Jan-Feb journal
While I'm logged in, might as well dump the last month's journal entries. I keep six daily logs, as text files edited in vim. Each is very terse. At the start of each month, I start a new set from scratch. Topics of the the logs: "exercise", "work hours", "journal," "thinking," "mail notes," "to-do." Here are the entries from "journal" from Jan and the start of Feb.
Why post this? Well, since this atgatg thing is called a "journal." There's a risk of exposing too much; on the other hand, one model for this site is that it does in fact let friends and family know what I am up to. Well, here's what I've written to myself in the last month and a half. I should edit and expand, but -- but if it came to that, I probably wouldn't post at all. So here it is, unedited and unexpanded.
Feb
01 s party: Rick, Sue, Jeri, Chris, Sandy. Chris and Sandy played viols afterward.
03 s spoke at service: milestone: on gratefulness (emotionally), after 2 years attending. Gurganuses spoke on dealing with blindness.
04 m learned that Dad received the Governor's Medal for NLVM
05 t learned that 1) mom fell and bruised her eye against the chair, and 2) basil's pelvis is broken. Everyone feels bad; but prognosis for both is OK.
14 h flight back from PAG. Such a contrast, thinking of the infrastructure in the airport, and the collapsed infrastructure in Haiti. Contribution to PiH.
15 f First day back from PAG. Bad day for E, following my inconsiderateness on the last day of PAG. Left work early and skied Carr Woods; things are much better afterwards. We're both much happier here in the clean cold air, on the snow, than under palm trees in San Diego.
16 s 2h skied Lime Creek w E & J. Outstanding. Ate afterwards at cafe in Mason City; then stopped at the Coffee Cat coffee shop.
17 s Worked inside most of the day. Evening: a walk through the park w E
18 m Worked much of the day (misc cleaning). 1.5h ski Carr Woods. Recycles; a big shop at Wheatsfield.
19 t long day, interrupted by ADA training at NAHC. Wrote T. M. re phytozome browser issue.
20 w slept badly (thinking abt moleskines vs notecards, oddly), then slept in. Significant ice storm (though warmish, so a bit slushy).
26 t Buy tickets for Italy in March
27 w Email to E. O. Signed closing docs for the land. Skate at Carr over noon (.45 h) Evening: photocopied abstract. Obama State of Union address.
30 s 1.5 h Carr area: skied on Skunk to open water across from Ada Hayden. Started assembling invite list for Mardi Gras
31 s 1.5 h Carr area: skied on Skunk to a little past bridge across from Ada Hayden. Listened to a beaver in his den; saw a bald eagle and a hawk. Evening: more work on Mardi Gras list.
Jan
01 m long work day. With e, sent invites to Mardi Gras on Feb 12th. A walk at ~9 pm through Brookside after a pretty 1" snow.
02 t to work early, and knocked off early (6:30-3:30). Then skied Squaw Creek to Onion Creek. Low 20s. 3" snow on most parts of the river. Very pretty. Home at dusk. A fair amount of open water, but the ice seems thick in most areas. Saw a herd 9-10 deer up by Onion Creek.
03 w
04 h left work at 2:30 to go to meeting on Beloit "Peoples' Garden" (Fail; was at NLAE rather than at NADC). Then to Carr to skate-ski 1 hr. *** Saw fresh otter tracks near dam.
05 f finished Chame revisions and sent to coauthors. Long day (11 h work). Went to Le's Vietnamese after work, then came home and started filling out seed orders.
06 s More seed orders. Some measuring at 1312, and experimenting with deer fence. Skate-ski and double-pole at Carr 1.2 h. Went north to the end of the bottomland fields, and a little on the river -- but warmth has softened the ice and left a lot more open water, so I spent little time on the ice. Saw a lot of fresh beaver work (from above), at the same lodge where I heard the beaver last week chewing on a branch in the lodge. Saw a "necklace" of four rounded chunks chewed from a ~8" diameter hackberry. South, another smaller lodge. In the woods, saw an owl fly above me. Also startled a herd of nearly 20 deer in the woods.
Why post this? Well, since this atgatg thing is called a "journal." There's a risk of exposing too much; on the other hand, one model for this site is that it does in fact let friends and family know what I am up to. Well, here's what I've written to myself in the last month and a half. I should edit and expand, but -- but if it came to that, I probably wouldn't post at all. So here it is, unedited and unexpanded.
Feb
01 s party: Rick, Sue, Jeri, Chris, Sandy. Chris and Sandy played viols afterward.
03 s spoke at service: milestone: on gratefulness (emotionally), after 2 years attending. Gurganuses spoke on dealing with blindness.
04 m learned that Dad received the Governor's Medal for NLVM
05 t learned that 1) mom fell and bruised her eye against the chair, and 2) basil's pelvis is broken. Everyone feels bad; but prognosis for both is OK.
14 h flight back from PAG. Such a contrast, thinking of the infrastructure in the airport, and the collapsed infrastructure in Haiti. Contribution to PiH.
15 f First day back from PAG. Bad day for E, following my inconsiderateness on the last day of PAG. Left work early and skied Carr Woods; things are much better afterwards. We're both much happier here in the clean cold air, on the snow, than under palm trees in San Diego.
16 s 2h skied Lime Creek w E & J. Outstanding. Ate afterwards at cafe in Mason City; then stopped at the Coffee Cat coffee shop.
17 s Worked inside most of the day. Evening: a walk through the park w E
18 m Worked much of the day (misc cleaning). 1.5h ski Carr Woods. Recycles; a big shop at Wheatsfield.
19 t long day, interrupted by ADA training at NAHC. Wrote T. M. re phytozome browser issue.
20 w slept badly (thinking abt moleskines vs notecards, oddly), then slept in. Significant ice storm (though warmish, so a bit slushy).
26 t Buy tickets for Italy in March
27 w Email to E. O. Signed closing docs for the land. Skate at Carr over noon (.45 h) Evening: photocopied abstract. Obama State of Union address.
30 s 1.5 h Carr area: skied on Skunk to open water across from Ada Hayden. Started assembling invite list for Mardi Gras
31 s 1.5 h Carr area: skied on Skunk to a little past bridge across from Ada Hayden. Listened to a beaver in his den; saw a bald eagle and a hawk. Evening: more work on Mardi Gras list.
Jan
01 m long work day. With e, sent invites to Mardi Gras on Feb 12th. A walk at ~9 pm through Brookside after a pretty 1" snow.
02 t to work early, and knocked off early (6:30-3:30). Then skied Squaw Creek to Onion Creek. Low 20s. 3" snow on most parts of the river. Very pretty. Home at dusk. A fair amount of open water, but the ice seems thick in most areas. Saw a herd 9-10 deer up by Onion Creek.
03 w
04 h left work at 2:30 to go to meeting on Beloit "Peoples' Garden" (Fail; was at NLAE rather than at NADC). Then to Carr to skate-ski 1 hr. *** Saw fresh otter tracks near dam.
05 f finished Chame revisions and sent to coauthors. Long day (11 h work). Went to Le's Vietnamese after work, then came home and started filling out seed orders.
06 s More seed orders. Some measuring at 1312, and experimenting with deer fence. Skate-ski and double-pole at Carr 1.2 h. Went north to the end of the bottomland fields, and a little on the river -- but warmth has softened the ice and left a lot more open water, so I spent little time on the ice. Saw a lot of fresh beaver work (from above), at the same lodge where I heard the beaver last week chewing on a branch in the lodge. Saw a "necklace" of four rounded chunks chewed from a ~8" diameter hackberry. South, another smaller lodge. In the woods, saw an owl fly above me. Also startled a herd of nearly 20 deer in the woods.