↑ [[2024-04]] ← [[2024-W15]] ## Overview Similar pace to life as [[2024-W15|last week]], finishing up current run of scheduled planting projects. Had a window in middle of week to do reorganization and some time to do personal planting at Hill Street. The seasonal approach to task batching feels more natural than accommodating a rigid schedule, but I’m concerned about its financial sustainability. That said, week interspersed with new personal and professional development that prompted these concerns so it may simply be attaching itself to the weekly theme. Warm moving into hot days with pleasant mornings. Locked myself out of new house on Friday PM, which allowed for a good neighborhood bonding experience. A neighbor was able to jimmy the door with a credit card. ## Projects #### Nancy Ann Dr ##### 2024-04-15 Organizing planting and seeding for phase one of project. Moving very quickly now and have help to get work done. ##### 2024-04-16 Spread seed and scheduled planting for Friday. Hired some help to speed the process along. Been awhile since I had anyone to supervise. Feel a little rusty. Seeding process very straightforward with sawdust filler. Helps to identify where seed has been spread and weigh it down, give it something to latch onto as it germinates. Following the instant gratification method creates for different long term management. More about weed control than plant propagation. ##### 2024-04-19 Full day of planting with help from hired labor and client. Work went smoothly with only small lapse in my supervision putting a plant in near stoop that was supposed to be left in its pot at layout until concrete was poured. Seems like everyone enjoyed themselves and clients happy with work despite lack of finish. #### Q1 Truck Maintenance Chased down mysterious oil leak. Diagnosis is worn seals around cam housing. Requires replacement and dismantling of drive belt. A day repair, ~$1600. Have deferred due to maintenance budget being completely blown in past 30 days. Will review shop notes and begin to monitor over next few weeks. #### Plant Notes Rebooting this project to reflect plants actually planted in projects rather than plants I abstractly like because it fits some untested puritan ideal. Have made a list in KED vault from which to draw up plant notes. There are two outputs: the note itself for eventual publishing to satiate client curiosity and help with management, and the plant object style inside VW. There currently isn't a logical flow or organization to how resources are stored. I think it makes sense to have general use drawings for workhorse plants and for concept development, then species and nursery specific drawings to manage selection and pricing. ## Topics #### Spirit Sunday bike ride (weather permitting) may become a habitual spring activity. 100 miles of greenway to explore in Raleigh. #### Finance Part-venting, part-commenting after a clusterfuck with Bank of America withdrawing a double charge on my credit card payment and overdrawing my checking account as other bills were payed behind it. I have managed to stem the damage with emergency transfers from checking, but the experience just illustrates how little power a consumer has over a necessary and critical financial tool. #### VW Resource Management Spent a few hours catching up on contents of `_dump` drawing, lots of which has already been exported and the resources left in drawing. This process slowing becoming more organized and second nature. #### VW Drawing Management Have discovered the `Set Default Symbol Class...` command in `Tools→Utilities` menu. Will need to set aside an hour or two to test functionality. I believe it maps default VW classes to user-specific classes created in the `File→Document Settings→Standard Naming` command dialog. From VW Help: >The Standard Naming command controls the layer, class, and viewport names used in a project. These names can be changed to a user-defined system other than the default VWArch naming system. Create a blank drawing from Residential Template and change naming standard to User 1. Test a few naming standards consistent with the current classing system that seems to be working pretty well. Test auto-classing command. - Old walkthrough [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hiffv5NiiA&t=6s) for standard naming. - [Help page](https://app-help.vectorworks.net/2022/eng/VW2022_Guide/Structure/Automatically_created_classes.htm?rhhlterm=sill%20classes%20class%20classing%20classed&rhsearch=sills%20class) for auto-classing. Custom classing creates a worksheet inside the drawing that is updated as user standards are updated. It does not appear to save user-specific standards in the dialog itself. This worksheet will need to be included in KED drawing templates. All resource drawings will need to be reviewed once this is put in place. It may be a good time to clean up template and object resource folders. #### Climate Some [statistics](https://about.bnef.com/electric-vehicle-outlook/) of how EV sales displace demand for oil. Electric bikes outpace all other forms by a wide margin. #policy/cityPlanning ## Reflections ### 2024-04-15 Experiencing a period of affective happiness volatility related to my current income situation, the uncertainty revolving around how much is going out and how much is coming in. I am struggling to trust in how the process unfolds and to embrace the internal experience of this feeling, since it is a fundamentally human one. And I am struggling with the knowledge that this experience is an illusion, since I have a resource I can draw on if necessary, and since I am being supported in some areas through generosity of family. Something in this morass of feeling has some value and something in it is pathological, I am unsure which. It would be nice to have a companion to help me unpack. ### 2024-04-18 Inadvertently spent about an hour this morning chatting with Office Crush casually about her work role that veered into more personal stories about our families, kids, and unplanned pregnancies, that has left me feeling raw. The personal connection feels easy in the moment, but refraining from asking if I can explore it further because of her availability I find exhausting. I'm not sure I'm at the point where I need to withdraw completely into work and life away from the office, or just switch back over to the Five Points office, but might be getting close. I also don't like the feeling of not trusting my perception, that what feels like mutual interest for me is just her being nice. I could use an instruction manual. ## Astrology - **2024-04-15:** [[Mercury]] conjunct [[Chiron]] - **2024-04-17:** [[Venus]] conjunct [[Lunar Nodes|N Node]], [[Jupiter]] conjunct [[Uranus]], [[Mercury Retrograde|Mercury Rx]] trine [[nSun]] - **2024-04-19:** Mercury conjunct [[Venus]], [[The Sun|Sun]] enters [[Taurus]], [[Mars]] sextile [[Jupiter]], Mars sextile Uranus, Venus trine nSun, Venus opposite [[nSaturn]] - **2024-04-20:** Jupiter conjunct Uranus