Warm again, and supposed to be clear. Might just end up that way too, if we’re lucky. Yesterday was mostly nice, if a bit overcast.
I spent most of the day alternating between errands, reading, and wrapping presents. Two pickups, a doctor visit, a quick stop at the newly remodeled Goodwill Outlet, and home. The Outlet is now a “Clearance Store” which only has clothes and shoes, and they are on sorted racks. Oddly, since it’s all stuff that didn’t sell, I found an UnderArmor T shirt that is like new, and a pair of Allen Edmonds shoes. $9 total. I miss the treasure hunt, and all the other stuff at the Outlet (bins) store, but I did ok in a 15 minute visit.
While the girls made cookies and watched Die Hard, I wrapped presents. I got everything for the kids and my wife wrapped, except a sign that needs some paint touchup, and lava lamp bulbs that will arrive today. I am still looking for the camera D1 wanted, but I’ll wrap that when I find it.
Plans to head to the BOL are in flux as D1 is working tonight. I thought we had it nailed down but I guess not. I am out of the loop and may just head up first some time today. We’ll see.
The stacked gifts worked out perfectly. I put some of D2’s gifts back in the stack for her birthday. D1 will need some more shopping before then. I had a lot more for W than I thought, which was nice.
In any case, time is running out if you aren’t ready for Christmas. Of course, I just realized that Hanukkah ended yesterday. A day late and a dollar short, but Happy Hanukkah!
Stack some things.
nick
Tuesday. Fast broken. Grocery shopping expedition starts…
I may be some time. Remember me kindly.
Take a rope and a FLASHLIGHT.
I don’t think it was suicide as much as Southern genetics and a lack of regular medical consultation.
I have a similar genetic background to Adam the Woo, and I was up until four specialists until I fired the sleep doctor recently.
At this point, I think the BP meds are overdone and they are affecting my ability to do my job, but, then again, job stress combined with serious lack of interest could be affecting my ability to do my job.
Instead of learning a C++ library for work with the shutdown week, I decided to refresh my iOS development skills sufficiently so I can play with the accelerometer on the Apple hardware devices I own.
It is rare that I have a current iOS phone with supported development tools like I do right now.
Microsoft has the Systemd lead developer on the payroll.
To run Windows on the Linux kernel, they would need to rewrite Systemd and create a new compositor for Wayland, but neither would be as significant an undertaking as rewriting all of their C/C++ code in Rust.
I believe that the Windows kernel is a significant competitive advantage since WHQL went mandatory because it forces a hardware vendor to decide where to devote driver developer resoureces.
I’ve also long believed that Microsoft would have been much better off broken up into halves, with Compilers and OS going to the Issaquah Plateau while Applications and Online Services remained in Redmond.
For reference, again, The Bandit’s 76 Trans Am was ~ 3400 lbs/1700 kg.
Knock the AWD and about 500 lbs off of the Crosstrek, return the stick, and those would sell even at the current base price.
Even in Oregon. AWD is overrated for the Northwest west of the Cascades. I took a front wheel drive Solara through foot high snow at times in Vantucky because our neighborhood never saw plows. I never got stuck.
A Crosstrek with a high ground clearance, FWD, and a low profile Boxter engine for $28k? Gresham Subaru wouldn’t be able to keep those on the lot.