The Tumult of Past & Future
May. 2nd, 2020 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aUgh, it has been a horribly busy week, in large part because the past and future intersected here, on the last week of April 2020.
Much of this was very mundane: an expected result of life changing. But that didn't make it any less hectic or busy.
So, for example, we sold our house (yay!), and that freed up a bunch of projects that I'd queued up, and which were awaiting on the sale. So suddenly I had a bunch of new paperwork and contacts with our new financial advisor, who will manage investments for us going forward; and I had a bunch of new paperwork and contacts with the construction company who will be installing solar panels for us here in Hawaii. And we had to write up some reviews of our most wonderful realtor. And I should really get our taxes out.
The biggest conflict, though, comes in the slow slide away from full-time work toward my own projects. Theoretically I'm down to four days of Skotos work and up to one day of my own, but ah, that balance did not work well last week.
First up, I'm very eager to push on the Designers & Dragons work, so it's been getting a lot of time in my evenings, beyond that one day. So on Monday I managed to push out my first Lost History, though it kept me going until late.
And meanwhile, my one other blockchain client, Bitmark, has returned with some interesting new work. So that's suddenly been going on in the evening.
And that all hasn't been meshing great with Skotos work being particularly busy this week. That's because I've been working toward the great "split", where we start dividing up our games onto machines that we can give to the players. I've been building a new auth server to support this since February, and Wednesday and Thursday we finally put it into action, splitting out Castle Marrach, TEC, and Allegory of Empires each to their own machines.
The bad news is that it was really problematic, just because I was making two huge changes at once: a new auth server and a total rewrite of the domain names. So, Castle Marrach took all of Wednesday because it was my test case, and so I mostly took it slow and wrote up documents as I went. Then TEC took much of Thursday because its our weird non-SkotOS case and we stumbled along getting the variables right. And then I was sure I could knock Allegory of Empire out in an hour or two, but it turned out to be very problematic because it was halfway between two domain names and it had some elegant sign-in pages that hardcoded domains.
Ay. I spent 13 hours on Skotos on Thursday, missing my gaming group as a result!
And then the Skotos work continued into Friday and Saturday, because we turned up several new commands that I hadn't written support for.
The good news is that we've now gone most of a day without any new issues, so, maybe we're mostly there?
(There are still going to be a few more weeks of moving things around and doing the logistics of the split, but at last the end is in sight.)
In fact, generally the end is in sight. The house is sold. The things to immediately pop up after the sale of the house are all dealt with more a moment though some will be continuing (such as the need from someone from the solar company to come out to really nail down what they're going to be doing.)
And I think the hardest Skotos work is done, with what's left being more pragmatic.
And so, I'll soon have fewer things piling on top of each other, and also get that fabled more time for my own projects.
So how did I really know things were super busy this last week? I didn't make it out of the house between Sunday evening and Friday afternoon.
I mean, obviously this is partly the shelter-in-place, still continuing despite the fact that we have 0 known active cases on Kauai, it's been 19 days since the last new case was discovered here, it's been 27 days since the alleged community spread happened here, and the islands overall have been running 1 new case a day the last few days (and not much more before that).
But the nearby golf course's policies as the result of the mayor's overly aggressive authoritarianism are the bigger problem, because that's where I could walk just for 30 or 40 minutes at sunset even if I had a very tiring day. But I can't get into the course without walking Death Road 3000 or sneaking along the forbidden paths. Fortunately, the course has been given the OK to open on Tuesday, and word is they'll be unblocking the paths at that time.
And then I hopefully won't have another week like this past one with four days with almost no exercise.
But then I hopefully won't have the busyness of the past and future colliding either.
Oh, hey. I had a nice walk today. Out to Mahaulepu again. And I finished chapter two of the TSR Codex while out there. (Illegally sitting at a table with no one anywhere near me.) And I had a nice swim when I got back to Poipu.
Even though I had more Bitmark work waiting for me at home, that was a nice antidote to the week.
(There was shave ice too.)
Much of this was very mundane: an expected result of life changing. But that didn't make it any less hectic or busy.
So, for example, we sold our house (yay!), and that freed up a bunch of projects that I'd queued up, and which were awaiting on the sale. So suddenly I had a bunch of new paperwork and contacts with our new financial advisor, who will manage investments for us going forward; and I had a bunch of new paperwork and contacts with the construction company who will be installing solar panels for us here in Hawaii. And we had to write up some reviews of our most wonderful realtor. And I should really get our taxes out.
The biggest conflict, though, comes in the slow slide away from full-time work toward my own projects. Theoretically I'm down to four days of Skotos work and up to one day of my own, but ah, that balance did not work well last week.
First up, I'm very eager to push on the Designers & Dragons work, so it's been getting a lot of time in my evenings, beyond that one day. So on Monday I managed to push out my first Lost History, though it kept me going until late.
And meanwhile, my one other blockchain client, Bitmark, has returned with some interesting new work. So that's suddenly been going on in the evening.
And that all hasn't been meshing great with Skotos work being particularly busy this week. That's because I've been working toward the great "split", where we start dividing up our games onto machines that we can give to the players. I've been building a new auth server to support this since February, and Wednesday and Thursday we finally put it into action, splitting out Castle Marrach, TEC, and Allegory of Empires each to their own machines.
The bad news is that it was really problematic, just because I was making two huge changes at once: a new auth server and a total rewrite of the domain names. So, Castle Marrach took all of Wednesday because it was my test case, and so I mostly took it slow and wrote up documents as I went. Then TEC took much of Thursday because its our weird non-SkotOS case and we stumbled along getting the variables right. And then I was sure I could knock Allegory of Empire out in an hour or two, but it turned out to be very problematic because it was halfway between two domain names and it had some elegant sign-in pages that hardcoded domains.
Ay. I spent 13 hours on Skotos on Thursday, missing my gaming group as a result!
And then the Skotos work continued into Friday and Saturday, because we turned up several new commands that I hadn't written support for.
The good news is that we've now gone most of a day without any new issues, so, maybe we're mostly there?
(There are still going to be a few more weeks of moving things around and doing the logistics of the split, but at last the end is in sight.)
In fact, generally the end is in sight. The house is sold. The things to immediately pop up after the sale of the house are all dealt with more a moment though some will be continuing (such as the need from someone from the solar company to come out to really nail down what they're going to be doing.)
And I think the hardest Skotos work is done, with what's left being more pragmatic.
And so, I'll soon have fewer things piling on top of each other, and also get that fabled more time for my own projects.
So how did I really know things were super busy this last week? I didn't make it out of the house between Sunday evening and Friday afternoon.
I mean, obviously this is partly the shelter-in-place, still continuing despite the fact that we have 0 known active cases on Kauai, it's been 19 days since the last new case was discovered here, it's been 27 days since the alleged community spread happened here, and the islands overall have been running 1 new case a day the last few days (and not much more before that).
But the nearby golf course's policies as the result of the mayor's overly aggressive authoritarianism are the bigger problem, because that's where I could walk just for 30 or 40 minutes at sunset even if I had a very tiring day. But I can't get into the course without walking Death Road 3000 or sneaking along the forbidden paths. Fortunately, the course has been given the OK to open on Tuesday, and word is they'll be unblocking the paths at that time.
And then I hopefully won't have another week like this past one with four days with almost no exercise.
But then I hopefully won't have the busyness of the past and future colliding either.
Oh, hey. I had a nice walk today. Out to Mahaulepu again. And I finished chapter two of the TSR Codex while out there. (Illegally sitting at a table with no one anywhere near me.) And I had a nice swim when I got back to Poipu.
Even though I had more Bitmark work waiting for me at home, that was a nice antidote to the week.
(There was shave ice too.)