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Tonight I'm hanging out in MSP, at the gate for the last leg of my Most Spur-of-the-Moment Stealth Trip Evar. Having learned that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
enochsmiles was in fact in DC for an entire week, I decided last Monday night that I was morally obligated to find some way to spend this past weekend out there. Initially, I considered driving -- which would have been okay with me, as it would have given me the chance to finally meet my OpenBSD Kernel Minion in person -- but I discovered a last-minute cheap fare at Hotwire and decided to fly instead, since the financial expenditure would have been about the same and it would take less time. Mad props to Hotwire's deep-discount fares: the only rushing around was the result of my own inability to be anywhere on time, so there was no repeat of the Horrible Airline Incident. Should I need or want to fly somewhere on very short notice again, they will at least be considered for my business.
More on that later -- rest assured it was a breathtaking four days. Now, though, I'm in high gear for the remainder of the month, and it's looking that way for the rest of the year. Distributed assignment due Tuesday (implement a distributed-multicast chat client in Java), SIGMOD abstract due on the 17th (outlined whilst in bed on Saturday morning, likely to be finished by the time I get off the plane), flying to SF on Friday, back on the 21st, grid computing homework due on the 22nd, departing for Thanksgiving break that day (likely with Nick the Non-Evil MBA splitting the driving, as he's heading somewhere Dallas-ish), making landfall in Dallas on the 23rd, at the parents' from the 24th-26th, back in Iowa on the 27th (if I'm carpooling) or the 28th (if I'm not), SIGMOD full paper due on 1 December. Phew.
Which, of course, means that somewhere in the middle of all that I need to finish the next cut of QBE and get the synthetic-data tests humming along happily. (I constructed the synthetic data during the conference last weekend, but need to partition it; fortunately, $collaborator_2 has helped me figure out how to do that.) Thank God for work, that's all I can say. Conveniently, I seem to have become diurnal again, so it will be easier to get paid for all this hacking. I hope I can still hack in the daytime.
But it's all going to be okay. I've recently had my faith in my invincibility and my superpowers renewed several times over, from several different directions. (That, in and of itself, is a forthcoming story.) I can do this.
Go. Fly.
enochsmiles was in fact in DC for an entire week, I decided last Monday night that I was morally obligated to find some way to spend this past weekend out there. Initially, I considered driving -- which would have been okay with me, as it would have given me the chance to finally meet my OpenBSD Kernel Minion in person -- but I discovered a last-minute cheap fare at Hotwire and decided to fly instead, since the financial expenditure would have been about the same and it would take less time. Mad props to Hotwire's deep-discount fares: the only rushing around was the result of my own inability to be anywhere on time, so there was no repeat of the Horrible Airline Incident. Should I need or want to fly somewhere on very short notice again, they will at least be considered for my business.More on that later -- rest assured it was a breathtaking four days. Now, though, I'm in high gear for the remainder of the month, and it's looking that way for the rest of the year. Distributed assignment due Tuesday (implement a distributed-multicast chat client in Java), SIGMOD abstract due on the 17th (outlined whilst in bed on Saturday morning, likely to be finished by the time I get off the plane), flying to SF on Friday, back on the 21st, grid computing homework due on the 22nd, departing for Thanksgiving break that day (likely with Nick the Non-Evil MBA splitting the driving, as he's heading somewhere Dallas-ish), making landfall in Dallas on the 23rd, at the parents' from the 24th-26th, back in Iowa on the 27th (if I'm carpooling) or the 28th (if I'm not), SIGMOD full paper due on 1 December. Phew.
Which, of course, means that somewhere in the middle of all that I need to finish the next cut of QBE and get the synthetic-data tests humming along happily. (I constructed the synthetic data during the conference last weekend, but need to partition it; fortunately, $collaborator_2 has helped me figure out how to do that.) Thank God for work, that's all I can say. Conveniently, I seem to have become diurnal again, so it will be easier to get paid for all this hacking. I hope I can still hack in the daytime.
But it's all going to be okay. I've recently had my faith in my invincibility and my superpowers renewed several times over, from several different directions. (That, in and of itself, is a forthcoming story.) I can do this.
Go. Fly.