Not Enough Luck

I really have gotten bad at remembering to post things here. Unfortunately I do not have any especially good news to share, but also nothing bad. If I were luckier than I am (though I do not know how much luckier I needed to be) I might have been able to say I finally had a job! I made it to the final round of interviews for a job at AMD, but the decision was to hire someone else. That's how it goes and I wish the new hire, and the team, the best of luck with all sincerity. (I've went from chronically unemployed for six years to underemployed last year with a seasonal position, so still kind of unemployed. I mention this to confirm my sincerity here because I am well past hard feelings for not being hired somewhere.)
As it happens though, there is another, similar job recently posted by AMD, so I'll be applying for that shortly and maybe I'll have better luck there.
Other than that, I have been having some interesting hardware failures of late. My CPU cooler failed a bit ago, which I think I mentioned, so I am running an older cooler I still had. The fans are dying and I'm still trying to get them replaced, but it is functional. (It is making me think about going to a custom water setup, but maybe not now as my current situation is not ideal for it.) Part of my speaker amplifier failed to, so I no longer have a headphone jack on it. Now for recordings, streams, and any other time I want to use headphones I need to use the audio interface, which works, but is less convenient. Perhaps the most unexpected of the recent failures though was my router. What is so unusual about it is the physical power button failed. The electronics and everything are fine, it just could not keep the button in the On position. Imagine the button on a retractable pen, as it is a similar concept. The mechanical portion of it that holds the button down so the tip is out failed, so the spring kept pushing it out, to Off. Remove the spring (and extend the button to make it easier to turn off) and it's fixed.
Something else I've done recently that I can mention is changing how I make the different R scripts I do for processing performance and heart rate data. Pulled in some Python to do string replacement, so the source R scripts are easier to edit, and put them up on GitHub for others to see. I doubt anyone will look at them, but I like the idea of sharing them for the curious.

Another Good Week Off

This has been another good week off for me, as I spent it doing a number of things I needed and wanted to do. Not necessarily as much as I would have liked, but I got a good amount done. I completed another set of Body on Games recordings (Metro Last Light Redux), finished playing another game I have been trying to play for months (it is not always easy to take the time to play a game you want to play just to enjoy), and I re-did how I make some scripts for processing data. Had to teach myself a little Python for that last item, but the result makes the effort worth it, as it makes it much easier to make changes to the scripts that are generated. Before I had a Batch script set to write out every line, but now I have Python making a copy of a source file and change certain strings in it to the appropriate file references. Much cleaner, especially as editing the source file does not require contending with Batch's quirks.
Anyway, I need to be up early tomorrow, so I'm off to bed.