Theme of this week seems to be “making progress”.

My spurt of coding enthusiasm in my evenings finally produced output that was interesting enough to take into work hours. But not clear enough to use yet, so I shelved it for the moment… until just this morning I had the shower insight that dependencies are transitive, which should let me simplify the graph a lot. So my next learning side-project should be on graph-structure manipulation algorithms or tools (add all transitive links, remove all redundent links if the relation is assumed transitive, isolate a spanning tree, that kind of thing).

Around half the field is now scythed. It’s plenty hard work, I was pretty dead after just an hour this afternoon. (I think that was three down-and-up rows, or it might have been only two.) Little by little and row by row I’m getting there.

Played an Irish gig last night, a birthday party with a very enthusiastic and appreciative crowd. We were not stellar, but we weren’t a total embarrassment either. Little by little…

Soundtrack to the week has been the beautiful album Sunnan by Hazelius Hedin. I particularly love the Krivo polska, which I am trying to learn.