26 oct 2025
Funemployment week 2 …go!
I feel like, around Tuesday or Wednesday of this week, I was finally de-stressed/relaxed enough (not that $JOB[-1] was particularly stressful…) that I could kinda start to think about making putting my head down and doing some work on a side-project — just in time for it to be time for me to go back to work…
19 oct 2025
Funemployment, week 1… go! (In retrospect, I think we’re gonna chalk this week up as “rest and recovery”; I had some grand plans but I also apparently had a need to sleep in pretty much every day…)
12 oct 2025
Sometimes, when you leave a gig, your last week is a hectic mess of trying to hand things off, convey important information, and make sure your transition goes as smoothly as you can arrange. And then there’s times when you realize the two weeks notice you gave was maybe 6 or 7 days too many…
5 oct 2025
This was a really weird week. Monday, I gave my two week notice at my current HHMI/Fred Hutch/Bedford Lab/nextstrain.org gig. Wednesday morning, we woke up to a kitchen with water all over the floor and a failed fridge. Then on Thursday, while trying to sear a roast, the (a?) heating element in the oven started arcing — turning the oven off and back on fixed that, but the oven wouldn’t go past 395°F afterwards.
We ordered a new fridge from Costco, and it was delivered on Saturday. The stove is still under (extended) warranty, so there’s a repair person coming next week. It’ll all be fine — but it was an oddly stressful week!
28 sep 2025
I went and looked and I’ve actually been doing these for, like, 13 months, not just over a year — not sure how that all adds up, but the [first one of these][] was way back at the end of August, 2024. I guess I’ll keep it up for a while longer…