Done last week (20160214Su Valentine's Day - 0220Sa)
Mixed. Good week in some ways -- Thursday's basement-cleaning exercise with Giselle and N went a lot better than I expected. Getting rid of considerably more than we're keeping, which is good. Still need to do something like that in the garage.
My back hurts.
My back was not helped by spending all of yesterday sitting in uncomfortable chairs -- first at Lenscrafters while Emmy got her eyes examined, then at Harborview where they sent her for a CAT scan because her right optic nerve was swolen. *sigh* This happened back when she was 18; at that time the diagnosis was pseudotumor cerebri (which means that the pressure inside your head is high for no obvious reason), and she was told to lose weight. That's almost certainly the case this time, too. Not how I'd been planning to spend my Saturday, and not my favorite way of getting father-and-daughter time. Grumpy bear is grumpy.
I have not gotten much done at work this week. Grump.
Notes & links:
0214Su Valentine's Day * up 6:30ish; W=195.2; laundry, dishes " Why am I sitting on this horse and where did all these windmills come from? " +(Kee Hinckley) (Immediately followed by "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket...?") @ \TtH: the \TeX to HTML translator Probably more accurate than HeVeA - also, ttm translates to MathML * take out recycling and garbage (pickup Monday) * sort garbage, recycling, compostable in garage. Some progress. * download the JPL posters. They don't make it simple: the naming and even the formats are inconsistent between the solar system and exoplanets. : YD has been baking bread * more garage: a paper yard trash bag of compostable cardboard, and a white bag of garbage. * Kat and Rabbit coming over for dinner - but no telling when. Should have given them an early time to come over. They'll probably only be here for an hour or two. 4:50: on their way. * Made sloppy joes for dinner, at Kat's suggestion. Tasty. * Been comparing SSDs for Cygnus: It's between Crucial BX100 250GB (70) and SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB ($45). I don't really need the larger size; I'm currently at 44G (14 in / and 30 in /home). May depend on how broke I'm feeling. @ 50 Best Tiny Houses - Design Ideas for Small Homes Tiny Home Organizing Tips - Small Space Home Ideas & 15min: just recycled a bag full of magazines -- the ones I didn't get around to reading on my trip to NC last year -- without even glancing at most of them. Not sure whether this is a sign of practicality or depression. It feels more like depression. Or at least, depressing. & Just dumped the batch that was in the box behind my desk chair. I should drop my ACM membership -- I think I've read two or three in the last couple of years. 0215 Mo * up 5:45; W=196; laundry, dishes * The SSD choice is now between Crucial MX200 250GB ($80) and Crucial BX100 250GB ($70). It's not clear that the hardware encryption is worthwhile, since I currently don't use it and don't know whether Ubuntu can take advantage of it. -> M500 hardware encryption with GNU/Linux - Crucial Community says no. (looks like some others do, though) cf. linux - SSD AES-256 hardware encryption - how to configure? - Super User . secondary oncall @ Left-hand Writers revised 6/8/04 - This is an article submitted to The PENnant, the magazine of Pen Collectors of America for the winter 2000 issue. nibs.com also sells pens, nibs, and ink. 0216Tu * up 6:30; W=197.2; laundry, ..., dishes ! teared up a little reading an obit on FIP Fighters. I can, apparently, feel emotions. Negative ones, anyway, but it's better than nothing. Maybe. There is also, apparently, a difference between sad and depressed. I'm mostly familiar with the latter. % 9:50ish: restless & upgrade linux boxen for glibc patches. 0217We * Up 5:30; W=197.2; * reboot linux boxen * 15min: cable management. Reducing the rat's nest. : My glasses have been missing since yesterday. I suspect that I may have left them in a conference room. That, or they fell out of my pocket in the bus, which would be bad. * 11:15 Colleen UNW -> involved two cleanups, and we skipped lunch. :( x 2pm Steve Anita Brown -> cancelled in favor of going in to work for the division all-hands. I would have gotten a lot more done staying home. Decided not to go to the post-holiday party, which was a couple of miles away by Uber. Of which I am not a member. Maybe should have gone, since it would have included free food and drink. So far today % I've had a couple of cups of coffee and a peanut butter and chutney sandwitch. & Plus a bowl of nuts and craisins after getting home. Not complaining too much, since I'll probably lose weight. ! grumpy. FB has been blocking my attempts to post in Filker. Wanted to post @ Gittler Guitar which is gorgeous, north of $5K, and remarkably similar in appearance to what would have been my second-generation railgun guitar. ! I'm still not sure whether I regret not going to work's post-holiday party. : The phone/internet problem is a short in the ancient line to the Rainbow Room. Nice clean signal when plugged directly into the demarc. Though of course that might change, too. 0215Th * up 5:30; W=196.6; laundry, dishes * WFH, sorting downstairs * 4ish Exhausted, but done. All of the playroom - 15 boxes of books remaining. Some of it, stuff I simply don't have the energy to think about right now, but a lot of good stuff. Found (finally) 3:16, along with a number of other things that have been missed. And some things that I really don't need, but am not ready to part with yet. @ Speaking Ranges for Characters (with Bonus Star Trek Videos) - Stardancer News @ Italy’s coffee pot king was buried in the appliance that made him famous - Quartz @ It’s Been 20 Years Since This Man Declared Cyberspace Independence | WIRED A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | EFF ([LWN.net]) 0219Fr * up 5:30; W=196.6; laundry, dishes @ McCall’s Jumps Into Cosplay! | ComicMix (ysabetwordsmith ) @ The Adipositivity Project ( amaebi) NSFW; gorgeous via Nude Photos Prove 'Big And Beautiful' People Have Love Stories Too @ At some point, you start burning inverse candle. The two ends pass each other and continue burning in an alternative plane of existence, and you keep on burning away because hey it's not like you have the alternative of not getting it done, right? (kshandra) 0120Sa * up 5:30ish; W=198.2; laundry @ Burnout, creativity, and the tyranny of production schedules - Elizabeth Bear in Charlie's Diary f(Mary Anne Mohanraj) @ Steampunk 3d-printed guitar f(Margaret Middleton in Filker) $4K Making an Amazing Guitar with Polymaker PolyMax Advanced 3D Printing Filament | 3DPrint.com maple neck, mahagony body insert -- takes the strain off the printed body. Win. @ f(Ellen Eades - We were just discussing the political leanings of our pets...) * to Lenscrafters. much confusion, and they're out of network. We're just getting glasses for Emmy at this point. Colleen only needs an adjustment; I thought she needed a whole new pair. And so on. :P I'm going to put off getting mine done, since the computer glasses see to be good enough for the moment. Probably not for a multi-hour drive. Glad I have them today, though. % 3:27 it's been a very long day, and I am not holding up well. Colleen seems to be, though, so that's good. : ... and YD is scheduled for an MRI at Harborview. Swollen optic nerve. Eeep. : ... and Hillary won in Nevada. We can hope that it isn't a trend, but... N is panicked. Understandably. & YD referred to Harborview -- took Colleen home, then headed over. Not how I was planning to spend my evening. Glad we had lunch at Azteca -- very late, and not all that good, but it's nearly 7 now. My back is starting to hurt. @ Install YouTube-DL - A Command Line Video Download Tool for Linux apt-get How to Download MP3 Tracks from a YouTube Video Using YouTube-DL % Observation: I'm not as voracious a reader as I used to be. Not entirely sure what to make of that. : cygnus is down to 14% power. should plug in, since I can get to the socket now that they've moved the ultrasound machine out of the room. -> done. 8ish 23% % back hurts quite a lot. Doesn't feel like QL but might be a different part of it than I usually injure. % 10pm back not hurting as much right now. : YD done with her CAT scan (particularly appropriate for someone whose nickname is Neko-Chan"), so we may actually be getting out of here soonish. For appropriately late values of "soon". : 11:06 cleared to go; nurse will be in with paperwork soon. Hopefully we'll get home before midnight. * 11:40 home.
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