so another pass around the sun has finished up and life just seems to get more interesting. now i know what they mean by youth is wasted on the young LOL

some good things happened today, which just so happened to be on my birthday.

1. we launched a new website at work. this has been 2 years in the making – from the planning to start the RFP process, to selecting the vendor (which i did from vacation in the black hills), to focus groups, design meetings, site maps, content review, etc. etc., then the past 3 months just plowing through 1500-ish pages of content to make sure it all looks good. today was the big day, and it all seemed to work with only minimal weirdness! Just a few links that weren’t linking correctly, and we have a couple more functional things to work out. i’m happy it’s finally live and it works and i can think about other stuff occasionally!
2. gov walz signed the legal cannibis bill! this is big news. after years of obstruction by republicans funding the “legalize marijuana” parties, the dems finally got a single majority vote and pushed through a crap ton of social bills this leg session. one of which legalized marijuana in the state. the process was thorough, and if anything else, it helped the public understand the legislative process a bit better. eventually i want to do a blog post on all the legislation that passed this session to see what good things came out of it. and if you start to complain about rich people’s taxes, then i guess they can go live somewhere where there isn’t the same quality of life. when you have support for people, you have happy people, and you have people who are more willing to move here and live here, which equals more workers, which apparently is the only thing the populace is good for, according to the rich.
3. i got a massage. and ate at a restaurant with nate. and had cake!

well i guess there were only three good things. i also want to talk about AI at some point. like, am i going to lose my job?

here’s what chatgpt said when i asked if i was going to lose my job to AI:

As an AI language model, I cannot predict the future with certainty. However, it is possible that some jobs may become automated or replaced by AI in the future. It is important to continually develop skills and adapt to changes in the job market.

cool. i leave you with this tweet.

Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted