The Panama and Fiesta Week:
I had a wonderful time in Panama, the trip was a success on almost all fronts. ((The one mistake I paid for is a week prior I had I booked the wrong dates for the hostel.)) It was a pleasure to meet dorion and jfw, both one on one and then together for a networking event and their weekly junto meeting. Selina’s was a great place to stay ((dorion’s recommendation)) and I enjoyed walking through the surrounding neighborhood, Casco Viejo. I went one day for a bike ride, and then the next day I saw the Miraflores Lockes and went long boarding along Cinta Costera. ((Details to follow in an upcoming article.))
Throughout the trip I made a concerted effort to talk to more people than I usually do. During college / my year surfing opportunities to meet new people were ever present. But now, living in a low population town, I only get a countable number of (Spanish) interactions on a weekly basis. I am considering looking for some group activities I can do once/twice a week. Two ideas that come to mind are salsa and jiu jitsu classes. ((If I were to do this I would need to once again make an effort to get a car.))
As for the failures, the last few days of the vacation were wasted days. My sleep schedule was blown apart by the late night fiestas. And I did only a tiny bit of saltmines work. Two more glaring problems must be announced: (1) I made only ~30 pages of progress into The Odyssey. I put a few explicit reading blocks for the week’s plan to make sure I progress on this front. (2) I never followed up with another comment to address the points in mp’s comment that I had neglected in my first response. I listed responding to the comment as a TODO item for next Sunday, although I hope to respond before then.
Did you check up at all on the data collected meanwhile by your bots?
Talking to people is as simple as going to a bigger town and actually talking, not specifically requiring salsa, jiu-jitsu or whatever organised classes as backdrop for it, pfft. And there’s plenty to sort out still before adding new entertainment to your plate anyway.
The loss on that comment thread postponement is entirely yours, for all the various points that people made and you missed, for all the conversation that could have been and meanwhile perhaps simply died out. A different facet of talking to people, too.
Comment by Diana Coman — January 20, 2020 @ 8:04 am
>Did you check up at all on the data collected meanwhile by your bots?
Yes I took a look at the data/status of my bots before heading out to Panama. They essentially all got banned after logging a cummulative 100,000 lines. The reason for getting banned, imo, is that they reconnect too quickly after being kicked. Sometimes they were kicked by a bot, and then reconnected, and then kicked again by the bot, and then reconnected, and so they got in this kick-reconnect war that created lots of spam.
To fix the above problem I plan to (1) remove reconnect-on-kick (2) increase the sleep time before reconnecting.
> Talking to people is as simple as going to a bigger town and actually talking, not specifically requiring salsa, jiu-jitsu or whatever organised classes as backdrop for it, pfft. And there’s plenty to sort out still before adding new entertainment to your plate anyway.
Alright then for now I’ll try to simply talk to more people during my trips to SC to get groceries etc.
> The loss on that comment thread postponement is entirely yours, for all the various points that people made and you missed, for all the conversation that could have been and meanwhile perhaps simply died out. A different facet of talking to people, too.
Ack.
Comment by Will Haack — January 20, 2020 @ 2:38 pm