Medicated depression, day #199
At the office, 6 colleagues present, which is really nice, among them one new that does his first days at the office, a new hire.
I just got information about compensation, it looks OK, not good but OK, as in I'm behind on some things but all income is welcome at this point.
Later: Colleague came asking for advice regarding data sets to use for mocking and/or AI play, pointed him to several.
I'm almost done for the day, my two hours are soon done. I haven't gotten any tasks or projects, I guess I'll get something on Thursday when I have a meeting with the KC, I suggested some !work-work, old projects that has not worked properly for a while since hard-coded and compiled binary -- thinking that it could be Python code + patterns/regex instead of compiled dotnet code.
There is slight resistance towards other languages than dotnet, "everybody should know it" often means "dotnet code", which is compiled to a binary and deployed with a whole server beneath .. or as a function-app on a cloud. Python can be ran anywhere .. and can be very flexible with rules that are based on XPath/JSON Path and some custom config to scrape data out of an assortment of web sites.
Later: All colleagues left for lunch, I'm packing up to go home. My two hours is done, without doing anything useful at all. Time reported last week, one day vacation and one day "working" part-time, basically just parsing mail.
Later: Came home and the first thing son asks me is if he can get some time on his tablet, sure .. I'm mushy in the head, hang off my bag and kick off my shoes, son has been home alone since I left for work shortly after 08 this morning, I arrived home just before 12, training-wheels of being home alone. His friend didn't answer his phone when son called, that's why he was still home, otherwise he would be at the friends place, just across the yard.
I've kept myself a bit busy, just to not fall asleep. Some light data entry to keep the thinker working, repetitive stuff without too much thinking works, it's when I need to think, like when I do programming that is when the brain turn into mush. Then I can do that for anything between 20 minutes and 90 minutes depending on day, suns height over the sea and if there is three Thursdays in a week .. nah, but it's pretty random how much I can do before going all soggy in the head.
Checked the compensation, a neat tidy little sum lands on my account on the 8th of August, but it is far from what I would have earned normally, this covers the basic stuff. There is another compensation from the insurance company that is supposed to kick in soon as well, don't know how much that is.
Learned that my brother is a the hospital, gallbladder issues, possible operation impending.