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met with paul about the mens work

19:53 Friday 05 October 2018 JST

Exciting MKP Tokyo news!

I sent this to my online Integration Group.

I just got confirmation: I will be co-facilitating a 3-week online
MKP introduction called The Men's Work https://mkpusa.org/themenswork/

with Paul Newell, who is currently co-facilitating it in the US.

On Fridays, 7pm - 8:30pm (Japan time), November 3rd, 10th, and
17th, we will do this online training for men in Tokyo.

Once we run this 3 week series of meetings a couple of times, I
will create a new men's circle in Gotanda (Tokyo) on Fridays for
men who are interested.  Once those Gotanda men have sat in circle
for a few months, I will do a Mission Statement workshop with
them.

Once we have two circles humming along, I plan to invite an MKP
man from overseas to Japan to teach facilitation skills to men who
are interested.  My want is to get more and more circles started
in Japan so we can create a groundswell movement to have enough
energy to do NWTAs here in Japan.

more plans for work

12:11 Friday 05 October 2018 JST

I am glad the lesson worked well for you; I hope everyone else
enjoyed it!

Thank you for the notes and letting me know it went well.  Unless
there are any big problems, let's continue this style.  I think in
Part 1 we should just have one question, or have everyone choose
one question, like Zumi nearly did.  Next week I will ask you to
think of the question, so please think about one to ask.

After we answer your question in Part 1 next week, I will ask for
a volunteer to prepare a question for the following week.

See you soon!

授業がよかったから　良かったです。みんなも　好きだったら嬉しいです。　ノートをスキャンしてくれてありがとう。そして授業がよかったって教えてくれてありがとう。

問題がなかったら、このまま　続けましょう。授業のパート１で　一つだけの質問がいいです。それかズミさんみたいに　みんなが一つの質問を選びましょう。

来週、質問をよろしくお願いします。

まゆみさんの質問を聞きたいです。

聞きたい質問を　考えてください

またね授業がよかたからよかったです。

みんなも好きだったら

plans for work

08:27 Friday 05 October 2018 JST

I found a solution to all my work woes.

I just had an interesting thought about my computer job, which I
brought up in the meeting on Monday.  My website client is AB.

It is likely that I can find a company that can do the work I am
doing for less money, but it's not possible to secretly act as a
middle man and keep the money due to how payments are done now.

The value for me overall is to reduce the load of this job, which
taxes me physically and emotionally.

Value for AB is to have a real company (Engine Yard) doing the
tedious work I've been doing, and therefore if I die, AB isn't
fucked by losing all their server/website knowledge.

I'll have to do some research, but I can probably still do the fun
part of the job and leave the annoying part to Engine Yard.

Yay! Why didn't I think of this before? I heard of them ages ago at an iOS meeting. If they can handle the server stuff, that would make my life sooo much easier.

So I looked up their website https://www.engineyard.com/

Ruby????

Aw man!

I need someone to deal with PHP!

A couple days later, I found that someone is me.

I found Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP shows how to go from spaghetti to modern framework including unit tests, without any downtime.

My code is not as bad as the code in the examples, which includes MySQL and HTML and CSS in the same file, but I definitely suffer from lack of tests, so rely on crossing my fingers and praying each time I deploy.

• - - -

While writing this entry, I found I can wrap my app in Ruby Hooks to deploy it https://www.engineyard.com/blog/deploying-php-applications-on-engine-yard-a-how-to

https://web.archive.org/web/20181004234913/https://www.engineyard.com/blog/deploying-php-applications-on-engine-yard-a-how-to

I will clean up the code first, then see what's up with outsourcing the server side.

Remindme! 2 years