oof

I've painted and moved furntiure for another relative. One of my brothers-in-law has a new house and a lot of furniture to move into it. I am a pile of bruises and sore muscles.

I'm currently thinking that anyone who thinks the 'family' has gone the way of the dodo in the US is quite mistaken. Family has become partially synonomous with 'cheap labor', but the expectations are obviously present and binding. This makes me mildly curious to read some anthropology and see if the families of European cultures always worked this way or if we have been evolving into it.

I'm not knocking any of this, though. After my muscles are calmed down, I'll be able to expect reciprication from that brother-in-law when my house needs paiting.

And the cycle goes round.

So much to learn. So little time.

I got frustrated with the requirements gathering phases of projects for my day time employer that I decided to try to learn about all that myself. It seems there are people who think they know how to do it and their are people who just wind up with the job. So...I've been learning about use cases and trying to apply it all to my own projects. It's a lot of work, but it is clarifying a few things that were foggy. I thought that controlling all the aspects of a project would let me start development and keep it all organized without the typical lead in I see at work. Now I know why that didn't happen.