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In Which My Old Life Refuses to Let Go
Apr. 14th, 2020 03:43 pmSo part of the plan of the move to Hawaii was to reduce my stress by stepping away from the things that caused tension in my life.
But, today was a day where that was refusing to let go.
Early on, I found that Marrach was having problems. Not, like game-was-down problems, but game-was-definitely-lagging problems.
The error logs for the game definitely showed something going: a mapping (an array, apparently) overflowing multiple times every minute.
Fortunately, s. has some good experience with the code, and I was able to get some pretty quick suggestions on how to deal with the problem, though it took a bit of trial and error to get the new code in.
So, problem solved? Maybe. s. is less convinced, but we'll see.
I jumped straight from Marrach to a belated call with Chris about Blockchain Commons work for the day, and about two-thirds of the way into that, I got a call from my realtor and ... sigh.
I've been reluctant to write about too many specifics while the house sale is still in process (and hopefully is still moving forward, albeit with two steps back for every three forward), but suffice to say, our buyers had a second loan go south for stupid COVID reasons. By my understanding, some banks are now refusing to use certain occupational income to qualify for loans (basically: if they think income for the occupation is endangered due to shelter-in-place), which is really dumb, because:
1.) IT'S SHORT-TERM. Even if shelter-in-place lasts through the rest of this year, that's still short-term over the life of a house loan.
2.) In this case, our buyers have already made accommodations for COVID-19, which makes it sound to me like the work is if anything more solid than ever. (It reminds me of when an idiot bank in the '00s insisted the gov't had to give them assurance that Kimberly would keep receiving her social security checks, even though her social security check, which was guaranteed for at least a few years, was more stable than any job income, which is not guaranteed in the same way.)
I just don't understand banks. First, their core dishonesty, when they start kicking up problems when it's obvious that they just don't want to give a loan. But moreso, this level of cowardice, yet coming from the same people who were investing money into fake, non-existent things during the 2008 crisis.
It just doesn't make sense.
There is one more fallback that will allow us to sell to these folks: a loan that will cost the buyers more money. They asked for some accommodations, we met them more than halfway, and they agreed to the compromise.
So, once more into the breach? This one should be a quicker turnaround. We're hoping to close, for real this time, next week, which would be right around the limit of the extension we signed a few weeks ago. (Our original closing was March 30th, the new one is April 22nd, I think.)
And speaking of stressors, our stupid former neighbors in Berkeley apparently are continuing to kick up a fuss, because they have nothing else to do with their empty lives.
The plumbers who put in the lateral sewer line to accommodate the first bank who flaked (which makes it sound more useless than it is: the lateral sewer line replacement is a requirement of a house sale in the East Bay at this point, if it's called for) apparently left some stuff behind, because they're waiting for the city to do their inspection, and the city of Berkeley, which opted to go it alone in the whole shelter-in-place thing, unlike any other city in the greater Bay Area, is totally overwhelmed. So that hasn't happened yet, though it's been weeks, and the stuff is still sitting there.
And our neighbor has started whining about that.
That's right, she whined when our stager came to take away her furniture; she whined when the plumbers came out to do their work; and now she's whining that the plumbers *AREN'T* coming back to take away their stuff. UGGH.
I don't care, I don't really care, other than thinking that someone really needs a life.
And someone is getting totally blocked on my phone when she no longer has the ability to affect my life.
I did get some good work done for Blockchain Commons today, though less than I would had hoped with various interruptions.
And that means the last two days of my work week are focused on Skotos & RPGnet programming, which I usually find more restful and soothing — but I'm connecting my auth client up to an actual game, so it could instead be a nightmare of debugging. We'll see.
And in the late afternoon tody, I walked in the golf course just before the pouring rain came down. Always restful. There were awesome clouds in the huge Hawaiian sky.
And, I'm feeling good that I'm genuinely moving forward on the D&D product histories that are my next big Designers & Dragons project.
Over the last few Fridays I finished up two of the final three unwritten histories for what will be Book I.
And for the last few days I've been collating all of my notes for the entire project into appropriate files, clearing years worth of links and quotes.
And then I start organizing my product histories for Book I, generating Word files for each section, and ... starting actual work on something actually book shaped.
This has been a long time coming, and though it's still going to be a huge amount of work expanding, revising, cutting, and researching until I get everything both non-repetitive and with the appropriate level of detail, it'll be rewarding work.
And that's going to be big project #1 in my Hawaii writing time.
(Sometime, maybe this year, I'd like to come out with either one book for TSR: 1974-1989 or two, one for OD&D and AD&D in that time period, one for BD&D in its entirety. The word counts will tell me which ... but I've got a lot of words.)
But, today was a day where that was refusing to let go.
Early on, I found that Marrach was having problems. Not, like game-was-down problems, but game-was-definitely-lagging problems.
The error logs for the game definitely showed something going: a mapping (an array, apparently) overflowing multiple times every minute.
Fortunately, s. has some good experience with the code, and I was able to get some pretty quick suggestions on how to deal with the problem, though it took a bit of trial and error to get the new code in.
So, problem solved? Maybe. s. is less convinced, but we'll see.
I jumped straight from Marrach to a belated call with Chris about Blockchain Commons work for the day, and about two-thirds of the way into that, I got a call from my realtor and ... sigh.
I've been reluctant to write about too many specifics while the house sale is still in process (and hopefully is still moving forward, albeit with two steps back for every three forward), but suffice to say, our buyers had a second loan go south for stupid COVID reasons. By my understanding, some banks are now refusing to use certain occupational income to qualify for loans (basically: if they think income for the occupation is endangered due to shelter-in-place), which is really dumb, because:
1.) IT'S SHORT-TERM. Even if shelter-in-place lasts through the rest of this year, that's still short-term over the life of a house loan.
2.) In this case, our buyers have already made accommodations for COVID-19, which makes it sound to me like the work is if anything more solid than ever. (It reminds me of when an idiot bank in the '00s insisted the gov't had to give them assurance that Kimberly would keep receiving her social security checks, even though her social security check, which was guaranteed for at least a few years, was more stable than any job income, which is not guaranteed in the same way.)
I just don't understand banks. First, their core dishonesty, when they start kicking up problems when it's obvious that they just don't want to give a loan. But moreso, this level of cowardice, yet coming from the same people who were investing money into fake, non-existent things during the 2008 crisis.
It just doesn't make sense.
There is one more fallback that will allow us to sell to these folks: a loan that will cost the buyers more money. They asked for some accommodations, we met them more than halfway, and they agreed to the compromise.
So, once more into the breach? This one should be a quicker turnaround. We're hoping to close, for real this time, next week, which would be right around the limit of the extension we signed a few weeks ago. (Our original closing was March 30th, the new one is April 22nd, I think.)
And speaking of stressors, our stupid former neighbors in Berkeley apparently are continuing to kick up a fuss, because they have nothing else to do with their empty lives.
The plumbers who put in the lateral sewer line to accommodate the first bank who flaked (which makes it sound more useless than it is: the lateral sewer line replacement is a requirement of a house sale in the East Bay at this point, if it's called for) apparently left some stuff behind, because they're waiting for the city to do their inspection, and the city of Berkeley, which opted to go it alone in the whole shelter-in-place thing, unlike any other city in the greater Bay Area, is totally overwhelmed. So that hasn't happened yet, though it's been weeks, and the stuff is still sitting there.
And our neighbor has started whining about that.
That's right, she whined when our stager came to take away her furniture; she whined when the plumbers came out to do their work; and now she's whining that the plumbers *AREN'T* coming back to take away their stuff. UGGH.
I don't care, I don't really care, other than thinking that someone really needs a life.
And someone is getting totally blocked on my phone when she no longer has the ability to affect my life.
I did get some good work done for Blockchain Commons today, though less than I would had hoped with various interruptions.
And that means the last two days of my work week are focused on Skotos & RPGnet programming, which I usually find more restful and soothing — but I'm connecting my auth client up to an actual game, so it could instead be a nightmare of debugging. We'll see.
And in the late afternoon tody, I walked in the golf course just before the pouring rain came down. Always restful. There were awesome clouds in the huge Hawaiian sky.
And, I'm feeling good that I'm genuinely moving forward on the D&D product histories that are my next big Designers & Dragons project.
Over the last few Fridays I finished up two of the final three unwritten histories for what will be Book I.
And for the last few days I've been collating all of my notes for the entire project into appropriate files, clearing years worth of links and quotes.
And then I start organizing my product histories for Book I, generating Word files for each section, and ... starting actual work on something actually book shaped.
This has been a long time coming, and though it's still going to be a huge amount of work expanding, revising, cutting, and researching until I get everything both non-repetitive and with the appropriate level of detail, it'll be rewarding work.
And that's going to be big project #1 in my Hawaii writing time.
(Sometime, maybe this year, I'd like to come out with either one book for TSR: 1974-1989 or two, one for OD&D and AD&D in that time period, one for BD&D in its entirety. The word counts will tell me which ... but I've got a lot of words.)