Week Log

A very simple weblog to record what I’m working on.

My goal is to be able to find five things I’ve done during the week by the end of every week. Why should Federal employees have all the fun?

Jun 30, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
- General geeking
  - Think Python
    - Chapt 8 (Sun, Mon)
    - Chapt 9 (Mon, Tue)
    - Chapt 10 (Tue)
    - Chapt 11 (Tue)
Jun 22, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Colonoscopy fail/ER/ICU
  - Think Python progress
  - Harry Potter progress
  - Talk to Adi
  - Watch Tony’s video
- General geeking
  - Watch Tony’s video (Thu)
  - Think Python, 3rd edition
    - chapt 6 (Sat), 7 (Sat)
  - Talk to Adi, review conference plan
- Math
- Health, mental & physical
  - Test: 71 pushups (Sun)
  - LRC + chess with Lyn (Sun)
  - Floor Pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat)
  - Pushups: 50 * 5 + 1 (Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat)
  - Colonoscopy Prep (Tue)
  - ER, ICU (Wed/Thu)
- Music
  - Tunes with Anita (Fri)
- Misc
  - Reading Harry Potter y La Piedra Filosofal (Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat) Chapt 8 (Sat)
Jun 15, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Start working on better testing talk
  - Eulerian numbers and talk about trends
  - Music maintenance
  - Raise pushups to sets of 50.
  - Begin prep for possible colonoscopy
- General geeking
  - Fix a path problem in newpost
  - Meet with Jeff Wright
    - Contact Alan Robertson, Scott Allman, & Scott Mann about Jeff W. (Misc)
  - New testing talk
    - Get plan for a better testing talk from Tonto (Mon)
    - Try both Google COLAB and Replit. Neither is suitable. (Wed) Replit’s Python environment is over a year old (no up-to-date uv). COLAB is too Jupyter oriented.
    - Try following Tonto’s steps (Wed)
    - Meet with Scott Mann (Sat)
- Math
  - Happiness sketch for Ron
  - Learn about Eulerian Numbers (Sat)
- Health, mental & physical
  - LRC + chess with Lyn (Sun)
  - Test: 60 pushups (Sun)
  - 250 pushups: 50 + 4 * 45 +1 (Mon), 5 sets of 50 + 1 (Tue, Wed, Thu,Sat)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu,Sat)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Fri)
  - Meds
    - Get new Phenergan (Wed)
    - Return box to VA (Wed)
    - Get new bloodwork for levothyroxin (Wed)
  - $1-a-day (Wed, Fri)
  - Kristina leaves for Maine :-( (Thu)
- Music
  - November Springs Dance
    - Deadline is September (Wed)
    - Offer to Katydid, Kate says “No.” (Wed)
    - Conversation with Adele (Thu)
    - Third Thursday Jam (Thu)
    - Jam with Anita & Dave (Fri)
    - Play for Tonya’s event (Fri)
- Misc
Jun 8, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Massive logging fail
  - Give SFS talk
  - Three chess games
  - Prep for Springs dance.
- General geeking
  - Give SFS SiB talk.
- Math
- Health, mental & physical
  - Test: 60 pushups
  - 200 Pushups: 5 sets of 45 + 1 (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri)
  - Floor pilates (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Fri)
- Music
  - Wake-n-Bake jam (Sun)
  - Lyons Jam (Wed)
  - Katydid practice (Thu)
  - Katydid dance (Fri)
- Misc
  - Fall off the logging wagon. :-(
Jun 1, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Use task runners
  - Give SFS talk
  - Play Colorado Springs Dance
  - Go to first Louisville jam
  - Finish The Power and the Glory
- General geeking
  - Look @ task runners (Mon)
  - Meet
    - Jeff Wright (Tue)
    - Bob B (Wed), suggest code-coverage Rust project (Wed)
    - SFS, Stone on 3-D printing (Sat)
  - Try to make starfish work on other machines (Wed)
  - SFS talk
    - tune slides (Mon, Tue, Wed)
    - fam-fire talk (Wed)
    - re-write talk (Thu, Fri)
    - give talk (Sat)
  - Encourage Julian to write a book (Wed)
- Health, mental & physical
  - 200 Pushups: 5 sets of 40 + 1 (Sun, Mon), 5 sets of 45 + 1 (Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Floor pilates (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Fri)
- Music
  - C. Springs Dance, Longlast (Sun)
  - Cancel Katydid practice (Mon)
  - Trident Jam (Thu)
  - Anita & Dave (Fri)
  - First Scherer Louisville Jam (Fri)
- Misc
  - Finish Graham Greene’s “The Power and the Glory (Mon)
  - John Kelly’s birthday party (Sat)
May 25, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Prepare June 7 talk
  - Note to Florian about math
  - Captains Couragous
  - Longlast Prep
  - Improve diet
- General geeking
  - Improve Starfish config (Sun)
  - June 7 talk
    - Get mutmut done for exercise repo (Sun)
    - Review slides (Sun, Mon)
    - Add more refs (Sun)
    - Working on testing-demo example/exercises. (Tues)
    - testing-demo -> GitHub (Wed)
    - trying out poethepoet task runner (Thu)
    - edit slides (Wed, Thu, Fri)
    - send to Rich Glaser for review (Fri)
- Math
  - Explanation to Florian (Sun)
- Health, mental & physical
  - Test: 63 pushups (Sun)
  - 200 Pushups: 5 sets of 40 + 1 (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Fri)
  - $1-a-day (Tue, Wed)
  - Chess with Lyn (Fri)
  - Chess with Allen, Adele (Sat)
  - Diet change (Sun-Fri)
    - No junk
    - Start kefir
    - More veggies, salad.
  - New glasses
- Music
  - More planning with Adele (Mon)
  - Made set list spreadsheet (Tue)
  - Learned how to make YouTube playlists, made for each key, added to spreadsheet. (Wed)
  - Lyons Jam (Wed)
  - Tunes with Anita & Dave (Fri)
  - Loooong drive to the Springs to play dance (Sat)
- Misc
  - Piece for Frank
    - Draft to Charles (Tue)
    - Note about OIMB to Charles (Wed)
    - Note about George Carrol to Charles (Thu)
  - Finish Captains Courageous
May 19, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Switch to Starfish prompting, clean up .zshrc
  - Send out more notes about Prime Powers
  - Learn how to rescue my Cloud Shell account
  - Start refining June 7 talk
  - Prep for June 1 dance
- General geeking
  - Meet with Jeff Wright (Mon)
  - Meet with Scott Mann (Sat)
  - Recover my cloud shell account, I hope (Sun)
  - BLUG with Ned McLain (Mon)
  - Switch Mac to Starfish for zsh, bash prompts. Learn about Nerd Fonts (Tue)
  - Cleaned up my .zshrc, and my starfish.toml (Tue)
  - June 7 SFS talk
    - Played with using Jupyter notebook. Rejected the idea because testing’s too awkward. (Wed)
    - Created a repo, cleaned up .pre-commit-config.yaml (Wed)
    - Collaborated with Tonto on a Makefile (Wed)
    - Cleaned up and Improved the environment generally (Thu)
    - Branched to get code coverage. Added second set of tests (Thu)
    - Added questions & references (Sat)
    - Refactored second test set (Sat)
  - Started reading Python Developer Tooling Handbook (Fri)
  - Unsuccessfully played with making another PyPI package. (Fri)
- Math - Sent Florian and Scott Mann note about set-theory question. (Sat)
- Health, mental & physical
  - Test: 70 pushups (Sun)
  - Westminster Rec Center + Chess with Lyn (Sun)
  - 200 Pushups: 5 sets of 40 + 1 (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Fri)
  - Dentist (Wed)
  - $1-a-day (Monx2, Wed, Thu, Fri)
  - Full steps without full heart points! (Sun)
- Music
  - New guitar strings, after about a decade. (Sun)
  - Reserved a room in the Springs for May 31 (Thu)
  - Talked to Adele about June 1 dance (Thu)
  - Note to Andrea about things I learned from Adele (Fri)
  - Checked up on James (Fri)
  - Music with Anita (Fri)
  - Tried to get folks to come to Springs dance (Sat)
- Misc
  - Back on the log wagon (Sun)
  - Find out Cynthia is okay. (Sun)
  - Lost my reading glasses, requested new. (Mon)
  - VA (Abbey) ordered me new readers. (Tue/Wed)
  - Started Captains Courageous (Tue)
  - Ordered Kefir grains (Fri)
May 11, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Focus on music
  - Meet with Jeff Wright
  - Code reviewe Prime Powers
  - Send off Prime Powers code note
- General geeking
  - Meet with Jeff Wright (Mon)
  - Reschedule meeting with Scott Mann
- Math
  - Prime-powers code Fix all remaining testing issues – pytest, pytest –cov, mutmut (Mon) Code review using two tools: Gemini & Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Tue, Wed) Send off note to authors (Wed)
- Health, mental & physical
  - Test: 61 pushups (Sun)
  - Westminster Rec Center + Chess with Lyn (Sun)
  - 200 Pushups: 5 sets of 40 + 1 (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Fri)
  - $1-a-day (Mon, Tue)
- Music
  - Go listen to Kate at Hungry Toad (Mon)
  - Lyons jam (Wed)
  - Third Thursday (Thu)
  - Followup email for third Thu (Fri)
  - Anita & Dave (Fri)
  - Invite Helle to Katydid practice (Sat)
- Misc
  - Tried to buy the Hal print for Kristina unsuccessfully. Gack.
  - Took Kristina to Bent Heirlooms, bought plants. (Sat)
  - Forget to fill out entries. :-(
May 5, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - AI review someone else’s code
  - Improved testing for prime-powers code
  - Changed RMPY schedule
  - BLUG
  - Tire swap
- General geeking
  - Fixed .bashrc in cloudshell to define new functions. (Sun)
  - Meet with Jeff Wright (Mon)
  - First-pass review of BobB’s code. (Wed)
  - Gemini code review of BobB’s code. (Thu))
  - Meet with Bob B. (Fri)
  - BLUG (Thu)
- Math
  - Prime-powers code
    - Asked Jeff Wright for help with testing (Sun)
    - Made repo public (Sun)
    - Advice on testing from Jeff W. (Mon)
    - Implement some of Jeff’s suggestions (Tue)
    - Fix some testing failures (Mon, Tue, Wed)
    - First Copilot code review: Gemini (Fri)
    - Second Copilot code review: Claude (Sat)
    - Change argument parsing to specify an exponent for p^n
- Health, mental & physical
  - Test: 61 pushups (Sun)
  - Westminster Rec Center + Chess with Lyn (Sun)
  - 200 Pushups: 5 sets of 40 + 1 (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Wed)
  - $1-a-day (Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Changed second Kaiut to Fridays, Monthly Bob to Wednesdays (Thu)
  - e-Introduced Alan & Taylor
- Music
  - Tried to schedule with Andrea, probably failed (Sun)
  - Went through cloggers doc from Richard (Sun)
  - Doug Rippey’s b’day party (Fri)
  - Drove down to Denver dance (Fri)
- Misc
  - Finished movie Troy (Sun)
  - Reviewed Oenothera cytogenetics + note to Charles (Sun)
  - More correspondence with Charles (Wed)
  - Trapped and let out bunny (Tue)
  - Consoled Kristina about chicks (Wed)
  - Emerson called from the VA (Waco, TX) about VA but reported earlier. (Wed)
  - Tire swap. (Sat)
Apr 27, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Progress on June and August talks.
  - Added testing to sets-of-prime-powers code
  - Experimented with rest day, tests for pushups
  - Plenty of music
  - Moved on to new, print book
- General geeking
  - Tony agreed to stick to FOSS, mid-August. (Sun)
  - Scott Hallock is in to speak for SiB. (Mon)
  - Got web description of testing talk updated. (Fri)
  - Try to get a third Scott for “Great Scotts!” (Wed, Thu)
  - Hunted down my Make magazine article (Sat)
  - Bug report to MHV about quoting (62-34259790)
- Math
  - Learn about sys.maxsize (Mon)
  - Unit tests for sets-of-prime-powers code. (Tue)
  - Add coverage and mutmut testing (Wed)
  - Fixed most coverage and a couple of mutmut bugs (Thu)
  - Fixed more mutmut bugs (Fri)
  - Wrote a note to send out about sets-of-prime-powers (Fri)
- Health, mental & physical
  - Test: 61 pushups (Sun)
  - Westminster Rec Center + Chess with Lyn (Sun)
  - Dropped some vitamins/supplements as an experiment, following Dr’s advice. (Mon)
  - Deliberately rested Wed, as an experiment. (Wed.)
  - Chess with Lyn (Fri)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pushups 5 * 40 + 1 (Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Fri)
  - $1-a-day (Mon, Tue, Sat)
  - Found new Dave Barry columns, laughed until I cried. (Wed)
- Music
  - Clogger’s brunch (Sun)
  - Pat Tognoni’s going-away party (Sun)
  - Katydid practice (Tue)
  - Tunes with Dave (Fri)
- Misc
  - Spaghetti carbonara for the first time (Sun), marinated pork chops + potato (Fri)
  - Did semi-monthly, financial re-balancing (Wed)
  - Finished Aeneid (Wed)
  - Started I, Claudius(Wed)
  - VA Haircut (Thu)
  - Nice, long conversation with Charles (Sat)
Apr 20, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Code to disprove AI hallucination about powers of 2
  - 200 pushups
  - Lots of SFS organizing
  - Yearly physical
  - Music every day but Thursday
- General geeking
  - git add the new post in mkpost (Sun)
  - DevOps Boulder, point speaker at Alan Robertson (Mon)
  - get Tony to do hands-on, mid-August, SFS AI workshop, rule 4
  - agree to talk at June, in-person SFS mtg on Python testing, and submit draft slides
  - get Scott Allman to talk at early August SFS mtg, my house
- Math
  - Trends & friends
    - Try to get AI to write trends code and fail on recursion. (Sun)
    - Code to find subsets of powers-of-two set with same means (Wed, Thu))
    - Disprove AI hallucination about powers-of-two (Thu)
    - Generalize powers-of-two to test other bases
    - Try multiplying powers of two.
    - First read through new, bogus AI proof
- Health, mental & physical
  - Rec Center + Chess with Lyn (Mon)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pushups 2x36 + 3x41 = 195 (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri) Bump to 200 (Sat)
  - RMP&Y
    - Pilates (Mon, Tue)
    - Kaiut (Mon, Wed)
  - $1-a-day (Sun, Tue, Thu, Fri)
  - Labwork for physical (Mon)
  - Annual physical, give doc 23-and-me data (Thu)
  - Labwork for prostate cancer (Thu)
  - No prostate cancer (Fri)
- Music
  - “Sleeping Lulu” C-tunes workshop (Sun)
  - List C tunes I know I’ve played (Mon)
  - “Weevils in the Grits” workshop (Tue)
  - Lyons Jam (Wed)
  - Tunes with Dave (Fri)
  - Cloggers’ Reunion (Sat)
- Misc
  - Long talk with Charles about Frank (Sun)
  - Read Aeneid, book 11 (Sat)
Apr 13, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Meet with Tibi, Radu
  - Third Thursday
  - Start trend ai work
  - Go to a dance
- General geeking
  - Enhance mkpost to begin by letting me steal from the previous post. (Mon)
  - Meet with Jeff Wright (Mon)
  - Congrats to Josh Wright (Mon)
  - Meet with Tibi, Radu (Wed)
  - Meet with Scott (Sat)
- Math
  - Trends & friends
    - more correspondence with Florian (Sun)
    - make a table contrasting cycles, trends, and streaks (Mon)
    - turn table into markdown with commentary (Wed).
    - start building a trends package, 2x (Sat)
    - try Gemini for trend math, look for integers that satisfy key properties, save chat in drive (Sat)
- Health, mental & physical
  - LRC + Chess with Lyn (Sun). Tried Caro-Kann, and lost.
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu)
  - Pushups 3x36 + 2x41 = 190 (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu), +2(Fri), +15 (Sat)
  - RMP&Y
    - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
    - Kaiut (Mon)
  - $1-a-day (Tue, Thu, Sat)
- Music
  - Wake ‘n Bake jam (Sun)
  - Announce Third Thursday (Mon)
  - Third Thursday (Thu)
  - Send out tune spreadsheet (Fri)
  - Lone Hawk Dance (Sat)
- Reading
  - Aeneid video: chapter 10 (Sun), chapter 11 (Tue) book:
  - Loan Princess of Cleves to Lyn. (Sun)
  - Auto-renew library books
- Misc
  - Visit Muffy (Wed)
  - Counsel Ron
  - Visit with Vik
Apr 6, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  1. Progress on equal-means problem, through conversations with both Florian and Tonto.
  2. Close branch development on streaks2 and bring master up-to-date
  3. More reading real books: The Aeneid
  4. Learned what the Caro-Kann is.
  5. Five music jams. N.B.: Five.
- General geeking
  - SFS posts link to vibe-coding video (Sun)
  - RITE 2025
    - Adi comments on my earlier sketch, I respond (Sun)
    - let my faithful Artificial Indian companion, Tonto, draft sponsorship letter (Tue)
    - phone calls from Adi about conference (Mon, Tue)
    - correspondence with Tibi Gandu and Radu Ghidiceanu. Possible meeting Wednesday. (Sat)
  - Helping Josh Wright
    - arrange 2hr, Wed afternoon VC on bash/git (Tue)
    - look over presentations to find supporting material (Tue)
    - learn how to make Google Docs “shortcuts”, to create directory with supporting material (Tue)
    - chat with Josh, get his goals for mtg and meet them (Wed)
    - note to Josh about new, Pybite cohort plan (Fri)
  - VC with Jeff Wright (Mon)
    - install VSCode Live Share plugin
    - solve one of his bash problems
  - Fix .vimrc in PWA to make it behave as it does on my laptops. (Wed)
  - Implement log(), pushlog(), to maintain week-logs in cloud shell (Wed)
  - Attend DLW’s BLUG talk on Madden GLADOS (Thu)
- Math
  - Equal-means problem
    - more correspondence with Florian,
      - I explain why I care. (Sun)
      - Note to Florian about cycles <-> trends map (Fri)
      - I suggest the next step (Sat)
    - used Gemini 2.5 Tonto to get interesting proofs, which I sent to Florian and Scott Mann. (Thu)
  - streaks2 (Tue, Wed)
    - more code refactoring based on AI code reviews
    - restore pytest, code coverage, mutmut
    - struggle with pytest, mutmut in pre-commit
    - finish type hints
    - merge typing -> make-classes -> master, remove typing, make-classes branches locally & remotely. Set to work back on master.
- Health, mental & physical
  - LRC + Chess with Lyn, talk about Caro-Kann (Sun)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pushups 3x36 + 2x41 = 190 (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - RMPY
    - Pilates (Mon, Thu)
    - Kaiut (Mon, Wed)
  - $1-a-day (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri)
- Music
  - First, monthly Velvet Banjo jam (Mon)
  - Second Tuesday Lyons jam (Tue)
  - Tunes with Anita & Dave (Fri)
  - Tried to contact Lyn about playing Sunday.? (Sat)
  - Play with Andrea (Sat)
- Reading
  - Aeneid
    - book 7 (Sun) book 8 (Thu), book 9 (Fri)
    - MoAn videos Books 5, 6 (Sun), 7 (Wed), 8 (Thu), 9 (Fri)
- Misc
  - Call from Charles, telling me Frank died. (Fri)
Mar 30, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  1. Read real books, e.g., Aeneid
  2. Collaborate: Adi, Bob B., SFS, Florian, Ashley
  3. Use more VSCode: shortcuts, Cloud-shell editor, Copilot on GitHub website
  4. Up pushups to 190
  5. Refactoring on streaks2
- General geeking
  - Note to Adi requesting sitrep (Sun)
  - Lost all logs for Mon, Tue, a reminder to commit and push. (Wed)
  - Moving week-post work to PWA!
  - Watch video on vibe coding (Wed)
  - Call from Adi, playing phone tag (Wed)
  - Talk to Adi about Tibi, the conference, etc. (Thu)
  - Monthly mtg. with Bob B., review his mind-maps about new cohort-coaching program. (Fri)
  - SFS: neovim and GLADOS, give away Our Man in Havana, supply Voodoo Donuts (Sat)
  - Add Cloudshell GitLab key, new password for Mattermost (Sat)
- Math
  - Puzzling over lengths vs. starts
  - Re-factoring streaks2 code. (Wed)
  - Exploring VSCode kb shortcuts (Thu)
  - Using Copilot to get code review, add typechecking for streaks.py
  - Equal-means problem
    - Rephrasing trend “equal means” problem (Mon)
    - Note to Florian about probability (Tue)
    - Florian correspondence about probabilities (Fri, Sat)
  - Attempt to find interest in presentation in pybites
    - Post to circle about presentation (Tue), responses (Wed)
    - DM responders on circle (Fri)
  - correspondence with Ashley (Fri, Sat)
- Health, mental & physical
  - Trip to Longmont Public Library (Sun)
  - Lafayette library book sale – book for Kristina, notebook & book for me (Wed)
  - LRC + Chess with Lyn (Sun)
  - Floor pilates (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Pushups 4x35 + 2x40 (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed) +5 for the Corps (Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - Kaiut (Mon, Wed)
  - Pilates (Mon, Tue, Thu)
  - $1-a-day (Mon, Tue, Wed)
- Music
  - Andrea will come up on the 12th.
  - no jam with Anita & Dave (Fri) :-(
- Misc
  - Aeneid - book 1 (Sun), book 2 (Mon), book 3(Tue), book 4 (Wed), Book 5 (Thu), Book 6 (Fri, Sat)
  - MoAn videos Books 1-4
  - The Art of Tom Lovell, An Invitation to History
  - parts 1-3 (Sun, Mon, Tue)
    - finish! (Wed)
  - Jack London’s The Law of Life (short story) (Tue)
Mar 23, 2025
What I've done this week.
- Five-bullet summary
  - Set up & used Google Cloud Shell PWA
  - 100% code coverage for streaks2 (pycov) and its tests (mutmut)
  - Cleaned up streaks presentations
  - Finished three physical books
  - Increased pushups to 185
  - Celebrated Kristina’s birthday
- General geeking
  - New mkpost works (Sun)
  - Set up Google Cloud Shell as PWA on Mac & Chromebook (Wed)
  - Configured ssh in Cloud Shell to push to Chromebook (Wed)
  - Sign up for SFS (Thu)
  - Note about cloudshell PWA to Willson, Vik, Anschel (Thu)
- Math
  - Code
    - Clean empty files. Put unused code, commented out, into a single file for possible later incorporation. (Mon)
    - Add coverage/pytest-cov and mutmut (Mon)
    - Start reviewing tests for correctness (Mon)
    - Fix mutmut pycov and failures (Tue)
    - Got tests running and passing in CloudShell (Wed)
    - Re-added pytest to pre-commit hooks (Wed)
    - Added pytest –cov and mutmut to pre-commit (Wed)
    - Spent time playing with the VSCode-work-alike, cloudshell editor. (Thu)
    - Got first measurements of Poisson-distributed quantities: fixed-points, derangements, absent transpositions, etc. (Fri)
    - Refactored code, added chisquared test for distribution of fixed-points (Sat)
  - Presentation
    - Remove some slides from older presentation that are duplicated in newer. (Mon)
  - GitHub
    - Put “Issues” to use. Add some to take care of. (Mon)
    - Closed two issues (Wed)
- Health, mental & physical
  - LRC + Chess with Lyn (Sun)
  - floor pilates (Sun-Fri)
  - pushups 4x35 + 40 (Sun, Mon, Tue), 3x35 + 2x40 (Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
  - pilates (Mon) kaiut (Mon), pilates(Tue), kaiut (Wed), pilates (Thu)
  - $1-a-day (Sun, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat)
- Music
  - Longlast (Wed)
    - call 2pm Wed
    - April 12, tentatively, for a fam-fire
    - Andrea will send me a tune list this weekend
    - Andrea contacts Adele!
  - Lyons OT Jam (Wed)
  - Anita & Dave (Fri)
  - Thinking about double stops, Jethro chords (Sat)
- Misc
  - Princess of Cleves
    - part 4 (Sun, Mon, Tue)
    - finished! (Tue)
  - Our Man in Havana
    - part 1 (Wed), part 2 (Thu), part 3 (Fri), finished! (Sat)
  - Lost Girls
    - finished (Sat)
  - Kristina’s birthday (Tue)
    - new recycling bin
    - three bee books
    - bought her what she wanted at The Flower Bin
    - Voodoo donuts with birthday candles
    - offered her a trip to help Dee
    - dinner out
Mar 9, 2025
week_11
- Five-bullet summary
  - Did some of my own Python, no AI. Fixed mkpost script (bash).
  - Added StrStats to collect statistics into ndarray
  - Katydid practice, got & lost a gig
  - Got together with Dee
  - Handled Kristina’s wrist/arm sprain/break
Mar 9, 2025
week_10
- 5 bullets
  - Got clients for Scott Hallock
  - Started object-izing streaks
  - Two jams
  - Read Princess of Cleves, part 1
  - Solid exercise regime Mon-Sat
Mar 2, 2025
week_09
- Five Bullets
  - Prove P(streak length k) == P(streak starts with k)
  - Fixed Chromebook GitHub Access
  - Replaced SimpliSafe cameras, keypad batteries
  - Maintained exercise, incl. three, $1aD walks
  - Jammed 3 days
Feb 23, 2025
Welcome to Jekyll!
This post was actually done at the date shown in the header. I’ve renamed the post so it appears first.
Feb 23, 2025
week_08
- Set up a weblog for weekly entries.