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+title: Status Update - Spring Semester 2022
+date: 2022-05-06
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+
+# Preface
+Hi all! Another semester has come and gone, bringing with it the end of my first
+year at WPI, and of college in general. It's been one hell of a year, but I
+think I've grown as a person and dealt with my problems in, if not a healthy
+way, then at least not an unhealthy way.
+
+# Personal
+Over the C term break, I successfully transferred jobs from the Service Desk to
+Network Operations. This is a lot closer to what I want to do for a living, and
+so far it's been a lot of fun. Most of the work involved is patching and
+testing, but I've also been working on some of the internal software tools, as
+well as being a general Linux geek. One of the one's I'm most proud of is
+`dns-plotter`, which was written to help debug some DNS resolution issues a few
+weeks ago. Basically, it takes a target address and a DNS resolver, and tries to
+resolve the address every so often. When it's done, it graphs the results using
+`gnuplot(1)`. The source code can be found [here][dns-plotter].
+
+# Projects
+### Campmaster Constantine
+Unfortunately, Campmaster Constantine's service was sunset on 11 February when
+the entire two-year-old database was wiped out overnight. You can read more
+about that [here][glitch-campmaster]. I'm working on the replacement, which can
+be found at that site.
+
+# Organization
+I've started making daily lists of my tasks following a mangling of bullet
+journaling, where each task gets a special symbol depending on its status
+(to-do, done, cancelled, or postponed). When I need something to do, I look at
+the list and pick something. That way I know what I need to do, and I can look
+back on previous days to see when I did something in case it ever comes up.
+
+Each night, I've also been trying to summarize what happened during the day
+below the task list, including my feelings throughout the day. This helps to
+drain all that stress out of me before I sleep, and anecdotally I think it's
+helped a lot.
+
+That's all for this semester, see you after the summer!
+
+[dns-plotter]: https://git.carathe.dev/muirrum/dns-plotter
+[glitch-campmaster]: https://glitchbot.net/campmaster