Monday, December 14th, 2020

               Today marks the start of my final five-day work week in
         2020. It was exceptionally hectic and chaotic, as if to
         commemorate the occasion. I was so tired by the end of the
         workday, I was fighting sleep on the way home. Things are lined
         up pretty similarly for the rest of the week. I will have earned
         the shorter weeks by the time they get here.

               Not much going on today. The Digital Mavica parts appear to
         be lost in the post, disappearing somewhere in California on the
         5th, according to the tracking data. The last update I received
         of any kind was on the 9th, when they sent a message saying the
         package would be arriving late (the original estimated time of
         arrival was the 8th). I think I'm almost ready to start on the
         Sioux server project, but I will need to order a couple of small
         parts that I have run out of - switches, buttons, tiny heatsink
         fans, things like that. Given the current congestion of the USPS
         ordering even more stuff makes me nervous, so I'm kind of stuck
         for now. Perhaps it's a sign I should take the next few days
         easy.

         -Prokyonid