Monday
Didn’t make my noon meeting. Decided to stay home and do my nails instead [fig 1]. I’m still not any good at it but I at least didn’t hurt myself today. I could have called in and done both but I wouldn’t want anyone to think I’m working. I still have to get in this afternoon for my 1-on-1 but not until 2:30, and then I’m busing right back north to robots.
Got a taco today. By design I don’t have any information about why I sometimes get them and sometimes don’t so I try not to speculate, but I’m always happy to have one at the top of my inbox.
I hooked up the prototype parts for Ben’s staff. Turns out I can’t put out 36V on a 12V input, not with the boost converter I have. Certainly not with a battery system that runs at 3.7V or 7.4V. I’ll have to redesign to something that has more emitters at lower forward voltage if this is supposed to work without a drill battery. But I did think of a cool idea for synchronization with other nearby systems, so the magic staff can affect things remotely.
Tried to talk to S today, but I feel like it’s not very effective communication on some topics. He badly wants to be supportive but he doesn’t spend much time integrating the bits he knows into a sensible whole, so it’s hard for him to understand the parts that are outside his personal experience even when he knows enough to see why his experience wouldn’t be a good model. I know that’s a general human problem but it feels like one I get stuck with a lot, explaining something disgusting to people that they don’t really want to understand, and then either dealing with them not understanding and not being able to connect, or with them being disgusted and not wanting to. But I’ll try. There’s nothing else to do. I wish I could at least get some better feedback, so I could get better at the explaning.
Cowboy asked today about my D&D game – he was interested in joining. We are looking frlor a 4th but I think the commute would be tough. I should see though if I can make Brian comfortable with a remote player, maybe if I volunteered to run all the tech for him. I feel like voice comms and a shot of the play map (when relevant would actually work fine but Brian is pretty anxious about being perfect so it might be too much for him.
3 separate people wanted my attention about the perf bug today. I’m gonna have to get rid of it before my boss’s head explodes. He’s so nervous even when I assure him I’ll make it another manager’s problem. It makes it a little hard to do my job, and much easier to be happy with avoidance. When no one asks me about things I have to manage them against my perfectionist standards, but when lots of people are on me about something I often can’t be bothered to care. Particularly at work.
ZiB
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