Done last week (20150104 Su - 10 Sa)
Not a particularly good week. One of my self-observations yesterday kind of sums it up: "Too much stuff, too many things that need doing, not enough cope, no motivation." Not to mention Congress, Charlie Hebdo, depression comix, two dead computers (which, fortunately, I didn't have much invested in to begin with), starting my self-assessment at work, and starting to clear out our garage.
Self-assessment. Yeah; nothing like working with brilliant, productive, experienced people to make me feel stupid, lazy, and incompetent. Especially when many of them are younger than one of my kids.
Some really fascinating stuff in the links.
0104 Su * up 7:45; W=213.2 * Home Remodeling Expo. Not nearly as big as the Home Show; disappointing, but we got info on three different solar power vendors. @ International Year of Light - Home via Pittcon | Conference & Expo @ Sorry, Science Doesn't Make a Case for God. But That's OK. | Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman @ The Most Beautiful Religious Photos Of 2014 & Thank you for registering for Pittcon 2015. Your confirmation number is 152104269. We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans! * My missing ORCA card turned up while clearing off the shelf in front of Nova. which I did because I wanted to put my SAD lamp up there. Not the best location, but it sort of works. : The Raspberry Pi I bought from somebody at Disney over a year ago failed to boot when I tried it. Not a huge loss, but still... 0105 Mo * up 6:30ish; W=212.0 * 8am builder (McAdams Remodeling and Design; just for reference). * call Benita @ spinlife 800-850-0335x775 -> left voice mail -> called back, got Benita, paid for parts: $538.58 @ 201 | depression comix ouch! @ About | 7CupsOfTea.com Hmm. & add 2015 Goals to to.do 0106 Tu * Up 6:05; W=213.0 @ 2014 Was The Hottest Year On Record Globally By Far | ThinkProgress ( From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space - A bad record to break) : Turns out that Curio likes veggies with his meat. Snarfed up a can of beef with carrots last night. After which he had most of a can of beef with gravy. Silly cat. % Not entirely sure why I'm reading http://www.depressioncomix.com/ -- cathartic? But Clay really nails it in so many ways. For example: 101 | depression comix "So.. how are you today?" "Fine! Yeah! No complaints!" "Is there anything you want to talk about today?" "Mmmm. Nope. Nothing I can think of." "So we'll talk again next session?" "Sure thing! See you then!" (takes off smile mask) Therapy doesn't seem to be working. -> it didn't, either. @ wait what, Rest in fucking pieces, you shit year. * Wallgreens: seniors get 20% off. -> not much we needed. @ 152 | depression comix "I _am_ happy. That's the problem. Now I'm scared of it all going away." Not usually a problem for me, but I've been there once or twice. @ 175 | depression comix Impostor syndrome. I haz it. @ 193 | depression comix "If you don't believe in yourself, the people who do believe in you seem _so misguided_." 0107 We * up 6:35; W=213.8 @ Pocosin | Apex Magazine Ursula Vernon, amazing as always. ( ursulav) * Colleen: humira @ ERIC - Harry Stottlemier's Discovery [Revised Edition]., 1974-Dec (scanned) 0108 Th * up 6:35; W=213.8 & made the mistake of not pushing my changes this morning, and then compounding the problem by deciding to update Windows on Cygnus. It's taking forever. I see a merge in my future. Thank goodness for putty, and the fact that emacs works perfectly well in a terminal window. : We need to get a 3' corridor on the West wall of the garage cleared off so the builders can try to find the sewer pipe. By a week from tomorrow. :P 0109 Fr * up 6:20; W=213.0, dishes @ Rebooted Cluetrain Manifesto - Boing Boing New Clues " YD: My knowledge of geography is really sketchy. me: There's a map for that. @ Facing the Challenge of Online Harassment | EFF ( osewalrus) : YD brought down another Acer laptop she's destroyed. This one came with Windows 8, and had apparently gone wonky after the 8.1 upgrade. After which it was kept in front of a wall heater, so it's partly melted. Agonizingly noisy fan. With fan fixed, it will probably work fine as a Linux box. * 15min: Brought up some more artwork from the garage. 0110 Sa * up 6:40ish; W=212.4; Shower @ A Videogame That Teaches You to Write Poetry, Even if It Intimidates You (ysabetwordsmith) @ Linux's Creator Wants Us All to Chill Out About the Leap Second | WIRED [LWN] @ (WATCH) Astronomically Correct 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' f(Shannon Dillman) * 15min: a couple of boxes of art, one box of fabric up from the garage. A couple of boxes of books put on top of the bookcase in the hall. % Too much stuff, too many things that need doing, not enough cope, no motivation. * got the heat-damaged laptop apart -- 19 screws, plus 3 under the damned keyboard. I suspect it's a loss, but got 4G of RAM, a 750G hard drive, and a SATA DVD drive out of it. OTOH it probably _can_ boot. :P The keyboard is clearly defunct, and was crap to begin with, but that's what USB is for. Re-arranged, it could probably be a nice panel computer. * 15min: more garage work. Another couple of boxes of fabric up. & ordered Chinese (Yen Wor) because Jones' was out of ribs :( : laptop MB appears to be totally dead now, possibly due to UEFI idiocy. Too bad -- it's a nice system. Was. Apparently there's some vital piece of the BIOS on the drive itself, which I succeeded in damaging. :P And in any case the fan was toast. @ GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia @ ysabetwordsmith | Falling in Love on Purpose
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