The Daily Parker

Politics, Weather, Photography, and the Dog

Wait, it's still 2015 somewhere?

Sorry, Hawai'i. Your UTC-10 is a full day behind Kiritimati, where it's already coming up on Saturday. But happy new year regardless!

And to the few sailors and submariners hanging out in UTC-11, happy new year to you, too, in an hour or so.

Things I can waste time with today

Since my company is closed today, and I have no obligations until late this afternoon, I'm taking my time fixing a bug and deploying a software package. So I actually have the bandwidth to read these articles right now, as opposed to "someday:"

I do have to fix this bug, though. Better get back to it now.

Missed a memo

I have actual work to do today, so I came into the office. Since the work involves finishing a bug fix and pushing it out to a server, I really could have done this from home. But hey, it's the last day the office is open this year, so...

...everyone else stayed home.

I predict a short day.

Still not walking enough

I'm having my worst week ever since getting a Fitbit: only 65,000 steps from last Tuesday through yesterday. Christmas, traveling, and yesterday's horrible weather have really hobbled my step count.

So far today I'm at 4,200 steps, and I have some errands to run this afternoon that will help. But wow, five days below 10,000? Scandal. Even Parker is bored.

 

Hardware and software debugging

I'm working from home today because I had a cable guy here for two hours, and because winter has finally arrived. The rain and sleet is also a problem because my Fitbit numbers have been off for four straight days.

I did get a lot of sleep this past weekend—but that also could be a factor today, according to new research into weekend lie-ins. (tl;dr: sleeping in on Sunday makes it harder to wake up on Monday.)

I'll have more later today. Now I have to figure out how to get a custom Microsoft Dynamics instance to play well with my company's software. That will be just as fun as it sounds.

Travel and Fitbit

It turns out, my Fitbit doesn't make me sad, but the numbers I get when traveling sometimes do. Despite a 3.5 km walk around Springfield yesterday, it was the second day in a row and the 4th in 10 days for which I missed my 10,000-step, 10 km goal.

On the other hand, last night I got almost 9 hours of sleep (according to my Fitbit), through several trains and a thunderstorm.

Yes, there was a thunderstorm in December in central Illinois. That's just weird. And in future, probably a lot more common.