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Friday, May 27 2016
Today was Meerkat's final day being the System Engineer for The Organization, and I spent most of it researching MySQL tuning techniques and tracking down and diagnosing weird database issues. (For example, why did the President of The Organization receive a sporadic email from one of the email lists yesterday morning?). As I worked, I drank kratom tea, which put me a in a good, productive mood.
At the end of the day, my colleague Da sent me a YouTube video of a countdown to Meerkat's soon-to-be-celebrated departure. My reply: "lol i already started drinkin."
This evening at some point, I painted a cat skull. Normally when I paint, I work from a photograph, though tonight I worked from "life," putting an actual cat skull on my desk and painting what I saw.

It was another unpleasantly hot day, and adding to the unpleasantness is a constant rain of caterpillar frass (that word means "feces," Homesite spell checker). The defoliators are back for a second year in a row, which is terrible news for the embattled population of trees (some of which are dying anyway due to Emerald Ash Borer). On the plus side, the caterpillars have made it easy for birds to find food for their young, and the forest is full of singing birds loudly signalling the limits of their shrunken territories.

In other news, I hooked up one of the MP3-playing stereos in the laboratory to investigate its FM radio reception. What I found was that I could pick up plenty of radio stations just using a piece of wire as an antenna, suggesting the problem with reception is entirely the fault of the car, not the stereo.


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