Thursday, May 16

 Woke up just before 7. Shakshuka for breakfast. My kind of shaksuka: with shiitake mushrooms, and without cayenne pepper.

I thought I’d run some paperwork in the morning before I go to the office. Called Fidelity first, cause the error came from their side. Talked to a girl from support for 30 minutes: she tried to help, but couldn’t. She said let’s try this and let’s try that, and sorry about that, and she went to talk to someone, but not much in the end. Maybe she’s from the South – nice and cheerful. Then I called TIAA. When the guy on the other end said “retirement”, I could sense he was about to retire. He was slow. What was going on with my account he had no idea. Then finally called our HR – they just honestly said they have no idea what to do with my issues and asked me to email them. So I described all that I did, highlighted my problem in separate bullet points, and attached some screenshots. Who’s gonna look into all of that I can’t imagine. Feels like it needs an entire investigation team. So let it start with this email, and let it bounce between different teams for a while. So hard, what if I was a bit of a funky dumb guy? It’d be immensely difficult to sign up for those benefits for a dumb guy.

It was about 10:30 by then, so I thought I’d just stay work from home. B was running meetings all day, so I listened to music again. Discovered this strange track by Shed, what the hell:

Я люблю большие суммы, я иду забрать их

Похуй какой кипишь, я вступлюсь за своих братьев

Я люблю любую суку, что лежит со мной в кровати

Я забуду эту суку если мусор ее батя

wax! · СУММЫ

Это больше похоже на язык улицы чем тот перевод Масловской, который я читаю. Где «мама дорогая» и чего-то там «в одном флаконе». А тут прям Анжей из Польско-русской войны.

 

Meanwhile, turns out Shed playing in Brooklyn all night this Friday. Thinking of spontaneously going. Why not, I just discovered him this week.

My unfinished code for emails was left on the laptop in the office, so I couldn’t continue working on it from home. I should figure out some kind of cloud sync. Or just make the habit of checking in the code by the end of the day. Anyway, I decided to look into the client instead. React Native coding with CoPilot – how hot is that? I tell it to draw me this, and send that request, and kind of makes it with bugs, and then I fix it. Even proposes to structure it in an okay way. Then I watched some videos from Udemy on React Native and figured there were three main pieces: iOS code, Android code, and JS logic between them. And then got stuck in making a text input not look ugly. I would rather ask Ryan about it tomorrow.

I went for a walk in the evening. So easy to just get stuck with a computer and not leave the house, and then get a headache from not moving at all. It was still rainy outside, but warm. Some people dressed in jackets, and some walked in bras. And cloudy, grey, and gloomy. Glad we get these days sometimes, but not too many of them.