lmao.

Very few things suggest I picked a reasonable place to move like "vegan metal bar." Anyway, TIL about Black Water in Portland

looking for new therapist in PNW and remembering how much i fucking hate this process.

every bio and "my approach/modalities" is layered so thickly with bullshit that it's hard to take field seriously

using #adventofcode as an excuse+mechanism to force myself to learn rust

it's... going

yesterday contempt level would be about a 12 (measured out of 10). I remembered how to define functions today and only briefly fought with borrow checker today so would have claimed improvement .. except now I'm fighting lifelines when going back and trying to restructure / learn how to use structs to organize data

Not sure how long it'll take to fall back to java/go/python or switch to learning goal to sml

@Popehat bar none the worst part* about you leaving this place is the retweets of angry scolds reminding me how shitty my neighbors are

have fun out there

* I follow you on bsky so the takes I still get otherwise I'd legit miss your read on things

torn between:
- shit, house-buying when desperate to quit and move sure did get me fucked wrt pricing just like we predicted

- thank christ we got a house bought before interest rates went up a lot

completed my first round of voting in the new digs.

It is a very strange experience here as it feels both more important / rewarding given political landscape and *fucking terrifying* for the same reason. At least in the old place you kind of could assume the crazies wouldn't win.