(morning writing, 354, concerns, work)

[elainegrey]

In "why for is everything falling apart?" news, my key to the car has stopped working, and replacing the battery did not seem to help. The tube inside my rain gauge is leaking, and so there have been times where I thought I thought I emptied the bigger tube and I didn't know what to do with the measurement of the water in the inside of the tube. On Wednesday, I  became confident that basically that water just leaked out of the inside tube. This is really annoying because it's a new inner measuring tube to replace one that had cracked at the top.

My new watch arrived and didn't pair with my phone until i took the case off the phone. Which... maybe would have worked with the old watch? It's a splurge but i think i will keep this new one: it's a much better fit as the previous watch was a good bit larger.

I did get outside and raked a little last night. Yay for movement. I think i have been terribly sedentary for the past year and a half, and there's weight gain over this past year and my blood work drawn on Monday had some signals that it is now time to focus on turning this around. Movement will help my mood, i am sure, so there's that.

I am very torn about the continued US government shut down. More people are joining the hostages being held against resolution of ... i'm not even sure it's a budget. Just a continuing resolution. But "continuing" in the current direction is pretty bad. This is lack of leadership.

In happy, geeky news, i have been delighted to discover the frictionless project and the v2 data package standard: https://datapackage.org/ . It is nifty to have a standard way to describe tabular data so that it's fairly easy to automate loading and reuse of the data. The joy of fiddling with this has made one of my tedious fiscal-year work goals a little more interesting. While technically the goal has nothing to do with data, i have to do the same research for eight different software packages and a different set of analysis and team wrangling for ... ten? work-written applications. I automated making markdown checklists and report templates yesterday for the eight, and have a notebook to explore the data i screen-scraped from the work database about the eight software packages. (An api account to access the ServiceNow database costs money so i shall continue with screen scraping.)