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* Tasks
** DONE PR reviews
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** DONE Stand-up with Andrii :@15five:meeting:standup:andrii:
CLOSED: [2020-03-23 Mon 08:42] SCHEDULED: <2020-03-23 Mon 8:00-8:10>
** DONE Create Quip doc to sign folks up for the Developer's Toolbox
CLOSED: [2020-03-23 Mon 10:38]
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** DONE Castine Bicentennial Committee meeting :@town:me200:meeting:
CLOSED: [2020-03-23 Mon 10:38] SCHEDULED: <2020-03-23 Mon 9:00-10:00>
** DONE Review Andrii's PR :@15five:prreview:
CLOSED: [2020-03-23 Mon 17:36] SCHEDULED: <2020-03-23 Mon>
https://github.com/15five/fifteen5/pull/27497
** DONE Admin Gathering :@15five:gathering:meeting:admin:
CLOSED: [2020-03-23 Mon 10:38] SCHEDULED: <2020-03-23 Mon 10:00-10:30>
** DONE Team Boost :@15five:meeting:boost:
CLOSED: [2020-03-23 Mon 17:37] SCHEDULED: <2020-03-23 Mon 12:00-12:30>
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** DONE Run :@personal:exercise:
CLOSED: [2020-03-23 Mon 17:37] SCHEDULED: <2020-03-23 Mon>
** DONE Strength exercises :@personal:exercise:
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** DONE Write in journal :@personal:journal:
CLOSED: [2020-03-23 Mon 17:46]
* Today
- The day has been overcast and gray all day. I spent a chunk of the morning not
  being able to get warm. This tends to happen when I go straight to the
  basement for work, and I really should learn.
- [[id:f9a1a25f-aecc-493d-97d3-357e1eb25289][Emma Sweet]] out grocery shopping while the kids watched Jumanji 2 again. When I
  was done with my block of meetings I came up stairs and got very little done
  until Emma got home just before lunch.
- I spent most of the day feeling a little slow and unproductive. I'm hoping to
  be able catch up on my two work tasks after the kids go to bed, but we'll see.
- [[id:7c23d92f-997e-47ff-83a5-85c7c11fd0a0][Silas Sewell]] has been driving me nuts today. We played Coup last night and now
  all he can talk about is playing it again. Seems like everytime I walk in the
  room he's asking about it, and I don't know how to respond. I usually promise
  to play later, but that's not always a good look.
* Starting the day with meetings
- I'm not sure I like starting my day with [[id:a3f1c883-3c95-4a20-ae0b-c054a06813e9][Meetings]]. Mondays I generally hop
  from meeting to meeting to meeting, and I end up feeling really unproductive
  all day.
- Maybe what I need to do is get up earlier? I've tried that before and it's not
  always easy.
* Wrote to Susan Collins today
- Reflecting on the stimulus package for [[id:5b96a053-eb86-486c-989c-8b3b1f4e4f17][Covid-19]] in Congress right now and I
  can't believe Susan Collins had the balls to call out the Democrats for
  obstructing the bill.
- The reality is that the bill gave huge bailouts to corporations that were
  already in dire straights before all this happened. It also would cap payouts
  to people who make a certain amount of money, stopping around $100K, or so the
  NYT has me believe.
* Hungarian politics
- Via HN, [[https://hungarianspectrum.org/2020/03/21/kim-lane-scheppele-orbans-emergency/][Hungary's Orban is consolidating power]] and the author made a really
  compelling case that what Orbán is doing is a play for authoritarian power.
- I realized that Zoltan might have some perspective on this and posted the link
  to him.
- He thanked me for the link, but said:
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Thank you for this article. It's interesting. I don't really care about
politics. I have positive and negative feelings against Orban. I live a better
life due to the tax changes, my parents also live better since Orban leads the
country, also i agree with him how the global migration is handled. On the
other hand he has some really weird decisions and more power than he should.
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- I felt sort of humbled by this, given that we have Donald Trump for a
  president, and the world still hasn't gone to hell. Most people with power
  tend to lean towards authoritarianism. This is nothing new.