Work

• Defined a data specification (in the form of a protobuf definition) that’ll be used to help drive the conversation between us and our customer. Our customer (AWS Networking) will be vending us data but its unclear (at the moment) what data they will be providing not only to us but to other teams. So to help steer the conversation, I documented a one pager that includes a (Google) protobuf definition.

Mental health

• Attended my weekly therapy session. Since I moved to Renton, this session (and the previous one) were held over Zoom. However, next week, I’ll drive to North Seattle early in the morning (around 06:30 or maybe even 06:00) to avoid traffic since that upcoming session will occur in person.
• Sort of figuring out why I find it difficult to articulate love feelings for Jess. Her and I chatted last night and as I’ve mentioned before, I essentially freeze up when Jess feels upset and needs comforting. But during those moments I’m unable to verbally or physically comfort her: essentially I freeze up. Long story short, it’s obvious now the reason why: that’s just how I grew up. This doesn’t mean that I want to carry on this habit but it is helpful (for me at least) to understand the root of the behavioral patterns.

Home

• Drove home at 2 miles per hour (MPH) since the new lawn more I picked up at Ace did not fully fit inside the trunk of our Ford Escape.  I drove to our local Ace Hardware store last night since the lawn mower that I had ordered online arrived. Unfortunately, the lawn mower box was about one foot longer than length of the size of the trunk … so I made a judgement call and deciding to drive home — with the trunk open — very very slowly, given that we live less than a mile away from the store.

Graduate School

Grades Released

• Somehow nailed the midterm but didn’t do as well as I expected on Project 1. I managed to store 94.5/100 for the midterm and I can thank all the people who helped out during the war room study sessions that I created. As for Project 1, I thought I hit the ball out of the park but apparently, my virtual CPU scheduler failed many of the test cases. This is ironic since I spent more time on my virtual CPU than I did with the memory scheduler and I somehow aced the memory scheduler.

Project 3

• Debugged a silly segfault for about 1.5 hours. Long story short, I called a function that expected a variable stored on the heap but accidentally passed in a variable declared on the stack. Such a silly mistake and the problem was that I had defined the variable twice: once on the heap and once on the stack. Surely this mistake could’ve been caught simply by enabling some flags on the compiler. Oh well.