(i recognize that being able to work from home is an enormous privilege.) working from home constantly has made me aware of an interesting thing: i am only ever alone when i'm commuting, or when i'm in the bathroom. i don't miss my 100+ mi r/t commute. but i miss some solitude.
if you have a teacher in your life, thank them :) then teach them about downsampling HD video from their phones to 720p or 480p, and using services like youtube instead of google drive.
do you ever just kinda wander around the house and putter and think of all the projects/chores you could/should be doing and then you realize it’s 4 in the afternoon and you haven’t really accomplished anything and you don’t want to start anything now?
got 4-day pass for myself to PAX this year, first time i just decided to 'go for it.' then realized it was so early, it was occurring during february school vacation. but, back from family vacation, hope to enjoy one day of PAX East tomorrow.
has anyone else noticed this? the Netflix iOS app has started giving me notifications, and i can find no place in the app’s settings page to manage those.
(yes my next course of action is to disable that app’s ability to send me any notifications, even ones i’ve asked for).
try and guess when my team switched to a build tool that authenticates through github and therefore would have access to my personal repos, so i had to create another account to use just for work.
ironically: last year my company looked at my band, my experience, and my location, and determined i was being underpaid. they increased my salary. i totally didn’t expect that.
the country is really divided right now, but there is one thing we can all agree on: trading Mookie Betts is probably the 2nd worst decision the Red Sox ever made.
this has been a great day of writing and subsequently deleting tweets. let’s just say that my reorganization experience has been sub-optimal so far. sub sub optimal. sub sub sub optimal.
today i realized i’m sneaking up on 3 years at my Big Blue job. also that i’ve been driving for 30 years. also also graduated high school in the same year as the SNES was released, and got my first job making websites (“webmaster”) the year the N64 was released.
there’s no Sunday Night quite like “two full weeks of not knowing who your boss is” Sunday Night. i get that businesses have to reorganize but every day full of uncertainty weighs on employees and violates your trust with them. looking forward to my paycheck clearing on the 31st.