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pretty much uniformly dysphoric
Monday, October 15 2018
It was so cool (and rainy) this morning that I wore a jacket to work. It wasn't my first wearing of a jacket this season; that was on Saturday when we drove down to New Paltz for spaghetti. But there's been a state-change in the season and the prolonged Indian summer of 2018 appears to be over.
I'd made two burritos this morning from my bean glurp, and I ate one of those for lunch at my desk. I've been pretty good at bringing my own food every day, which is good given that the kind of stuff I can eat nearby tends to make for a $12-16 lunch. That's half what my mother used to make per day as a substitute teacher in the Shenandoah Valley in the late 1970s.
Back at home, my new season-affected firewood obsession had me gathering more salvaged wood (dry white pine this time) west of the farm road. Later I drank kratom tea until it started making me feel anxious and mildly sick. Kratom varies from batch to batch (and according to what species and part of the tree it comes from), but this latest stuff has been pretty much uniformly dysphoric (if anything). While I was drinking that, my immediate boss (not the head honcho) sent me a Slack message asking about some migration issue. Since I am always on Slack, I jumped in immediately. I ended up doing a couple hours of work starting after 8:00pm. I would've been able to do more, but I had the limitation of the household DSL bandwidth, which is (at best) only 10% as fast as the internet at the office. For most tasks, this wouldn've been a problem. But I was dealing with large masses of attachments (PDFs and Word documents mostly), and (in the line of business I now work in) they make up the bulk of databases thirty to sixty gigabytes in size.
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