Web dev is hard.
Hoooof. Most of this week was taken up by me still recovering from that cold I mentioned last week. Thank you, lingering cough! If this cough could fuck off right now I’d be really grateful.
But besides that…
- I misremembered the date of my next interview, so I have an extra six days to study! Yesssss.
- I finished Spring semester of school this week with flying colors and only moderately high stress. I’m taking the summer off, and I’m going to try and wait on signing up for Fall until I have gainful employment lined up again, since the registration period is so long.
- I’ve been reading through How Linux Works (2nd edition) by Brian Ward. So far my reaction is “THIS is the manual that Linux should come with.” So, you know, it’s been good. I’m only 10% in but it’s explaining everything from a very base level in a very approachable way. Like usual, good work No Starch Press.
- I just finished reading Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. It only took me forever and a day. I very much liked it, and it’s interesting to see the Gethenians’ approach to gender, and how the narrator very slowly Gets It more over the course of the book. Though the narrator definitely has some Toxic Masculinity going on, but I think that Le Guin knows and acknowledges that as a flaw, at least implicitly. Also kemmer seems really convenient (in a good way)? Like “oh cool I’ll only be distracted by horniness a few days a month, but those few days will be RAD and then I can get back to things.” The descriptions of crossing the ice are a thing of beauty, too. I should probably let any thoughts on the book bake more before I talk about it, but those are some initial impressions.
- Fallout 4 continues to eat up my time and I keep making it behave in weird ways on accident. Mostly by not realizing someone’s initiated a conversation and walking away, thus ending the conversation and sometimes cutting off my ability to actually talk to them or do a quest. I did meet Curie, though, and she is great and adorable. Even while we’re all getting shredded by Super Mutants. (My poor everything, all shot to hell.)
- I actually finished writing a short story this week, a nice change of pace. I’m thinking I need to start forcing myself to finish things to help get myself out of my rut. At least then I’ll have some spare stories around, even if they’re not great, instead of a bunch of scenes with no context.
- In trying to declutter I’ve come to the realization that a bunch of old games I have both take up a bunch of space and never get played. As such I’ve figured out a new project for myself. (Oh god.) I’m going to try to get an emulation archive of my games going, so that I have access to them on the off-chance I really want to play ’em, but the physical copies can go off and hang out with someone else who’ll have more fun with ’em. (This sadly cannot apply to my PS3 games, because PS3 emulation is Not There yet. Alas.)
- I started poking at developing an OS, which I think I already mentioned. I also stumbled across Damn Small Linux, which seems like a really interesting example of doing everything most users need and being able to run well on pretty much anything. Someday soon here I want to experiment with it and see how in practice.
How’d everyone else’s week go? Well, I hope! Let me know. 😀
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