Done last week (20160605Su - 11Sa)
I've gotten a lot done this week, at work but mostly at the house. We have a truck coming Wednesday to haul away the pile of junk that's been sitting in the back yard getting water-damaged since last year when we sorted through the stuff in the garage. This week I've been adding to it, and especially yesterday when I disassembled the pile of wood sitting on top of the old blue workbench. The latter, and most of the wood, were in sorry shape. It hurt a lot to see how bad they'd gotten. I did manage to save most of the hardwood and vertical-grain Douglas fir, so it wasn't a total loss, but close.
Well, we didn't really have room for the workbench, anyway.
I've also been through a couple of the boxes behind my desk. Including the one labeled "tiny computers". It seems that, over the years, I've spent an inordinate amount of money on small Linux-based devices that I mostly haven't taken the time to get working. There's a list in the notes, under 0611. And then there are the laptops (all but one of which have been recently upgraded to the latest Ubuntu, so that's good), the two Linux boxes in tower cases that are still perfectly functional, but I don't need them, the old Android tablets, ...
*sigh*
I've found other "treasures", too. I'm not sure nostalgia is good for me. Too many reminders of things I haven't done, or started but abandoned. It's easy to blame depression, and I do, but that doesn't make it any easier. Or less depressing.
I think it says something -- damned if I know what it says -- that while I noticed last Sunday that I had put in a good day's work and accomplished a lot, I didn't connect that fact with a feeling of accomplishment, or any other emotion. (If "accomplishment" even counts as an emotion. I think it does, but I'm not sure. That probably says something, too.)
Music note (see 0611 -- yesterday was busy, too): At the suggestion of the guy who sits next to me at work, I looked up the Demoscene and watched a couple of videos, and a documentary, on YouTube. Mind-blowing. Especially when you consider that, say, "Chaos Theory" by Conspiracy -- the whole thing, music and video -- was entirely generated by a 64K program in real time.
The demoscene reminds me a lot of the filk community, and it makes me want to see what could be done for World Inside the Crystal that way.
Notes & links:
0605Su * up 6:00; W=197.4; laundry, dishes * Finished installing Ubuntu on starshine (the laptop originally given to g a few years ago, but little-used since) - no problems; very fast install. Under an hour. (another hour, on and off, to get bootstrap and updates installed. But still...) Gnome flashback/xmonad is broken, but the plain xmonad and flashback/metacity are ok @ 24 Things Women Over 30 Should Wear - warning:curves ahead f(Megan Jean Bouchard) * 15min: actually more like an hour, as usual, moving the dresser and putting book boxes in a single line. Dresser was pretty easy given the piano dollies that were last used for G's desk. Found many books that have been missed; brought up some woodworking and the one's I've written. : Kat and Rabbit moved the 30" section of kitchen cabinet that's been blocking the hall downstairs. Between that and the above, there is now a clear path to the laundry room * Found the switch that controls the sometimes-on, mostly-off outside outlet! Turns out to be the leftmost of the two switches to the left of the sink. (The righthand switch controls the light over the sink) For the two years since we moved in I've been thinking it was dead; it suddenly started working about a month ago, then stopped last week. Aha, sez I, there must be a switch. And so there is. * GOOD DAY'S WORK. Put up curtain rods on N's door, then took down the rickety metal shelves in the garage. Much easier than waiting for it to fall over and turn into a pile of bent metal -- it would be harder to take apart in that condition. % accomplished? (Not giving this a ! because although I recognized the accomplishment (see uppercase above), I didn't recognize it as being associated with an emotion.) % It's nice and cool in the basement. * ... and more. Moved the maypole jig over about a foot, which made room for the table saw to be manoevered and even (*gasp!*) set up. Found my 6' aluminum stepladder, which I can use to install the LED bulbs in the middle bedroom. After I use it to install hooks for the network cable. -> cable clamps installed. I used some of the ones that had been holding the coax running into g's room, which I removed a week or two ago. : Ordered pizza from Zeke's; the downstairs half of the family having already eaten. % None of this, of course, helps with job-related decisions, except perhaps to highlight the fact that I'm a lot less depressed today than I was Friday evening. % back hurts. Not too badly, and it's not surprising. % somewhere, I wrote down descriptions of all three of the tower cases. I know I put them on postit notes, which I don't see. That may have been the only place. 0606Mo * up 5:50; W=197.4; dishes @ I Know Why Poor Whites Chant Trump, Trump, Trump - STIR Journal f(Valerie Voigt) * 7:30 leave for work with N. Meet her downstairs. * leave work ~ 5 * Fired up the unifying receiver I'd ordered and paired it with the anywhere mouse I found at work. Fortunately I still have a few machines with windows, though I could have used the mac instead. Easier to boot up a laptop. I've lost a couple of copies of Windows in the course of various upgrades and disk swaps, but... * 6:30 dinner. House visit from the exchange student people. Sang Bigger on the Inside at the close of the visit. * Gave YD back her (now "fixed") Dell. Fixing, for those just joining in, meant bringing home a genuine Dell charger from work. & After reading about short international cartridge converters, I took another poke at the rosewood fountain pen and found -- and extracted, using a deck screw -- the remains of a converter wedged in the end of the barrel. It appears to be deep enough for the converter I have, but too narrow. this will almost certainly work It's possible that some other international long converter will work -- it's clearly long enough, just too narrow. However, given the number of cartridges I have now, it's not going to be necessary for a long time. 0607Tu * up 5:30; W=198; laundry, dishes * 2-7 washer arrives -> according to G it went very smoothly; in in half an hour. * Productive at work, I think. * paid the new washer a visit. Much bigger than I expected, but that's ok given that it's going to be washing bedding and the like. @ HTML5 Migration * 15min: some book puttering. % >>> Impostor syndrome. <<< Ya think? 0608We * up 5:30; W=196.4; ..., dishes : Cooler today. That's good. * 15min: book puttering. Looking in boxes, but not throwing out nearly enough. & some time hanging out with N after she asked for a hug. * send "what I want" notes to Kim, pick a 4-hour chunk next week for onsite 0609Th * up 5:30; W=196.4; dishes, ..., dishes * Reasonably productive at work. Got the rebasing finished and debugged a couple more steps. It is now capable of calling the service that isn't there yet, and interpreting a faked-up response. Not clear that it passes it along to downstream steps, though. Probably not. It is, nevertheless, doing as much as I promised I'd have working by the end of next week : 10:18 I have a box of cat on my desk. 0610Fr * Up 5:00; W=197.2; laundry : Ticia has found the bag where I put the crinkle balls that I found under the couch. Fun! (She isn't putting them back, though) % Not terribly productive at work, though I did get a CR signed off and pushed. Small, but those are the easiest kind to get reviewed. Should split my big one. * 15min: garage puttering. Very little acccomplished. Still can't find my parents' portrait. 0611Sa * up 6; W=198.2; laundry, dishes @ Demoscene: (suggested by Alex, who sits next to me at work) Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012) - YouTube (documentary) Demoscene: "Chaos Theory" by Conspiracy (Full HD, 64k demo, bugfree) - YouTube Binary Flow - The Assembly'05 Invitation by Conspiracy | 64k - YouTube (plus a couple of excursions into Mathologer) Demoscene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Demoscene - demoscene.info - the portal on the demoscene -> I would *love* to do demo-style videos for WItC and Silk and Steel. At least. @ The Haskell School of Music - From Signals to Symphonies (Draft) | The Yale Haskell Group - see above. * 15min: moved the extra tower cases out of the corner to were they can be worked on. Both appear to have hard drives and memory; both have CPU fans. * Garage: the bent metal shelves, and most if not all of the junk in the pile by the door. Brought clogs in, since they're more useful just inside the door. * Wood: most of the way through the outside pile, and a little top stuff. Not much worth saving. * unwanted label and card stock (I'll *never* use Rolodex cards) ~ install LEDs in middle bedroom. A bit of a tight fit; required a screwdriver. The second is above the bed, and too far to reach safely. Not happening right now. : 1:45 I have a box of cat. She's purring. * With N's help, cleared off the rest of the stuff on the old workbench. Most of the wood was gone; managed to save almost all of the hardwood and VG fir, but not all. Losing so much of that wood is painful. Two years in the wet, though. Second time I've done that. . gather everything that needs to be hauled away onto the pile. Sort wood. x Workbench to shop? -> The top is delaminating around the edges, which solves the problem of where to put it ~ cons up a lumber rack for the middle of the garage? * 15min: went through the "tiny computers" box. Too attached to stuff, even though it's unlikely ever to be useful. I have, over the years, spent altogether too much money on small Linux devices that either don't work or I haven't taken the time to _make_ work. Let's see... there's the Agenda, the Linux phone, the Chumby, the Slug, the ShivaPlug, a couple of eQuills, the Edo pad, the Nano-ITX board, the Raspberry Pi, ... not to mention at least three Mini-ITX boards, only one of which is currently in service (because it's 64-bit and fanless).
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