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Notes -
Family tinkering again. Visited two new Kindergärten closer to home and work. The first was in town near work, seemed alright but had no space. The other was in a village close to home, no bus connection there (though there will supposedly be one later this year), the people there seemed very motivated. Either one would be an improvement for me, but would also take the responsibility for getting the kid to Kindergarten from my wife (i.e., actually her mother, who can drive a car) to me. Which is good because that means no more daily vacillations about whether to go and whether grandma is willing to help and whether mom is fit enough to leave the house, so we can have an actual routine. It's also good because then the kid needn't spend the week with two depressive failed housewives. Sucks for my wife though, since that removes her from her childhood home and garden, and puts her in a place where, without a driver's license, she can't really do anything on her own. Then again, her mother's house will be sold this winter anyways, so the status quo isn't tenable in the long run either way. Also kinda sucks for my work, since I'll have to bisect my day for picking up the kid. OTOH I managed to rope my parents and our new neighbors into various kindergarten logistics schemes, so it may all be more easy and more social than expected. Wife still hopes we'll discover an affordable apartment directly adjacent to either kindergarten, but I doubt it and I am also, to be quite frank, not very motivated to move just so she can continue to refuse getting her driver's license. Not that I expect that to change.
Other than that I've poured most of my creative energy into work, exploring the wonderful world of Spring Batch backend development. It haunts me. It follows me into evenings and weekends. Do I use two steps with the first using a MultiResourceItemReader on one end feeding into a dummy ItemWriter that just stores the header data in a bean or the execution contextor or should I extend the functionality of the standard StaxEventItemReader to also read header information but that would cause too much overhead and also I'd need to add some custom logic to cycle through input files but hey maybe I can just repeat the step for one file at the time oh look there's a step partitioning feature but hmmm that seems to just partition into a fixed number of sub-steps is there some other component I can use to get one step per file or can I dynamically set the number of substeps to match the number of files but even then how do I make sure each substep gets a different input file and then I still need to extend the StaxEventItemWriter add the header information though that's really the easy part and I shouldn't forget about it. And so on and so on. Normally I leave work at work, but right now that separation isn't really working. And oh crap I need to rename six repositiories because the architects of two different teams didn't talk to each other and the concept work for this project still hasn't been done even though I'm four weeks into the implementation and they expect me to work off of verbal instructions and reverse-engineering older projects haha is this a joke we all know we can't fly this past quality control but no oh no they're serious. It's fun, really. I like those people. I tell them "this approach is laughably inefficient and you can't possibly expect this to work and get done on time." and they just go "Oh well yeah you're right we'll give you six times as much time and three additional people to actually do the required prep work right now.", and there I sit blinking and realizing that I have managed to find the mythical land of reasonable people who would rather fix mistakes than obfuscate them.
Kid and work, work and kid.
I did some light reading on Nav Meshes in Unreal, and found contradictory opinions on how they work on dynamic geometry. Did some research on various topics relevant to the setting, but haven't written one line of text or code.
Tell me to shut up and stop turning this into a blog.
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