What did you do this week?

I spun my wheels, being not as effective at everything as I could have been.

Edit for some real answers:

• my aunt is terminally sick. She's my mom's best friend, and my cousins are like extended siblings. Everyone is hurting. My uncle is a basket case, and my mom cannot handle it. I'm trying to handle things, but haven't been very well.
• we have one off-the-rails project at work. It is taking over everything. I think we're finally relaunching after 2 months of being offline and a 4-day audit that lasted 8 weeks.
• my son is just bagging off school constantly and falling behind.
• my stupid province has closed all the outdoor physical activities - disc golf, soccer fields, basketball courts, tennis courts. It's dumb. Nobody is getting sick on the golf course.

At least I'm vaccinated.

Had the lamest existential crisis about which Linux distribution I should use. I found Debian wasn't quite cutting it, but drank too much anti-Ubuntu kool-aid over the past decade, and set to doing a ton of research on a lot of the claims, history, and drama I'd been exposed to, because I realized I didn't actually have my own opinion about a lot of it. This isn't the first time, I had to do something similar with GNOME, where I determined I don't like the feel of it, but but that's my call. I'm now in the process of converting all of my Linux installs to Kubuntu from Debian+XFCE, with the 6mo release on my desktop and LTS on my laptops. I also sort of like having Snaps handy at install for the handful of apps I use (Bitwarden, Spotify, Joplin, Discord), even if flatpak is trivial to set up.

Aside from that, I've been not studying for my finals next week because I haven't been sleeping right, but aim to make up for 8t starting today.

I spent way to much time procrastinating on a work project that ended up taking me a grand total of 30 minutes of coding time. I had built the problem up in my head as something that was going to take days of work. I've only got about two more weeks on this project then it's on to something completely different.

• Visited a friend at their house and caught up on lots of mutual friend gossip. Being vaccinated is great!
• Got the puppy signed up for her Canine Good Citizen (basic obedience and manners) class.
• Loki (older dog) aced the agility course we did on Thursday. Feeling very good about our upcoming trial in June.
• Didn't work at all on Wednesday (yay monkey brain), but managed to get everything done by the end of Thursday. Can relate to @ras's post, haha.
• Took the puppy to the office as a trial run, and she did great! It was my first day back there since March 2020, and I was so happy to see my coworker (most folks are on vacation today or working from home, so it was just the two of us).

Had to purchase (order? hire?) a new HVAC system so I have 0 dollars and many cool airs. Or at least I will once the work is done on Wednesday.

Job search, job search, job search.

Although this week was technically more productive as there were half a dozen first round interviews.

Oh, and bought some raw materials for the Tercel's crossmember drop.

Yesterday I got two teeth ripped out of my skull. The opiates I was prescribed were not strong enough for that day, but I feel OK with OTC medications today. I am even more convinced that the people who decided to mix Tylenol with opiates to “prevent abuse” are just plain evil.