I spent the weekend in the middle of nowhere, doing things like grating carrots, setting fire to the sauna and carrying food to the dining hall. Also, I looked rather good in a black robe. I had no intention of going there despite having some local friends actively organizing it right until the last moment. I got drafted, but it was a welcome thing. Look up "Fantasiapidot" on Google Images if you like. It's not a LARP but a fantasy themed gathering, with events like dwarf toss. The poor dummy lost its shirt, an arm and its head, spilling its innards, dried peas, all over. Who knew dwarves were made of that. Lots of kids too. I'm no good with kids but I didn't freak out either when one mom plopped her toddler on my lap while she adjusted her clothing.

I got to turn off my computer before going there. That makes it a vacation. I got sick with a flu on Thursday, making the weekend that much harder. I got ordered to go to rest a few times but I didn't come there for that. Nonetheless, I didn't mind the plentiful opportunities to sit in the sauna. Now that I got back home I turned the computer back on and compiled a new kernel and rebooted, like any self respecting Linux user would do.

There some mess going on with GHC library rebuilds, with fed up RMs and all sorts of nasty fun. I'm not even looking at that. I'm starting to feel that distributing Haskell libraries as source and compiling them on users' systems would be a better option. I've heard that that's what Python packages in Debian do and I seem to remember that Haskell libraries did that at some point too. Right now, I wouldn't mind if haskell-* disappeared from my developer.php altogether.

This weekend was good as an intervention. I guess that I've been taking coding far too seriously lately. I'm not my code and I can't measure my worth in LOC. That sort of thinking is depleting and, ironically, only ensures that I get very little of it done. I'm just afraid that I'll fall into that kind of a pattern all too easily, again.