May 4, 2025 - bloghan 45

Well I think this week more than any other week shows how good it is to be timely and to be prepared. Reading how this week went for me should show you why I say that:

Tier list of the week

This week's tier list: sweaters. Here's the tier list:

Ordered tiers, unordered wthin tiers. I don't think this is a complete list, not at all, but it fits my purposes. I don't relaly like cardigans, but I do like zippers and buttons on my sweaters. I mean, I'll wear a sweater that doesn't have those, but all my favourite ones to wear have zippers for sure. Maybe it's a flexibility thing?

Personal updates (achievements, reflections, and antics)

This is going to be an important week. I can feel it. I woke up a little late and prepped as fast as I could, not realizing that my bus was going to be extra late today by the exact amount of minutes I woke up late by. Oh. Handy. I was also trying something new with my oatmeal by adding frozen peaches instead of frozen berries, and it was not very good. I think maybe I over-microwaved them? I'll have to figure out a better way to use them. Maybe I'm meant to have the peaches slightly defrosted before use? Work today wasn't too eventful, even though I feel like it should've been. Steve had this ridiculous cowlick haircut, but otherwise things were just normal. My manager and I were back to discussing the same waiver importing situation like last time, and I searched through some documentation to find an answer to avoid filing a support ticket. That's the work I ended up doing all day. As for other happenings:

An old temp returned to the company and greeted us in the corner today! He's been brought back as a temp again, but this time more of a full-time than a temp. Also, on a slightly different team. Pretty cool that he's back, even if I didn't really talk to him
Didn't go down for lunch with the others, a choice I very much was glad to make. I mostly just talked with my predecessor instead
Attended another meeting with my work rival's entire team, and my manager and the director were there too. I don't know why I'm still on the invite list for this, since I finished all my work for them. I mostly worked on trying to figure out more details about the waiver thing during this meeting, and I felt as though the director was staring at me the whole time, but I think he was looking at his screen more...
Finally shared my 21x21 cryptic with everyone! Everyone's going to do it individually now, but I really hope they enjoy it
Those admin figures came by, telling us in the corner to pack all our personal effects in a box. This Friday, they're giving us very small desks so that they can fit 6 people in here instead of just 4, and they're putting a film on one of the windows (not mine though at least!). I'm not very happy about having a smaller desk, but I guess I'm only going to have to go through that for 4 months or so.
Read a little bit of the 'Wano' arc of 'One Piece,' only like the first 15 chapters. Interesting, but seems a bit slow for now.
Had a talk with the compatriot, fanatic, and my co-DM about a new clue type and about cryptics stuff in general, and one with my equivalent about 'Ace Attorney'
Tried to get my work rival to draw the grid on the crossword cubicle's whiteboard, which didn't work out very well. We erased his work, and we'll be making him do it again
At the end of all this, my tests finally returned with the waiver importing answer I found in the documentation, which I shared earlier with my manager. The results? A fail. I guess I'm going to have to figure out that ticket thing...

At the end of the workday, I wasn't done with the interesting stuff today. My landlord texted me that my mail-in ballot had arrived. It was definitely too late to mail it and hope it arrived on time, but there was a chance I could drop it off at an election office so that it still counted. I rushed out the office a bit earlier than normal, under a deeply blue sky with a light amount of sun shining on me. The bus rides were pretty quick getting back, and as soon as I got back I grabbed the ballot and filled it out. Then, I didn't know what to do, but call the number included in the envelope. The navigation menu was painstakingly slow, but it was very nice that it let me say words instead of press additional number buttons to navigate through it. Still though, the robot voice managing the menu spoke so slowly, agonizingly slow. After telling it my postal code character by character, I managed to interrupt it so that it quickly redirected me to the local election office. Once I had confrimation from them that I could drop off my ballot there, I checked the bus schedules and saw that if I left right now, I could make it to that office 2 hours before it closed. That's more than enough time! Well, ok, maybe not the "leave right now to catch your bus" part, but I made it in the end so it all worked out! It was still just so nice out, and on the bus I really started to appreciate how nice this place I've ended up in really was, even admist this more "industrial" part of town. Once I got off the last bus and walked to the election office, there was a nice large field on the other side of the road, with a nice (albeit limited) view of the downtown far off in the distance. At the election office, I saw a bunchof people going in for the counting, probably volunteers, and there was a huge amount of people there just for that. I get that there's probably a lot of ballots and there would be a lot of people needed to count, but why did you all come in so early???? The line of people present were all here to sign in for volunteering, including this group of short girls in front of me, who kept giggling as they looked right behind them at me. Well, that's just how short people are, regardlesss of gender. I hand over my envelope, then walk away. Wow, that's it? That was way simpler than I thought it would be. Well, I guess it's time to go. I retrace my steps and take one bus back all the way, so that I could keep this entire trip (from work, to apartment, to election office, to apartment) all within the free transfer period. It's nice to reflect on my life here as I look out the window, but once I get back to my place and make myself some tea, it becomes time to reflect instead on my day so far. It takes me a little longer than I expected (as always with bloghan it seems...), but I actually think that for once I did well with focusing on it, freeing up my time for other things. For example, my landlord gave me the can opener, so I can properly take the time to make this week's chili and avoid a dinner of one (1) mandarin tonight. I used my compsci friend's crushed tomatoes for it instead of diced ones, making it taste a little more bitter than I was expecting, but also a whole lot smoother and red. As I cooked it I noticed that it was also reaching boiling point faster, and that it was violently throwing sauce on the walls. It still tasted pretty good though, but I guess this is why diced tomatoes are recommended? After eating, I took time to write a bunch of future bloghan content way ahead of time, which kept me up an unexpected amount of time. It'll all be worth it in the end though... right?

In contrast to yesterday's completely clear sky, this sky was light grey. Looks like the winter jacket's going to have come back on... At work, I did mostly the same stuff as yesterday, but without nearly as much interaction with others. I mean sure, my corner coworkers were here, as were the people in the crossword cubicle, but I think I focused a little better today? Because of yesterday's failures I ended up finally filing that ticket my manager wanted me to, which took me a while. I wanted to make sure I was articulating it with all the information up front, so that I wouldn't have to keep a long dialogue going with the support people, trying to catch them up. Lunchtime came and I ended up staying at my desk. I wanted to get this ticket right, and I also wanted to kick off my own new run to try out a new idea. Maybe this one would work! While I waited for things to load and such, I read another 10 chapters or so of 'One Piece,' meeting my quota for the week already. I ended up taking so long that it was no longer worth it to join people downstairs for lunch, so I ate and submitted my ticket. While I waited for a response or my test to come back, I started working on some documentation for the Absconder stuff I've submitted. I had been avoiding doing it for a while, but it really wasn't so bad. I had to stop when the not-manager pinged me in that one group chat though. He was asking me to essentially redo about half of one of my Absconder creations, because he claimed the results were not working. I had Steve in my ear telling me that this is just how the not-manager is, but I refused to accept it. Looking previously in this group chat, it looked like he was only having problems with one specific output, not all of them. I looked closer at the one that did have issues, and saw that it was not one of the ones that I was responsible for. I didn't make this! It was someone else on the team. I made this clear to him by starting with some feigned ignorance which I then swung hard into confirming exactly what I was responsible for. WHen he realized his error, he just wrapped in the person responsible to the group chat. Oh boy... I had a little laughing fit over this whole situation, so thankful that I wouldn't have to change my Absconder stuff any more than necessary, with Steve telling me "yeah, I know, I know" throughout it all. Eventually, I got back to my documentation, nearly finishing one whole Absconder tool's explanation. Near the end of the day, I got curious about how the others were getting on with my crossword, but no one was really motivated to do it since there was no grid drawn on the crossword cubicle's whiteboard. Yet, no one was motivated to draw it either! They were just waiting for my work rival to do it. Well, that's fine, I'm sure he'll get to it eventually. I had a couple more visits over to those cubes over the next hour or so, asking the gregarious to hold on to my personal effects when the Friday construction was occuring, discussing with the D&D group about who could come tomorrow (half of them, again!), seeing my work rvial fail to count to 21 as he was drawing out the grid, and hearing about thunderstorms occuring in the evening. I got even closer to finishing my documentation once I got back to my desk, but as I thought about the rain thing, seeing how the sky had a little bit of blue in it but a whole lot of wind, I decided to leave early so as to not get caught in the rain. At the bus stop I saw the compatriot, and we talked about the new place he moved into and how he has to take multiple buses because of it, but I got off this bus within 2 stops anyways. It was not raining one bit until the very end of my connection bus ride, and when I walked through my front door I heard lightning. Good choice on my part, I guess. Since I left work about an hour early, I did a little bit of work at home, expecting the sounds of heavy rain to soon overtake the relative quiet. However, it never did. The rain and thunder only lasted for 10 minutes. What was the point of even leaving then?!?!? After I was done with work, I focused in again on bloghan, writing today's entry, stuff for future bloghans, and even got to start my joke presentation! Somehow, I got kept up late this time even though I was sure that I wasn't doing as much stuff... weird. Proabbly had nothing to do with the yellow deck gold stake run I completed that night... surely.

Wednesday was next, and was a pretty run of the mill day, despite me nearly missing the bus. There had been no further contact on my ticket yet, so today's work was all in documentation. I finished my documentation for my second Absconder work, so I ended up starting on the next one today too. Now, as for things that weren't work that happened... well there's quite a bit there. In the morning there was a falcon gliding around just outside my window, and me and my predecessor talked for a little bit about birds of prey and his story about a worksite he was on that had a peregrine falcon nest there. For lunch, I once again did not join the group downstairs, but did stay upstairs with the greagarious and my co-DM in the crossword cubicle. IT had changed some of the security policy on all our work accounts to require some extra verificaiton step (something called a passkey? I thought that was just another word for password?). Essentially, you'd need to add your phone or your face or something like that to your account, and use that to log in and access our company confidential stuff. I had it easy though! Since my phone is 4 years old, it didn't support any of the new options. But I had run into this earlier, when I was just starting out at the company. They gave me a security key for logging into some of the services, and I realized that I could piggy-back this new passkey requirement onto the same key! It took a while to set up since it didn't look like it was working after the first try, so I kept mashing the "set up passkey" button. That probably stalled it a whole bunch. My co-DM and the greagarious were having no success with it, but I got mine to work right away. I decided that at the beginning of lunch I would not eat, but instead, finish off the grid that my work rival did not finish drawing. I did it dot matrix style, using the edge of a cardboard box to try and get the dotted lines to be as straight as possible. Us three talked for a little bit as I did it, about the upcoming 'Zelda' movie and a little about D&D, but mostly about this new passkey thing. After a short break when midway done with the grid, I got back to it, and the people who went down for lunch slowly filtered back upstairs and began talking about the new temps that would be coming in to replace us. Everyone's been talking about these new temps who are coming in mid-May, fully taking over our roles at the end of August. Everyone's also been talking about how they wouldn't want to interact with their replacement at all, hoping that they don't talk to us, and talking strategies to have them not join us in the lunchroom. Outwardly, I stated the same opinion, but on the inside I knew that I would be wanting to interact with my replacement the most. I already know her name since she's in our computer systems already, and I've decided on her bloghan nickname too: my successor. Honestly, I do hope that she gives me a good excuse to not talk to the temps around me as much. I let my work rival do the last few dots on the grid and the gregarious the clue numbering, and left them all to solve. After a quick discussion with Steve about the not-manager and his sometimes nonsensical requests, I went back to my desk to do work. It was nice that I was alone in the corner, with the sun washing over me and just relaxing with writing. It really was surprising to me how much more comfortable with writing I've gotten over the years, especially after doing bloghan for months. I was actually enjoying the processs of writing this documentation! The admin from the first floor visited me twice, one time to double-check the desk-measurements (my desk is only shrinking by one foot, from 6 to 5: not bad at all!). This same visit also planted the idea in her head to potentially move my desk away from the window I was facing. I surely hope not... Her second visit was with a different admin to do osme last minute logistics planing and to share her idea of shifting around the original plan, as well as to ask me if we used the round table in the middle (yes, our managers like it when they meet with us and we eat lunch around it sometimes) and what should be done with the potted tree (keep it, duh!). They left after their measurements, and I got back to my documentation. Closer to D&D time, the two players who could attend tonight session requested that we don't run anything that progresses the story, as they want at least 3/4 people present for such a thing. I would rather get things moving since we've been stuck in the main town for so long without much action, but if the players want it! Then sure! After a little more documentation work, we headed down (my co-DM didn't want to join if it wasn't main story stuff), and we had a very short hour long session where the players saw their impact on this town and received some lore and a somewhat-helpful item. We did end it early so that people could catch their ideal buses, myself included. My bus ride featured me catching up with a bit with my work rival's roommate, then a 15 minute walk back to my place underneath a fairly nice sky, a gentle breeze, and some evening sun. I bumped into the neighbours and grabbed my recycling bin from yesterday, then walked into my landlord's backyard to see that my front door was open. Huh, I guess a gust of wind must've opened it? I walk inside to see my landlord standing in the common laundry room, telling me that she already replace my recycling bin. Well, it looks like she did slightly more than that too, as she had also replaced my garbage bag and swept some stuff into it. She told me that sometimes she uses my apartment as a shortcut between her floor of the house and her garden (just girl stuff, I suppose), and that she likes how clean I keep it in my place (is it really clean???). She was also laughing a bit at how she forgot to bring in the extra recylcing bin, since she had already brougth it back inside for me, and took it from me so that I wouldn't have to. With that, she went upstairs. Uhhhhh... well, ok. I guess. Still not really sure what to make of that exchange... Some bloghan work, then a long call with my sister to help her with her math homework (also, she's an honours student???? what????? she gave up winning fistfights for good grades??? geez...), then finishing off half of my joke presentation. I really wish I finished more because I'd like to get on my course jumpstart, but I don't want to go to work tomorrow on only 5 hours of sleep...

I headed off to work with 5 hours of sleep on Thursday, but I guess my second bus driver also had 5 hours because he missed my destination stop by 1. Well, I think it's pretty clear by now that I don't mind walking so much, but when it started to rain a little bit I had to really pick up the pace. My work was all documentation focused in the morning, and not so much talking to others. Sure, my predecessor would viist ocassionally, and my work rival came in pretty late and talked to me a bit there, but I mostly focused on my doing my own thing anyways. I'm now almost fully caught up on this documentation that I have to do, and when I finished it I went to go see what was up in the crossword cubicle... and they were all deciding on going out to eat for lunch. I didn't really want to because I brought a lunch, so I sat at my desk and started thinking about what to do next. Then, an admin emailed all us temps about the future seating locations of the incoming temps, and asked us to leave some nice messages on the whiteboard there. A meeting room had been gutted and desks were arranged inside of it, and I thought that I would take some of the unsued notebooks by preivous temps on my team and write a note on a sticky note addressed to my successor. However... no one knows which desk is which, since no numbering or labelling has been applied to them. Oh well, I have a week or two anyways, I can figure it out later. After lunch, I turned my work effort towards some tool modifier I was supposed to create. When using a certain tool on one part of our design, one of our biggest testing flows freaks out. My team has already determined why the freak out occurs, and that the freak out is entirely over nothing that is our responsibility, so I'm in charge of making a modifier that goes "over top" the tool to remove the incriminating error. I had to interact with that Russian guy on my work rival's team, since he was the first one to spot this issue, but I had to cut our initial text conversations short when I realized I had the Thursday project meeting to attend... but it was actually a very boring meeting that was compeletely irrelevant to me once again. The only thing that happened was that the director and his director had a bit of an argument, but I was yawning the whole time since I had joined the meeting online. Once it was done I could resume talking to the Russian team member about the error I was supposed to fix, since a new source of confusion had popped up: it looked like it was no longer there, despite me not doing anything to fix it! I guess I did leave this task alone for two weeks... still though, looking at what HAD been done, I couldn't see anything that was getting rid of the error. The Russian guy visited my desk and we talked and discussed about the intracacies of the task, and he left soon after to send me some more information that might help. It involved a screenshot of an email from my go-to detailing something she tried, and a way to access really old versions of the project files. Still though, I ended up not figuring out why that error had disappeared. I got up to see what the other temps were up to, and they were all gearing up to visit that space where the new temps are going to end up. We added a bunch of stuff to the whiteboard in there, some of it way more unprofessional than other stuff, but eventually we just left a little list of useful links, a welcome message, a list of common phrases they would be hearing at the company, and my work rival left some weird Linkedin tie-in thing. Huh... The end of the workday was all about typing bloghan at first, then realizing that my manager had given me a new task related to something I've worked with before. We have a set of files (call them the A files) that need to be referenced extensively when creating another list of files that aren't very important (call them B files), that are used to produce some extremely important spreadsheets (call them C files) which in turn produce even more important "D files." There's an A file for each important part of the project, and we have a process in place that automatically produces the B files from the A files whenever the A files are changed. However, one specific A file is incompatible with this process, and at some point, someone changed that A file and assumed the automatic process would take care of everything else. However, the subsequent B, C, and D files associated with that part of the project still had outdated information in it, and it wasn't until very recently that this was discovered. By now, there wasn't really an easy fix since we had submitted this particular project already, so we needed to have extensive meetings with multiple teams at the same level as and above us to figure out where a fix could be snuck in. My work rival's team wanted to make sure this didn't happen for future projects. Now I've worked quite a lot with the A files and I know and understand them relatively well. That automatic process that takes A files and makes B files from them was written by the director, and I'm somewhat familiar with taking his work and updating it. So I guess it makes sense that I would be assigned this... however, this time the scope of this whole task is a lot larger. As I puzzled over understanding what was going on, my predecessor visited and asked what was going on. I began to tell him of this task but he stopped me midway, saying he talked with someone on my work rival's team about this issue and gave the advice that it would be a pretty easy fix. Ah, so it's HIS fault that I'm getting this task... My work rival also took interest in what I was doing, and I saw that since it was nearly time for me to leave and I hadn't cleared out my desk for tomorrow's renovations, I let him tackle the task on my laptop as I removed everything. I moved a bunch of the stuff onto the gregarious's desk as requested, but all the big stuff ended up in the provided cardboard box and stowed under the desk. I put everything away in my box, like my keyboard and mouse and laptop stand, but my work rival left a good amount of stuff on the desk. I mean, I'm not going to tell him he has to do it but... ah, well, my stuff is fine so what do I care? I check in on my work rival once I'm done, and he's talking this whole big game about how he's about to solve my task for me and that he better get credit for it... he runs the "A into B" process and it doesn't include the one A file that is missing. Well, nice try I guess. I head out right after that, saying goodbye to this desk that I had become quite fond of, and seeing the gregarious admire the picture of my professor as I leave (she better give it back...). Rain has fully set in outside, light at first but getting worse with time. My hoodie's hood is very damp by the time I get back, but I am pretty grateful that all my buses came on time today. At home I hop on teh regular Thursday call with my friends from home - ah, well it would be that if one of them just didn't forget to join? It was the one I call Greyhair (I've decided I'm changing their nicknames by the way: the one who played 'Harold' all those months ago is now called "Greyhair" instead of "Kotori" and the one who played 'Izuku' and had a birthday recently is now called "Bluehair" instead of "Umi"), so it was just me and Bluehair on call. After I show him some random 'One Piece' clips that remind me that I have at least a little bit of emotion within me, he opens up the first 'Ace Attorney' game and we play through the first half of case 2. He was a bit disappointed by the big twist at the start of the case, but the characters that followed seemed to make up for it in a big way. It's still such a blast to watch someone play this gmae, and even more fun to voice half of the characters as we play too, but that's probably to the detriment of my landlord. Maybe I shouldn't have said April May's lines as loudly or as sultryily as I did... After we ended the call I was really feeling the tiredness kick in. As much as I wanted to finish things like my presentation and start on assignment that hadn't yet been assigned to me, I had a feeling I would do better if I got a little more sleep. So once I finished updating bloghan, I just went to bed. Honestly, not a bad day all things considered!

I woke up pretty late on Friday, but I wanted a little more sleep. Problem was, I woke up 5 minutes before I Had to clock in for work! Ah, well that wasn't really a problem, since I could just... you know, turn on my laptop and log in, then put my finger on the touchpad as I slept for another half hour! It didn't work as much as I thought it would, but it did look like I was somewhat online at least. Eventually I got out of bed and make tea and breakfast, then started to do stuff. I was mostly trying to figure out the problem from late last afternoon, while aslo getting very distracted with things on my own laptop and phone. The weird thing with this task was that I wasn't really given a task, but instead the problem. No one had already come up with a solution idea that I had to implement, but instead just gave me all the data and said "yeah get him on it." I spent a good few hours doing this, but other than figuring out what my manager had done so far and investigating that (and potentially ruining some of the files on his machine - oops!), I didn't make much progress. I had originally thought that I had a good understanding of this task, but this made me realize I lacked knowledge of the B files, C files, and D files, and that knowing a good deal about the A files would not be enough. What I ended up doing then was a little 'Balatro' and working on bloghan and my presentation, something which continued even after I ended work for the day. No, really, that's all of what I did that evening too, finally finishing the joke presentation. I interweaved that with making food and tea and with 'Balatro' runs that varied greatly between insane and frustrating (black deck moment). This joke presentation is not as good as my prior joke presentation but it deals with a more serious topic so that's probably why? After I finished it, I decided to write up the next 'Jeopardy!' board, finishing off the first round clues. This next one is going to be much easier than other boards I've done, but I think that will make it more accessible to everyone present, instead of having my predecessor dominating the competition. I went straight to bed once I finished that though, since my self-imposed writing tasks had kept me up 3 hours after midnight for the third night in a row. On Saturday I didn't feel it as much, but took the morning to finish the 'Jeopardy!' board. I was planning on doing the photo editing thing, but I saw that the original pixel artist who I initially thought would do it (who ended up not doing it) stated they would get back to it in May... which is now! So I guess I'll extend that one out a little too. I also played the first part of the next case in 'Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations,' having so much fun seeing the characters in the present once again. The humour in this chapter so far has me giggling, though I will say that I am actually mad at the defendant in this case because it's going to be real annyoing dealing with his delusions, AND he's living MY dream. It should've been me married to an assertive and protective tall wife, not Mr. Delulu over here... in a... fictional universe. Yeah ok it's as sad as it sounds. Once I finished that first part of the case, the rest of the night was spent studying for my upcoming communications course, interleaving study time with 'Balatro' runs. I had quickly gotten through blue, purple, and orange stake with the black deck, but the gold stake was proving to be a bit of a wall. I took notes from the quite long chapters of the textbook, and my arm and hand got really sore really quickly. I guess it's been a while since I handwrote notes like that, huh? After dinner I finished off my studying ans went to bed, but I just couldn't sleep very well. I went to bed 2 hours after midnight, but I couldn't fall asleep until 5 hours after. I think at like 4 hours after I was hearing birdsong? That wasn't what was keeping me up though, just the regular thoughts. You know how it is. That meant that on Sunday I woke up pretty late, only an hour before noon. I quickly made myself a large breakfast and picked up my grocery delivery, then set myself back to studying. This next chapter was a lot more dense and a lot more packed with stuff I saw as only marginally more useful than the first chapter, but once I worked through it over the course of a couple hours, I did some chores. Throughout the study session I also weaved in some gold stake black deck runs in 'Balatro,' never making it very far at all. It was only after the chores but before I started cooking up another batch of chili that I saw any amount of success, netting myself the gold sticker on the black deck due to sheer luck with the jokers and spectral cards I got. Never playing that deck again, it wasn't very fun getting stomped in the early game constantly. As I ate the chili (I added celery to it this time, as well as a whole bunch more pepper to make it taste much better than the previous batch) I read the Act 3 Intermission of 'Homestuck' which was fascinating. Hussie is able to write time travel plots extremely well, and I was able to follow along (mostly) with the extremely complicated events of the heist and powers of the Felt. Although... I see what you're doing Hussie! You can't pull a fast one on me (not that easily). The whole thing felt entirely disconnected from the plot, but that's gotta be because the Intermission is an analogue for the events of 'Homestuck' - the Suits are either connected to main 4 heroes or to the exiles in the distant future, while the Felt have to be connected to whatever these trolls are, since it's implied the trolls have some sort of time-travel thing going on with them. I kept meaning to not read the whole Intermission, but it kept me drawn in the whole time, until I finished the whole thing. Whoops... Well, once that was finished I quickly quizzed myself on the textbook chapter I wrote notes for a bit ago, then went to bed. Hopefully this time I can actually fall asleep within a reasonable amount of time... which is a topic for next week's blog. So for now, I'm still wide awake.

Future plans

Here's the results of last week's plans:

Door: no progress
Document sleeves: So funny story about that... I don't even have an excuse for this one I don't know why I can't seem to bring myself to do it
Photo editing thing: Biding my time for that artist to maybe do most of it for me??
Don't play games: oops
Joke presentation: done!
Email assignment and presentation assignment: I didn't start these but I had a good reason!
Upcoming course preaparations: I realized that I needed to actually do the textbook readings first! So I did those first!
New 'Jeopardy' board: done! I feel really good about this one.

This week, you already know the plan. Well, actually, you don't but I think you could guess it pretty accurately. The number one priority is to do as much of the course as possible as early as possible, to have as much time as possible to go over and error check things. I stand to lose a lot of points for only a few errors. Oh I guess the document sleeves thing could be done too. Outside of that, I don't want to plan for doing much more.

Song of the week

The Man Who Sold the World' (https://youtu.be/mXHKjFKBC0g) by Midge Ure is the song of the week. This song makes me think of the man who sold the world as some genius master planner, who's got things his hands in things going on in the background just so that they can Rube Goldberg machine themselves into working out into something amazing with even more amazing timing when that man needs it. Of course, I'm nothing like that, but I do feel like this week's plan was wll-crafted, and for once, well-executed. I'm not yet at the point where I'm selling the world, and to be honest, that doesn't seem like the kind of position I want to be in. That being said... that being said... ah, forget it. Kept you waiting for a response, huh?

Until next time

Things are about to get real intense, but even so, I'll need to keep an extremely close eye on how I do things. I have to be as picky as possible with just about everything I write for the next little bit... well, except for bloghan I suppose! You're fine with that, right? See you next week!

- bubbler

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