[Diary] Wed 2010-08-11
Our housemates, mishamish and babymonkey, have moved out earlier this week. They're heading back to Cleveland for grad school (Misha is going to CWRU), and to help out with family.
The house is immediately emptier, stranger. I miss them already.
I've been mostly working on rearranging the house, redoing what was their room and will now be the guest room. Trips to Lowe's, taping, painting, assembling and moving furniture. About halfway there (and then, on to the dining room, kitchen, bathroom).
On the horizon looms Cat's trip to Australia for the Hugos, and my simultaneous trip to Spain with parents. We still have to arrange house(/dog/duck) sitters, but we've got several good leads.
No boat this year. Mom and Dad had to cancel their trip to visit us in Maine (and tow the boat over). A week before, Dad came up with an exciting Dr. House type of illness in his leg (cellulitis, apparently), and spent some days in the hospital. He still can't walk, but has high hopes for getting better before Spain. The boat will spend the winter in Cleveland, and I'll fly down and tow it first thing next summer.
Beyond that, I've been mostly focusing on the list of key habits that I need to install in myself.
I've got three of them down pretty well -- waking up at a fixed time every day (6am), running first thing in the morning, and then sitting down to code on my personal projects for an hour a day.
The next ones will take some work, though -- reading printed books for 50 mins each day, studying/memorizing Ruby/Rails materials (I'm using SuperMemo for software), processing my Inbox, and meditating.
I'm hoping to get through all (or most of them) before the end of the year.
The house is immediately emptier, stranger. I miss them already.
I've been mostly working on rearranging the house, redoing what was their room and will now be the guest room. Trips to Lowe's, taping, painting, assembling and moving furniture. About halfway there (and then, on to the dining room, kitchen, bathroom).
On the horizon looms Cat's trip to Australia for the Hugos, and my simultaneous trip to Spain with parents. We still have to arrange house(/dog/duck) sitters, but we've got several good leads.
No boat this year. Mom and Dad had to cancel their trip to visit us in Maine (and tow the boat over). A week before, Dad came up with an exciting Dr. House type of illness in his leg (cellulitis, apparently), and spent some days in the hospital. He still can't walk, but has high hopes for getting better before Spain. The boat will spend the winter in Cleveland, and I'll fly down and tow it first thing next summer.
Beyond that, I've been mostly focusing on the list of key habits that I need to install in myself.
I've got three of them down pretty well -- waking up at a fixed time every day (6am), running first thing in the morning, and then sitting down to code on my personal projects for an hour a day.
The next ones will take some work, though -- reading printed books for 50 mins each day, studying/memorizing Ruby/Rails materials (I'm using SuperMemo for software), processing my Inbox, and meditating.
I'm hoping to get through all (or most of them) before the end of the year.