Notes for March 11-12

When things are so-so, they can always get worse. Much worse, often in multiple dimensions at once.

Woke up in a country where the right-wing party increased their representation four-fold, wherein by “right-wing” I actually mean “those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it” or far, far worse. I have full faith in incompetence to assert itself over time, but it’s going to be a rough ride.

• Spent an hour cleaning out the electronics and plastic debris from the weekend and vacuuming the office.
• Dusted off my C720, which amazingly still works.
• Grabbed my work laptop and moved to the living room for most of the day, since I have an amazing view now that the sun is shining.
• Ended the day “early” before 8pm, because I had a feeling I was going to have a rough week.
• Relaxed a bit playing with System 8.1 for #MARCHintosh on my electronics bench:

And yes, there’s a metaphor in the way Internet Explorer crashes the whole thing.

Pretty impactful corporate reorg dropped–at about the same time as my building water main ruptured.

As Douglas Adams famously quipped, I definitely can’t get the hang of Tuesdays.

Before that happened:

• Took some breakfast time to push my snapdrop fork to GitHub. Needs a few more tweaks and excision of odd bits of code, but has held up to regular use over the past few weeks.
• Put up a SKADIS pegboard at lunchtime, which of course meant 3D printing some hooks and adapters.

Nothing much happened after that that I can mention. I was too busy dealing with the fallout from the water main and the reorg, and that went on for a while.