Done yesterday (10091114 Sa)
1114 Sa * up 7:40; W=198; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee . Jared staying here until 1114 (1111) * 9am work party in our back yard (organized by Andrew) Andrew, Jilara, Rob, Sharon, Jared. Major progress on the driveway and back yard. * shuffle cars * buy panties, meat, trash bags, snacks (which proved an essential component of lunch) * 11:45 YD to modeling school must be there by 12:30 * Yummy lunch, courtesy of Sharon ! Feeling pretty good. Optimistic(?), contented. | not as achy as the last week or so. mild flu? * Walk: Parkmoor to Bascom to W. San Carlos ! calm, basically neutral | minor aches in l. ankle, legs. & The $.99 store is predictably unimpressive, but the purple shopping carts and tote bags are awesome. Lots of stuff in smaller-than-usual packages. & YD upset; won't tell me or Colleen why * next work party in maybe 2 months ~ failed to install any printers on Colleen's Eee. ! frustrated, annoyed, puzzled. * bed ~10pm; snuggle
Yesterday was the "big" work party at the Starport. Huge amounts of progress were made cleaning up the driveway and the back yard, though nowhere near as much as if we'd had the hoped-for 10 people instead of 5. The next one will probably be in January sometime.
I spent most of the day runing errands, doing dishes, and assisting in the kitchen -- yard work is hard on my back, and somebody has to do the support. Infrastructure is my specialty, after all. My impulse buy of a bag of potato chips and a large salami at Safeway (while out for ground beef and large garbags) proved an essential component of lunch. So go me!
I noticed myself feeling pretty good in the morning. Contented and perhaps a bit optimistic. Colleen sent me out for a walk in the mid-afternoon; my mood was basically calm and pretty neutral. I took the Leigh-Parkmoor-Bascom-W. San Carlos route around the neighborhood, and checked out the new $.99 store. It was predictably unimpressive, with a lot of things in smaller-than-normal packages, but the purple shopping carts and tote bags were awesome. I'll almost certainly go back sometime just to get a couple of bags (which are, of course, $.99 each).
Spent most of the evening in the living room being more-or-less sociable. Tried to get printing installed on Colleen's Eee, but no joy. Probably something having to do with my wacko network topology; need to fix that soon. Or it could be Ubuntu's GUI for CUPS. Anyway, grumpf.
And I was feeling a lot less achy and generally slightly-under-the-weather; maybe that was a mild flu? Anyway, a good day. I should do that more often.