2023-11-27
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Lads, I don't know why it's so fucking hard to avoid procrastination.
I literally have the bar resting on the floor - I'm allowing myself to mechanically write whatever comes to mind, regardless of interestingness or appropriateness for a public blog.
But I missed last week's post entirely despite thinking to do it 4-6 times and not having to go to the job.
This week's post is two days late.

There's a disturbing possibility that the job is the only thing giving my life enough structure for me to achieve anything else.
Given how much I resent having to work for another person, that implies I have a lot of additional work to do on myself before I break away.

Regardless, here's what's actually happened:

 - Weight numbers haven't moved
 - It fucking snowed, and it's staying cold this time. 
    - Gotta figure out whether I'm gymming or just fuckin braving it.
    - and also whether I'm buying some car parts so I don't have to get towed this winter...
 - Won a poker tournament, which doesn't normally warrant comment but you know...
 - Managed to blow through what would have been a 2-month supply of booze to my college-aged self in less than 2 weeks. 
    - This isn't as bad as it sounds; college-aged me was basically a puritan. 
    - However... still needs attention. Or at least no more alcohol for awhile.
 - Wrote a Markdown compiler, in the sense that it compiles at least one Markdown document to an HTML document.
    - Have actually managed to work on it on multiple separate days, which is neat.
 - Did not manage to careerboy, despite wanting to???
 - Saw the family a couple times. Got some cooking done for them! 
 - Continue to be more enthralled by descriptions of artistic projects I could imagine myself doing, rather than by the process of creating art.
    - or even by the joy and pride of having created something
 - Bought some solstice presents and a couple of things for the personal aesthetic
 - Ruined my nicest pants - apparently they have been dry-clean only for the entire past 4 months that I've been laundering them...

Here's what I'd like to write next week:

 - The Markdown compiler can compile some unordered lists, and doesn't have issues where numbers are automatically seen as parts of ordered lists.
 - 217->216.
 - Ordered some car parts
 - Fixed the pants situation.
 - Fixed the shoes situation.
 - Started on some AoC
 - Started learning enough Tailwind to not embarrass myself in front of the kiddos.

So, starve myself a little, walk a little, write some code, buy some shit. 
Anticipate 2 evenings of being intentional about food intake to be the hardest part.
Tailwind takes half an evening at least. Possibly a full evening if I'm a dingus about it.
Markdown compiler can probably? take half an evening, but possibly the full thing.
Pants + shoes require me to go shop physically, which will take quite a bit of psyching myself up.
AoC can happen on saturday, even for friday's problems. Fuck it.
That leaves some wiggle room for all of the TFT and poker that's likely to happen in place of those things.

Stretch goal? 
Put this "dedicated server" binary to rest - it's not really something I want to commit to anymore. 
In its place, nginx or apache configuration that effectively reverse-proxies all of the separate li'l projects in a more orthodox style.