Caelyn McAulay @math_foo@witches.town

I really miss spaces between words when dealing with Japanese.

I was in a seafood speciality store and there were all these little things that kept making me think about growing up on PEI. I haven't been there in almost 20 years and, for awhile, I found myself missing it.

@HeckMouse I am so glad it cheered you up. ☺

@Pirate Quel beau chien! Il ressemble mon vieux chien Jason.

@edensaesthetic I spent over a year including a gif of an otter in every single pull request I wrote at work.

But I have decided to mix it up and have moved on to fruit bats.

In the women's washroom at work there are little wicker baskets in cubbies for each of us, presumably for make up and feminine hygiene products. I put a little sign on one saying: 'Reserved for <trans co-worker's new name>', in hopes she will feel welcome next week when she comes in for the first time.

Trans co-worker came out publicly at work today. People were cool about it as far as I could see. Hopefully, everyone stays cool.

@bonhomme I don't know.

I have a tendency to be oblivious about social situations happening around me. I know many of the salespeople are very 'bro'. And the dev team is overwhelming white and male.

Things have been mostly good for me there. But after getting burned a few times at previous companies, I don't trust easily.

@Skiant My favourite track from 2016 is Cherry Milkshake by the Ocean.

My only regret about not living in SF is that the occasions that I can make it to Bootie at the DNA lounge are few and far between.

My HR director is leaving the startup I work at for the startup my partner works at. I am concerned.

If she is leaving for more $$ and a fancier title, that's fine; but if she is leaving because things are dysfunctional and she wants to not be in charge of HR when it goes down, then that's not fine.

My friend has this wonderful phrase to describe that thing in programming where someone adds a Boolean argument to a method that then causes the method to do two dramatically different things. He calls the perpatrators 'bool ninjas'.

I am in the middle of detangling a neglected bit of code where the bool ninjas were allowed free rein.

Finally, I got the bunny out the corner, and scurrying for the burrow. Where, at the last moment it turned right, ran across a wide open space into the safety of .... my garage.

I have the door to the outside propped open and the door to the house sealed. In case the bunny gets anymore bright ideas about where it will be safe.

So again we played the game of 'I am not a bunny, I am a bunny shaped rock', until I picked up again to carry it back to the burrow the other two bunnies had fled to. Again, it screamed at me, again it ran away. This time into a small alley way between my house and that of my neighbours. Where it was trapped.

Where did the bunny go? To try to hide behind a tree in my neighbour's yard, where I could see it, for the rest of the time I was mowing. After putting mower away, I came back to make sure it had found a real hiding place. It hadn't.

Today, I met the stupidest bunny. I was mowing my overgrown lawn when three bunnies scattered in front of me. I turned the mower off to make sure they were all out the way. One bunny had decided to hide from me. Under the mower. And tried to pretend to not exist when nudged. I had to pick it up to move it. It then screamed and ran away.

Witches! I have come home from a successful day in the bit mines to find my apple tree has borne fruit for the first time! https://witches.town/media/xVAT0wfx9ksmTz8GSFg

Talk with my CTO about improving our parental leave policy went well. They are actively figuring out how much they can afford, so I am reasonably optimistic that there will be an actual improvement.