Well, I was - - this is literal - - just in the middle of typing the first line of code for the day when the power went out.
Country living, here, amid the snow storm. It will be out for several hours, minimum. Odds are good all day and in to the night.
No fear, tho we are well equipped and well stocked. Just frustrating.
<sigh>

A lost day. After our particular line breach, so a friend reports, there are 43 households. There are other breaches still with thousands of households on the far side. Likely no power until tomorrow afternoon.
And another powerless day today. We're fine, here, but I am grumbly just the same. I really had a whole bunch of work planned, I swear it.
Aaaaaaaaaand, we're back.

Two and a half days with no electricity.

It was, emotionally not physically, remarkably unpleasant for me. I now know what my January "Checking in..." newsletter is gonna be about, tho.
I'm sitting here on the Wednesday after Hell Week, having been forced idle for 2.5 days, and I am seriously asking myself how much time I get to play, now, before I go back to working.

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In a meandering conversation this morning, multi-slack, music from just before and after this one.

Do you know this is on my VBS (Very Best Shit) playlist, with only maybe 300 other songs?

Tears for Fears was never the band for me. But this song is just lovely.
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In our efforts to optimize the Many More Much Smaller Steps (MMMSS) path, we've tried and rejected the "shortest-distance" floptimization. Today, let's take up the "pin-making" floptimization, in which we create specialists, stations, and hand-offs.

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Oxygen Not Included: It's Sunday, and I'm spozed to be writing, and that's not gonna happen.

Instead, I will continue from yesterday's game and feel somewhat bad about myself.

I left the game running last night, and have to backload to c100.

As I said, this is always a dangerous time for me. The BBQ is coming on, but it's not full-on yet, so I need to watch food. I don't have a lot of coal or a lot of algae. Most seeds have a major vein of coal somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.
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Don Mclean, "And I Love You So".

I woke yesterday morning thinking of this song. Ignore the swelling strings, please.
I was thinking of Mclean, who's in that very interesting category, "Three-hit Career".
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We've built ourselves a positive case for "Many More Much Smaller Steps" (MMMSS). There's a counter-case, tho, based in a trio of proposed optimizations. Sadly, those optimizations usually flop. Today, let's take up the "Shortest Distance" floptimization.

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