The plague isn't here, but its shadow remains
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It's been delicious fall weather for the last couple of days in Chicago, coming right after a week of 30°+ (35° counting humidity) days. It feels amazing and I've had the windows open almost round-the-clock. There's a cool breeze blowing onto my legs right now, as I sit with my new laptop desk that work sent me, and while it'll get warmer later today and be back up to 33° on Monday, I'm going to enjoy this weather while it lasts.
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sashagee does not have the plague! She got her test results back on Monday, and immediately her work went from "two negative COVID tests or quarantine for two weeks" to "well I guess you can come back immediately." And because she didn't have coronavirus, they're trying to make her use her ordinary sick days instead of the special plague sick days, meaning she'd be out of a week of sick days after being ordered to stay away. Sounds like a great way to ensure that the plague spreads because people come to work sick, but that's food service for you--the entire industry would collapse without the massive exploitation of workers that fuels it. So if you're going out to...hmm, a particularly widespread chain of coffeeshops, let's say...be aware that a worker there might have coronavirus but be at work because they're incentivized to be there. Which, again, food service, massive exploitation of workers.
She threw out her neck waking up this morning and is going to the doctor instead of work today, though, so when it rains it pours.
A stir fry of ground beef from Green Fire Farm LLC, pickled onions from Twidley Bits, green beans from Hardin's Family Farm, store-bought red onion and green pepper, and store-bought pepperoncini, in store-bought rice vinegar, soy sauce, and vegetarian stir-fry sauce over store-bought basmati rice, topped with eggs from Green Fire Farm LLC. This was a last-minute dinner because originallysashagee was going to make burgers with green beans on the side, but because of her neck, I ended up taking over the dinner preparations. It turned out that I started with burgers anyway, because the Green Fire guy was out of ground beef and gave me burgers instead, but I had a plan so I smashed them into ground beef while I was cooking.
It was incredibly good! I finished all my cooking preparations early and the rice still had half an hour to cook, so I turned the the burner on low and covered it and left it that way for thirty minutes. That let the sauce and spices all soak into each other and permeate the meat, so by the time I got to eating it whensashagee got home it was tender and spicy and delicious. I should have bought more ground beef so I could have used up all the beans and more onions and eggs and just made a giant pot of this stuff, it was so good.
I just realized that it's basically meat-based shakshuka, so no wonder I like it to much! Maybe I should make this for breakfast someday.
An almond croissant from Lost Larson. A while ago I ordered the choco croissant from them and it was delicious, with chocolate in the dough as well as a bit of it in the center of the croissant, so I figured that an almond croissant might use some almond flour or have crushed almonds mixed in. It doesn't, at least not that I could tell, but it did have almond paste in the middle of the two halves. It was delicious--better than the choco cro, to be honest. I love almond desserts and I'd definitely get this again.
I just finished a project at work where I was literally copying and pasting out of a spreadsheet. After the year-long, million-dollar database revamp that we did earlier this year, this is what it's come to. Now I'm working a project in the old database, custom-build for our use cases where keyboard commands are possible, so I'm flying through records whereas I can do a handful an hour in the new database what with all the clicking and copying and pasting and waiting for loading bars and losing my work from clicking the wrong button and not having any search results saved. It's completely impossible to achieve flow when I'm constantly running into sandpaper-level UX friction.
sashagee keeps teasing me about avoiding work and she's half-right, but a lot of it is the equivalent of loading times in a game. A third of my playtime is taken up by loading screens or moving between rooms. I brought this up in beta, of course, just like I brought up all the problems with the last database upgrade, and I was ignored, and the result is that we're just falling back on the old database again, just like we did last time. Eventually they'll stop with the half-measures and pay for a custom-designed program to handle our use-case. Hopefully.
On the other hand, I got another copy-out-of-spreadsheet project to do, so that's on the horizon.
sashagee does not have the plague! She got her test results back on Monday, and immediately her work went from "two negative COVID tests or quarantine for two weeks" to "well I guess you can come back immediately." And because she didn't have coronavirus, they're trying to make her use her ordinary sick days instead of the special plague sick days, meaning she'd be out of a week of sick days after being ordered to stay away. Sounds like a great way to ensure that the plague spreads because people come to work sick, but that's food service for you--the entire industry would collapse without the massive exploitation of workers that fuels it. So if you're going out to...hmm, a particularly widespread chain of coffeeshops, let's say...be aware that a worker there might have coronavirus but be at work because they're incentivized to be there. Which, again, food service, massive exploitation of workers. She threw out her neck waking up this morning and is going to the doctor instead of work today, though, so when it rains it pours.
A stir fry of ground beef from Green Fire Farm LLC, pickled onions from Twidley Bits, green beans from Hardin's Family Farm, store-bought red onion and green pepper, and store-bought pepperoncini, in store-bought rice vinegar, soy sauce, and vegetarian stir-fry sauce over store-bought basmati rice, topped with eggs from Green Fire Farm LLC. This was a last-minute dinner because originally
sashagee was going to make burgers with green beans on the side, but because of her neck, I ended up taking over the dinner preparations. It turned out that I started with burgers anyway, because the Green Fire guy was out of ground beef and gave me burgers instead, but I had a plan so I smashed them into ground beef while I was cooking. It was incredibly good! I finished all my cooking preparations early and the rice still had half an hour to cook, so I turned the the burner on low and covered it and left it that way for thirty minutes. That let the sauce and spices all soak into each other and permeate the meat, so by the time I got to eating it when
sashagee got home it was tender and spicy and delicious. I should have bought more ground beef so I could have used up all the beans and more onions and eggs and just made a giant pot of this stuff, it was so good.I just realized that it's basically meat-based shakshuka, so no wonder I like it to much! Maybe I should make this for breakfast someday.
An almond croissant from Lost Larson. A while ago I ordered the choco croissant from them and it was delicious, with chocolate in the dough as well as a bit of it in the center of the croissant, so I figured that an almond croissant might use some almond flour or have crushed almonds mixed in. It doesn't, at least not that I could tell, but it did have almond paste in the middle of the two halves. It was delicious--better than the choco cro, to be honest. I love almond desserts and I'd definitely get this again.
I just finished a project at work where I was literally copying and pasting out of a spreadsheet. After the year-long, million-dollar database revamp that we did earlier this year, this is what it's come to. Now I'm working a project in the old database, custom-build for our use cases where keyboard commands are possible, so I'm flying through records whereas I can do a handful an hour in the new database what with all the clicking and copying and pasting and waiting for loading bars and losing my work from clicking the wrong button and not having any search results saved. It's completely impossible to achieve flow when I'm constantly running into sandpaper-level UX friction.
sashagee keeps teasing me about avoiding work and she's half-right, but a lot of it is the equivalent of loading times in a game. A third of my playtime is taken up by loading screens or moving between rooms. I brought this up in beta, of course, just like I brought up all the problems with the last database upgrade, and I was ignored, and the result is that we're just falling back on the old database again, just like we did last time. Eventually they'll stop with the half-measures and pay for a custom-designed program to handle our use-case. Hopefully. On the other hand, I got another copy-out-of-spreadsheet project to do, so that's on the horizon.
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Date: 2020-Aug-11, Tuesday 23:23 (UTC)I should retry the dish above but with some spice...