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Day-and-a-half
Apr. 17th, 2020 03:33 pmToday is...Friday? Yeah, Friday. I missed posting yesterday...I think mostly because I got caught up in some coding and kinda lost the end of the day to that. :) Left like half my dailies undone, too! Relatedly, I also stayed up later than I should have, so I'm kinda on the punchy side today. Let's see what we can do.
Okay, so...yesterday. It was day 1 of GCOG, and though I'm ostensibly coordinating the help desk, it's really not a high-traffic situation, so it didn't take up a whole lot of my attention, all things considered. So between being glued to my desk but not really needing to devote a lot of cycles to that, I spent the vast majority of the day yesterday catching up on inbox backlog, which I actually made a lot of progress toward. Didn't get all the way through, but definitely made a lot of progress. Was kinda hoping I could finish it today, but...eh, we'll see. What spending the day on admin yesterday meant, though, was not doing any pod editing, so...there's that. But I think I'm still okay on that front. (Better be, since I'm likely skipping that today, as well, but more on that later.)
Anyway. So...big admin day yesterday. Part of what came out of that, though, was I got an idea for something I figured a simple Discord bot could do, and then I started looking into writing a Discord bot to do it, then one thing led to another, and, well...here we are. It was that kinda thing that happens where I just get a bug in my head to do something, and I can't just abandon the idea when I feel like it's just...right there, ya know? But that was the rabbit-hole I fell into. Made decent progress on that yesterday and learned a lot, so that's nice. Plus I "finished" it this morning, so it shouldn't be weighing on me anymore, but yeah...I still devoted too much time and attention to it when it wasn't really...necessary. Or smart, even. :) Couple extra hours lost sleep not so bad, though. Felt good to roll up my sleeves and get some code written.
Also as part of the admin catchup yesterday, I decided to let my paid DW account lapse. Money's getting short, and as much as I like supporting the site, it's just one of those things that I guess I should cut. I don't think it's going to make too much difference to operations around here; it's not like I was a DW power-user or anything. The one implication is that I had to get rid of some icons, but...eh, it's fine. Honestly I should probably even consider moving this operation over to self-hosted or whatever. I mean...this is pretty much just here for tradition's sake. In that...it would feel weird to make this a...fully hosted blog? I dunno. Whatever. Anyway, so that was a big enough part of my day yesterday that I felt like I should make note of it. Not sure why; just felt like a sign of the changing times or something. Maybe I'll renew again when times are better. Maybe I'll migrate over to something I control. Who can say.
So...today. Day 2 of GCOG. First thing I did (once I got the office rolling) was the SA edit that was waiting for me (it came in yesterday evening). Didn't take long. Then the usual Gauntlet post, then I went back to the code mines and got my little bot project to the point where I wanted it. So that's nice. I'm still on help desk duty, but I felt comfortable enough monitoring it via my phone that I took a long lunch and watched some TV with T. Caught some What We Do in the Shadows, which is pretty funny. :) We might be hitting dinner a little on the early side tonight, so at a good break point I stumbled my way back to my desk.
Which...I guess brings me to now? This is an unusual (lately, anyway) afternoon post. It's not even putting a button on the dailies. It's just..I had time to do this now. This feels more like classic helpdesking stuff anyway. :) The kind of thing I can work on while I'm sitting here, but also can turn away from quickly if I need to. But regardless... I guess I said I'd get back to the bit about not pod editing today. Originally that was going to be in favor of finishing off the email backlog. But I spent half the day coding already, and also my brain is just...not fully in gear, ya know? Guess that shouldn't stop me from inboxing, but mostly it's just not great for editing. Mostly I just want to make sure I get through my dailies. Whatever happens after that...happens after that...but I don't feel like I can really sweat it. It does mean I should rest up tonight, though, and edit at least NOF this weekend, if not ECB as well. I'm still gonna have more helpdesking time, so that was the original theory behind having a lot of time for pod mining at the end of this week. But! Two days of helpdesk already and nary a pod edited, so...guess we'll see how that turns out.
In any case. I'm gonna try and close out the dailies now and maybe, just maybe, kill the email backlog, too. That would be a pretty damn good day. If I don't finish the backlog, though, I'm not gonna cry about it. I really would like to get the dailies cleared out, though. So, yeah. Onward!
Okay, so...yesterday. It was day 1 of GCOG, and though I'm ostensibly coordinating the help desk, it's really not a high-traffic situation, so it didn't take up a whole lot of my attention, all things considered. So between being glued to my desk but not really needing to devote a lot of cycles to that, I spent the vast majority of the day yesterday catching up on inbox backlog, which I actually made a lot of progress toward. Didn't get all the way through, but definitely made a lot of progress. Was kinda hoping I could finish it today, but...eh, we'll see. What spending the day on admin yesterday meant, though, was not doing any pod editing, so...there's that. But I think I'm still okay on that front. (Better be, since I'm likely skipping that today, as well, but more on that later.)
Anyway. So...big admin day yesterday. Part of what came out of that, though, was I got an idea for something I figured a simple Discord bot could do, and then I started looking into writing a Discord bot to do it, then one thing led to another, and, well...here we are. It was that kinda thing that happens where I just get a bug in my head to do something, and I can't just abandon the idea when I feel like it's just...right there, ya know? But that was the rabbit-hole I fell into. Made decent progress on that yesterday and learned a lot, so that's nice. Plus I "finished" it this morning, so it shouldn't be weighing on me anymore, but yeah...I still devoted too much time and attention to it when it wasn't really...necessary. Or smart, even. :) Couple extra hours lost sleep not so bad, though. Felt good to roll up my sleeves and get some code written.
Also as part of the admin catchup yesterday, I decided to let my paid DW account lapse. Money's getting short, and as much as I like supporting the site, it's just one of those things that I guess I should cut. I don't think it's going to make too much difference to operations around here; it's not like I was a DW power-user or anything. The one implication is that I had to get rid of some icons, but...eh, it's fine. Honestly I should probably even consider moving this operation over to self-hosted or whatever. I mean...this is pretty much just here for tradition's sake. In that...it would feel weird to make this a...fully hosted blog? I dunno. Whatever. Anyway, so that was a big enough part of my day yesterday that I felt like I should make note of it. Not sure why; just felt like a sign of the changing times or something. Maybe I'll renew again when times are better. Maybe I'll migrate over to something I control. Who can say.
So...today. Day 2 of GCOG. First thing I did (once I got the office rolling) was the SA edit that was waiting for me (it came in yesterday evening). Didn't take long. Then the usual Gauntlet post, then I went back to the code mines and got my little bot project to the point where I wanted it. So that's nice. I'm still on help desk duty, but I felt comfortable enough monitoring it via my phone that I took a long lunch and watched some TV with T. Caught some What We Do in the Shadows, which is pretty funny. :) We might be hitting dinner a little on the early side tonight, so at a good break point I stumbled my way back to my desk.
Which...I guess brings me to now? This is an unusual (lately, anyway) afternoon post. It's not even putting a button on the dailies. It's just..I had time to do this now. This feels more like classic helpdesking stuff anyway. :) The kind of thing I can work on while I'm sitting here, but also can turn away from quickly if I need to. But regardless... I guess I said I'd get back to the bit about not pod editing today. Originally that was going to be in favor of finishing off the email backlog. But I spent half the day coding already, and also my brain is just...not fully in gear, ya know? Guess that shouldn't stop me from inboxing, but mostly it's just not great for editing. Mostly I just want to make sure I get through my dailies. Whatever happens after that...happens after that...but I don't feel like I can really sweat it. It does mean I should rest up tonight, though, and edit at least NOF this weekend, if not ECB as well. I'm still gonna have more helpdesking time, so that was the original theory behind having a lot of time for pod mining at the end of this week. But! Two days of helpdesk already and nary a pod edited, so...guess we'll see how that turns out.
In any case. I'm gonna try and close out the dailies now and maybe, just maybe, kill the email backlog, too. That would be a pretty damn good day. If I don't finish the backlog, though, I'm not gonna cry about it. I really would like to get the dailies cleared out, though. So, yeah. Onward!