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The kiddo is over at the grand parents this weekend, so I got that house clean which is pretty exciting.

It's beginning to look like Anthropic's recent interpretability research didn't just uncover a "golden gate feature" in their production model, but some kind of "sensations related to the golden gate" feature.

I'm excited to see what more generative exploration of the model variation with that feature vector maximized ends up showing.

I have a suspicion that it's the kind of thing that's going to blow minds as it becomes clearer.

Electromagnetic field (festival/hacker camp) next weekend!

I'm a teacher. I'm looking forward to summer vacation starting June 29th where I get to have 66 days off to be with my 3 kids. They're now at a really fun age and I can't wait

Sleeping tonight and napping tomorrow.

Bcachefs, it's the filesystem of the future now.

Going to Australia in a week, get immersed in their culture for two weeks, and getting to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef during my time there! All with my wife and 10 yo son. It’s going to be so great!

Taking my car to the track for the first time. My son is going to track it with me, should be a blast!

Getting the rear brakes and track oil (based on what Chevy recommends for track use) next week and then I'll schedule it!

nothing. literally nothing.

By Q1 2025, I should have a full implant-supported denture, replacing my top teeth. I've had a partial for almost a year now, as I fussed around, trying to decide how to proceed. I'll be very glad to be done with this phase.

Then we'll deal with the bottom ones...

Je peux parler français (encore)

I can speak french (again)

I feel bad it's so materialistic but I'm stoked that the new model of the Dirtywave M8 music tracker is shipping this week or next. In the past couple years that single device has improved my music output immensely, and the user community on its Discord is ridiculously friendly and helpful.

The new model isn't a radical update, but the new quality of life features plus the confidence that I will use it constantly really has me excited to continue my journey. For me it's like a toy that's always fun to play with, surprisingly deep, and after I play for a while I've accidentally created something. It's cut down on my doom scrolling and social media consumption as well. For me, that's money well spent.

I went clothes shopping in the US today and the Memorial Day sales and coupons meant I really cleaned up. I am looking through my piles of clothes and shoes like a rapper rolling around on a bed of cash or something.

Found out yesterday that a manager that hates me is extremely demoralized, currently job hunting, and already tried to quit.

Earlier this month, I found out that a different manager, who in the past tried to get me fired, themselves tried to resign at the beginning of the year. That manager's contract is up in August and their department is failing on just about every metric imaginable so, they're likely going to quit or be asked to resign at that point.

Finally, a coworker who was working with that second manager to try and get me fired was themselves fired by corporate for a multitude of reasons. These reasons include but are not limited to: credible accusations of drunk driving company vehicles, harassing and bullying others, offering cocaine to both coworkers and clients, and allegedly attempting to extort someone else out of their job... which is a felony (we're currently encouraging their victim to go to authorities, but it involves leaked nudes and they are understandably embarrassed about the whole thing... which is their decision, no one can force them). This fired coworker once told a whole room of people "well if [TrueStoryBob] and I both walk into the GM's office, who do you think is gonna walk out with a job." Well, we can now definitively say it was them who would walk out of that office unemployed. They had to be forced off company property; like physically escorted onto the sidewalk by the GM and the Business Manager.

All of this has legitimately put a pep in my step. Overall, I like my job, however I was already putting my CV out there just in case. Now, I can stop the job search and not worry about potentially having to move as I also like where I live. By the way, my manager is an absolute dream who's been watching these other two departments burn to the ground with unadulterated glee as both of these managers walk ass backwards into their own demise.

Project Hail Mary the movie. It's going to be fun.

Also whatever the new Bobbyverse book is called.

Plenty new tech I'm curious about seeing evolving; self-driving cars, EVs, articifical-intelligence, VR/AR .. Advances in medicine overall but especially due to Crispr. My new job as a self-employed contractor is both exciting and also stressful. It's the start of the summer here which is also exciting to me.

Monday is a holiday in the US, and I am going to make one of my fav dips for it.....I am gonna eat so much fucking dip. I can't wait lol. Its the small things, ya know?

The DnD Campaign I lead has a midboss next week, and I am very excited for it

Selling my current motorcycle, getting a new one, and finally getting to go and see some places I've wanted to ride through for years

I've been working every day since January. Every weekday, every weekend day, every day. But finally on June 15th I'll be down to one remote job and can go sailing for a few weeks straight. I've finally sort of got my finances in reasonable shape, I've paid off my car, and have a little breathing room.