Good morning! Hello! How are you? All well? I am good! But! I overslept! Shit! I have 90 minutes worth of things to do before I get Jane and I only have 37 minutes. I messed up! But MAN. Nine hours of sleep. So awesome. Highly recommend it.
I guess this will be a short one, but I wanted to at least get you your daily picture of Jane and playlist. Unless you read this on Facebook. In which case, no cute daily picture of Jane for you.
I thoughtlessly ripped out a hangnail yesterday and it ripped too much and now my thumb is in eternal torment for a week. Awesome.
Oh also Sean/Jussi and Emma sent me pictures of the curious snake in our front yard. Here it is:
Oh I guess I’ll tell you the lawyer story real quick. Had a call with a lawyer yesterday. Big potential client wants to investigate our source code before they put it in their app. No one’s ever asked this before, but not fundamentally opposed. So I send over a simple license agreement saying they can inspect it for security purposes and throw it away and not let a bunch of people see it, etc. Quick two pager. Our (very reasonable) potential client says “look our lawyer doesn’t want to do this and he says it’s covered by our standard NDA.” I’m obviously not a close reader of NDAs, but I’m dubious, I ask my lawyer. He says yeah, that’s problematic, NDAs only last two years, they say anyone they feel like can look at things, lets them keep files, etc. So we all decide to get on a call.
First off, I am wearing a parody Kate Bush shirt made to look like a George Bush campaign shirt. The Bush is really big, the Kate is really small, every time I wear it I worry someone is gonna think I’m a Republican. So I am kinda stressed about that.
But this lawyer! He says “oh yeah I’m so busy it might take up to a whole week to get this checked out so I dont want to do it.”
And I’m thinking “man, some companies’ legal take months. A week? Whatever! I’ll wait.”
But when that excuse doesn’t scare me off he starts going on about how we shouldn’t need this, the NDA they made contemplates such things they don’t like to re-negotiate, and I’m like “well you didn’t tell us when we signed the NDA, so we had no idea you were contemplating this, and we certainly weren’t. What’s the problem here?”
And he basically says something along the lines of how it’ll be hard to be careful with our source code, what if they, like, keep a backup of it in a Dropbox or something then they’d be in violation of the agreement and that would be a big hassle for them.
And I’m a bit dumbfounded. I’m like “Are you telling me you might just accidentally keep a copy of our company’s crown jewels forever? Okay yeah, then I definitely need this license signed.”
And he’s like “no no no” but it’s too late. He can’t promise me they will actually do that. Or actually keep it on a single computer. Or anything that involves basic security.
This man is not good at his job! I was sorta leaning toward just trusting our (very cool) main client, but his lawyer actually made things worse.
Emma and I did dinner alone last night while Emma too Jussi to the airport. We will miss her. We did Daddy Jane dance party. It was a short one, lots of Taylor Swift deep cuts in an effort to make it so I don’t have to see the (really very good) “Shake it Off” or “You Need to Calm Down” videos anymore. She liked the “New Romantics” tour video so that was promising. She went to sleep decently quick. We still haven’t watched Succession this week because it’s already spoiled for us so what’s the rush. Caught up on SNL instead. Man that guy who does Trump is real good.
House should be done being painted today. Very excited. I will send pictures.
Goth today. There’s a new Swans today but I’m gonna listen to it before I stick it on here. All new here. New Cranes peel session. Can’t wait for that vinyl to ship boy I hope they tour the US though I suppose they won’t come to North Carolina anyway bool. Lana Del Rabies is a great band name and the band lives up to it. I’m very obsessed with this Angelic Process band, read about them, apparently they’re like a decade-plus old, main guy killed himself, very sad. Can’t imagine what crazy noise goth shit that guy’d be up to these days.