elainegrey

Moving personal notes above the ranting:

Accidentally got all my hair dyed pink (magenta) on Wednesday when i imprecisely asked for the usual pink highlights. Anyhow, it will be fun. And it is a good color for me, so i'm pretty confident i can carry this off. My worry is maintenance, but I can always buy some temporary dye for my roots if it grows out badly.

Replaced our range this week after the one stove eye we mainly used on the previous range died at what the internet tells me is about the lifetime. Hoping that this one, which replaces the previous "fast boil" (aka "fast burn") eye with with a grill accessory will use the elements more evenly. Also, the split oven now has a split door which seems likely to be an improvement. Need to acquire a third oven rack, though.

Also have a new weed wacker that hopefully will be better about adding new line. I was willing to switch battery systems for this promised improvement.

Must mow weeds today. The invasive false hawkweeds are about to go to seed. Then back to digging. Worked late the last two days.

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The Artemis II mission has been a delight to monitor. I will admit joking as we watched the work to extract the astronauts that they were all catching up on the news and refusing to leave the capsule and demanding to return to space. Or that the three Americans all were applying to become Canadian citizens.  When Christine muttered that there had to be a better way, i noted that if we still had a shuttle -- or the commercial projects were reliable -- the crew could have docked at the space station and been returned to earth with a landing in Florida and a dignified exit. While the shuttle did have a few "rapid unscheduled disassembly" events, that was two out of 135 missions, over thirty years. Why we couldn't build on successful work....

I note that there's less reported delight here than pointing at my great dissatisfaction and bitterness.

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Work continues with intensity, but different focus.  Work wants us leaning into AI (sigh) so i have been using AI to review existing code and document the constraints and controls that have evolved since 2007.  ( Tedious ranting about communication )

Entertainingly, on Tuesday i announced to colleagues that this introvert finds talking to AIs all day just as exhausting as being in a meeting all day with people. On Friday, a colleague from that meeting commiserated with my AI complaints by noting they had read this week that introverts find working with AIs just as exhausting as with people. I just bit my lip and nodded enthusiastically.

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The whole genocidal fascist in charge thing is also an escalation of distress that i wasn't good at verbalizing to begin with. Perhaps noticing the number of fascists who think it's wrong is encouraging? Is it no longer an Overton window but a Overton retractable roof over a mega-coliseum? I glanced at images of damage to the Golestan Palace. It has been clear to me that the racisim that underlines the attributions of Western Culture is a type of intentional ignorance. I know enough to know so much of what is considered Western Culture is indebted to Persian culture to be horrified. Ah, a quick search indicates that Iran celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire in 1973. I just... https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1w6tbv4  Ooh look, America is 250 years old.