Author: rommel

Well, looks like Liza won’t be dodging hurricanes. Just read that Hurricane Helene is on track to hit Florida. Hopefully this doesn’t impact Miami. Right now it looks like things will be ok.

Flushing the water heater turned into a whole thing. But I think I got it working now. Holy moley does water want to kill me.

Mostly getting errands done and working on Fiber Club. Then I’m going to start up the fire pit and binge-watch The Boys Season 4. It’s a nice day outside.

This week felt very long. Brutal even. And I can’t even pinpoint why. It just was a lot. Sounds like Liza is having a lot of fun in her offsite, though. I’m glad for her, but I’m glad the work week is over.

I’m incredibly tired. Couldn’t sleep very well. Liza made it safely to Miami. She also couldn’t sleep well.

Liza leaves for Florida tonight for her work conference. I have the house all for myself. Shall I throw a rager? jk nerds don’t do ragers. One final date night before she gets the Vid, because no one masks in Florida (also jk, hope she doesn’t get sick, we took precautions).

Yesterday I submitted a second draft of a distributed topic publisher that uses redis as its backend to throttle messages to one per specified time. So that was cool. Hopefully it survives code review. Today I’m going to have a very meeting-heavy day. I’ll be kicking off a “Talking Shop Series” talk. If people like…

Am I cramming for a public speaking presentation tomorrow? Yes. Yes I am.

Decided not to move my desk just yet. Liza will be doing work-related travel, so there’s no point. We will finish painting this room… eventually. I don’t really have much to say today. More or the same.

Plans for today include: – Update the form validation on the listing creation form on Fiber Club– Prepare slides and presentation materials for Tuesday’s work meeting– Move my desk so that we can finish painting my office.– Send a recommendation for a coworker on LinkedIn and follow up with some networking tasks.– Finish watching the…