Greg @Greg@social.coop

Packing for a work trip is much different when you're taking your family with you (and you're driving).

3 suitcases. Coolers. Toys. Way more books.

See you tomorrow night, #Wikimedia staff. It's going to be a busy week.

Hearing little ones say 'puter is great. As in, "we have Daniel tiger on our 'puter!"

Fell asleep 5 times reading the boys Jack and the bean stock tonight.

(and yes, we shoveled it all back into the truck and returned/exchanged it for the 3/4" size.)

Sharing my mistakes...

So, we got some stone pavers at a great deal from a business that's closing.

We're going to put them in the space that would normally be a sidewalk so when we park there we don't walk in mud.

First, we dug a big long hole. LOTS of dirt moved.

Then, with 30 minutes before the hardware store closed, I drove to get gravel for the first layer.

I got 3/8" gravel, spread it all out the next day.

Realized it won't work, too small. Needed the 3/4" size.

"Learning tax" :(

A new BLACK YO)))GA mix.

https://www.mixcloud.com/BLACKYOGA/black-yoga-mix-no-28/

BLACK YO)))GA is a yoga studio in Philly that specializes in dark/heavy music as accompaniment. Usually with live performances.

(sharing because I was excited to see it!)

It's fun having an early morning call with other people in your timezone but at very different latitudes (in this case: Southern California, Northern California, and Seattle) and watching the gradient of outside brightness change over the meeting.

Tons of people were already giving up on getting in when I arrived at the start time. And still more are arriving late.

I think we're upset.

Beyond capacity for the town hall on the water lawsuit the city of Ventura brought against all Ojai valley residents.

My mortgage is managed online via loanadministration.com (yes, really). That's where I log in.

After I login, I'm at a subpage of that url. Then if I want to do anything (like make a payment, setup/edit autopay) I'm taken to loan-administration.com. Note the hyphen (for real).

Once, when my user/pass didn't work and I noticed the hypher in the domain where I was logging in, I thought I was Phished (I went there via an email "you have new loan documents")

Day 1 progress. 25'x2.5' about 4 inches down. Well, that's the goal, not level nor ready for gravel, but that's tomorrow. Then sand. Then pavers.

About 2 inches of clearance in the wheel wells.

Well, my wife is coming home with another truck load of stone. A pallet of some kind of tile.

Tuesday it was 3/4 of a pallet of slate tile. Today another pallet. I think there is one more pallet left to pick up.

The people who sell it load it with a forklift, we unload a tile at a time (the last was 12"x12" square).

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/17/digitalocean-layoffs/

Is something going on with the economy I don't know about?