petty irritation of the season

This year the first of December actually is the first day of Advent, so this year's batch of "Advent" calendars aren't even wrong, and I'm always more out-of-sorts about the entire Thing when denied that excuse for peevishness.

(I have spent most of today messing about with colour palettes, because I got to the "upload? some figures?" stage of manuscript submission and experienced the Dawning Horror of "all my graphs are still using the placeholder colours I was going to fix to be more accessible Later, and now... it's Later... and they're still all colour-coded red/green/blue". Does my supervisor approve this use of my time? Eh, probably not. But it now looks good for trichromia and distinguishable for dichromia, and while monochrome reproductions aren't Great you don't lose any important detail, which given that I'm plotting up fifteen different symbols in three broad categories for over a thousand data points, and this will only ever be viewed in monochrome in the print edition of the journal i.e. not, is good enough.)