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April Distractions
This is a log of some of the distractions that sidetracked me while using the computer this month. I got the idea for a log of distractions from a list of writing prompts from The Paris Review. This is NOT an exhaustive list. I'm profoundly distractible, and probably forgot to add things to the log more than I remembered. I might continue this though, it was oddly a fun time.
La Luna
I am sitting on my wooden fire-escape deck in 2017 looking East watching the sunset shine againt some distant clouds. I am on the third floor of an aging walk up in a neighborhood full of two-flats and single family homes. It is summertime. I feel a warm breeze across my body. I watch the neighbor's maple tree while it sways with the same wind I am feeling. I hear the sound the tree makes as the wind ripples through it. It sounds like a wave breaking against a beach. The neighborhood birds are singing their last songs before the dim of night quiets them. I can hear the distant hum of the nearby expressway behind the noise of rippling leaves and branches. An icecube in my drink cracks.
I look to my right - South now - across the roof of my neighbor's house to watch the other neighborhood trees. There is something on their roof. I can see its silhouette against the swaying trees further down the block. There is a cat on the roof. I recognize the cat. It is my downstairs neighbor's cat Luna. How did she get over there? She must have jumped from the second floor of the deck across the gangway and onto the rooftop.
My downstairs neighbor's screen door opens. I see light through the deck boards beneath me. A woman speaks Spanish. I hear the cat's name being called. I watch the cat stand up and casually walk down the sloping roof to the eave and make a leap towards home.
Learning Jujutsu
I am not learning to fight. I am learning the Jujutsu version control
system! I've used
git almost my entire programming career, and
I've learned to use it well[1]. Over the years I've acquired the
ability to do rebase workflows, stacked branches, fixups, reordering,
staging changes using git add -p, and many other things. I've got a
whole mess of git command aliases I'm hoarding like some kind of
Tolkien dragon. I've learned the magic spells but still aren't a
master of them. Even armed with this secret arcane knowledge, git is
still a very confounding and difficult tool to use.
JJ - the abbreviated name of Jujutsu - immediately solves many of the problems I encounter when using git. JJ has a markedly different set of ideas compared to git. Unfrtunately that means my git knowledge doesn't fully transfer, but I think that is alright. JJ actually makes a lot of that knowledge no longer needed. It is a much simpler tool to use and understand and I think that is really exciting.
Audio Bookin'
I'm listening to audio books now! It's alright!
Today I am 36
I turned 36 and lit a campfire
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