Finished Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I hated most of the main characters (they earned it. Terrible people.) Not sure if I’ll continue the trilogy. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/156201...

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson: 9780593358825 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction’s most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly near-future...

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Also WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST STICK TO 24 HR UTC! Interfaces that only do local, interfaces that do 12 hr utc. Interfaces just CONFUSED. AHHHRG. It hurts my brain.

To be fair, my kinda not quiet. A lotta collab & troubleshooting & I got to be bossy & make an attack plan when tangents started happening.

Sarameg@sarameg.bsky.social · 2d ago

That was NOT a quiet shift. Good lord.

That was NOT a quiet shift. Good lord.

Oops, I peeked.

Read The Instructions Mad

Alt: Read The Instructions Mad gift of angry woman throwing sheafs of paper at someone

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I just learned that Nancy Grace Roman (the first NASA chief astronomer, also has a new telescope named after her) was a Western HS grad! That’s so cool

The Only Limit for City Schools Students Is the Stars: How Baltimore City Public Schools Alumni Are Shaping the Universe

Baltimore City Public Schools alumni carry a universe-sized impact. Decades before contemporary eng...

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I put on pants. Which is hilarious because my house is the same temp as always, but it being 10+° cooler out means pants.

I think today calls for khao soi takeout.

THIS.

Annie@anntieup.bsky.social · 3d ago

one of the reasons correct pronouns are so important and one reason I know I’m cisgender as hell is people keep asking me if my pronouns are they/them and I keep saying no because it makes me feel itchy!!! Now imagine that feeling every day, unabated. It’s not that hard to get it right.

Very good thing my shift had me asleep this morning. Forcing myself to stop checking in until this evening.

Hold Me Back!

Alt: Hold Me Back!short gif of a woman being held back from attacking something.

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Maple desperately wants to go out on the deck but it is WET. I got chuffed at for this failure.

Speaking of, snagged the latest @writersinbmore.bsky.social anthology written, edited & produced by young writers(3rd-9th.) Down the Hatch

Huhn. I got a bonus this past paycheck. Not been told specifically why, but ok!

Having a dead shift is not a bad thing, but it lasts foreeeeevvvvveeeeeer when your brain isn’t really working great.( Not sure why, just an off day.)

WBS reading was great! I love words so much, seeing (& supporting) that spark in kids is important to me. (And look at those littles getting read to by none other than Mychal the Librarian!)

Oh man, I was out In Public with my hair looking like this. The weather had it doing Some Things, none flattering.

GOATS

I just got an ad for tshirts that read “I was normal three telescopes ago.” I need one, but add space & with Hubble, JWST and Roman!

Wanted to stay for Laverne Cox, but mosquitoes were getting me.

Spent 5 minutes wondering why the district 3 councilman smiled and waved at me like he knew me or something (he does not.) I am wearing a Northeast Baltimore Annie Howe tshirt.

Took a walk, listened to the Baltimore Youth Poet laureate, Marcellus Vinson (he was very good.) & the Ibram X. Kendi talk. Going to see goats & WBS present tomorrow before my shift.

You know what else is happening this weekend? GOATS ON THE SLOPE! Wyman Park Dell wymanparkdell.org/events/goats...

What a beautiful day for farmers market and a bookfest!

Got shots on my left since I roll to the right, except it turns out the bruises hurt more when flexed that way so I slept on my bruised left side instead. When I wasn’t on my back. It was a flipfloppy sleep.

So annual review. My current boss has a penchant for always having a “suggestion” for “growth.” To which I responded, oh, let me give you examples of exactly that thing the past yr. And then spotlighted coworkers’ amazing work, cause if you missed me, well, then.

Having an ugly, creaky screen door means that when some dumbass comes to randomly thump your door, you get plenty of warning & get to yell “dingleberry!” at the fleeing kid.

Covid & flu vaxxed.

I have datapoints that suggest that: go to sleep after 2 am, 6-7 hrs straight sleep. Before, wtf 4/5am spontaneous wakeup & then wake grumpy a couple hrs later. I don’t like because it doesn’t fit my normal work schedule.

“Stoop kid’s afraid to leave his stoop!” See you at the Baltimore Book Festival 📚 Reading books from the stoop 🩵

I’ve had several convos with coworkers about teaching myself python & why I won’t shortcut to AI in my process (including my annual review,lol.) What’s interesting is I’m pretty much getting “that makes sense.” AI/LLM does have a place in code assist, when you know what you are doing.