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.

Productive Week Off

I was not scheduled to work this past week, which is fine because it gave me time to work on various things, including one I am still finishing up now. (It's a guide covering some LaTeX usage stuff, but I tend to be more verbose with this kind of stuff than I likely need to be. But hey, you cannot say it does not tell you a lot!) Unfortunately what I cannot say is that I got much work done on any of the stories that have been bouncing around the inside of my head for a while. I'm making notes when I think of something for them, but that is very different from actually sitting down and telling the story.
Actually, having this week off was very convenient for me, because of something else it let me do without any scheduling issues. I don't want to say what it is yet, to not jinx it, but if it goes as well as I can only hope, then there will be some very good news in the future.
I hope everyone out there has a great week!

This has been an interesting past two weeks for me. I went from being busy, going from one project to another, to finally finishing them and then moving on to actual work. In a way the transition was like a vacation, though with the complication of actually being more work (especially with Computex and E3 to cover). Still, it has been a good and interesting two weeks, and now I have a week off (wasn't scheduled for this one) to actually relax... Okay, I'll probably work on some other projects, but at least they should be a bit less time-constrained.
And it's Father's Day! I am sure there are many out there enjoying the day. My father probably enjoyed it, but also spent some of it trying to find the gift my mom got for him. She forgot where she hid it.

From Project to Project to Work

Actually there should be about five Project's in the title, because for a number of weeks now I have had to do at least five projects, and finally I have them done. Just in time too because tomorrow I start work, meaning something I will actually get paid for! The funny thing is, this work will be like a vacation, because unlike those projects, this work I clock into and out of, so it has a beginning and end each day. Those projects of mine have no start or end in a day, and also do give me weekends off. Of course, I am the one that decides to do these projects, and am also the one that can result in them being more involved than necessary, but it is still a lot to get done.
Now the relaxation can begin... and I can think about what projects I will be doing next.