Spring has sprung
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After the frozen winds of this weekend, today is sunny and 21°C. Yesterday it was 26°C! That's Chicago spring weather for you. I took a walk out on the riverwalk and noticed that the $9 gelato place isn't open yet, which is sad because I would have loved to eat it while sitting out on the giant stairs near the water. That time will come soon enough. The restaurants were open and people were sitting on the tables.
We had a surprise meeting this morning, by which I mean I was caught by surprise by it even though it was in my calendar and had been for months. It was just a standard division meeting that's both not exciting and filled with quote CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY information, but there was a section about AI. The thing that got me was that they mentioned they named an in-house AI assistant after one of the people who works here and even came up with a backronym for it. I looked around to see if anyone else was as uncomfortable with this as I was, and no one seemed to be. Then again, I went on a Butlerian Jihad rant to Laila after she somehow used a hotkey to open up Microsoft CoPilot on my computer-
I've restarted my full exercise program after a long time of slacking. I used to do dozens of pushups a week but when I had my appendix out a while back I obviously had to give that up. I got back to walking a bunch almost immediately but by the time I could do pushups again I could only do a fraction of the amount I could do before and of course it was discouraging. Well, discouragement can only go so far, so I put all my exercises into my phone reminders because that's proven to be something that actually motivates me. Now I have exercises six days a week, plus all my walking, so hopefully it'll make a difference. It's definitely a bit of a drag--I am not one of those gym-motivated people, and other than walking I do not ever look forward to exercising. But since I'm middle-aged now, I need to make sure I keep doing it if I want to stay healthy.
Alright, work's over, time to go home.
We had a surprise meeting this morning, by which I mean I was caught by surprise by it even though it was in my calendar and had been for months. It was just a standard division meeting that's both not exciting and filled with quote CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY information, but there was a section about AI. The thing that got me was that they mentioned they named an in-house AI assistant after one of the people who works here and even came up with a backronym for it. I looked around to see if anyone else was as uncomfortable with this as I was, and no one seemed to be. Then again, I went on a Butlerian Jihad rant to Laila after she somehow used a hotkey to open up Microsoft CoPilot on my computer-
Me: "[blah blah]...okay Laila? No soulless machines."and I imagine that makes me a bit of an outlier.
Laila: "Okay abba."
I've restarted my full exercise program after a long time of slacking. I used to do dozens of pushups a week but when I had my appendix out a while back I obviously had to give that up. I got back to walking a bunch almost immediately but by the time I could do pushups again I could only do a fraction of the amount I could do before and of course it was discouraging. Well, discouragement can only go so far, so I put all my exercises into my phone reminders because that's proven to be something that actually motivates me. Now I have exercises six days a week, plus all my walking, so hopefully it'll make a difference. It's definitely a bit of a drag--I am not one of those gym-motivated people, and other than walking I do not ever look forward to exercising. But since I'm middle-aged now, I need to make sure I keep doing it if I want to stay healthy.
Alright, work's over, time to go home.
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