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Fold this five ways and put it there, Indeed:

If an employer asserts its right to sentence workers to economic capital punishment for any reason other than grave misconduct, do you think the employer deserves loyalty and respect in return?

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Got the truck loaded and made three runs to the transfer station, two of them with Peter, who had a full load of “trash” even before recycling and their garbage.

Cleaned up the stellas in the oval and clipped some lemon thyme to dry.

Made waffles this morning in a vain attempt to cheer Ron up.

Peter is hurting, but announced that he has a new gig. Fingers crossed, multiple times. Happy for him.

More algorithmic exercises.

Did a produce shop at S&S. Big salads and pretzels for lunch.

I’m not sure they were even on sale at Roche, since it’s a holiday weekend.

In any event, looks like another tight month. Glad I didn’t go.

We had lunch at Subway just for an excuse to get out of the house. I got a salad, big enough for almost two meals. Quite delicious. Ron got a big veg sub.

I also stopped at the library for a book on hold and picked up Halloween candy and tissues on sale at CVS.

From Scott Hannen:

For example, suppose one class depends on ISomething, but the implementation of ISomething is a class that has three more dependencies. And some of those dependencies have dependencies, and so on. The result is that each individual class is simpler in isolation (exactly what we want) but creating an instance of a class is now more complex. A constructor call might look something like this:
IHouse house = new FloorPlan23House( new ElectricalSystem( new GeModel3000WiringPanel(), new SolarPowerSource(new acmeSolarPanelArray(New Sun()), new MassiveBattery())), new Kitchen(new MarbleCounterTop(new HomeDepotSink()....
This could become incomprehensible if you’re working with a large number of classes.

Yes! Exactly! The labyrinthine codebase from Chestertown, in a nutshell, or should I say, nuthouse.

Well, F* me.

It’s been raining, which I hope is good for the trees that I transplanted (Kousa and Japanese Maple). Hope they don’t “drown”.

Refund from Vanity Fair renewal cancellation finally cleared PayPal, should be in our account tomorrow.

Ron paid the final bill from Credo, around $36. Much lower than I was expecting; thank goodness.

Ron chopped down a bunch of Russian olive trees yesterday and didn’t realize how big a project it was going to be.

I did some pruning yesterday. Raining now.

Very hard to get myself motivated to study for MSFT exam. I’ve become so accustomed to the insanity of current events, I’ve lost the hunger for logic and order.

Ron bought a couple of dry soup mix packages, so we’re making vegetable broth: carrots, celery; green onions, tomatoes and herbs from the gardens. If my broth isn’t good, it’ll at least be better than plain water, and I can always supplement with one of the broth packages on hand.

We – finally – figured out the right way to hang the shower door.

I’m not sure what the conflict did to our partnership.

I spoke for about 6-7 minutes at the BOS meeting last evening. Was pretty wound up afterwards, so didn’t stay for the rest. Sent them this:

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak last evening.

I greatly appreciate your hearing my comments, particularly since you had a full and substantive agenda.

We are fortunate to have such a responsive, dedicated Board of Selectmen. The time and energy that you willingly give are deeply appreciated.

Applied for a job yesterday, did an online 27 question quiz about ASP.NET this morning.

Found the Rockwell manual that Ron’s been looking for, thus saving him $20.

Just took a personality assessment for a job in Boston. What hogwash.

Attended the Master Gardeners Autumn Forum at the Harwich Community Center yesterday.

The workshops were pretty good, but the keynote was weird: titled “Gardening in Small Spaces”, it featured the properties of the veddy veddy rich or at least the veddy veddy comfortably well off. Belmont, for example, where I saw a listing today in the high $500’s for a tear-down.

Did laundry today, changed sheets. Ron and I had a fight about the shower door. Of course.

Getting back to studying and practicing.

In the law, this pertains to a doctrine known as Standard of Review. Just to cut through the legalese, a standard of review is a statement by the law of which person bears the burden of proof, and how much proof, or what degree their evidence must raise, before they are deemed to have met that burden.

And I mention that doctrine because, as Ta-Nehisi Coates once pointed out, the most common form of bigotry isn’t overt or simplistic hatred. It’s varying the standard of review to whatever standard is required for me to disconfirm the uncomfortable truth you just uttered.

Jezebel

I’ve spent some time cleaning out over 1700 unread emails. Down to a relative handful until the backlog builds up again.

Mowed the front and back today. We did laundry.

Ron is working on the shower stall: again. He gave up.

Comfort food for supper: Beyond Burgers and pasta with homemade sauce.

Peter’s having a bad week. Had the broken tooth pulled today, but is still not feeling well. Not good, not at all.