Author: rommel

Day 2 of the bug hunting hackathon. It’s alright. People seem motivated by it, though. Not my type of thing. I am keeping it in mind. Met with Liza yesterday about Fiber Club pattern sizing. Had a productive meeting. I have enough to go on with, but it will be an iterative process that we…

Today marks the start of our “found-it-pound-it” hackathon, which is a 2-day long bug fixing event. It’s quite boring… Wish my boss had at least gotten a little creative with it, but the extent of his creativity was “It’s Star Wars themed” and then threw on one Star Wars slide. One day I will be…

In case you’re wondering, no, Mexicans don’t celebrate “Cinco de Mayo”. Today is largely going to be a chore day. We just had a small rain, so planning on seeding a clover field and seeing what happens. Supposedly they bloom easily and require little water. Also doing boring stuff like mowing the weeds (what I…

I’m going to try to check out the SDFC block party happening in Chula today. Also, I’m planning on picking up some Mother’s Day gift for my grandma. Probably flowers. Other than that, it’s the usual. Read. Study. Code. Clean. May the Force be with you.

Just made my morning cup of coffee. Americano. Delicious. It’s finally Friday. I’m working on a mystery process that crashes in the middle of the night. I have some theories, but nothing concrete yet. Unfortunately, looks like the issue only happens in production. I think it’s some kind of resource starvation. I’ll figure it out.…

The planetarium was fun. Got to meet Stephanie’s mom, Sabrina. I learned about the effects of satellites and light pollution on stargazing. It’s a bigger problem than I thought. Apparently the FCC is the agency regulating companies like SpaceX, and they only care about telecommunications, not about light pollution, so the problem is likely to…

It’s the first of the month. Coworkers mayed a lot of “may” jokes. I enjoyed those. It’s not may to make similar ones, though, since I find them cringe. Just kidding, if someone is making May jokes, it’s gonna be may. After all the chores for the day are done, I will go to the…

I apparently alternate between writing these journal entries as either the first thing I do in the morning or the last thing I do in the day. Today is the latter. One of my favorite things about the Champions League is that it always airs during lunch time at work. So of course I watch…

Just got word for how much San Diego Football Club (SDFC) is asking for Club season tickets. It’s frankly absurd. $6k to $10k per seat for 23 games. And some of the tickets require multi-year commitments. Excuse me, what? You want a family to drop a thousand dollars per game? This is an unproven team,…

It’s very nice outside. Today, I’m thinking I will focus on relaxing. It’s been a little stressful these days and I have a general feeling of anxiety today. I think it’s a mixture of feeling like I’m not doing enough for my grandmother and the fact that I had to add so much debt to…