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Another snowy winter night
Jan. 29th, 2022 08:33 pmLess good things that happened this week:
Discovered that I cannot log in to my benefits account at work, called, and was told that for some reason one had not been made for me and I would hear back in a few days. I called back again on Friday when I had not yet heard back, and they confirmed that I still did not have an account and said that someone would look into what was happening and call me in a few days. I am supposed to select my health insurance by the second, so this is making me nervous :x
I went to donate blood on Thursday, and it started off poorly because my first hemoglobin stick was too low - a first for me. I was wondering if that was because I had donated relatively recently (I usually wait longer between blood drives), but the nurse offered to try another finger and noted that my hands were really cold. After we warmed them up a bit, I had a much better reading. And then this all turned out to be moot anyway because the phlebotomist had trouble with the initial stick, and someone else came and messed around with it, and while the blood started flowing, my body did the thing that it's been evolved to do and clotted it. At least I got to eat snacks anyway and didn't have any lightheadedness. Sorry, blood bank, I tried to help.
I have been fighting with RStudio to get the Torch package to understand that I have CUDA installed and should thus be able to train neural networks on my GPU (PyTorch recognizes it! Why is this so hard??) but I might give up on that entirely because...
Better things that happened this week:
...it was discovered that nobody had actually put through the order for my work laptop, and one is supposed to be shipping out on Monday :) Which means that I can fight with RSTudio on that machine instead, and more importantly, that I can use our VPN and access things more easily.
Z and I made chocolates with orange zest. We were trying to make them in shapes, which didn't really work out, but they were delicious anyway.
My ILL request came through very quickly - I'm waiting for better weather to go and pick it up.
I released a small Creatures mod! CAOS is just fun to code in.
Discovered that I cannot log in to my benefits account at work, called, and was told that for some reason one had not been made for me and I would hear back in a few days. I called back again on Friday when I had not yet heard back, and they confirmed that I still did not have an account and said that someone would look into what was happening and call me in a few days. I am supposed to select my health insurance by the second, so this is making me nervous :x
I went to donate blood on Thursday, and it started off poorly because my first hemoglobin stick was too low - a first for me. I was wondering if that was because I had donated relatively recently (I usually wait longer between blood drives), but the nurse offered to try another finger and noted that my hands were really cold. After we warmed them up a bit, I had a much better reading. And then this all turned out to be moot anyway because the phlebotomist had trouble with the initial stick, and someone else came and messed around with it, and while the blood started flowing, my body did the thing that it's been evolved to do and clotted it. At least I got to eat snacks anyway and didn't have any lightheadedness. Sorry, blood bank, I tried to help.
I have been fighting with RStudio to get the Torch package to understand that I have CUDA installed and should thus be able to train neural networks on my GPU (PyTorch recognizes it! Why is this so hard??) but I might give up on that entirely because...
Better things that happened this week:
...it was discovered that nobody had actually put through the order for my work laptop, and one is supposed to be shipping out on Monday :) Which means that I can fight with RSTudio on that machine instead, and more importantly, that I can use our VPN and access things more easily.
Z and I made chocolates with orange zest. We were trying to make them in shapes, which didn't really work out, but they were delicious anyway.
My ILL request came through very quickly - I'm waiting for better weather to go and pick it up.
I released a small Creatures mod! CAOS is just fun to code in.
