Done this year (20150101 Th - 03 Sa)
Well, our anniversary weekend passed without a party -- somehow I'd had the impression that we were having one, but everyone else had the impression that the one the Saturday after Christmas counted for both. So... ok. I went out and got salads, cheese, sausage, scallops, and bacon. Bacon-wrapped scallops, and cheese boards for two. Yum.
Thursday we ordered Chinese from Yen Wor Village -- not as good as Yu Shan, but better than any of the other local places that deliver.
Lots and lots of decluttering, both in my to-do lists and, to a lesser extent, in the house.
I finally found a canned cat food that Curio likes! I've been worried about him. It's made by Natural Balance, and the same duck and green pea combination that's in the dry food he likes (but that we're trying to get him off of, because apparently dry food isn't all that good for cats).
And we finally have a static IP address again -- it's only $5/month from CenturyLink. The tech support person who set it up was completely clueless; I had to go to her supervisor to find someone who knew what reverse DNS was (and how to find it on their damned website, which is slow, poorly laid out, and doesn't trim spaces in input fields).
Finished reading Lauren Ipsum, which will get a separate post later. You'll also find an entry in the notes tagged "ursine", which will get expanded into the start of a planned post series if I can finally get off my tail and write it.
Links in the notes, as usual.
0101 Th * up 7:45; W=214.8; shower * 15min: Year-end cleanup in to.do and wibnif.do, starport/Admin, etc. * 15min: detangling paracord, attempting to clear a box. * 15min: cleared a box (by consolidation, but still...) (3:45) % 5ish: my eyes have definitely glazed over; time to stop fiddling with the to-do lists. There's stuff still current going back to 2008 or earlier. * mdlbear | Thankful Thursday, Hippo Gnu Deer, and impending Party mdlbear | Looking ahead to 2015 * Massive move of to.do items to wibnif, followed by a re-org. Comparatively few uncategorized items remain, though I seem to have missed some. It would be worth while consolidating all the tools-related items, though whether here or in Tools is an open question. @ Yen Wor Village - Seattle - WA - Chinese, Seafood, Vegetarian courtesy of Glenn Not as good as Yu-Shan, but better than Orient Express. % ursine: Linguistic insight: Asking me "May I have a kiss?" or "Do you want a kiss?" will almost invariably get a "yes". Phrasing it "Don't I get a kiss?" or something of that nature will get an answer of "Sorry" and lead to a somewhat disturbed bear. 0102 Fr * up 7ish; W=214.2; cleanup * WFH * call Spinlife -> The agent I reached was very helpful. My opinion of the tech dropped considerably -- I wouldn't have thought that possible. He managed to order an arm for a manual wheelchair, not the power one, and ordered wheel assemblies instead of just the tires and tubes we needed. Great. The parts won't be ordered until Monday, and probably won't arrive until the end of the week, so we're looking at maybe week after next assuming the tech has some vestige of a clue. And hasn't been fired in the interim. : Anniversary present from Mom. It was cash, so we're using some of it to get pizza for dinner. Another bit is going toward a hanging pot rack. @ Reading Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things % 8:36 cold * Renamed server-reorg.done -> admin-to.do. The new naming scheme is intended to be used for parts of wibnif.do that don't really belong there, like tools-to.do 0103 Sa 39th Anniversary * up 8ish; W=213.2 @ Ringing in 2015 with 40 Linux-friendly hacker SBCs · LinuxGizmos.com @ OpenMediaVault - The open network attached storage solution (via LWN) PHP front end on a Debian-based NAS * Finished Lauren Ipsum. Sort of a Phantom Tollbooth for fundamentals of CS * Static IP address. $10/month 209.180.207.131/32 reverse: ir.rainbows-end.net The first tech support person I contacted was completely clueless (and also had a bad connection, probably either feedback or loose plug). Had to go to a supervisor to get pointed at the self-service site for RDNS. www.ctlhelp.com -> http://internethelp.centurylink.com/internethelp/static-ips.html -> for some reason the rdns tool doesn't take names with hyphens! -> but it did after I added polaris.thestarport.org! IDIOTS! More likely failure to trim spaces. * rainbows-end.net currently 404 -- probably broken link -> up * Went to TJ's and QFC. Cheese/salami board, salad, and bacon-wrapped scallops (from scratch -- QFC had nice-looking, huge scallops and good bacon). @ God is on the ropes: The brilliant new science that has creationists and the Christian right terrified - Salon.com f(Howard Davidson) "Jeremy England, a young MIT professor who’s proposed a theory, based in thermodynamics, showing that the emergence of life was not accidental, but necessary. “[U]nder certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life,” he was quoted as saying..." * book room for Conflikt $ Conflikt memberships -- $190 on PayPal - transfered $250 to HSX to cover : I finally found a cat food Curio likes -- Natural Balance duck and green pea, which is the same brand and flavor combination as his kibble. Yum! apparently.
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