Covid-19 Days – 65

broderic on May 17, 2020

I’ve not done ribs very well. I try and try, but they never turn out right. Usually, my impatience forces me to find ways of cooking ribs quick but still getting them juicy, and that doesn’t always make for best ribs. In fact, I’ve failed most of the time.

Today, since I have lots of time on my hands with social distancing, stay-at-home, I’m gonna make ribs for dinner. I started last night with prepping the rib. Just dry it out and just season with salt and pepper. I leave it in the fridge overnight. This morning after drying out more, I put my rub on, then let it sit again for a couple more hours. Afterwards, it goes into the oven at 300 F for an hour and a half. I’m going to then paint a nice lacquer of BBQ sauce for the next hour and a half. That’s coming up. I hope in 3 hours at 300 it comes out nice…

Covid-19 Days – 64

broderic on May 16, 2020

It’s going to be hard to keep people home on a beautiful day like today. When it starts getting more and more spring or summer-like then we’ll see how well self-isolation can work.

Also, went to a friend’s graduation from college. It was virtual. We just really watched YouTube videos. I remember when I graduated from university. We stayed up all night drinking and smoking. I got about an hour of sleep before waking up and getting to the first of two ceremonies. I walked for the second one. I feel for my buddy missing out on these fun things. His parents watched in a Zoom window. I guess this is how things will be for a while now. Sad.

Covid-19 Days – 63

broderic on May 15, 2020

Let’s get to it early on this off Friday.

I don’t want to turn on the work computer. I don’t want to do some work. We always are in a state of flux. It is what we want to do. I sometimes wonder if I am the only one who sees that the light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive. The way we’ve built our system is just a bad update from making everything not work, and it seems that they, the bosses, like to make it such.

Doctors believe in “do no harm” as their primary principle. I like to think that it should be the same for companies with legacy code. IniTech doesn’t seem to be. I think that we’ve lost our founding principles in software engineering when we thought we could do agile. In our minds, agile was the “anti” of what we were doing before. It stripped away all ideas of making things better using smart engineering and instead cast us back to the “big ball of mud” days.

Our software culture has really regressed. I am only along for the ride. I am part of the problem.

Covid-19 Days – 62

broderic on May 14, 2020

A little bit more. Just little bit more.

They’ve opened up a bit. I wonder if I will have to go in to work. Maybe we can make it half weeks. I’m too used to this now. I thought I couldn’t, but now I like it.

Covid-19 Days – 61

broderic on May 13, 2020

Over at Vox, they put it succinctly, “We Don’t Have a President, or a Plan.” They ain’t kidding brother.

More than 60 days after President Trump declared a national emergency over the novel coronavirus, there is still no clear national plan for what comes next.

Do you know what comes next? How will we know when it is safe to return? Can we be so sure that the rona doesn’t come back?

Questions smarter people than me may have answers to, but we don’t hear from them. Instead, it’s a steady drumbeat of dumbness coming from Donald Trump. He’s just wanting all the glory without any of the work. He’s failing and he’s going to be allowed to fail for another four fucking years. So fucking depressing.

Covid-19 Days – 60

broderic on May 12, 2020

That’s a nice round number. And just like that it feels like we’ve been in much longer. I’ve been trying to get my step streak to that day and beyond, but circumstances get in the way. This is one hella of a streak!

Slowly been cleaning out my office. I threw some stuff away. And yet there’s stuff I know I don’t need, but still find some pleasure in holding onto. It sparks joy, but really it’s just junk. If only they were taking donations.