07:59 CDT
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The morning commute was 97 minutes long. I'll have a reprieve tomorrow 
and Friday. Tomorrow, I'm having cataract surgery on my left eye. I 
have to wait until December to do the right eye because of my work 
schedule. I'm just fortunate that I have the resources available to me 
for medical care. 

Now that our town has a Costco Warehouse on my way to Austin, I 
usually stop there to gas up. The gas price was $3.49 per gallon. I 
know that other parts of the country are experiencing higher gas 
prices. But the trade-off is that I'm living in a state that is more 
worried about turning into a Christian nationalist theocracy, and 
letting women who need emergency reproductive care die needlessly. But 
I digress.

09:24 CDT
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Begrudgingly, I'm resetting my issued Macbook as my primary office PC 
again. At least IT hasn't restricted SSH in the local terminal (yet), 
which lets me access my local machine over the network. This Macbook 
feels sluggish on the college LAN. It's probably the JAMF management 
software dragging down the OS. Fuck it! I can be maliciously compliant 
and Slashdot the shit out of IT's trouble ticket system for every 
little issue that I would normally be able to solve myself. 

14:26 CDT
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Apparently, the test that was supposed to be deployed in the lab at 
13:30 is a non-starter. Nobody ever showed up. It's not a big deal due 
to the fact that I had to come to Austin anyway. I'm going to assume 
that my Macbook has finally settled down. Between JAMF and the upgrade 
to MacOS Tahoe, it was really dragging ass.