i've been listening to a lot of the imagine channel's AI alternate reality covers, which is blowing my mind. rick beato's method of determining whether a song is AI generated or not is interesting.
i walked in to a surprise deployment this morning, after determining that the effort to sort out the workshop yesterday evening was worthwhile. we worked on our devops roadmap for the next two quarters, and my new brazilian devops coworker regaled me with interesting tales as he accompanied me to pick up lunch.
getting my networking coworker to play ball (or focus for two seconds straight, he's proper gen z and is perpetually doing three of four things at once all while glued to his phone) is like herding a cat, but he gets the job done and hopefully his fixes will be tested by tomorrow so i can stop supporting three current versions simultaneously...
awkward sweats from asking one of the founders' if she could arrange a meeting with her husband, because i kept accidentally saying "PR" instead of "creative" and i think she was getting offended 😓
i barely managed to organize some cloud resources for one of the new guys before heading out to meet up with gd and mr smear at the pain clinic for a procedure. the first obstacle was discovering that the clinic had accidentally produced an authorization for me instead of her, and the second was that she's taking an antiviral, and after everything they postponed her treatment another two weeks...
i introduced mr smear to dots and boxes (using a pen and my notebook), which was a lot of fun.
the evening was a mix of bits of work, eating too much dinner, watching another excellent episode of deathnote, and heading down to the shelter for a houthi attack that didn't trigger our sirens.
i haven't heard from my mom, i'm praying she just forgot to call before getting on the plane... (i just sent my sister a message to ask if she's heard from her. i've been trying to tire myself out, but i didn't sleep well last night and i have a feeling i won't sleep so well tonight either :/
