Mildly Parboiled

Allergy season is finally fading (at least for me), but today was the first time I had to turn on the AC in the office, and it was great to realize that despite the recent Wi-Fi changes and almost four years of potential HomeKit foibles, my ESP32 hack is still working perfectly. Those minor joys aside, I’ve been actively trying to get out of the house to do some exercise at least one hour a day and it is clearly not going to happen at lunchtime anymore–well, not every day, at least, so I’m starting to get cabin fever. All of this to say that I’m feeling as if I am starting down the slippery slope to both physical and mental burnout again, and this time I’m backing off as early as possible. For starters, I am currently profoundly annoyed at my current working arrangements, since my days of wall-to-wall meetings with completely random 15 minute breaks are both utterly destroying my health and eroding my ability to focus. Sometimes, and despite being remote for many, many years, I would…