rebecca

• newfoundland is pretty awesome

  sat sep 13 2025, morning

• time_spent_debugging_because_indentation+=5901250

  mon jun 30 2025, night

• getting pretty sick of men repeating my ideas and that’s when people listen. conveniently they don’t remember I said it, or I said it wrong, or something. nothing has changed

  thu jun 12 2025, afternoon

• I bought a put-together kayak (Trak) and it’s pretty neat.

  sat may 31 2025, afternoon

• back now. great trip with various setbacks and struggles, but fun challenges too.

  mon dec 16 2024, afternoon

• about a third through the trip to New Zealand mostly on the Te Araroa. it’s great!

  thu oct 24 2024, night

• four month sabbatical start!

  tue sep 17 2024, night

• I mostly didn’t want to move out of my apartment because the unit number is 403

  thu jun 20 2024, afternoon

• self.years_elapsed++

  fri jan 19 2024, morning

• year++;

  thu jan 11 2024, night

• over twenty years of computering catching up with me x_x

  wed sep 06 2023, afternoon

• one of those “multiple crises but also found $10 in the dryer” kind of days

  tue jun 20 2023, night

• movement 2023 was the absolute best

  sun jun 04 2023, afternoon

• paged for both jobs today. good thing not at the same time.

  thu may 18 2023, night

• one job: probably not careful enough

  other job: way too careful

  sat apr 08 2023, night

• toronto: $80 hydro pls

  vancouver: \(19 this month but you're still working down the \)100 credit we gave you so you still owe us nothing

  sat mar 04 2023, late night

• job 1: I’m not that great at terraform

  job 2: I’m a god at terraform

  tue jan 31 2023, night

• totally okay: “this didn’t fit me [it was too small/I’m too big]”

  not okay at all apparently: “this didn’t fit me [it was too big, I’m too small/despite sending measurements for custom top]”

  one gets “aww that’s too bad! how dare they do that to you”

  the other: “must be nice that you’re so skinny” or “that’s too bad. /eyeroll”

  but hey you can’t body shame skinny people at all, not possible!

  the best though: “just get a boob job, you can afford it”

  sun jan 15 2023, afternoon

• harsh acceptance that I have no one to talk to about the things I want to talk about

  mon jan 09 2023, night

• morning: software job with big databases to migrate

  evening: twerking class

  evening: other software job with big databases I’m migrating + beer

  thu dec 22 2022, late night

• how to tell everyone that you have no idea how kubernetes works: suggest kubernetes as if it will solve all the problems

  tue nov 08 2022, afternoon

• HOUSE OF THE WYVERN

  sun oct 30 2022, night

• it is absolutely wild how much root access I have to very large and very active systems right now

  sat oct 29 2022, afternoon

• quickly biking home from erotic dancing class to return to programming work

  next week nerdlesque starts

  apparently october is ‘move body more’ month

  wed oct 19 2022, night

• recently learned it could be a bad thing that I plan and drink a beer before I eat, in order to obtain the most value from the intentional poisoning.

  seemed efficient to me

  sat sep 03 2022, afternoon

• left some random cans of fruit, dirty car filters, empty paper bags in the secured parking space.

  all but the dirty car filter were stolen. ?

  sat sep 03 2022, late night

• customer service: you should have put your carrier preference in the shipping notes

  ah yes, because that is a very typical way for customers to demand changes to the entire shipping strategy a company has. thanks lush

  tue jun 21 2022, afternoon

• somehow another weekend day wrestling with glibc symbol versions

  sat jun 04 2022, morning

• dream: be some epic dancer who is good at physical things

  me: I can memorize numbers, and code

  wed may 25 2022, afternoon

• 2018: I’ll never be one of those people with a custom keyboard

  today: maybe it’s time to get a new keyboard. because.. ergonomics.

  four hours later: so my preferred layout is 75%, looking at getting this hilarious cheese esc keycap, shortlisted several brands over a few sites

  after that: you can make your own keycaps with kits to mold them

  later: still haven’t bought anything

  sat may 07 2022, morning

• just had a stare-off with the dude sitting on his balcony across the street

  sat apr 30 2022, morning

• write many terraform lines

  works first time?!

  tue apr 26 2022, afternoon

• it’s hard to keep switching between typescript and go

  mon apr 25 2022, afternoon

• so much more common between human beings, yet always about the differences

  sun apr 03 2022, morning

• fun and successful data recovery weekend

  mon mar 28 2022, morning

• just accidentally activated the mac os x tiling wm mode. things are okay again.

  fri mar 18 2022, night

• email from epost a while ago: we’re shutting down!

  email from epost just now: you have an epost thing!

  epost message: we’re shutting down!

  thu mar 03 2022, night

• already sunburnt. it’s february. in vancouver.

  sun feb 20 2022, night

• employment lock successfully obtained, provisioning…

  excited to start at Jane!

  mon feb 07 2022, afternoon

• so sad. my car’s net weight is 1338lbs.

  wait.. net?

  tue feb 01 2022, afternoon

• drinking wine while playing games through wine.

  mon jan 31 2022, morning

• Just learned code I’ve written is now trapped forever in a decommissioned coal mine deep beneath an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, Norway and will stay intact for a thousand years or more.

  wed jan 26 2022, night

• UPS: delivery! \(140 duty please for \)170 item.

  me: fuck no, self-clear

  UPS: we hate you

  me: did the things, $25, where is my package?

  UPS: on its way to warehouse! far away! for sure! extra confirmed! must go get it!

  me: open door, days later, to make trip. package is there. package is here!

  wtf UPS. not described: the hellish phone calls.

  fri jan 07 2022, afternoon

• past me: will avoid living on giant hill for manual car

  me: now live on one of the steepest hills, always need to turn up on, lots of pedestrians all the time. oh and parking garage has the steepest grade allowable. it’s totally fine.

  mon dec 13 2021, afternoon

• and yet I continue to do absolutely nothing.

  fri dec 03 2021, afternoon

• getting a job in a bakery is somehow much much harder than rejoining tech :c

  wed oct 20 2021, afternoon

• Replaced mac os x with arch linux. Things are blazing fast again.

  sun may 30 2021, morning

• Environments are so much easier in containers + hypervisor. Ugh, python setup.

  thu may 13 2021, afternoon

• Pastry School

  Wild ride of pastry and bread at NWCAV.

  tue apr 27 2021, afternoon

• Finished pastry school!

  fri apr 23 2021, night

• so pastry school is the best. nwcav rocks.

  mon feb 22 2021, afternoon

• New life out west

  It's been two months since I started living in BC. September was driving back to Ontario to collect the rest of the immaterial crap. I have a job, and I'm looking forward to starting pastry school in January.

  tue nov 24 2020, night

• Some days the only other voices I hear are headphones lady and speaker guy announcing they’ve successfully connected.

  sun oct 18 2020, night

• Reason to use tmux #1337: if you’re a derp and close your whole terminal window, it’s so easy to get it all back.

  fri oct 09 2020, morning

• Finally back ‘home’. No more long drives, my butt has told me.

  wed sep 30 2020, afternoon

• Summer on the road across Canada

  My lease ended June 30, and since then it's been living out of the car, camping, tripping, and hostelling across Canada.

  mon aug 17 2020, afternoon

• One of the best things about hostels is the free wine left by others in the donation bins.

  mon aug 17 2020, afternoon

• The most exciting things that have happened lately: a tiny black bear and mom come into my site, and moving my tent under a tarp because it started randomly raining at 2am.

  fri jul 10 2020, night

• It was great when the engine light came on. Exactly thirty days since I drove off with it, and when a warranty ended. This was also minutes after saying how great it was nothing has happened yet. Hoping it was the 35C outside that did it temporarily.

  sun jul 05 2020, afternoon

• How to waste both mushrooms and apples at the same time: put them near each other in a warm kitchen and wait for your science experiment to grow.

  mon jun 22 2020, night

• Really strange coming back from four days in complete wilderness to the pandemic. The mosquitoes didn’t care one bit about keeping their distance.

  thu jun 18 2020, afternoon

• Algonquin canoe trip

  Relatively chill solo canoe trip through the Joe, Burnt Island, Little Doe lakes. Four days, three nights June 12-15, 2020. The bugs were pretty darn bad.

  thu jun 18 2020, afternoon

• The latest emails sent to companies begin with a list of bugs I encountered trying to use their online booking thing.

  wed jun 10 2020, morning

• Regrets of 2020 so far: buying bedsheets that keep dyeing me blue, and not roasting more broccoli sooner.

  mon jun 08 2020, afternoon

• I enjoy long walks in the shade.

  thu jun 04 2020, afternoon

• It’s the temperature out where you don’t think about what temperature it is out.

  wed jun 03 2020, night

• Rarotonga and New Zealand

  Feb 17 - Mar 19, 2018. Rarotonga, Cook Islands for a few days, then a relatively short flight to Auckland, NZ. Travel via busses and ferries through the North and South Islands, with two multi-day 'tramps' around tropical lakes, and golden beaches along the coast.

  wed jun 03 2020, night

• The cms that backs this thing has had more iterations than this site has had visitors.

  wed jun 03 2020, afternoon

• The nicest thing I did for myself this week was implement persistent sessions during development.

  wed jun 03 2020, morning

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