Done recently (20120605 Tu - 07 Th)
Tuesday started off with a blood draw at Kaiser for some lab work, and the results dribbled in between that afternoon and Thursday. Notably, this time everything was in the normal range, which means that my triglycerides are under control and I'm officially not prediabetic. Go me!
And I saw the Transit of Venus -- not just via NASA's live stream from Mauna Kea and the fantastic high-res images from SDO on APOD, but in person in my back yard, projected with binocular onto the side of a garbage can. I even persuaded the YD to come out and see.
I've done a lot of packing in the office -- half the bookshelves are empty now. It's progress. I have to keep telling myself that I'm making some. I finally turned up my All World Travel Pass, signed by both of Cordwainer Smith's daughters. Plus some un-deposited checks from the 1990s. Eeep!
I have two interviews scheduled for next week, but was disappointed to get a rejection from Tableau. Oh, well.
[flame] My pension paperwork has apparently not been received. I asked them to send me another copy -- it's been a month. Idiots! (This is Hewitt we're talking about, so not surprising.) Hate. I asked to speak to a supervisor and told them that their website is useless. The only response was that it's only designed to give you estimates, not to actually see the status of your account. [/flame]
The YD, by the way, has been extraordinarily helpful the last week or so. I'm delighted.
Quite a few links. Go look. Oh, and 6.5 Million LinkedIn Accounts May Be Compromised, Change Your Passwords Now if you haven't already.
0605 Tu * up 6:50; W=197.6; d, n, t * buy: gas for van * labwork at Kaiser * buy: resistance band (level 2) * buy: 1.5ft^3 boxes Try JDM 2756 So. Bascom Ave Half a block S of Lunardi's on the same side. Approach from Camden x 11am Dr. Reed -> nxt Fr * The number you can call about your pension is 877-775-1479. But after a few seconds it makes you leave a message. Sucks. @ Using Words Not Found in the Dictionary - NYTimes.com ( ebonypearl) * re-ping Tableau -> link to long-form app. Submitted. * 3ish callback from Hewitt. Apparently they haven't received the paperwork I mailed back to them before Baycon. Told them to mail me another set. They can't do priority mail (of course). Their website is only for estimates; it doesn't have anything useful on it. Like the fact that they'll only send a verification of your paperwork if you ask for it. Complained to a supervisor, and also mentioned that they ought to have a phone queue instead of sending you to voice mail (lather, rinse, repeat if you miss the callback). ! 3:25 still angry @ VOTE: slothman - Hold Your Nose and Vote on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 * walk: d=2.1, t=:43, s=2.8, c=207 @ NASA EDGE @ Mauna Kea, Hawaii: Live Webcast Streams starts 12:04 (Hawaiian time, UTC-10); ends 18:26. (15:04 - 21:26 PDT) Learning From Celestial Beauty - NYTimes.com ( peteralway) * (17:13:53) ***mdlbear has seen the transit of Venus (projected through binoculars). Not, perhaps, as spectacular as an eclipse, but still pretty impressive. @ prompt in ysabetwordsmith's Poetry Fishbowl * finished (finally) Family Ties & Torn Skies @ LinkedIn's Leaky Mobile App Has Access to Your Meeting Notes & Sorted one of the "sort me" bins. Found some undeposited checks from 1994. :( Bear is disorganized. * 8:54 now done with all five of the sort-me bins. ... and found my All World Travel Pass. I'd forgotten that it was postcard sized. 0606 We * up 7:15; W=195.6; d, n, t; dishes, exercise @ What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Life @ RIP: Ray Bradbury dies; sci-fi author wrote ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ ‘Martian Chronicles’ - The Washington Post Ray Bradbury, Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 91 - NYTimes.com Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury dies - CNN.com "There Will Come Soft Rains" [pdf] (firecat) Ray Bradbury Last Night of the World - Ray Bradbury Short Story - Esquire F*ck Me, Ray Bradbury - Rachel Bloom - YouTube (NSFW) Last of the Great Old Ones. @ 6.5 Million LinkedIn Accounts May Be Compromised, Change Your Passwords Now -> changed linkedIn password @ Build A Kit | Ready.gov @ Sic Transit, Glorious | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine f(David Weingart) * walk: d=2.5, t=0:50, s=3.0 c=246; Rose Garden * Call from Joni at Tableau. Not a match at this time. Suspect I'm overqualified. * researched jobs at Intellectual Ventures. Too solidly Microsoft-oriented. @ Environmental collapse now a serious threat: scientists | The Raw Story @ Flashmob Carmina Burana - YouTube OMFG * look up flights. Call AA 1-800-433-7300 to try to get assigned seats * plane tickets for Colleen & YD - Tuesday before Westercon (0703) 0607 Th * up 6:55; W=195.8; d, n, t; dishes @ Billionaires buy Wisconsin recall election for Scott Walker - latimes.com @ America's political divide is turning into a chasm - latimes.com "We will have an election in November, but no matter who wins, nearly half the electorate will feel the country has been stolen from them. Regional differences are tolerable and charming, but political differences can run so deep that the people on the other side begin to look less like countrymen than like enemies. * call American Airlines about seat assignments. "airport control", so will be assigned when I get there. Bletch. * practice: The River, Wheelin', Boom Gone to Bust @ Free source code hosting - Bitbucket Cool! free unlimited public and private git and mercurial hosting. They only charge for private repos with > 10 users. Set up account. % (10:39:00) mdlbear: Just looked at the last of my blood test results -- even my triglycerides and glucose are solidly in the normal range now. Go me! This means I'm officially *not* pre-diabetic. * create accounts on github and dropbox. Will use github for public repos -- AMP, silvermine, PIA, etc. = our cabinetry appear to be Yorktowne, not American Woodmark. OTOH they no longer have our style in stock. * make github account (no private repos in the free account) * have done the piles in the SW corner of the office shelves. Mostly family stuff, plus the receipts for the first remodel. * moved job applications etc. to mail.quest.jobs. Forgetting that there's a mail.search.jobs. That got moved to mail.soc.jobs, because it's for networking sites like linkedin, glassfish, etc. * put in fresh application at Google. @ IPv6 rollout is a yawner (that's good!) - Cringely : YD is working on persuading Colleen to exercise and economize. Go Emmy! She actually stood up and took a few steps (then backed up to safety) @ 13 Tech Sounds You Just Don’t Hear Anymore - Yahoo! News @ Is OpenStack the new Linux? Hmm. No reasonable jobs in Seattle ATM. OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software joined OpenStack Seattle group on LinkedIn
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