Young Hands Club

My main shift this week, at my Master’s direction, was to boost my writing to a daily routine, with a blog article to be published at the close of each day’s one-hour slot, even if that means getting things out in small slices for now.

diana_coman: jfw: how’s the writing going taken like that in 1 hour chunks?
jfw: it’s been a struggle, but of a healthy sort I reckon.
jfw: A confession is that today’s was the first without existing draft material to work from, and I didn’t make it near the minimum word count by the bell. Since what I wanted to say in the segment was fresh in mind and words were flowing, I opted to take more time to see it through, ended up at 2.5h.
diana_coman: hm; as a once off it’s fine but it shouldn’t go on like this; and ftr, the lower limit I set there is …lower than usual, specifically because you have this problem.

Getting six installments¹ published in this manner felt way better than the goose egg of the week before. I’ve still had some anxiety each time, but of a more manageable level. On the review I found I’d quite forgotten the subsequent comment about the greater gains from quantity over polishing, and my analytic mind got to be annoyed all over again. I’d also like to move to the morning routine, though so far I’ve at least managed to pull it back from being the last thing in the day.

My most recent article getting started on an overview of the WoT also fell short, this time on the word count axis. Factors that may have activated my over-caution here were my perception of the foundational importance of the topic and recollection of earlier flailings on it.

On Tuesday I conversed for a couple hours in the channel, mainly with Diana Coman who steered an inquiry into my computing projects and interests. Topics included parts for workstation building, Gales Linux in comparison with Cuntoo, “upgrades”, Scheme, software cleanliness versus limitations, making own FGs, BIOS hacking, and what I like about computers.

Discussion continued on Wednesday mainly around the upcoming hardware auctions, with BingoBoingo suggesting the personal trip to Uruguay route if I were to win, and Diana Coman broaching the thought of Robinson and I switching business plans to running a proper ISP. I committed a major communications blunder in breaking the news of changed weekend plans then running right off to something else (and just as she was trying to sign off for the night, to make matters worse), and was properly taken to task for it on Thursday.

On Friday I processed the fallout of Robinson’s ill-fated rescue attempt on asciilifeform as best I could, and was glad that my input at least lead to some further clarifications.

Of the remaining items from my plan:

2. Re-read of http://ossasepia.com/2018/02/06/its-only-words-and-assumptions-and-priorities-and-ouch/ – comments and log references: 2h

is done;

3. Test/script blog image uploading (bumped up from “time permitting”): 1h
6. Prepare to negotiate next year’s apartment lease. At minimum, start researching options online: 2h

were dropped. On the second I at least spoke with a friend who owns some rental properties, whose assessment was that what I could reasonably expect to save for a place like my current one would be around $50/month.

1. one of which partially inspired a Trilema article, including title, which might not even be entirely mocking! [↩]