{"id":3524,"date":"2017-02-18T23:33:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T04:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2017-02-18T23:33:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T04:33:37","slug":"life-updates-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3524","title":{"rendered":"Life updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things proceed, as they tend to do.<\/p>\n<p>My old D90 hit a snag last Friday when the shutter release button stopped reliably working. It still works if I hit it at a certain angle (and with a lot of pressure), and I can theoretically still record video with it via live view, but that makes it significantly harder to use. Fortunately, IR remotes are a thing, so I bought one off Amazon that will hopefully allow the camera to keep chugging for a bit longer. And it still is technically usable anyway&#8230; I&#8217;ve been shooting with it at climbing, and it&#8217;s been fine other than taking much longer to take each shot.<br \/>\n(None of its truly functional parts, like the sensor or mirror, are broken, so there&#8217;s no real reason to ditch it yet. But given how much it would cost to fix the shutter button versus its value given its age, repairs are not worthwhile.)<\/p>\n<p>Work has been a mess of annoyance and stress. Maybe I&#8217;m just expecting too much, but I&#8217;ve been running into cases lately where I feel like people doing work either aren&#8217;t understanding the task in the way they need to, or are otherwise requiring much more hand-holding than I can reasonably provide given my other duties.<br \/>\nI know I need to step back and give people room to grow, learn, and make mistakes&#8230; but at the same time, I don&#8217;t want people to put out code I know has issues or is wrong, because it will ultimately come down to me to deal with it. Blah.<\/p>\n<p>Tried to make chicken marsala today, and realized before starting the mushrooms that we were actually out of marsala. Substituted a riesling instead, and I think it actually turned out pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Max and Yubin came over and we made cupcakes for valentine&#8217;s that weren&#8217;t very valentine-y, but still cute.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/021817cupcakes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are some random photos,  because yay photos.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/021817austin.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/021817emily.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/021817ryan.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/021817vince.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/021817bunny.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/021817eyes.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/021817eyes2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things proceed, as they tend to do. My old D90 hit a snag last Friday when the shutter release button stopped reliably working. It still works if I hit it at a certain angle (and with a lot of pressure), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}