Well, what DID you get done last week?

[jon-nyc]

• Ran a successful education day in Phoenix, ~100 attendees.

• Got majority board support for a big project we’re embarking upon focused on disease detection (a real problem for us with ~90% undiagnosed). Probably will get unanimity in another meeting Wednesday for those who couldn’t attend last week.

• Took a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon. (Fuck Elon, I’m retired).

• Visited Phoenix and Flagstaff for the first time (see previous point)

• sent in an I-134 to sponsor Mayla’s parents for a visa (just to be able to come visit, not a chain migration thing). My lawyer gives it a ~50% chance of approval.

[Mik]

Tell me more about your project. It clearly involves genetic testing.

[NobodySock]

Come on Jon, we know you just played 5 rounds of golf last week, you don't have to gaslight us!

[NobodySock]

Just came out of a staff meeting and my supervisor informed us to reply as requested before the clock strikes midnight tonight, Eastern time of course. All times are Eastern when dealing with federal government.

[NobodySock]

one wonders how many federal employees it will take to decipher 2 million plus emails of tasks performed.

[Axtremus]

Is that a .gov email address you are expected to reply to?

I think it will be AI scanning the responses rather than humans reading them.

[NobodySock]

it's an OPM email address called HQ@opm.gov Please feel free to use this and correspond with Musk the younger.

[Copper]

1. Golf
2. Golf
3. No Golf (snow)
4. No Golf (shovel snow)
5. No Golf (snow on the course)

[Mik]

1. Coffee
2. More coffee
3. Breakfast (egg sandwich with country ham - yum) for both of us
4. Analysis for PI meeting
5. Fixed strikeplate problem on back door

[AndyD]

I also fixed a door and its strikeplate problem for a daughter in London.
What could have been a straightforward 5 minute job as usual blossomed:

Sliding door is for an outside cupboard(!) but under cover behind parking spaces.
There are five, one for each flat, only one original door working, one changed with hinges and hasp padlock;
anyway daughter had found a workman changing clothes inside her cupboard so...

Vintage clawbolt lock from 1973, keys lost by previous owners. I bought an exact 3 lever replacement for £50, nevertheless happy day.

Cleaned the wheels and runner with wd40. Smooth.
Fitted new expanding clawbolt lock easily.

And then what I'd expected,
a pretty stunning misalignment due to the frame having been bumped by a car.
"Got any tools?"

Had to chisel out (blunt vintage & using an antique club hammer) the wooden frame to fit strike plate half an inch higher; file (mini craft set) the inner rectangular hole of the strike plate to widen the tolerance for the expanding lock; and saw (junior hacksaw) the old metal strike plate and use the two parts to raise the new brass one from the frame.

Two and a half hours of expert improvisations (faffing about )

[Copper]

@Mik said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

5. Fixed strikeplate problem on back door

@AndyD said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

I also fixed a door and its strikeplate problem for a daughter in London.

I fixed a 2 doors and strike plate too

It must be the dry weather

[Jolly]

1. I rewired a ceiling fan light switch.
2. Split some firewood.
3. Stayed one night in the hospital with my FIL.
4. Shot a polecat.
5. Worked 24 hours at my PRN job.
6. Worked on the Kubota.
7. Cleaned in the shop and chunked some junk.
8. Made it to Greek class Wednesday night.
9. Delivered Girl Scout cookies
10. Hauled some logs out of the side yard with the tractor.

Things I need to do:

1. Replace the bearings in my hipper discs.
2. Weld a bracket on my rolling cultivators.
3. Stain and finish two shelving units.
4. Turn over the raised beds.
5. Plant two more mayhaws, at least one more apple and a plum.
6. Build a grape trellis.
7. Rebuild part of the backyard picket fence.

After it warms up a bit, I need to ...

1. Replace some fascia board on the back of the house.
2. Paint the trimwork.
3. Replace and adjust the belts on my tiller.
4. Clean out the boat.
5. Fix a hole in the roof of the tractor shed.
6. Change the fluids and filters on the tractor.
7. Paint the back bathroom.
8. Put a new scope on my best .22 rifle and sight it in.

Give me a few mnutes and I'll think of another twenty things. Retirement is about to kill me...

[Doctor Phibes]

I sent and received a lot of emails. I should work for the government.

[Axtremus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/24/musk-email-government-confusion/

Trump administration tells agencies they can ignore Musk order on email reply

The Office of Personnel Management told HR officials that employees wouldn’t be let go for not replying to an email asking what they did last week.

Today at 3:53 p.m. ET

[Horace]

Well, that was a face plant.

[LuFins Dad]

1. Assembled Legos with Finley

2. Played Dino Ranchers with Finley

3. Worked with Lucas on his Graduate Studies plan.
   3a) Sent tuition payment
   3b) Made interest payment on his loans

4. Date night with Karla

5. Started setting up Karla’s painting room (Lucas is moving to the en-suite downstairs, Finley is moving into Lucas’ old room, Finley’s room is becoming Karla’s painting studio).

Should I talk about work?

[Aqua Letifer]

1. Went record hunting with the family around Fells Point. Got some great stuff.
2. Taught kiddo how to work a record. (She did all the steps this time around.)
3. Got Mexican with a family who had the kiddo over for her first sleepover. Success. But our friends were worn out. (Our daughter has no setting between "off" and "high." None.)
4. Read Hiawatha and a couple Iain McGilchrist articles.
5. Spoke to my folks on FaceTime so they could say hi to the grandkid.
6. Wrote a poem in dróttkvætt. Did a couple blackout ones just for fun.
7. Did some birding out by a nearby nature sanctuary.
8. Hosted another writing seminar.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in [Well, what DID you get done last week?](Our daughter has no setting between "off" and "high." None.)

I will confirm this assessment, but she is still wonderful. And I mean that literally. The girl is full of wonder.

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in [Well, what DID you get done last week?](Our daughter has no setting between "off" and "high." None.)

I will confirm this assessment, but she is still wonderful. And I mean that literally. The girl is full of wonder.

Thanks, man, that's very kind of you to say!

We really lucked out in a lot of ways. She's the kind of kid that just makes people smile. Which, thank God for that.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

@LuFins-Dad said in Well, what DID you get done last week?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in [Well, what DID you get done last week?](Our daughter has no setting between "off" and "high." None.)

I will confirm this assessment, but she is still wonderful. And I mean that literally. The girl is full of wonder.

Thanks, man, that's very kind of you to say!

We really lucked out in a lot of ways. She's the kind of kid that just makes people smile. Which, thank God for that.

There’s nature and nurture in that. She’s a wonderful girl, and her parents have helped nurture that…