 1:1 meetings at a large company and go on walking meetings just to break up the routine. It feels nice.
We will return to my massive list of Post-its-as-blog-topics next week!
