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Term hasn't even started yet, and already I can feel the evenings closing in, and the autumn coming. In theory, I work from ten until six (a normal day, timeshifted by an hour because I suck at getting up). In practice, at the moment, I seem to be staying until seven or so, getting loose ends tidied up and doing the work I would have done during the day had I not had other things to do (more on that momentarily). At this time of year, when I get out of the building, the sky is noticeably dusky. Not dark, not even twilight, but slowly dimming at the edges, no longer day. Headlights and high-vis are no longer optional: no matter that I'm still wearing sunglasses for the ride, I'm not nearly as visible as I was on the ride in.
I'm very aware, incidentally, that when I'm on my bicycle, I'm much more in the world than when I'm in a car. It's been observed by a lot of people, but I've never really noticed it until the last few weeks, when I get around mostly by bike but take the occasional lift in a car. The flow of the road, the people with whom I share it, the terrain through which I pass all seems more ... real when there's no glass twixt me and it. It's a curious sensation.
Today, I nearly managed to finish pulling the ethernet driver I need out of the u-boot source tree (still some dependencies and data types I need to fix), in between fixing the fridge in the cafe and having a couple of consecutive meetings about the fencing club. I feel accomplished, I think, although I don't really count it as a milestone. Tomorrow, with any luck, I might get a test build that compiles and move on to writing the next layer above...
It'll speed up the communication between my nodes and the rest of the system enormously if I can get this to work, but it does feel pointless at times.