Wednesday, 11/27/2019
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Tasks
DONE Dishes
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DONE Set tasks for the day
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DONE Communications [4/4]
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- [X] Check and respond to email
- [X] Check mastodon
- [X] Write a blog post
- [X] Jira ticket catch-up
DONE Write email to Sara Hayman about Emma's knitting bag
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DONE Helping Tom Nolan with my shitty endpoint
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DONE Pack for Thanksgiving
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DONE Write in daily journal
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DONE Squaddle
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- ZOOM
- https://zoom.us/j/8597441264
- QUIP
- https://15five.quip.com/uLuxAtmFSvvs
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DONE Fix bug with deleted groups in conflict output
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DONE 100 circles & 100 ovals
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DONE Team Boost
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- ZOOM
- https://zoom.us/j/647103643
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DONE Add permission states to attributes
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DONE Animal chores
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DONE Lunch
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DONE Watch Emacs the next 40 years
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https://media.emacsconf.org/2019/26.html
DONE Dinner
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DONE Reading Dracula
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DONE Bedtime
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Journal
Another gray fall day and all the kids are home from school. I was able to sleep
in, though, thanks to Emma taking Nabby when she woke up early.
All things considered, I've actually had a nice morning. I'm finally getting my
productive pieces in place with Emacs and org mode. Mostly I've cleaned up how I
publish blog posts so that it's easier to keep things up to date. And I actually
had a lot of good partially written content. Now the challenge is to keep it up.
---
As of Sunday, Nabby has officially stopped nursing. Emma's never been a huge fan
of nursing, so I wouldn't have thought it would affect her as it has. But she's
lamenting the loss already. This is likely her last time doing this. That's got
to be hard. On Monday, Nabby, instead of nursing, just bit Emma. Emma spoke
sharply to her, which is something Nabby does not respond well to. Since then
Nabby has shown zero interest in nursing. She's an opinionated baby.
---
After dinner tonight, Dirk and I had a fun discussion about politics. The entree
to the discussion was talking about the problem of ever increasing home values
and using one's houses as a means to investment. Dirk didn't wholeheartedly agree
with me, but it got us talking about some of the more fundamental issues with
our democracy. Namely, lack of a viable third-party voting mechanism
(ranked-choice voting), and rampant gerrymandering. Not these would solve our
ills, but it would at least bring us closer to a representation of the will of
the governed. If you don't have that you might as well have an oligarchy, which
we kind of already have.
The other big topic was the problem with American or Western Exceptionalism. The
problem right now is that we've hitched our exceptionalism very tightly to the
idea of democracy. But China is demonstrating that you absolutely do not need
democracy to generate wealth and create a stable political system. So in the
face of Chinese corruption and lack of individual freedom, how do you account
for their prosperity? We're left saying, "yeah, well, i can insult our
president." And that's about it.
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| Tags | Headline | Time | % |
|---------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+---------+-------|
| | *Total time* | *16:09* | 100.0 |
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| | Wednesday, 11/27/2019 | 16:09 | 100.0 |
| | \_ Tasks | 16:09 | 100.0 |
| @home, chores, dishes | \_ Dishes | 1:05 | 6.7 |
| @personal, tasks, daily | \_ Set tasks for the day | 0:28 | 2.9 |
| @personal, email, comms | \_ Communications [4/4] | 0:52 | 5.4 |
| @15five, help | \_ Helping Tom Nolan with my shitty... | 0:37 | 3.8 |
| @personal, pack | \_ Pack for Thanksgiving | 0:17 | 1.8 |
| @personal, habit, journal | \_ Write in daily journal | 0:02 | 0.2 |
| @15five, squaddle, weekly, meeting | \_ Squaddle | 0:24 | 2.5 |
| @15five, eng4141, eng6006, bug | \_ Fix bug with deleted groups in... | 0:21 | 2.2 |
| @personal, learning, drawing, circles_ovals | \_ 100 circles & 100 ovals | 0:08 | 0.8 |
| @15five, meeting, boost | \_ Team Boost | 0:34 | 3.5 |
| @15five, eng5744, customattrs | \_ Add permission states to attributes | 4:48 | 29.7 |
| @farm, animals, chores | \_ Animal chores | 0:15 | 1.5 |
| @personal, meals, lunch | \_ Lunch | 0:53 | 5.5 |
| @family, dinner, meals | \_ Dinner | 3:00 | 18.6 |
| @personal, reading, dracula | \_ Reading Dracula | 1:40 | 10.3 |
| @family, kids, bedtime | \_ Bedtime | 0:45 | 4.6 |
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