Done this last week (20110403 Su - 0408 Fr)
0403 Su * up 7ish; W=195.6; drugs, nose, teeth, laundry, light, : CPAP uses 6-11 W in normal operation, 3W standby; Meter uses 3W So an APC XS1500 UPS will, in fact, run the CPAP for 8 hours. Barely. @ When Your Child is Invisible | BlogHer @kyrielle * 15min: cleanup around and behind the rack. Tossed a Soundblaster SB16 -- AT bus board in its original shrinkwrap. I think I inherited it from Dad. * 15min: gave up fighting permissions and chowned /users/starport to me * offsite backups - pull from dsl with reduced excludes. Should really use the transfer drive, though. * 12:30ish YD to Baycon mtg. * st/roll with the Cat - Rose Garden * mount the new disk on /home and /srv on stargate. * 15min: sorted HSX receipts from box, into equipment and travel/entertain. still have to sort the travel folder, but that's it. * stir-fried chicken and leeks. Ginger, red pepper, tamari, wine @ haikujaguar: Is it the Right Time for an E-Book Brick-and-Mortar Store? " snipeyhead snipe @ssavitzky thanks for the RTs! Love your music! High Barratry and Uncle Ernie's are favs! " ! very pleased by my first fan tweet (first that I noticed, anyway) * 15min: tax sorting - travel folder. ! Sorting done! Accomplished. ~ install the bedroom XS1500 UPS or trantor's XS1300 on Nova The latter would be safer, and involve only one swap. Or I could wait and get another 1500 for Nova, or (even better) a battery pack for the CPAP. :trainwreck: What's in checking isn't going to last until Tuesday, let alone next Friday. * dishes * bath 11:15ish; bed 11:50 0404 Mo * up 6:00; W=198; drugs, nose, coffee, light @ wcg - Just in case you haven't already seen this lap giraffes and house hippos. I want a rhino. : LJ slow and flaky this morning. Probably more DDOSage. % it apparently takes a couple of days for a bag of chips to affect my weight % realized somewhere over the weekend that there really is a difference between developers and researchers. Most of the developers here are not *curious*. They're not trying to learn more about odd pieces of the product just because it's fun and interesting. I am. & lunch at Sr. J's with (coworker) Hirshol Interesting guy. Maybe 15min walking, total. Nice weather. ! enjoyed it. Good company, good weather. " QOTD: (coworker) Ed, 5:30: Feels like it's been a long week already " & 8:05 major cleanup % back shot. % pretty much recovered by 9ish, but owwww! Bending over Not Good for bears. * pull-from-dsl should keep exclusions for Tracks, *.wav; use xfer for those. * Liz came over; went out shopping with Colleen, and did a of cleaning. ! grateful, impressed * (Colleen & Liz) buy: brown basmati rice 0405 Tu * up 6:40; W=198; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, coffee : LJ still horked; won't give me all of my friends page, and ljupdate mode gives a weird error (but it does post) * 15min: cleaned the stickies (tape and a bumper sticker) off of Colleen's scooter seat with spray goo-gone * reset Colleen's bedside clock * deposit bday check from Mom * productive day at work * Walk: to Skyport. Nice weather. Salad from DD's for lunch. * 6:00 Avoid Avoiding * buy: sudafed, tums @ I, Cringely - Geeks like me: What's Engadget really worth? ~ buy: garbage bags (Colleen on Safeway) @ Survival Of The Stupidest via gmcdavid * bed ~10:30 0406 We * up 7:20; W=196.4; drugs, nose, teeth, laundry, coffee, dishes, light @ denise: Technical debt and the making of payments on it : The problems ljupdate was having the last few days seem to have been due to the DDoS. I still ought to upgrade it, and also migrate over to DW as my primary posting platform. * Colleen: humira * 15min: clean up to.do file at work * another productive day * walk: skyport. Chili verde from DDs ! walking near traffic is unpleasant. Walking is good, but... * sing to Naomi * order citalopram, simvastatin @ Cat allergy vaccine safe and effective, study suggests via kayshapero 0407 Th * up 7:28; W=197.6; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, coffee, light & stupidly forgot to save when I left home. Retrieve from Trantor's buffer when it comes up. Will require NOT reverting! BEWARE! -> done * check cash level. -> ok as long as I put in $500 or so before next Th * 5:30pm Dr. Rogers *- mentioned communication problems / frustration with $(coworker) => experiment with acceptance - knowing when to stop trying to change something or make something happen @ The Epsilon Syndrome - Cringely on technology @ Armed and Dangerous » The Smartphone Wars: Almost boring now * trainwreck: No wonder my checking account was overdrawn -- one of the transfers from savings I thought I'd made didn't actually happen! (otoh, I also forgot to make a payment to my SW card, so...) " The kind of social situation I'm likely to find awkward is one where I find myself in the vicinity of somebody I'd like to get to know better, but have nothing obvious to start a conversation with. Or I'm talking with them, but have no clue about how to take the conversation to a deeper and more personal level. (The times when the other person has taken the lead have almost always worked out well, or at least not gone disastrously wrong.) " (from comment on ysabetwordsmith - Socially Awkward Situations) * laundry, recyclage = the IRS has approved April 18, 2011 as the tax filing deadline for 2010 Tax Returns and extension requests in observation of Emancipation Day in the District of Columbia : chatter of the gamers in the next room is making it impossible to concentrate. % dream fragments: a fancy party, followed by losing my car in the parking lot because I hadn't parked in my usual spot. Coming back the next day and finding it. A knicknack cabinet with a clay pipe prominently on display. House construction, including a partially completed, square computer desk with both standing and sitting sections on adjacent sides. 0408 Fr * up 6:45; W=197.6; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, coffee, light : sunny and bright, but with rainwater dripping from the eaves and glistening on the leaves and trunks of the trees. Pretty. : not rainwater - meltwater from last night's hail @ thnidu - Rube Goldberg Meets J.S. Bach (embedded YT video) Beautiful! @ Yuri's Night - the world's space party 50 years, on April 12 * make car appointment for Sat. am (888) 812-0686 btw. 8:30 and 9 @ Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project | Facebook ! huge relief at finding and documenting a major weirdness which, now that we know what's causing it, doesn't have to be fixed right now. % kind of wrung out * called Mom. Learned that she and Dad retired at 75. Hope for me yet. * 15min: cleanup and consolidation in to.do * 11 bath; 11:50 bed
Oh, good grief! A lot can pile up in a week. Sorry about that.
My only excuse is that I've been sleeping somewhat more than usual (7 and sometimes 8 hours/night), and very busy at work. But it's not really a good excuse -- there was plenty of time when I could either have been entering tax data or updating my LJ. Instead I did neither. Go figure.
Pretty much nothing got done on taxes, except for finishing up the sorting. Not a whole lot of walking, either, though I had a very nice st/roll around the Rose Garden with Colleen on Sunday and managed a couple of 15-30 min. lunchtime walks.
Finances are continuing to be a trainwreck. Somebody asked me if I was thinking of retiring next year at 65. Hah! I found out that my parents retired at 75; that makes me feel a lot better about things.
Still, work went well; I got a lot done, and I'm actually pretty confident that we'll hit our code freeze deadline of Tuesday evening. (Of course, if the tsunami hadn't pushed our schedule back a little...) The week ended with me identifying the root cause -- a driver conflict -- of some very worrying bad behavior. It's unlikely to be fixed by Tuesday, but now that we know what order to do things in it doesn't have to be.
I guess the main thing about that last bit was that I noticed that I was feeling relief, while I was feeling it. That's comparatively rare for me. I had a second glass of wine with dinner -- figured I'd earned it.
Also on the river, a quote from a comment I made elsejournal:
The kind of social situation I'm likely to find awkward is one where I find myself in the vicinity of somebody I'd like to get to know better, but have nothing obvious to start a conversation with. Or I'm talking with them, but have no clue about how to take the conversation to a deeper and more personal level. (The times when the other person has taken the lead have almost always worked out well, or at least not gone disastrously wrong.)
Of course, this suggests that it's probably safer not to try, and let the other person go deeper if they want to. *sigh*
Some very good links under the cut; I strongly recommend Rube Goldberg Meets J.S. Bach and, in a more technical direction, Technical debt and the making of payments on it.