If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll never be ready.
You will fabricate all manner of excuses to justify waiting until you’re ready. You’ll not try, or learn, or pursue, or just do.
Because, you’re not ready yet.
No, in fact, the world isn’t ready yet.
The concept of being ready is an excuse. Never make an excuse.
Try.
Pursue.
Achieve.
Do.
We’re using Hubot for very limited automation and integration with our messaging apps. We’ve renamed it from “hubot” to “alfred”.
To make a request, you simply begin with “alfred …” Like, for example, you need it to build a cluster, the instruction might be alfred build <region> <name> Of course, the ‘region’ and ‘name’ are variables that you’ll define when running it. You could even just do alfred help to get a complete list of every defined process that it’s capable of. Really simplistic, honestly.
But the confusion that arises just from the bot’s name is amusing. People mistakenly (accidentally on purpose?) type things like:
albert build us-west-2 devclusteralvin build eu-west-1 myclusteralthea helpalexa do the buildHeh… remember that SNL skit from a couple of years ago? Same thing, really:
I built a trap door.
This was the last of the flooring project.
The trap door in the master closet — not an accurate phrase because it’s most definitely not an actual trap — is access to the crawl space under the house. It was just a bit of carpet slapped onto a not-quite-square floor cut-out. But, having upgraded the floors from carpet to laminate, also providing a finished trap door was needed.
No trip-hazards and nothing to get in the way: wood floor secured atop the not-quite-square cut-out, some reinforcement around it, a continuous hinge, and a flush trap-door pull mortised into the surface.
I’ll still need to sort out the interior trim and possibly add a compression damper to hold it open and limit dropping it.
But, for now, I think I’ve earned this.
Before…
The previous tenants didn’t have a firm grasp of cutting in or tape to prevent straying outside the lines…
We sprayed the ceiling — because it, too, needed it. And while we were it, we also prepped the gray wall with an extra coat of paint that we’ll cover with a different color to unify the room. Cutting in with brush-work and roller will be necessary for the walls.
I’m afraid I did get just a bit of paint on the woodwork and the carpet. But it’ll come right off with a bit of actually trying.
Oh, and the part coming off is the woodwork and carpet. We’ll be replacing those throughout the house. Just not worthwhile to mask off the parts that we were planning on disposing.
Good news, we also had a really good opportunity to install an actually-functional ceiling fan/light combo:
Many of us have our own Bucket Lists — things that we’ll accomplish before we die. Sometimes meaningful. Sometimes requiring skill to achieve. Sometimes outlandish.
But seeing as I never got round to adding Everest to my personal Bucket List, I’m quite happy not changing that now.
Far too crowded.
Also far too easy to, dare I say, buy a trip to the top.
In fact, anyone who exclaims that they summited Mt. Everest is either full of shit, or full of ego. But I repeat myself.
I suppose it would be quite impressive to see someone summit Everest unaided. No sherpas. No oxygen bottles. No waiting in line for a selfie. Carrying their own stuff. You know… something like this:
Or this.
the rest of me 