Dear self,

Try to remember that there is a difference between "that's ( Read more... )

( 'Paid attention in high school' quizmeme )

Made it to pharmacy. Made it to nail salon after very annoying wait for wrong bus due to misinformation. Stopped at Appalachian Bluegrass for a nut blank because the slot for the bottom string on the mandolin I was practicing on while waiting for buses crumbled. (Blank is way bigger than I need; gonna have to cut it lengthwiseAnybody local have ( Read more... )

Brief thunderstorm, dropped the miserable temperature four or five degrees F, made lots of noise ...

And in the one strike that made things flicker, every device I've checked so far[*] came through without a problem, except one:

The file server rebooted. I'm running the fsck script now ( Read more... )

Ow ow dammit ow.

Forty minutes or so ago, Perrine leapt over my legs to join me ( Read more... )

Nearly everything I've managed to accomplish since returning from Conterpoint, I've done in the last six hours. But hey, I did at least get something done -- the drums are moved away from the basement door, so I can do laundry once I catch my breath; there's finally a path to the vacuum cleaner that I'm too exhausted to use; and ( what's done and not done... )

Argh -- gorgeous weather today, the most comfortable we've had here in Baltimore for a while, and I'm feeling too headachy and run-down to go take advantage of it. :-( Going to see whether I can manage a nap and feel well enough to accomplish anything this evening (dunno whether I'll get to HCB rehearsal or not ( Read more... )

Very bad day yesterday. (Actually, it started going wrong the night before.) Bad enough that describing it in detail in the least-whiny way possible would still warrant a "whine" tag on this entry, not just an "argh".
*sigh*

It was one of those bad days when problems had effects on other ( Read more... )

Ow ow ow ow ow and yuck.

I just sliced open the tip of my little toe. (When it happened, I thought I'd just munged the toenail. Nope, a flap of skin, meaning a larger (but still fortunately small) quantity of blood to wipe up.) I'm really not sure how I managed to do that, since it didn't feel like I whacked it that hard (enough to burst the skin ( Read more... )

Okay, the cable is connected ... 'lsusb' shows that the computer can see the printer ... I click "Print Test Page" in ( Read more... )