Had very stormy and windy weather today, which caused a brief power fluctuation that restarted my Pi and brought my Gemini server down again. Coincidentally, just like when this happened a couple weeks ago, I was planning on writing another gemlog entry today.
Completed week one of my new job, which was mostly watching lots and lots of training videos. Tomorrow I should get to start diving into the code I'll be working on (we had today off for Veterans' Day -- federal holidays off is another perk of the new job). Impression so far is that this job might be more relaxed and less stressful than my previous one, which would be great.
In my free time, I've made some decent progress on my strategy game. On my previous try with this game that got relatively close to completion, I had leaned a little too hard into the rapid prototyping approach, and just when I was nearly at the point where all functionality was complete, the slapdash design caught up to me and I got submerged in a morass of ugly debugging. This time I'm going for the opposite approach, overengineering and writing lots of tests for everything. There's still lots left to implement, but it's going well so far.
The weather is finally starting to get cold and wintry. Once everything is buried under so much snow as to be inaccessible, it will be no more nature walks for a few months. Such is the price one pays for living in what is otherwise a pretty idyllic area -- long and harsh winters. I'll have to find other ways to get exercise so I don't turn into a slug.
Well, tomorrow I start on my *real* job and discover if it's as relaxed as I'm hoping. And here's hoping I continue making good progress on my strategy game. For now, goodnight.