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the kind of luxury I need
Wednesday, November 7 2018
I was up early this morning, well before the alarm. Last night, despite the stress of the midterms, I'd apparently been able to wind down my drinking enough to avoid waking up with a hangover today. If I did have a hangover today, it was a very light one. (Sometimes it is hard for me to distinguish between a light hangover and the lingering effects of last night's diphenhydramine.)
The first thing I did after getting myself a bowl of cereal (which I ate dry, with salted roast sunflower seeds) was to install a new Samsung 1TB SSD in Woodchuck, my main computer. The Silicon Power 1TB SSD had proved unreliable, randomly disappearing after one or two days and causing an immediate crash. I'd even tried using a SATA card, but it could not be made reliable. Fortunately, it's under warranty, so I'm trying to get an RMA. But meanwhile I need a place to migrate the data, thus the Samsung drive. I left the computer copying from the Silicon Power to the Samsung while I continued my morning chores.
Today being Wednesday, I would be taking Ramona to work with me. This morning I pulled off my Ramona extraction perfectly, whispering to her to come downstairs in such a way that she left the bed and Neville stayed behind. I took her on a short poop walk and then we were on the road. I was at work before 8:30am.
The day went well, with me successfully fixing a few bugs I'd identified in that big ExtJS project I had been working on for the past couple weeks. Then I undertook a big and tricky installation on a test server in hopes in learning (and documenting) the entire procedure. At some point my colleague Alex (the guy who got me this job) brought his Airedale Augie back from the dog barber with a haircut, and we then had to wonder how Ramona would react to him. I don't know if she didn't quite recognize him as a dog or what, but she was clearly threatened by him and I had to repeatedly reprimand her for growling and showing her teeth. Later Alex and I took both dogs for a walk around the building. This time Ramona was a bit better, even smelling Augie's ass in peace at one point, but she wasn't done menacing him. This kept me on edge, causing me to pull her away at the smallest thing. What I definitely didn't want happening was her biting Augie like she did the little dog Carmen Coco Puffs at Chongo's birthday party back in 2017.
Back at the house, I ate two big bowls of the soup Gretchen had made for last night's midterms party, something I hadn't even tried yet. She'd made it with a side of noodles, which could be added to the soup to make it even more fun. I definitely did that!
Meanwhile. the new Samsung SSD seemed to be working reliably in Woodchuck. The luxury of having over 700 gigabytes of free space on an SSD is the kind of thing I need in my life right now.
Meanwhile, I've been a bit obsessed with the American pathology of taking on debt to own a brand new (or newish) car. I did a Google search for "reasons to buy a new car," and didn't find anything convincing. The absurdity of buying a new car is inherent in the fact that the car itself is pretty much "used" the moment you buy it. Clearly the best option when purchasing cars is to only do so once someone else has absorbed the losses that come in the steeply-downsloping part of the value curve. This makes a car less than three or four years old a bad deal. Unfortunately for me, this places the electric cars that I would prefer to be driving out of my reach for the next several years. They've only been on the market for, at most, a year, so I still have to wait for that steep part of the value curve to get into the rearview mirror.
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