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Update: after a few weeks of dilly-dallying and failing to find intersections between "boss's calendar is clear" and "baby is napping," I finally ripped the bandaid today over Zoom, so he gets three weeks notice instead of two.  As I suspected, the early notice doesn't make much difference because the guys upstairs have frozen hiring on my team and will likely not open a req for someone to take my place, even if it were someone cheaper.  Boss was not at all surprised; we've already had a few conversations where it's been made clear that this job is a dead end for me career-wise and that I'm not feeling any of the job satisfaction that could hypothetically make that opportunity cost worth paying.

Formal email will go out later today; I'll probably have ChatGPT write it.  

Prior times I've quit a job, I've been a little stressed about doing handoff, but my entire last year at this job has been all about trying (and failing) to eliminate myself as a single point of failure by sharing knowledge and making sure that anything I'm working on is in a handoff-able state (not so much because I was imminently planning to leave, at least at first, but more because single points of failure are Bad and because I'm tired of continually doing stuff that I mastered twenty years ago because nobody else has learned how to do it), so I feel like there's nothing extra I could do toward that end in my last two weeks that I haven't already tried at some point during the preceding fifty.  Also, after I did the "frantically document everything" for a full month at my boss's behest the last time I quit this same job (in 2016), I was able to come back in 2022 and see firsthand that nobody had read any of it.  It was infuriating at the time, but now the knowledge that all my efforts here are futile feels strangely freeing.

Looking forward to less futility in the future!  

Finished it, it perked up again a bit at the end.

Though I'm not a huge fan of the over epic reveal in context of vault tec lore. And vault 31 made zero sense to me.

I'm struggling to imagine this getting past season 2. Looks too expensive for what it is. I don't think I'd care about it at all if not for the fallout game connection. And I think if season 2 is just the 4 main people coming to terms with the situation, that's a decent enough place to stop.

Also, I really liked what they did with Maximus (apart from arbitrarily knocking him unconscious at a key moment for a shitty plot-by-misunderstanding setup).

Just look at it as a chance to branch out IMO.  We've been on an Aviation kick lately (the cocktail, not the gin brand) so if violets go extinct ten years from now we'll have already drunk our fill and can move on to the next brightly colored botanical liqueur.

Edit to add: I'm not usually a purist about freshly juicing citrus for cocktails, but for an Aviation I've found it makes a big difference using fresh lemon (Meyer especially works really nice IMO) vs bottled.  The creme de violette really needs the brightness of the lemon to balance it out so it's not JUST shoving a bouquet into your mouth.

My spouse who has played none of the games and knows almost nothing about them liked the first two episodes a lot.

Starting to get to that point where I wonder how many space probes I will be allowed to see start their mission. This one is only ten years from now, so very good odds. Will be heart-breaking the first time they announce one where I have to say, "I probably won't live to see that one".

I grabbed a couple of bottles just as the shortage hit, but I've also found that something called Genepy makes a reasonable substitute when I don't want to pour the best stuff...

Arise!

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/dragonfly/nasas-dragonfly-rotorcraft-mission-to-saturns-moon-titan-confirmed/

NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science instruments.

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With the release of the president’s fiscal year 2025 budget request, Dragonfly is confirmed with a total lifecycle cost of $3.35 billion and a launch date of July 2028. This reflects a cost increase of about two times the proposed cost and a delay of more than two years from when the mission was originally selected in 2019. Following that selection, NASA had to direct the project to replan multiple times due to funding constraints in fiscal years  2020 through 2022. The project incurred additional costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain increases, and the results of an in-depth design iteration. To compensate for the delayed arrival at Titan, NASA also provided additional funding for a heavy-lift launch vehicle to shorten the mission’s cruise phase.

I finished it last night and liked it the whole way through. Very enjoyable TV, improbably faithful to the games.

I'm liking this less as it goes on.

Feels like ep 1 and 2 did everything the show has to offer.

At the moment I don't have faith it's going to pay off on the plot being set up with the head and with vault 31.

I quite like the characters. I especially like how fucked up Maximus is. But so far I don't think they worked out what they want to do with them well enough.

Yes. Demand shot up during the pandemic but production has not increased.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/dining/drinks/chartreuse-shortage.html

In 2020, as the pandemic turned many people into at-home mixologists, sales of Chartreuse in the United States doubled, a pattern that held true worldwide, according to Chartreuse Diffusion. Global sales topped $30 million in 2022.

This rise in popularity directly conflicted with a collective decision that the monks quietly made in 2019 to cap production of their ingredient-intensive spirit in order to limit the environmental impact and to focus on their “primary goal” of solitude and prayer, as explained in a letter released in January.

“There’s only so much Chartreuse you can make without ruining the balance of monastic life,” said the Rev. Michael K. Holleran, a former monk who oversaw Chartreuse production from 1986 to 1990.

Production is currently set at 1.6 million bottles per year — the highest level since the late 1800s, when the Vatican pointedly reminded the Carthusians that they were monks, not businessmen. But the United States is limited to 90 percent of its 2021 volume. Retailers and hospitality professionals say they are feeling the pinch.