[00:08] <cmaloney> It went well
[00:22] <cmaloney> https://meet.jit.si/coffeehousecoders
[00:22] <cmaloney> Virtual Coffee House coders
[13:06] <jrwren> Good morning
[13:07] <_stink_> yo
[13:37] <wolfger> -yo
[13:41] <rick_h> morning
[13:41] <rick_h> everyone have fun in the snow?
[13:44] <_stink_> only shoveled three times
[13:46] <rick_h> same here, though stayed up until 11 to do the final one in the hopes I wouldn't need to do any more in the morning
[13:46] <rick_h> looks like a winner so far.
[14:32] <brousch> Twice yesterday, once this morning, none of them more than 2"
[14:34] <rick_h> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bEgLuk99U
[14:34] <rick_h> kind of fun, didn't realize the nest cam could do a timelapse for me
[14:54] <cmaloney> Good morning
[14:54] <cmaloney> Took JoDee to school Whee
[14:54] <cmaloney> I shoveled last night, but haven't re-shoveled this morning
[14:56] <jrwren> same.
[14:56] <jrwren> only a little fell after I shoveled last night, so I'm ok with taht.
[14:56] <jrwren> there is still a little empty salt spot on the drive that never got covered.
[16:39] <jrwren> rick_h: you read The Way of Kings!!!
[16:39] <rick_h> jrwren: yea, rereading it because the new book came out recently
[16:39] <jrwren> rick_h: ha! same.  I'm rereading it right now :)
[16:39] <rick_h> jrwren: I've been a sanderson fan since he finished up the robert jordan series
[16:40] <rick_h> jrwren: yea, just finished book 1 again last night and onto 2
[16:40] <rick_h> shoveling is great audible book time :)
[16:40] <jrwren> cool.
[16:40] <jrwren> I find its easier to re-read. The first read was great, but also, just because it is sooo long... i feel like i didn't enjoy certain parts as much as I am on the second read.
[16:41] <rick_h> yea, true.
[16:41] <rick_h> jrwren: check out the author's series for mistborn. I really liked those
[16:41] <rick_h> jrwren: and the steelheart stuff is an interesting take
[16:41] <rick_h> funny how he hops around adding a book to different series at a time
[16:41] <jrwren> I read the mistborn trilogy last month or so.
[16:42] <jrwren> It was ok, good even, but not as good as stormlight, IMO
[16:42] <rick_h> no, different for sure
[16:42] <rick_h> I can't always do 1k pages giant books back to back to back
[16:42] <jrwren> I usually don't like fantasy, so I'd probably never have picked up mistborn, but my new boss bought it for me for my birthday because he heard htat I liked stormlight :)
[16:42] <rick_h> I try to mix up fiction/non fiction at least but always good to have something lighter to blow through
[16:42] <rick_h> hah
[16:43] <rick_h> I grew up on fantasy. the D&D books, dritz, and the wheel of time series
[16:43] <jrwren> yeah, I hadn't read much fiction at all this year until I got to that a couple months ago
[16:43] <rick_h> it's more work for me to find interesting non-fiction to check out
[16:43] <jrwren> too much non fiction, so this has been a nice diversion
[16:43] <rick_h> yea, a good story is nice
[16:44] <rick_h> that was my big complaint with the latest hodgeman book. No real story to pull it together
[16:44] <jrwren> I don't think I've read him.
[16:45] <rick_h> I love his judge john hodgeman postcast and he has some funny books of fake facts
[17:47] <cmaloney> My year of reading was pretty much in the toilet
[17:48] <cmaloney> (and I don't mean that most of my reading was on the toilet)
[17:48] <jrwren> potty human books eh?
[17:48] <cmaloney> heh
[17:48] <cmaloney> Lots of starts and stops
[17:49] <rick_h> lol
[17:49] <rick_h> I find I go in big waves
[17:49] <rick_h> lots of podcasts, lots of reading/audio books
[17:50] <rick_h> I thought I hadn't read much, but I did at the start and end of the year I guess. Just the middle was mainly a podcast world
[17:53] <cmaloney> Yeah
[17:55] <cmaloney> Also: Time to re-up the EFF membership
[17:56] <cmaloney> looks like there's gonna be some legal wrangling to knock down this FCC stupidity
[17:56] <cmaloney> Even thought the FCC building is apparently being evacuated
[18:53] <Scary_Guy> https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/13/property-verizon-projected-fcc-headquarters-ahead-vote-destroy-net-neutrality
[18:53] <Scary_Guy> I say let it burn.  we need people good and pissed off for any real change