We love the new neighborhood already. Dropped off boxes of baked goods at the nearest 20 or so homes, received a bunch of nice texts of greeting and introduction in return. Someone even ran their snowplow in our driveway and sidewalk already. I think we did as well as a person can ask for the neighborhood for their first home. Looking forward to a day when we are all vaccinated and can socialize like we are accustomed to do. Homeowner problems > renter problems by a mile.
Yay! I am in the office today. Got here at 7:00 and realized that no one is here to open the building until 8:00 during COVID. So I used my laptop and connected to the wifi and worked in my car until security arrived. I am so excited to be in the office today. Sitting in a real chair. And I never realized how much lag there is working remotely. Everything just feels so much snappier. I have the second COVID vaccine shot scheduled for this afternoon and hopefully it doesn't kick my butt like it has other people. My coworker got it yesterday and ended up taking today off. CEO got it last Friday and was sick all weekend. So, now I am feeling a bit anxious. We got 18" of snow with this weeks storm. Didn't get to go snow shoeing last night, hoping to go tonight. We are expecting mixed rain/snow on Friday, then again on Sunday. So today and tomorrow are my chance. I didn't die from shoveling snow, so that is good. I am getting vaccine so I won't die from COVID, so that is good. I have a job still, so that is good. Life IS good. Hoping things get better for everyone!
Just a quick follow-up on my vaccination expreince for those that are curious... I got the shot at 4:00 on Wednesday. All was good until around 10:00. (Not sure if related or coincidental, but I was teasing my wife about something stupid and she punched me in the spot where I got the shot). Around 10:00 I started feeling feverish, which lasted until nearly 5:00 on Thursday. Fever never got very high, hung around 100, but it was enough to make me shaky and shivery. I slept as best as I could, waking up once or twice an hour then immediately falling back to sleep. Today I am just tired. Your mileage may very.
I just added an activity feed up top. It updates real time. Currently it tracks comments, chat, posts, and badges. Let me know what you think. I also finally fixed the comment and post feed sorting. Snow in the forecast tomorrow. I hope it doesn't disappoint.
For me, the time is not important; the WHO is. Hubski is not a social media jag site... I don't feel urgency here. Adding a timestamp implies that WHEN information was posted is important. (It isn't.) What is important is the quality of the content. (I think this is why posts 1000+ days old get referenced or brought up from time to time ... the content is the value, not the 'when'.)
I like the username colour it's given me, and it seems to be consistent (browsers, cookiees, order), so what determines it in the api? Is there any way we can influence that ourselves? Could it be tied into profile pages or even comments? ala Slide for Reddit ? Edit: Aha! Cumol also has this colour, so is it based on first letter of the username? Edit 2: Aha! Cumol's colour is slightly different, so there's something else to it! Edit 3: Okay... seems there's a distinct jump in chat colurs everyone has over time, does it reset at midnight or something?
Had my final interview 2 days ago, and a much needed talk with my friend/potential future boss about our complicated relationship. Proud of myself about how I handled it all, and I feel much better now that I've laid all my cards on the table. Looks like there is one other strong candidate for the job i want, I've done everything that could be done and now it's just a waiting game until to board makes a final decision. If they don't pick me, I think it means i'm not the right person for the job because i've been honest about what i bring to the project and my wants/expectations. It will disappoint me, but the concerns they brought up about potential pitfalls are valid and I can see why they might want to hire someone with an outsider perspective vs someone like me that has been involved almost since the start. So my life will either change dramatically in the next few weeks, or not at all. I do need some change right now, so if this is not the change that comes, I'll need to make something else happen. I have a few other vague ideas of a direction I'd like to take in my life, that will involve some research about the opportunities available to me. I'll delay this research until i get a confirmation on the job, but 2021 is a year I need to make some decisions and moves career-wise.
Where my #HOMies at? (#HubskiOriginalMusic) I finished my Monthly.com "Complete Music Production with Andrew Huang" class. Everything from finding inspiration, to writing lyrics, to basic music theory, to basic synth programming, to working in a DAW, to recording electronic/acoustic/vocal instruments, to samples-based music making, to mixing and mastering, all in 1 month, with the final result being three songs completely written and produced from scratch. Holy CRAP I am so much better/more adept with my tools now than I was before! The pressure of producing a new song every week, but it being limited to demonstrating specific techniques, turned out to be exactly the thing I needed to figure out a workflow... how to get ideas from my head, into a instrument, into a DAW, and structured to sound like an actual finished piece of music. Yeah, I still can't sing for shit... but I DID IT. I wrote the song. Wrote the lyrics. Sung them. (kinda...) And accomplished that milestone! It feels good. Now I get to start working on my own music, and writing songs with none of the restrictions imposed by the class or my cohort that I took the class with... which is both daunting and invigorating. Yay me.
One advantage to working nights is I get to Pubski while you all are asleep. I'm feeling like this is the winter that wasn't. La Nina was so hyped up, and instead we've just got a silly amount of rain and temps that are 5ish degrees higher than they should be.
Winter here is scary because while it's been cold and we've gotten snow, highs have been like 34° all winter. It feels like 1° higher and we'd have rain and ice, not snow. Though it's currently 1°F at 8 AM. A morning this cold should be common. How do you like working nights? Are you nights consistently right now? We have 24/7 rotating shift operators at work. I don't think I could do that. They work 12 hour shifts, so when they're on they have almost no personal time (arrive 30-45 minutes early, stay 15 minutes late because of shift turnover, 8 hours sleep, commute time).
I haven't been looking at weather much this year since I work from home. I get up and get dressed in the morning; if I'm cold I put on a sweater, otherwise I don't. But it has generally felt milder than normal or so that is how it seems to me. Most of the weather news I have seen suggests that the mid-west and south US have been getting all the crappy weather. Curious ButterflyEffect and WanderingEng ; where are you located?
I'm in southern Wisconsin. I expect winter here to have highs in the mid-20s with a few rare days with temps hitting 35° when everyone rushes to get their cars washed. There should be just as many days if not more when highs are in the teens. We probably have the most snow on the ground since 2013-14, but with such high highs it feels like this winter could end any time or the next winter will be all rain.
Pacific Northwester, not too far away from goobster. Sea-level weather highs have been in the mid 40s to low 50s all season, they should be in the lower 40s to mid 50s. Mountain weather has been very boom or bust this year, all of which are to be expected with climate change, unfortunately.
Winter has been a crapshoot since I got here in '94. You either get none, one or two sessions of snow at sea level. "Two" has probably been three times in 25 years. Not denying the existence of global warming but saying the effects have been around for longer than most people care to admit. My entire time of splitting houses between LA and Seattle? Temperature extremes really haven't been that different.