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Mon Oct 25 04:17:15 PM EDT 2021
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It's 77F degrees outside and humid. The air's hardly moving.
In a few hours, the rain is supposed to arrive and settle in
for the night. In the meantime, the weather and my afternoon
coffee are conspiring to raise my own temperature to just
below irritation.

This past Friday, I received a clarification call from one
of the companies I've interviewed with. They were already a
day past the last "expect to hear something within 48-hours
at the latest," and today they're almost two days past the
"later today or tomorrow." The job hunt? Just like the weather...

NAQCC, the North American QRP CW Club
(http://http//naqcc.info/), is one of those groups I really
support in spirit, but in practice I'm rarely there. They
promote low-power Morse code communications among ham radio
operators. If all you have is very low power, Morse code is
undoubtedly the way to go; and, if you're into the minimal
or emergency communications, it's worth staying in practice. That
said, given Morse code routinely losing favor as a skill and
the tail end of an 11-year solar cycle low, it's been a
challenging activity for a few years. But, folks are
predicting the solar cycle is turning toward the next upward
swing. Just like the weather...

Anyway, the NAQCC folks operate largely by bulk email. For
instance, once a month someone in the club sends an email to
the membership announcing it's time again to submit your
items for sale or trade. Sometime later, there will be
another email to the membership with the compiled list.

Unless we get an email saying it may not happen this round
because the maintainer will be in the hospital for a bit.

It's apparently an entirely manual process. The fellow
solicits the emails, receives the emails, approves them for
suitability, combines the offerings into a list, and sends
that compilation out to the membership. If that fellow's not
available, it doesn't happen.

I've seen this kind of thing before, and I'm seeing it more
often: People and their manual processes. They're easily
automated; still, the people are set in their ways. They
don't even want to consider change. What else would they do
with their days?

I don't know if that's the case this time. This time, I'm
not even going to ask. Instead, I'm writting a little webapp
on the side as an exercise -- to see how I, a person who in
no way would want to spend all of those hours in that
routine every month, might do it if I had to.

Impossible processes. You know you could help, but people
are set in their ways. It's going to take as long as it
takes.

Kind of like the weather.

Happy Monday.