On being busy

tl;dr big oof.

Last year I applied and was accepted to an MBA program and holy shit has it been way more work than I was expecting. I had big plans.

• Parenting two kids
• Actually having a social life
• Playing in frisbee tournaments
• Robot greenhouse
• Automated irrigation for my garden, and I guess for the robot greenhouse
• Launching a Saas startup
• Pwning the allies in IL2 Sturmovik
• Rodent-proofing my hundred-year-old house
• Generally enjoying post-COVID life again

Ain't nobody got time for that. Between parenting and spouse-ing and school I barely remember last week, it's been a blur. One thing's been interesting though and that's that in my analytics course coming up they're making us use the R programming language, I guess because Python is too avant-garde or something?

Anyways. R is really weird. I have trouble grokking a language with five different assignment operators, the most commonly-used of which is <-. Instead of doing all the things in that list above I spent most of last week fucking around with my emacs config trying to get a sane setup for writing R in org-mode and/or ESS.