diary

• Echos From Another Time
  
  Years ago I was given my first prescription for daily brain meds...
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  Jul 25, 2023 - 1 min read
• Goodbye, Charlie
  
  I lost my best boy Sunday morning...
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  Jul 24, 2023 - 1 min read
• Day full of good things

  It was a day full of good things. Here they are, in chronological order:

  • read two chapters of Dan Moren’s book “The Bayern Agenda” while drinking coffee in the hot tub before work
  • the things that didn’t work in my new project yesterday started working
  • attended my first standup with my new teammates
  • ate a delicious chicken pot pie for lunch
  • returned a library book that was six years overdue and wasn’t charged a fine
  • voted in the senate runoff election
  • got a delicious dirty spiced chai
  • installed gitea at git.kestrelsnest.social and initialized a repo for Advent of Code
  • made buffalo chicken legs for dinner
  • took my youngest to their first rehearsal of a neighborhood brass band based on a poster I saw stapled to a telephone pole
  • ate leftover pecan pumpkin pie
  • watched several episodes of Taskmaster and had quite a few good laughs

  A good day indeed.

  Postscript: It occurred to me right after posting that this could have been titled “Is the ketamine working? Signs point to yes.” More on that later, no doubt.

  Nov 30, 2022 - 1 min read