Medicated depression, day #201
I'm just out of a meeting with KC, we have agreed upon a small project for me to work on as a soft re-introduction to work and routines and it's completely internal at the company, but useful.
I got a short itinerary for the day, contact colleagues who may have worked on it last, check access to old repository, get latest code, do analysis and write a short report of my findings and suggestions. All that until Monday, when our next meeting is.
For some reason there is a document missing, I thought I had sent KC the latest doctors note, I'm even pretty sure I did, but KC could not find the document .. so I'm gonna fetch it again, save it to my document storage and forward KC a copy, again, just to be sure KC got it and can add it to my documentation file.
We talked about how my sick leave had been, what I've done, my private projects I've been working on to keep my head screwed on and to exercise my thinker .. to slowly push the brain mushyness limit upward and forward.
The little project I'm about to start working on require some forward thinking in regards of technology change, today it is a binary blob with everything needed to run it compiled it, not very maintenance-friendly and if anything change around it, it would break as the code within it is very happy-flow oriented, with zero-error handling and much sun-shine code. My idea is to rewrite it in a script language, put all the soft parameters in a configuration file and define a set of scrape and parsing rules .. or rather directives, along with solid error-handling. Then it could be fault-tolerant and easy-peasy to maintain, anything changes and it keeps rolling, just adjust the config and it will react to changes in next incarnation.
Now I gotta start untangling this and write the report, I still only got 2 hours a day to work on this, it will keep me busy. If I'd feel that I could not work on it or that there is blockers, I should notify, report it to KC daily.
Later: Arrived home, was thinking about the conversation with KC, how the interpretation of my bad sleep this night and previous crying while sleeping and dreaming something could be triggered by the fact that I had a meeting planned and I got stress onset unconsciously from that, even though my conscious knows full well what is expected and there is no need to wind up for that.
I got a bit stuck at the office with the analysis of the little project, I talked a bit with colleagues who last touched the project, March of 2023 as the latest, they barely remembered details about it but could fill in some blank spaces .. Summarized my suggestions for one of them and got thumbs-up.
My brother is back home, four scars on his belly as they removed his gall bladder on Tuesday, just over a full day in the hospital, feels much better and already healing.
Son got accepted to the dermatology clinic for testing within the next couple of weeks, as they would like to look at the spot in his face that have had us worried, we looked back at pictures all the way back to 2019, when it was really small, like 1mm in diameter, now it is 5-6mm in diameter and had become thicker -- might be benign but we need to have it checked.