School/work update:

classes ended in may, and i just submitted my first draft septic design to the engineer that i'm interning with 🥹

i don't know if i did it right, but at least i did it in a fairly timely manner.

I was struggling with LibreCAD the entire time. during classes, I had a loaner windows PC from the school that was pre-loaded with AutoCAD. all of our instruction was in AutoCAD. But now that's gone, so i'm getting used to LibreCAD. I still haven't figured out how to do like a layout for print, with titles and a little scale annotation on the bottom 🤔

anyway, it feels nice to be working in the realm of physical things. i think that was maybe one of the (many!) things that i found frustrating about software: there was no referent in the real world. nothing i could hang my hat on. and i couldn't keep all the abstractions in my head 😖 . with these septic designs, it's like "ok, i drew the design for that part, what's next? ok i need to do the drawing for this part. what do i need to know in order to do that?" i dunno. maybe it'll get harder, but so far it seems easier for my particular brain.

As a bonus, here's a photo from the location where the septic is going to go. We went out there yesterday to do a soil percolation test.

#work #ContinuingEducation #CareerChange #wastewater

Hawai‘i Community College offering training program for wastewater, cesspool conversion specialists

The clock is ticking for all cesspools in the State of Hawaiʻi to be removed and replaced by 2050 as mandated by a 2017 state law.

Big Island Now
Number of nonfiction books banned in schools has doubled, report says

PEN America said its findings reflected an increasing "embrace of anti-intellectualism" in the country.

USA TODAY

#ContinuingEducation update: The presenter said, "And we all know the mitochondria..."

And the chat replied, "...IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL!"

#InDaChatWeAllFam, #NERDS. XOXOXO

#Science wins. #ChildhoodMemories

When I take online #ContinuingEducation I have to switch to another tab during the *voluminous* chat intros ("Hello from Poughkeepsie!" "Hello from Ontario!") and the "I just turned my camera on, the camera is on me and shouldn't be" camera windows full of giant, Blackhole Sun-adjacent grins.

Second-hand #introvert #cringe is real and unyielding.

But hey, in 3 hours, I will be 15% closer to my license renewal requirements. #StateLicense

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