Sometimes, you just gotta fight dirty with the sludge of the world. Sure, it's probably not productive, or harmonious, but sludge isn't asking to be harmonious, either, eh. Watch out for flammable bridges but godspeed all the same.
I started my new job this week! It's been a lot of funneling modern software development jargon into my head and learning about a monolithic sales platform the company is developing for. Remote is probably a good choice for me, since I've become a fidgety, neurotic fuck, which is only on display a scant few hours a day. There's some grief about the software with 'this feature is fucked, is it supposed to be?' and 'this feature in the environment is incomplete/fucked/ can I test the fucked-ish feature I'm supposed to respective of that?' but still I'm learning hard and learning fast and bah gawd I've got a paycheck coming again soon.
I'll be happier still when expectations/metrics are clearer about my work as a new hire, but I know I'm asking poignant questions about the job/environment and am kind of the point of advice for the other new hire that started when I did, so I must be taking on okay, right?
Unrelated to that, I bought more houseplants and bought some chemical warfare to bring down on the fungus gnats that have plagued my abode. Feckers got into my potting soil, which explains why only specific plants are plagued, but I'm finally getting on top of the menace! The African Violet is flowering again! The chrysanthemum is producing one or two stupid flowers and it's wonderful! The catnip's been cut down to a fraction of its size so it regrows proudly, I've got a new bushy buddy and a tentacular succulent, the basilfriend cutting from my friend went to root real hard, and the patriarch pothos bestowed upon me a breakage-turned-cutting-turned sproutling that I hope grows into a mighty more-than-two-leaf specimen.
I did lose one green-purpley leafy boy for general reasons, but I know a little better about pests now and wish it a sunny afterlife. Green thumbs aren't earned without the carboniferous carcasses of a few failed houseplants, eh?