Category: Daily Life

Clearly my life needs more scotch.

When I stated that I will be nose down in work today, I was not issuing you a challenge. You can back off a little and allow me to get things done. Thank you.

Well, I’d planned on doing 8 hours of work between 8pm and midnight. I also had 2-4 hours of a personal project to do in that time. And cook dinner. And there were about 3 hours of other things I’m not even listing. But of course, a client site decided to just quit working so instead of doing anything I planned for this evening, I’ve been scratching my head of a very unusual problem. But I think I’ve gotten to the bottom of it. Now to actually fix it.

When time and money have permitted, I’ve been early adopter of technology. I’ve been toying around with the GPT-3 AI (artificial intelligence). Today I’m stepping up into GPT-4 and basically replacing search engines with AI. Instead of defaulting to Google or DuckDuckGo, I’m going straight to GPT-4. I will be using GPT-4 as a tool instead of a toy. My plan is to document the journey when appropriate. For instance, I’ll use it not to write blog entries but to create writing prompts. I’ll use it not to make my meals for me (obviously we aren’t quite there yet) but to help me plan my menus (“I have this that and the other thing in the pantry. Please plan a breakfast lunch and dinner menu for the next 3 days using only the available ingredients. In addition to the menu, create the step by step recipe for each meal. Be sure to adhere to current nutritional recommendation for 4 people of ages ___, __, __, and ___. Each meal should include an entree and at least one side dish.”). I’ll use it not to do my work for me but as a peer programmer to minimize the research needed for my job. For example, the other evening I had an error in one of my side projects. The AI found the error and offered a correction in 30 seconds. On the other hand, I asked the AI for an Excel spreadsheet formula and it completely botched the formula. You still need to have skills and know what your are doing. AI is a tool to assist in your life and work. It will give you a leg up and an advantage over those not adopting it. You do not have to worry about being replaced by AI…yet.

Nothing says “Good morning!” quite like a bare foot and cat vomit.

On today’s episode of “Hot things are hot” we have our special guest cast iron!

Overslept. Why wouldn’t I?

N.b. I can play my audiobook as loud as I like!

Evan within 5 minutes of departing for Barcelona cuts all communication. I’m sure we will hear from him when he needs money.

This week for Cathy and me: Test run of being empty nesters. Look out! The rents are unsupervised!

I’m trying my damnedest to stop talking but the words keep coming out. My goal is to become that old man who grunts once a day and then dies with people wondering what decade they last heard him say something.

Believe it or not, I’m actually making progress on this.

Went to sleep at 1am.

It is 4;15am and i am mostly wide awake. If I simply stay up my day will be productive and far less stressful than this soul crushing day promises to be. Yet I feel the gravity of the bed pulling at me.

My theme this week seems to be “send text messages to the wrong people.” I don’t think any will top the time years and years ago I sent nine photos of panties to my friend’s wife. Of course, I covered with “Which one do you think Cathy will like?”