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elizabeth  ·  1091 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 28, 2021

Loving our little camper-trailer build! It's a little more fucked than expected, with 2 rotten corners we had to gut and replace, but for a 500$ buy I can't complain too much. I think we've already invested as much into in, and there are still more things to buy. I'm happy we're past the "destroying" stage and starting building. Learning a lot, it's challenging but small enough to be the perfect weekend occupation. But next week we need to help my sister move, and my boyfriend's mom the week after that. I need to find a way to carve out some time to advance the camper! I really can't wait to have our little private space in the woods. It's going to be really simple - a massive king sized bed with storage underneath and a little table with benches on the other side.

Had a stressful week last week, with an email server migration I lead at work being a mess (I suspect because our original hosting screwed up some of it, but i'm not technically knowledgeable enough to be certain). After a week of talking to support and making tests and adjustments, things are mostly settled now. Preparing for 2 board meetings and having a side gig to manage at the same time made it for a hard week. It's been a while since I had trouble falling asleep because my brain keeps circling to-dos and writing emails for the next day. But I feel it's mostly behind me know and I've re-gained control of my to-do list.

I've finished reading "Range" the other day - I think it got on my list from a mention on Hubski and it was pretty good. Maybe because it reassured me in my biases and life-decisions. I've started on "Antifragile" and i'm enjoying it so far. The writing is really disjointed, and it doesn't feel like the cookie-cutter books in the genre. I enjoy it for the style, even if it's a bit over the top at times and I'm not on board with all the arguments. What I didn't realize getting into it was that is was part of a book series. And that a previous book in the series he keeps referencing is called "The Black Swan". It's all about general life philosophy or some shit, so I was really confused what it had to do with that Natalie Portman movie, until I realized it was a different black swan.