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    Flat white on a long autumn walk in to the office.

  • The Week #331

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    • 💙 The US had its mid-term elections and for the first time in my life the person I voted for represents my state. Given the past 10 years I was afraid to get my hopes up too far, but never did I imagine every state-level race in Texas would flip.
    • ⚽️ A couple weeks back I said Leo had come out of retirement. It's now official. After attending his second soccer practice he decided to join. This means every Saturday is full of classes, but in a way, I think having the routine will be beneficial.
    • 🥶 After 25 degree summer-esque day on Friday, winter has arrived with lows in the single digits and highs barely double digits. I got rid of a lot of winter clothing last year as I had been wearing it for longer than I should, and I have yet to replace it. I reckon a trip to Uniqlo is in order. ( I often sometimes think about shopping elsewhere, but I never can decide what/where. The options make me feel like Mr. Burns going grocery shopping for the first time in his life and unable to decide between ketchup and catsup.)
    • 😋 The algorithm has been giving me a lot of content about easy high-protein meals... and I've been low-key loving it. I tried one that was a chicken shwarma bake and it was great. A lot of them are various bakes, I reckon because they're easy and film well. Either way, I will be making more of these, no matter how much they make me feel like it's the 1970's and I'm making a casserole.

  • The Week #330

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    • 🎃 Halloween came and went. No trick-or-treating (as this is Japan), but Leo dressed up as Woody from Toy Story and wore it to English class. The costume we bought years ago finally fit him 😀.
    • 🥋 I saw Street Fighter with Leo –in Japanese. If we had watched it last week we could have seen it at my local theater in English, but alas. I don't think anyone goes in to a Street Fighter movie for the story, you go for action, and on that it delivered. And it's setup for a sequel as well. It took place in the early 90's so all of the music was on point.
    • 👴 Speaking of the 90's and feeling old, I managed to foolishly do my back by losing form while lifting. A trip to the ortho and it's almost back to normal. But I think I've added bent over rows with to my forbidden list and will replace them with dumbbell rows from here on.
    • 🤖 It's not a huge expense, but I'm thinking of getting a subscription to Claude. I am enjoying trying to run models locally, but also wouldn't it be great to be able to do more faster? Especially that MicroPub client for 3DS I've been thinking about.

  • The Week #329

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    • 🗳️ All that worry and my vote was counted. In Texas. Fingers crossed.
    • ⚽️ Leo has come out of retirement from soccer starting with a trial practice at a nearby field. A few of his friends already play soccer there, so it's far easier to join when yes, you're the new guy, but also you have some friends looking out for you. Surprisingly his old uniform from preschool still just fits him.
    • 🤖 I fixed my OpenCode setup. It was an incompatibility between Docker's llama.cpp (?) and the new agents mode. Turning that off removed some extra JSON parameters which fixed the strict validation.

      Rather than fiddle with my book collection, I ended up fiddling with different models and Tanzawa. I didn't make any progress (i.e. a PR), but I did learn that certain models (qwen3-coder-next) are so big / intense they can cause my iMac M4 to panic and the smaller version does something to make it so everything backed by GPU rendering flickers hot pink. Maybe there's a hardware issue it's exposing? This would all be far easier if I just plugged in a Claude subscription, but what fun is that?

  • The Week #328

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    • 🏃 We had Field day over the weekend at Leo's school. Thankfully, the weather cooperated. The skies were blue, it wasn't too hot, and there was a cool breeze. Leo was very excited and did well. He placed second in his race (and only then because he looked to the side at the last seconds) Well done!👏. Just as important as placing well is he was positive about his placement and his effort. Nothing like his original races in pre-school where he just nonchalantly walked once it became clear he wasn't going to win. 
    • 🗳️ My ballot made it to Texas. It's been received but not yet counted. Every year I vote I worry they're gonna reject it for some bogus reason. Thus far it's been ok. Fingers crossed that trend continues.
    • 🤖 I updated my local OpenCode installation that I run against models run with docker and something has busted. Asking (other0 robots, searching and I am no closer to understanding how to fix it. It's a "malformed" request error, but all of the requests are valid JSON. It put a damper on me exploring my eBook collection via Calibre and an MCP.
    • 🏋️‍♀️ After rearranging my office the week so I can use my gym equipment, I decided to...use my gym equipment. My realization (?) is that most programs you find out there are for people that aren't parents of small children, and hence unrealistic for someone that is to follow. i.e. Where on earth am I going to find a spare 5 hours (factoring in travel, shower etc..) a week in a way that doesn't get derailed after week 1? I'm not. 

      Instead I made (with the help of some robots) a small program that I can complete in 30 minutes. It's only 2 sets instead of 3 to fit the time requirements. I won't get ripped doing this (not the goal), but I will still get stronger over time.

      Adapting advice and information for our current context is so important and easy to overlook. Things are not black and white (full program vs no program), they're always grey (a program that fits within our current constraints). It's important to remember and maintain this kind of flexibility, especially as life gives us more commitments.
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