Done last week (20150208 Su - 14 Sa)
I have been a Productive Bear this week, mostly in the garage, though I also wrote and posted a poem. (The first version was typed into the comment box on LJ, which may not be the best way to work, but whatever gets words onto silicon is ok.)
I also dealt with repair people -- we now have a functioning washer, scooter, and lift chairs.
Wednesday I read the recently-republished "Vanishing Act" in Lapham’s Quarterly, and so encountered The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett. I finished it yesterday. Simply amazing. A brilliant fantasy, written by a nine-year-old girl, that... I don't know. Just go read it.
I also had to deal with a fair amount of pain, especially in the evening. No fun. And Tuesday the stream of bad news and idiocy on Facebook got to me, to the point where I wrote "I am too cynical and depressed to continue reading facebook tonight.". Bah! There are better things:
Yesterday was, of course, Valentine's Day; I spent most of the day in the Rainbow Room with Colleen listening to music, and made a most excellent dinner consisting of lobster tails, beef Wellington, crab-stuffed mushrooms, and asparagus. All for roughly the price of a rather cheap dinner out. I'm not complaining.
Links in the notes, of course.
0208 Su * up 6:50; W=214.4; shower, laundry (including filter-cleaning. Twice.), dishes ~ broken image links for CC logos in lyrics. -> PrivacyBadger blocking the links. @ Vaccination: Just Do It · Deirdre Saoirse Moen : The washer definitely has a clogged drain. Grump. * 15min: a very productive hour or two in the garage. Took out much cardboard, and found the base to the Dell monitor. Brought that up; found a plastic bin full of toys and three boxes of fabric. Emptied the plastic bin labeled Junk, mostly by redistributing the remaining contents. % Dead tired, though. * QFC run for dinner, and a couple of things for N. * More garage puttering * a little work in /Songs cf comments in mdlbear | Done this month (20150201 Su - 07 Sa) * steve.savitzky.net/Songs/Index.html now uses server-side includes instead of the old template system. Now under git control, except for generated and audio files. 0209 Mo * Up 7:30; W=214.2; @ Complete Transcript Of Bob Dylan's MusicCares Speech - 'These songs didn't come out of thin air' f(Tom Tuerff) * Bad drain pump. Again. When I mentioned that I'd found paperclips in the drain filter the repair guy said that was probably it. @ Only two states - Mississippi and West Virginia - allow no exemptions beyond those for medical reasons. Those states also have exceptionally high vaccination rates - for measles, 99 percent of Mississippi kindergarteners are fully immunized, as are 96 percent of West Virginia kindergartners - and neither state has had a case of measles in more than 20 years. : The keyboard on my work laptop is pure crap. Which is why I'm using a thinkpad keyboard there. & Finally connected Chrome on cygnus with my google account, because I want to be able to move the profile if cygnus dies suddenly. @ What Would Happen To Earth If All Humans Disappeared? | IFLScience (ysabetwordsmith) AFTERMATH Population Zero Full - YouTube f(Elizabeth Barrette) * Did a load of dishes after dinner; not a clean plate to be had, so it was past time. (Giselle was out sick, so they hadn't gotten done) 0210 Tu * up 6:35; W=213.4 @ Professor Supports Parkinson's Research Through Song | UANews Mel Tatum @ Some MBA Students May Have Just Made the Greatest Feminist Anthem of Our Time (ysabetwordsmith) @ Anthem's Data Breach: Now A Lifelong Cluster**** for 80 Million Americans % pain+frustration+maybe not enough to eat = depression or a good facsimile % I had to wash a plate and fork because I couldn't bend down to get clean ones out of the dishwasher. Facebook is depressing all by itself. I should go to bed. 0211 We * up 6:40; W=213.4; dishes... dishes & called JimmyZ -- we're on the list for Friday. -> tomorrow, 5-7 @ The House Without Windows (includes downloadable ebooks) Farksolia - Barbara Newhall Follett's home on the web (by her nephew) & opened a can of worms at work. Turns out the design wasn't anywhere near as done as I expected. 0212 Th * up 6:35; ; * 4pm leave work no later than. * 5-7 Jimmy Z for washer drain pump install. * dishes, laundry % 9:30 sleepy 0213 Fr * up 6:35; W=213.4; * order drugs * pay bills - amex, navient, viewtech. Went through piles. Two more due after 0220 * paid amex gold balance; conflikt and sasquan mostly * 10am Jim Hale (Spinlife) Everything works now. : Two of my other coworkers also have HP laptops, and we were all griping about the lousy keyboards. I like my Thinkpad and Ubicomp keyboards, thanks. " f(Julia Ecklar) I remember being told once, "If you believe in evolution, that means you think people are animals, that we don't have souls.". I said, "No, it means I believe people are animals, and that everything has a soul." @ Raising Children Without Religion May Be A Better Alternative, Suggests New Research | Bustle How secular family values stack up - LA Times @ Ruby Refreshed - The Complete Series (Download the first and coolest cyberpunk radio drama - Boing Boing) 0214 Sa Valentine's Day * some cuddle in the morning. Also some Curio-cuddle * up 7ish; ; Shower, laundry @ Poem: Round Dance, 2138 * Metro run for dinner - lobster tails, beef Wellington, crab-stuffed mushrooms, and asparagus. Also gin, ginger, jam, and marmalade * Put up three 8' boards across the beams in the garage. Put up most of the 8' lumber from inside. % 3:30 tired but productive. I'll take it. Now I'm going to the RR to listen to music with Colleen. & Found the Animusic DVD in the Avalon Is Risen case. Restored both to their rightful places. Still some misplaced CDs and at least one empty box. :P * Dinner. Yum. Candles, on the dinner table. * Finished The House Without Windows Extraordinary.
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