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My brain hurts
May. 18th, 2022 12:03I just got off the computer with a grad student out of University of Chicago. We were working on a Prolific study verifying a system he was working up to eventually sell. The system does the specific job of aiding in troubleshooting home automation. It basically helps walk people through the If/Then morass that is required to make all this junk work together. So I had to work through for the recording how to have the lights turn on in this simulated room only when I wanted them on (dark and when I'm in the room) and turn off when I want them off (daytime and when I'm gone for five minutes). It was fun but hazardously close to programming logic and those synapses are fat and lazy now days.
I've got another appointment with him on Thursday for another session figuring out how to get the lights to do what we want. It's fun and they pay me.
Plus I had breakfast with the three business people who had, I thought, closed the gates on the graveyard that was our bright shiny pool cleaning business last month. The whole thing came up again and now we're having a two hour meeting next week to see what we can see. I think I can leverage some sweat equity for some of my investment which is fine with me. If we can figure out the employee part of the business (you know, the people who will actually do the cleaning) we'll likely do it. More fat, lazy synapses back to work.
And between the two things above I swung by Dana's dentist where they gave me a check for the difference between what they estimated, for which I prepaid, and the final invoice (which I've never seen). It took me beating them about the head and shoulders but I've got the money deposited. Now I just need to decide whether the S&P is at the bottom.
Busy day and it's just noon.
I've got another appointment with him on Thursday for another session figuring out how to get the lights to do what we want. It's fun and they pay me.
Plus I had breakfast with the three business people who had, I thought, closed the gates on the graveyard that was our bright shiny pool cleaning business last month. The whole thing came up again and now we're having a two hour meeting next week to see what we can see. I think I can leverage some sweat equity for some of my investment which is fine with me. If we can figure out the employee part of the business (you know, the people who will actually do the cleaning) we'll likely do it. More fat, lazy synapses back to work.
And between the two things above I swung by Dana's dentist where they gave me a check for the difference between what they estimated, for which I prepaid, and the final invoice (which I've never seen). It took me beating them about the head and shoulders but I've got the money deposited. Now I just need to decide whether the S&P is at the bottom.
Busy day and it's just noon.