Happy about Barbara Lee!

One of the things my company says is going to get us profitable again is leveraging AI. Hasn’t affected my job yet, although our new planning tool is telling us that AI is integrated throughout in an upcoming release, so I’m sure finding out what that means will be something. I do hear that people are using something (I don’t know what) for copywriting, especially for e-merchandising, and for packaging. Some of my coworkers use gmail’s “polishing” on emails, I guess, but we haven’t been told we ought to or anything.

Lee has her work cut out for her, but if anyone can, it'd be someone like her. I hate that yahoo has some kind of AI summarizing my e-mails.

Okay, Matilda's at the airport, she's checked her luggage. She's got her boarding pass. She just has to hang out for a few hours at her gate for her flight home.

for dpc: JL58 on JAL.

As the resident Oaklander, I'm pleased that it's Lee instead of the DINO Taylor, but I'm not super optimistic. It's a shit job in a shitty situation and I just hope she can stem some of the bleeding.

I want to spend less $ on cops and more on social services that prevent the need for cops, but that's an almost impossible political task. At best she will keep the MECRO team going so they can respond to non-violent social services needs.

Best of luck to Barbara Lee. A tough job for sure, but I like to see decent normal people in these roles.

My House district is being targeted by the GOP in 2026. The current rep won by 52%, but it is one of those bizarrely carved out districts where they have drawn it to dilute the solid blue cities as much as possible.

Happy Easter to those celebrating. Enjoy breaking free of the Lenten restrictions to those who did the thing. I have in previous years, but I just didn't bother this year. DH is still too sick for us to do much of anything today except maybe take a stroll on the beach and watch the tourists.

Yay Matilda coming home! It is wonderful that she had this experience.

My house had been invaded by shit-flies

I'm not sure know what these are, and don't think I want to either. House flies? One of the upsides to the constant ocean breeze here is that in the 2-1/2 years I have been in the condo I have never seen a single critter, ant, mosquito, fly, none. This is quite different from my previous 40+ years in Florida. I like it!

Yeah, just regular house flies, but the little ones.

San Francisco is blessedly bug free in most instances, in marked contrast to my Florida childhood.

Anyway, I've successfully Exterminated With Extreme Prejudice.

Oooh, I just saw a hummingbird flit into the tree across the street. A good omen for Matilda's return.

Side note, here's a comprehensive New Yorker article on the AI revolution and its implications with actual research: [link]

I just saw a hummingbird

Envy. None at my feeder yet.

We use AI at work. Our chat bot was Ask Sam but they changed it to Sidekick. I kind of feel bad they took Sam's name off. I think they added ask sparky to the app. You have to be careful when you ask it certain things. Most of the time I can put in "tomato soup" and get the products but if I put in "chicken stock" or anything with stock it will give me info about how the shares are doing on the stock market. So you have to ask "where do we have chicken stock" or something.

Happy Birthday to people who have had birthdays.

I woke up early and took my sucralfate suspension and I had been feeling fine and after I took it I started having stomach pains and nausea. I got to work and it was awful. So I claimed by leave and left. It was bad enough I stopped at the urgent care. They couldn't do anything....I didn't think they could but I just needed to talk to a dr.

I also messaged mine to say I need to see a specialist at this point.

The only semi upside is last Tuesday I got to see E but I was feeling miserable and couldn't enjoy it as much. And I called out the next day I felt so bad .

I think it's suspicious I'm doing it after my days off but I tried to go to work . I'd rather be at work.

Oh and E doesn't have a jam packed summer so he is going to try and come to NC for 2 weeks (week with Mom and a week with his other family) and go to Florida. So that will be cool.

E is growing up to be such a great kid. He is going to be Lurch in the upcoming school play. And he wants to study history.

M and I went to the big comic book store and he found some things. One of the employees taught me how to play Boop Which is "complex tic tac to with cats and kittens" according to him. [link]

non-dismissive thoughts and prayers for Oakland.

Emmett and I picked up Matilda at the airport. She was very tired and crabby, as she had been wrangling four bags and a heavy box worth of stuff all the way home (and hadn't gotten much sleep the night before she left).

Then we exited the airport, went to the parking garage and waited for the Monorail Air Train to take us to the garage with our car but that stop was out of service. So we had to trek all the way back into the terminal, and go in the opposite direction and, well, it was a full half hour detour on just getting to the car. Fortunately all the stuff was on a cart.

Anyway, she is home and has crawled into her own bed which she has been missing.